Need help deciding on 2 components for new pc build

[kemical]

We shall never mention the wrong cable in the wrong port again.

ahem.... Glad it worked out..

 

[nmsuk]

Is great news its all up and running. I'd be interested to hear how it's performing for you.

 

[brkkab]

Video card pictures. Why on the wrong cable ? I can admit I screwed up.

 

[nmsuk]

Why wrong cable? Childish joke. But good news it's now running.

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[brkkab]

I overclocked my video card further than the factory overclock. Ran it in Furmark for 10 minutes and it didn't go over 78 degrees celcius. Screenshot shows my settings. Note the ram is set to 2030. I just have TriXX set to show the ram's actual speed. Normal settings were GPU 1342 MHz. & Ram 2000MHz. FireStrike was 11520 & TimeSpy was 4500. Decent increase on both. I have to reun Batman: Arkham Knight & Rise of the Tomb Raider's benchmarks in a few minutes.

 

[brkkab]

Batman: Arkham Knight:
Minimum:83 FPS
Maximum: 150 FPS
Average: 104 FPS
Rise of the Tom Raider DX 12:
Mountain Peak: 65.74 FPS(min: 13.30FPS, Max:198.28 FPS)
Syria: 49.06 FPS (min:37.21 FPS, Max: 60.22 FPS)
Overall Score: 54.94 FPS

 

[nmsuk]

Very nice, just fitted this to my cpu. Was a little on the fiddly side to get it fitted

 

[kemical]

Purdey...

 

[brkkab]

In a old pc I built I had the first version of the H80 in it. Yes it was a little fiddly. I found a trick that made it a little easier. Hook the inside case fan to the radiator first, then line up the outer fan and line it up to the radiator.
So far, I'm liking the Sapphire NITRO+ RX 480 OC 8gb. video card. It definitely kicks my 2 GTX 760's ass in the way everything looks and performs.
I really like Sapphire's TriXX 3.0. It's like Afterburner & GPU-z on steroids. It can even check your video cards fans, to make sure they're o.k.
I'm definitely glad I got it, instead of the PowerColor Red Devil RX 480 8gb.

 

[brkkab]

I noticed something else, too. At least with my display Raptr is superior to GeForce Experience.
GeForce Experience quite often would set my games to a odd display resolution, even though the game had a setting for 2560x1080.
It also, always turned off dx 11 in Batman: Arkham City.
Raptr sets all my games to 2560x1080 and leaves Batman: Arkham City's dx 11 on.

 

[kemical]

Raptr is superior to GeForce Experience.

I rarely use it, GE I mean. I gave the recent new one a try but meh it's going soon..

 

[nmsuk]

And AMD recommend not using raptr

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[brkkab]

Yeah, I didn't care for the new version of it.
I just ran the rest of 3DMark Advanced that I didn't run after the video card overclock. I also ran DiRT 3, DiRT Showdown, Batman: Arkham City, Batman: Arkham Oririgins, Tomb Raider and WWE 2K16's benchmarks. The only ones that get under 100 FPS are Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider & WWE 2k16. They all get in the 6*.**FPS range.
All the Batman games get 100 FPS or over.
Ran a movie a while ago, too.

 

[brkkab]

That's probably because Raptr has the annoying recording thing in it. I've already learned to turn it off, as it kept popping up during the TimeSpy runs.

 

[nmsuk]

A few games won't even launch with it running. AMD removed it a few driver versions ago. I'd removed it before then as it affected Wolfenstien A New order. Which I really should play again with this new card.

 

[brkkab]

Raptr is now history. Just got done uninstalling it and removing all it's traces from my pc.

 

[nmsuk]

Thought I'd share my overclocking of a XFX RX480 GTR Black edition. Not sure I could deal with my fans running at the speed yours do. So they're being managed by a custom fan curve and while gaming sit around 64% with a max temp of 80c. When the cards idle the fans varies between 20-40%

 

[brkkab]

I changed my fan slope a little bit yesterday . It stays at 60% from 30-70 degrees, 70% from 70-100 degrees and 100% from 100 degrees up. At 605 they're inaudible. Video catd still runs good in games and benchmarks.
I will suggest you try Sapphire TriXX on yours. It has more in it than Afterburner does. It's fan checking feature is a huge +.
You can get it at this link. Download new SAPPHIRE TriXX tool - SAPPHIRE Nation - Community blog by SAPPHIRE Technology

 

[brkkab]

I overclocked my video card a little bit higher. Results are in the screenshot. Everything improved benchmark wise. TimeSpy:4570, FireStrike Extreme: 5890 and FireStrike: 11662. Furmark passed and video card didn't go over 80 degrees celcius.
Next month I'm getting a G Skill Ripjaws MX780 RGB mouse & Ripjaws KM780 RGB keyboard.

 

[nmsuk]

I changed my fan slope a little bit yesterday . It stays at 60% from 30-70 degrees, 70% from 70-100 degrees and 100% from 100 degrees up. At 605 they're inaudible. Video catd still runs good in games and benchmarks.
I will suggest you try Sapphire TriXX on yours. It has more in it than Afterburner does. It's fan checking feature is a huge +.
You can get it at this link. Download new SAPPHIRE TriXX tool - SAPPHIRE Nation - Community blog by SAPPHIRE Technology

I have my fans running at 30% until 65c and then they max out at 60% above that. Card runs at 83c max with 1400c and 2100m. My Time spy is 4256. Score is let down by my AMD [email protected]. Though still not a bad score since I'm up against i7 systems with ddr4 and the more efficient cpu.