Resolution Does Matter

[TiSA88]

It sounds like Just Cause 3 isn't greatly optimized for multiple threads. Does your game stutter at both resolutions? 1440p and 1080p? Since you have plenty of CPU cores, you might try running a program to check the GPU load to see if it is hitting 100%. Also, is your 5820k overclocked or at stock? Do you have trouble with any other games or just this one?

I'll post screenshots later but the numbers vary a lot

 

[TiSA88]

Was this a joke...?

If so it's in poor taste. The NH-D15 should happily handle a 5820k at ~4.2GHz, if not higher depending on your specific CPU.

I'm getting 40c on idle and around 70's in gaming (3.6ghz)

 

[Flapdrol1337]

What the hell, this is so unfair!!
I threw money away on this expensive ram then

Fancy ram can usually run with lower timings too.

But if you just want max performance from your system I'd read up on cpu overclocking first.

 

[TiSA88]

1440p

1440p

1080p

 

[TiSA88]

It sounds like Just Cause 3 isn't greatly optimized for multiple threads. Does your game stutter at both resolutions? 1440p and 1080p?

i haven't noticed stuttering in 1080p

 

[TiSA88]

Just up the multiplier and make sure you have enough voltage.
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I changed the multiplier to 40 and the voltage to 1.110 but somehow i end up with 1.04, i don't understand what happened there.
everything is on auto, should i change anything else?

 

[alcoholbob]

You might as well underclock your RAM and just tighten the timings. There's enough bandwidth at quad channel that 2666MHz with low timings will be just effective as running at 3200MHz+ with stock timings.

As far as D15, I have one too and mine Isn't even hitting 70C on load at 4.6GHz with high stress gaming like Assassin's Creed Unity which will routinely max several cores in large crowds. That said I have both fans running and I used gelid gc extreme paste.

 

[tamz_msc]

Contributing my two cents about resolution vs CPU usage from another thread:
https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...-did-nvidia-know.2503650/page-7#post-38853420
https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...-did-nvidia-know.2503650/page-8#post-38855600

 

[BonzaiDuck]

What the hell, this is so unfair!!
I threw money away on this expensive ram then

I'm not so sure you could say that, encouraging you to go back and compare again to find the difference you spent.

You can instead downclock the RAM and tighten the timings. You should be able to do that on any decent motherboard. I had an $85 mATX board that only allowed for crude overclocking and you couldn't change the RAM voltage at all, as I remember. But we were certainly able to run the RAM at a lower speed while choosing custom timings that may in some way compensate. The only big obstacle comes with the question "Which timings or latency settings? -- Which?" Look at other models of the same model-line as those you've bought -- from the same manufacturer, and find the tightest timings you can for the target lower speed.

I've done that with various generations of RAM from DDR2 days forward. I never thought I "lost any money."

 

[TiSA88]

I'm not so sure you could say that, encouraging you to go back and compare again to find the difference you spent.

You can instead downclock the RAM and tighten the timings. You should be able to do that on any decent motherboard. I had an $85 mATX board that only allowed for crude overclocking and you couldn't change the RAM voltage at all, as I remember. But we were certainly able to run the RAM at a lower speed while choosing custom timings that may in some way compensate. The only big obstacle comes with the question "Which timings or latency settings? -- Which?" Look at other models of the same model-line as those you've bought -- from the same manufacturer, and find the tightest timings you can for the target lower speed.

I've done that with various generations of RAM from DDR2 days forward. I never thought I "lost any money."

I'm really scared of doing this and f*ck it up somehow

 

[Grubbernaught]

I'm really scared of doing this and f*ck it up somehow

Worst case scenario is instability, in which case just loosen the timings back to how they were. Really can't do any permanent damage playing with ram timings.

 

[2is]

Turn vsync off and see what happens.