- Mar 16, 2014
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I am in a somewhat limbo predicament at present in terms of my gaming rig and its performance, and I am hoping your incredibly knowledgeable selves will be able to give me a bit of advice!
Just as a small piece of background, I am what you would call an enthusiastic amateur who knows a passable amount about computer hardware, and accordingly I built my own gaming rig around a year ago. Since then I have added to it/switched out different components to get it where it is up to today.
My rig as it now stands is (nothing is overclocked):
Case: Corsair Carbide 200R;
Mobo: MSI Z87-G55;
CPU: Intel i7-4790k (Devils Canyon) @ 4.0 GhZ;
Cooler: Cooler Master 212 Evo (with an extra fan strapped on);
GPU: GTX 980 Gigabyte G1 Gaming;
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz;
SSD: 250 GB Samsung Evo;
HDD: 1TB Western Digital Black;
PSU: 1000W Superflower Leadex Platinum;
Monitor: 1080p 144hz connected via Displayport.
My most recent change was switching out my old GTX 760 for the GTX 980 which I know was a significant upgrade. My question is that things still don’t feel quite as good as I think they should. The GTX 980 gets hotter than I think it is supposed to (40 idle, 74 under load). Watchdogs isn’t as smooth as I would like on the highest settings where the FPS can dip below the 50-60 mark, maybe I am expecting too much from the new GPU? I don’t even have turbo boost enabled on the i7 as when it is it gets hotter than I would like, I did try to switch the cooler some time ago to a H80i however it didn’t fit on to the motherboard snugly and the temperatures were even higher than those with the Evo. Admittedly I am a worrier but something just doesn’t feel right.
Is there something blaringly obvious I am missing in my components? Are those GPU temperatures okay? What could I do to improve? I have considered changing to a Z97 Mobo however I have an OEM version of Windows 8.1 and I am led to believe this is tied to the Mobo and as a result I would need to get a new copy?
Apologies for the essay however I have many concerns! Any advice you could provide would be very greatly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance.
Just as a small piece of background, I am what you would call an enthusiastic amateur who knows a passable amount about computer hardware, and accordingly I built my own gaming rig around a year ago. Since then I have added to it/switched out different components to get it where it is up to today.
My rig as it now stands is (nothing is overclocked):
Case: Corsair Carbide 200R;
Mobo: MSI Z87-G55;
CPU: Intel i7-4790k (Devils Canyon) @ 4.0 GhZ;
Cooler: Cooler Master 212 Evo (with an extra fan strapped on);
GPU: GTX 980 Gigabyte G1 Gaming;
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz;
SSD: 250 GB Samsung Evo;
HDD: 1TB Western Digital Black;
PSU: 1000W Superflower Leadex Platinum;
Monitor: 1080p 144hz connected via Displayport.
My most recent change was switching out my old GTX 760 for the GTX 980 which I know was a significant upgrade. My question is that things still don’t feel quite as good as I think they should. The GTX 980 gets hotter than I think it is supposed to (40 idle, 74 under load). Watchdogs isn’t as smooth as I would like on the highest settings where the FPS can dip below the 50-60 mark, maybe I am expecting too much from the new GPU? I don’t even have turbo boost enabled on the i7 as when it is it gets hotter than I would like, I did try to switch the cooler some time ago to a H80i however it didn’t fit on to the motherboard snugly and the temperatures were even higher than those with the Evo. Admittedly I am a worrier but something just doesn’t feel right.
Is there something blaringly obvious I am missing in my components? Are those GPU temperatures okay? What could I do to improve? I have considered changing to a Z97 Mobo however I have an OEM version of Windows 8.1 and I am led to believe this is tied to the Mobo and as a result I would need to get a new copy?
Apologies for the essay however I have many concerns! Any advice you could provide would be very greatly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance.
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