Recent content by dc4517

Got it, thanks!

So you don't believe my i7 and current board would be big bottlenecks?

Also, this post came up because I saw Nvidia's 3070 card on Best Buy at $499 MSRP. Sold out now. But that data point indicates to me that prices are more reasonable. Willing to spend $500-600 for a solid 3070 card.

Ah, yes, forgot to mention this. 1440 monitor. Recently finished Witcher 3. Currently playing Horizon Zero Dawn. In both cases, I made adjustments downward in quality to get smoother gameplay. Would love to see them at max quality settings.

Post title pretty much asks the question. My current PC is a i7-6700K on Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 5 board with a Gigabyte GTX1070 GPU. I would probably see performance gains with a RTX3070. But is the CPU and motherboard so old that the limitations outweigh the gains? I just don't feel like...

Ah, I didn't realize that the Hyper 212 EVO would not be good enough for OCing. What CLC would you recommend? Thanks!

I've just put together a new build based on an i7-6700K, Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 5 m/b, 16 GB of g.skill DDR4-3200 RAM, and a Hyper 212 EVO cooler with Arctic Silver 5. Running Prime95 at stock speeds with small FTTs, I'm getting about 65C. With XMP on, at 4.4GHz, it jumps up to about 74C. At...

Just tried this, and DP still not working. I just read through the Dell monitor forum, and it seems that this is an issue with the monitor, and possibly for those that were manufactured last fall though don't quote me on that. Seems like they're swapping out monitors that have this issue.

Ok, I just tried DP, and nothing displayed after I switched it to the DP input on the monitor. It just goes to power saving mode. Do I need to change any settings on my PC before switching from HDMI to DP? Unfortunately, the monitor does not have DVI.

Sapphire Radeon HD 6850

Yes, that's correct. I tried using DP, but it wouldn't display even after setting the input to DP. I haven't used the DP port in the 6 years that I've had the GPU. I'll try it again.

So, in anticipation of getting a GTX 1070 later this summer, I bought a Dell S2716DG 27" monitor as it was at a pretty good price on Amazon. I just received it now, and havent' been able to get my PC to switch to 2560x1440. I have a 6850 - does it even support 2560x1440? If yes, how can I get...

Thanks for the feedback. My budget for just a GPU is around $200 +/-30. I did some reading on Anandtech and I particularly liked this chart: http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9801/380X_9.jpg. Given I have a 1080 monitor, the R9 380 sounds about right. I did forget to mention that I was...

Looks like we were typing at the same time. You just answered the key questions I had on my most recent post. Should I wait for the next gen GPUs?

I'm leaning in this direction. I guess I was doing a sanity check in case there was one thing that I could do that would be a small investment, but really improve game performance (e.g. GPU). I could maybe just update the GPU to current generation, and if that doesn't cut it, then buy the rest...