Build Thread 3.0

[majestic]

I use Afterburner because I undervolted the 4070 TI in the past, but I kept running into stability issues with Everspace 2 (no other game though, weirdly enough, Cyberpunk 2077 ran stable with all bells and whistles enabled), so I dropped it and just went with 85% power target instead. If you install the new nVidia app which no longer requires registration and a login, you can use that to set the power target. You really need to make sure it leaves your game settings alone though. 

[Sarex]

Card is in and I have to say that youtube is working much better. I can actually fast forward 4k videos now.

[Sarex]

The slot for the LAN card is forcing my GPU's PCIe slot to be x8, so now my GPU backplate is an additional cooler for my LAN as I had to move it one slot down which means there is a millimeter of space between the LAN card heatsink and the GPU backplate...

I need to get another cooler for my CPU and free up the first PCIe slot...

edit: no improvements in fps from it though, Control on 1440p Ultra with RT (ultra) is giving me around 60fps on x8 and x16. I have PCIe 3.0.

Edited yesterday at 11:01 PM by Sarex

[majestic]

22 hours ago, Sarex said:

edit: no improvements in fps from it though, Control on 1440p Ultra with RT (ultra) is giving me around 60fps on x8 and x16. I have PCIe 3.0.

Two things: Control in your use case is much more limited by turning on full ray tracing than PCIE bandwidth, and secondly, well, even though 8 lanes on PCIE 3.0 seems a bit low by today's standards, it only becomes a really huge problem for your GPU when you run out of VRAM. Which on 1440p, with a 16GB model, isn't going to happen with Control. Or most other games at the moment. If any at all.

If you had an RTX 5060 (TI) or a RX 9060 XT with 8GB, then, well, the card would probably crap itself, even on PCIE 3.0 x16. Well, maybe not in Control, IIRC it just starts dropping texture quality or entire textures when VRAM gets low, but for games like Veilguard the 1% lows just drop by over 50%. 

Edited 2 hours ago by majestic

[Sarex]

29 minutes ago, majestic said:

Two things: Control in your use case is much more limited by turning on full ray tracing than PCIE bandwidth, and secondly, well, even though 8 lanes on PCIE 3.0 seems a bit low by today's standards, it only becomes a really huge problem for your GPU when you run out of VRAM. Which on 1440p, with a 16GB model, isn't going to happen with Control. Or most other games at the moment. If any at all.

If you had an RTX 5060 (TI) or a RX 9060 XT with 8GB, then, well, the card would probably crap itself, even on PCIE 3.0 x16. Well, maybe not in Control, IIRC it just starts dropping texture quality or entire textures when VRAM gets low, but for games like Veilguard the 1% lows just drop by over 50%. 

Yeah, I dropped RT to medium and gained almost 60 fps. I was kind of hoping to go all out in the game, but I guess it's too much. That being said I don't notice much difference between medium and ultra.

What I need to do is move to a new platform, even with the 6950x the system is showing it age. But on the other hand I don't want to spend 2k euros.

In other news, I managed to break 2 usb ports on my MB, by snagging the cables. Not once, not two times, by three times. You know what they say, third time's the charm... Good thing I have 10 more.