That is really strange...
I'm sitting at 60-80fps, lowest I've seen is like 55, and that's at 1440p. I got everything set to "High", with HBAO, no AA and V-Sync turned off. No issues in cutscenes (where the game seems to lock to 60fps) and generally butter-smooth performance. And that's with a single 7970 at 1.1GHz.
I've never had a problem with Gigabyte mobos, but then I've never used one of their AMD boards. Have you tried BIOS updates with the X2 240 in there, and then sticking the other chip back in? If it's a dual-bios board, the updated BIOS may have become damaged/corrupted/turned to the dark side, and was overwritten with an older version on the secondary chip.
Yeah, I'm sure I should be getting more but again might be driver-related.
Edit: Drivers updated, menu is running much better at about 50-55fps average. Cutscenes are still acting up, especially the one that pops up when a new game is started(4-5fps) and gameplay fps seems to be generally the same, an improvement of 2-3fps but nothing major.
Last edited by Evil Inside; 2012-12-16 at 08:10 AM.
||i5 3570k @ 4.4GHz||H100 push/pull||AsRock Z77 Extreme4||16Gb G.Skill Ripjaws 1600MHz||Gigabyte Windforce GTX 970|| Coolermaster Storm Trooper||Corsair TX850 Enthusiast Series||Samsung 840 Pro 128gb(boot drive)||1TB WD HDD, 2x 3TB WD HDD, 2TB WD HDD||
Bdk Nagrand / Astae Nagrand
Pokemon X FC: 4656-7679-2545/Trainer Name: Keno
...anyone familiar with Rainmeter? And would be kind enough to walk me through how to change it / point me to a tutorial?
If you'd be so awesome, Add me on Steam.
Never mind, thanks Iamanerd.
I'm almost tempted to switch my K90 for a G19 just because the G19 has the ability to change colors lol. Blue doesn't fit in with the black/red theme I've got going here >.>
If only I knew how to change the LED's safely lol.
||i5 3570k @ 4.4GHz||H100 push/pull||AsRock Z77 Extreme4||16Gb G.Skill Ripjaws 1600MHz||Gigabyte Windforce GTX 970|| Coolermaster Storm Trooper||Corsair TX850 Enthusiast Series||Samsung 840 Pro 128gb(boot drive)||1TB WD HDD, 2x 3TB WD HDD, 2TB WD HDD||
Bdk Nagrand / Astae Nagrand
Pokemon X FC: 4656-7679-2545/Trainer Name: Keno
There are red-LED mechanical keyboards as well, mind.
QPAD MK-85 is red LED with red (standard, but comes in other switches) without costing too much. Tesoro Durandal Ultimate, Ducky are others with red backlighting and all can come with red switches.
Yeah, the reason I was going with a G19 is because I have one sitting in the cupboard collecting dust, though I may look around for a nice deal if I can find one, not particularly keen on changing to a normal keyboard just because of the LED's.
||i5 3570k @ 4.4GHz||H100 push/pull||AsRock Z77 Extreme4||16Gb G.Skill Ripjaws 1600MHz||Gigabyte Windforce GTX 970|| Coolermaster Storm Trooper||Corsair TX850 Enthusiast Series||Samsung 840 Pro 128gb(boot drive)||1TB WD HDD, 2x 3TB WD HDD, 2TB WD HDD||
Bdk Nagrand / Astae Nagrand
Pokemon X FC: 4656-7679-2545/Trainer Name: Keno
Alright I'm just stopping in to see what everyone thinks. So here's my situation, I have a gigabyte 6950 1GB and a friend is going to buy it for 130 and I'm looking at getting the MSI GTX 670, is it worthwhile to do this upgrade or should I wait until the new 8000/700 series? Also I'll be getting an extra $30 of the card cause of newegg's preferred members thing so I can get it for $345 and then the $130 from my friend will drop it to $215.
I would say that the HD7970 (non-GHz) should be stronger than the GTX 670 in the pricepoint, especially since the huge driver 12.11 improvements for the HD7000-series cards. Depends on which games you wish to pay, but AMD seems to be getting stronger than nVidia in TWIMTBP-games (wheras nVidia is stronger in AMD-branded games, ironically)...
I prefer Gigabyte when it comes to coolers and warranty - MSI capacitators have a tendencey to coil whine.
For the record, I have a (reference) MSI GTX 680.
Last edited by BicycleMafioso; 2012-12-19 at 07:52 AM.
Hmm alright yeah the 7970 does look pretty good, I forgot they dropped a bit in price. Which non-Ghz one would you recommend? I'm thinking the gigabyte one but MSI's Twin Frozr I've heard is pretty good to.
Edit: Also I've been wondering if I should wait until the 8000 series but I don't know when that will release and mainly I'm looking to be able to run Far Cry 3 really good and when Crysis 3 comes out I want it to run good.
Last edited by Iamanerd; 2012-12-19 at 08:17 AM.
Completely random question:
I'm wanting to reformat my computer, of which is custom-built, and Win 7, if it matters. Upon reformatting, will I have access to the internet (I believe I'm looking for...network card driver? I'm horrible with names of stuff)? It's been forever since I've reformatted a computer, and I've only done so on XP machines. And I assume I'll need to reinstall graphical drivers? Because I don't think I have those disks from the boxes...
If I will need to, is there a file path I should be looking for, so I can save it to a disk or something, to avoid all that hassle?
Network drivers should be native in Windows 7, or close enough for you to get online and then download the exact ones.
For every other driver, download them post-install.