Aquinus
Resident Wat-man
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System Name | Apollo |
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Processor | Intel Core i9 9880H |
Motherboard | Some proprietary Apple thing. |
Memory | 64GB DDR4-2667 |
Video Card(s) | AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8GB HBM2 |
Storage | 1TB Apple NVMe, 4TB External |
Display(s) | Laptop @ 3072x1920 + 2x LG 5k Ultrafine TB3 displays |
Case | MacBook Pro (16", 2019) |
Audio Device(s) | AirPods Pro, Sennheiser HD 380s w/ FIIO Alpen 2, or Logitech 2.1 Speakers |
Power Supply | 96w Power Adapter |
Mouse | Logitech MX Master 3 |
Keyboard | Logitech G915, GL Clicky |
Software | MacOS 12.1 |
This. I'm not convinced that your platform is incapable of utilizing those 980 Tis. It's not as if your performance is bad either. It's just a case where you might want to push the image quality settings up just to get more out of your GPUs but, expecting ~100 FPS or more on many modern games is a tall order. Also, I don't think that "overclocking" signal refresh rates always has an impact on the rate that the image itself changes. Take my monitors, they all do up to ~75Hz but, a smooth scene will not be smooth after I overclock it, so I let it be. A lot can be done to make a machine that already handles 60 FPS fine to be silky smooth and to look nice. You don't necessarily need more frames to have a better experience.C) I keep my actual setup and find out how I can take advantage of it to the maximum whilst finding ways in which I can really take advantage of the fact I currently own 2x GTX 980 ti's.
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Heh, if I waited 5 minutes I could have just agreed with what you had to say.Keep it. Accept your system performance for what it is... overkill.
As mentioned earlier in the thread, there's not much you can do to make better use of your system other than DSR (rendering games at higher res then downscaling to chosen res).
Personally, I simply stopped using monitoring apps on my daily rigs, and I just play games? When things get a bit slow or whatever... I just deal with it. I have all the latest-greatest stuff in tech that money can buy, and it is all horribly used, and a vastly overpowered for most workloads. I am still using 780 Tis in SLI... because buying 980 TI's won't offer me much at my chosen 1920x1200x3 and 2560x1600. My current cards exceed 60 FPS in most titles, and anything more than that is useless.
The fact you overclock your monitor... wow. That's a waste of time to me. Buy a real 144 Hz panel, or something. Heck, buy two more monitors, and run three monitors like I do often.
Think about that for a moment. I have 5930K right now, with 780 Ti Sli, and I can play pretty much anything @ 60 FPS on three monitors. Sure, there is one or two titles that don't paly well, but to me, those are purposely coded that way to get people to upgrade. When you compare console gamnig vs PC gaming, and the differences in visual quality vs "horsepower", PC gaming is the worst optimized shit ever.
To me, your approach in system design is totally wrong. mid-range CPU with top-end cards, old ram and PSU and SSDs... so getting the rest of the system up to snuff would be my first focus, and while you don't like the PSU swap idea, it'd be the first thing I do. Having to re-do cable management stopping form a PSU swap is the excuse of a lazy person. They put capacitors on the end of those PSU lines because the PSU is rather crappy without them.
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story3&reid=177
Yet, in the end, I'm very picky about the tech I use. I pay for very little of it, so I can afford to be snobbish about this stuff. I think your PSU is garbage, and that's based on having my own. One day it'll probably die like mine did... I simply cannot trust these PSUs.
But again, I'm a PC snob. I write reviews, and I get gear for free. I probably use my PC far differently that you do, so please take my opinion with a huge amount of salt.