Recent content by klepp0906

Yikes - quad SLI doesn't require a E chip. The extra lanes do next to nothing (assuming you have a plx chip). It's been proven time and time again at x8 the cards aren't even saturating the bus. Course now I'm nit picking but apparently the writer quit wow awhile back. Considering the "most...

Not the number of cores nor the pcie lanes that are doing the bottlenecking :p Id lie if I said I didn't consider it when building this rig, but for several reasons I went haswell. Cost and the fact I didn't initially intend to end up going apeshit first among them :p

Little late now :p Would still be plenty bottlenecked via clockspeed regardless.

Yea I hear ya. The only reason I did was the fact that I'm running 4 titans and they're severely bottlenecked by clock speed. So much so that I'm still considering playing the silicon lottery to try for another couple hundred MHz. Ah if only CPUs were available at the dollar store. >.<

Ya best I can get with uncore is 44 or I lose prime stability regardless of voltage. Not ideal but not as bad as yours apparently. Are you delidded? I know if I was limited by heat I wouldn't be able to do 4.6, not even close. The 1.47v it takes on air or without a delid would have melted it...

Lol I wonder how you would feel about my despicable chip taking 1.47v for 4.6 :p That's 24hr prime stable voltage but still. Worst chip I've heard of :p It's predecessor did. 4.7 at 1.41 but didn't care for my ceramic tile apparently. Silly me thought "hey Atleast I'll get a new chip that...

Well you gotta realize, a few fps on an overpriced card is paramount these days. With reviews claiming cards "kill" one another over 2fps. Coming from a longtime nvidia fan (own 4 titans) and a new first time amd owner (3 290x) I have had a much much better experience with the 290x. I can't...

Nah no point :p speaks volumes you even offered though! Have a great weekend!

Back!! well... good news is the bios works on the cards well. I will continue using it if for nothing else, the 50 extra MHz it runs at by default. Better fan profiles too. It appears you have the DD "black" edition or w/e it is right? Anyhow, the most important part is unfortunately...

home now, just got it! Flashing commencing :P (btw I realized it was the DD cards which only have 1 bios. Well 1 bios and 1 backup of the identical bios)

No problamo! Is that the uber or quiet or both? (Not home so can't check ATM) I know I'm becoming needy here - but if it's one, mind tossing up the other as well? :) Either way thank you very much! Here's to hoping it works. If so this is about to become a very popular file :p

Oh boy - MSI it is then! Thanks for the heads up. I just tried the xfx ones that were linked and while they work like a charm compared to the asus ones I've tried (games just crash) they didn't have UEFI either. (Still hoping the guy with the UEFI xfx bios can get it up somewhere) Until then...

Maybe your right and I was just using the wrong bioses. Any chance you can toss yours (uber and quiet) into a drop box? Worst case I can test the theory (that it's hardware related as well) Best case we will finally get UEFI! Is anyone able to run their reference cards in UEFI? (That has...

FWIW/FTR I have now tried several bios on my xfx r290x and it seems either all/most of these cards don't support UEFI or it isn't only based/controlled/due to the bios/software and has a hardware component as well which is missing from the XFX boards (surprise surprise). Ive been beaten.

Flip the fans. For starters your trying to cool your rad with hot air from inside the case lol. You should be taking cool air from outside the case. Whether push or pull.. That's up to u . General rule of thumb is high rpm fans are better in push - lower in pull. In my case, I am getting 2...