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pjo71099

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Ok, so I've had my first PC since December and as you can see from my specs, my GPU is supposedly overclocked. However, when I look at the gigabyte OC guru, all the settings are at +0% etc. Am I meant to set the settings myself or should it already be overclocked to an extend. If I do need to do it myself, could I have some advice as I don't want to blow my PC up!
Thanks in advance!

Case

Cooler Master 690 III Micro ATX/ATX Chassis with Side Window

Power Supply

Be Quiet! BN211 Power Zone Power Supply (750 Watts) 80 Plus

Processor

Intel 4th Generation Core i5 (4690K) 3.5GHz Quad Core Processor

Cooling

Cooler Master Seidon 120V Closed Loop Liquid Cooling System

Motherboard

Gigabyte Z97 Gaming 3 Motherboard Full Size ATX 1150

SSD

Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD 2.5"

Hard drive

Western Digital Black 1TB (7200rpm)

Memory

Kingston HyperX FURY Blue 16GB Memory Module 1600MHz DDR3

Graphics Card

Gigabyte GeForce GTX WINDFORCE OC 970 4GB NVIDIA Overclocked

WiFi Card

TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Express Adaptor

Optical drive

LiteOn DVD±RW

Operating System

Win 8.1 x64 Eng Intl 1pk DSP OEI DVD
 
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geofelt
There are three main factors that impact game performance.
1. CPU. power of individual cores, and how many.
2. Graphics. Monitor resolution and amount of eye candy.
3. Game design and patches.

It is not clear to me what your issue is, assuming you are running on a single 1080P monitor.

First, make certain you have the game and graphics driver patched to currency.
If you have not overclocked the cpu, I would go to 4.0 first.
Look at cpu-z to verify that your cores can run full out.
Experiment with lowering your eye candy to see how much difference that makes; particularly anti aliasing.

I can't give you help on FC4, I have not played it.


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The main problem is with far cry 4 on ultra. I've seen people with an OC GTX 970 who are getting fairly high fps results and I keep dropping as low as the 40s, now I look at it, that could be a problem with the game?

 
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There are three main factors that impact game performance.
1. CPU. power of individual cores, and how many.
2. Graphics. Monitor resolution and amount of eye candy.
3. Game design and patches.

It is not clear to me what your issue is, assuming you are running on a single 1080P monitor.

First, make certain you have the game and graphics driver patched to currency.
If you have not overclocked the cpu, I would go to 4.0 first.
Look at cpu-z to verify that your cores can run full out.
Experiment with lowering your eye candy to see how much difference that makes; particularly anti aliasing.

I can't give you help on FC4, I have not played it.


 
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