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The only thing I'm worried about is maxing out the vram on a 3gb card, I would have liked to see at least 4 gb on the 780.

I'm on 1440p + 1080p on a 780. I haven't maxed out my VRAM in anything, not even skyrim with 2K textures.
 
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I plan to replace all my fans with some Corsair or Noctua fans. How would I hook up about 6 or 7 fans and have control of every one? I don't have enough hook ups on my mobo, and I still want control so the PSU is not an option. Would I have to get a fan controller?
 
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Is two 780s going to be smooth for me? Hopefully by this fall the new Maxwell series cards will be out so I could possibly try those. I honestly want 60+ FPS at 1440p, which I know is difficult. The hardest decision I've been trying to make is to stick with 1080P or upgrade to a higher resolution. 1080P still looks good, sometimes I just desire more, if you know what I mean. I plan on buying a Qnix monitor and overclocking it to 96hz. Is it worth it to switch even though I'll be losing FPS? Does 1440P at medium settings still look better than ultra at 1080P? Also, I watch a lot of YouTube, so most videos will have to be watched in 1080P, do those videos look like complete crap?
 
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Is two 780s going to be smooth for me? Hopefully by this fall the new Maxwell series cards will be out so I could possibly try those. I honestly want 60+ FPS at 1440p, which I know is difficult. The hardest decision I've been trying to make is to stick with 1080P or upgrade to a higher resolution. 1080P still looks good, sometimes I just desire more, if you know what I mean. I plan on buying a Qnix monitor and overclocking it to 96hz. Is it worth it to switch even though I'll be losing FPS? Does 1440P at medium settings still look better than ultra at 1080P? Also, I watch a lot of YouTube, so most videos will have to be watched in 1080P, do those videos look like complete crap?

YouTube videos (at 1080p) look like crap on a 1440p screen if you sit close to the screen. If you move back a little it's harder to tell.
 
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I honestly want 60+ FPS at 1440p, which I know is difficult

It is? I don't think it is... unless you're running 3DMark Extreme, 60FPS is pretty easy and stable...

I'll never go back to 1080p from 1440 for games, I've run a 144hz monitor before this, and that was only ever useful for CSGO, no other games really provided me with a use for such high frame rates besides things like Hard Reset etc and such arcade style shooters from older times. 1080p videos, TRUE 1080p videos look ok. I stream a lot of HD videos and blurays, and anything less than 1080p looks terrible on 1440p. Even 1080 doesnt quite have the crispness. That doesn't bother me so much though, as I have a secondary 1080p monitor if it really bugs me.
 
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I have a benq gw2750h right now, should I keep it and purchase the 1440P monitor, or sell it to a friend for like 120 bucks? Honestly, this monitor is crap, but I wouldn't be able to buy another decent 1080P monitor for awhile. Would my AX860 platinum be able to handle 2 780s overclocked? And is your 780 overclocked?
 
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I have a benq gw2750h right now, should I keep it and purchase the 1440P monitor, or sell it to a friend for like 120 bucks? Honestly, this monitor is crap, but I wouldn't be able to buy another decent 1080P monitor for awhile. Would my AX860 platinum be able to handle 2 780s overclocked? And is your 780 overclocked?

Sell it, buy 1440p
As for PSU, yes it can handle 2 780's, and overclock them with ease. Mine used to be overclocked at 1200Mhz core and 7Ghz memory, now I don't particularly care anymore and let the boost algorithm do it's work with a power target. Before this system I used to run a custom water cooled build with GPU blocks, mind you that was on 1050w. Either or, you can run two 780's on 750w I imagine.
 
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Alright, so I reinstalled Windows, but I'm having some issues finding the updates and drivers for certain things. All the controllers for USB and Ethernet, etc. I went to Asrock's website and I think I downloaded all of the most current updates.
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Alright, so I reinstalled Windows, but I'm having some issues finding the updates and drivers for certain things. All the controllers for USB and Ethernet, etc. I went to Asrock's website and I think I downloaded all of the most current updates.
View attachment 55260

USB, Ethernet and other controllers should all have drivers from the ASRock Extreme 4 page. Either that or run the drivers you got with the motherboard disk(these will all be out of date horribly though).
 
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I do not have the motherboard disk, I bought the system used from a friend, who doesn't have the disk. I'll try the website again.
 
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Downloaded and installed all of those updates, still nothing.
 
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Downloaded and installed all of those updates, still nothing.

Restarted since the driver updates were installed? If they haven't shown up that's pretty strange man... concerns me somewhat. You could try extracting all the drivers into one folder, and then right clicking those devices in device manager and updating driver. But do it manually and select the root folder where all the drivers are stored, and it will check for compatible hardware.
 
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Alright, so I reinstalled Windows, but I'm having some issues finding the updates and drivers for certain things. All the controllers for USB and Ethernet, etc. I went to Asrock's website and I think I downloaded all of the most current updates.
View attachment 55260

Ethernet controller - Should be the Broadcom Lan Driver
SM Bus Controller - Part of the Intel Chipset Driver (not listed on the ASRock Page under Win 7 x64)
USB Controller - There are two usb 3.0 drivers. This is more than likely them.
Unknown Device - No idea. Need the Hardware ID
Video Controller - Intel HD video driver most likely

Intel HD Video Driver - LINK
Intel Chipset Driver - Link
 
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Ethernet controller - Should be the Broadcom Lan Driver
SM Bus Controller - Part of the Intel Chipset Driver (not listed on the ASRock Page under Win 7 x64)
USB Controller - There are two usb 3.0 drivers. This is more than likely them.
Unknown Device - No idea. Need the Hardware ID
Video Controller - Intel HD video driver most likely

Intel HD Video Driver - LINK
Intel Chipset Driver - Link

Doesn't chipset contain video driver these days?
 
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Doesn't chipset contain video driver these days?

Unfortunately, No. On the dell machines the usb controller is included in the chipset but according to the link i posted, intel no longer includes usb in them so i'm guessing his two usb controllers are the two usb3.0 drivers. It also is listed on the ASRock website as INF Driver instead of Chipset driver which is stupid.
 
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When I download the video driver, all my icons disappear and I have to reboot to an earlier time to disable it. I downloaded the INF driver as well and nothing changes.
 
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Well, after reinstalling windows and starting from scratch, I'm still encountering the issue with random frame rate dips on games. I don't know what to do, the 780 should easily stay above 60 fps on most games, especially Tomb Raider. The thing is, there's usually nothing happening when it drops. I'll just be walking around and it'll dip then rise up again, no enemies around and nothing intensive on screen. I guess my next step would be to buy a new mobo, cpu, and ram. I don't want to do that.
 
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Does your GPU load dip to a lower percentage during these framerate dips, or does it remains at 94-99% load?
The fact half your drivers dont install properly is a large factor. MoBo fooked?
 
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How would I monitor that?
 
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Using EVGA Precision X, the max power % was around 80. Before suggesting that the GPU is defective, remember that the GTX 670 I had installed previously started doing the same thing. Motherboard or ram? How would I tell?
 

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Download GPU-z. On the second tab is a monitor for mor stuff than you will ever probably need related to video card. One of the items is GPU load.
 
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It bounced anywhere from 59 to 99 while playing. At one time it went from 99 to 71 to 76 to 99 again. It was doing the random fps drop also.
 
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It bounced anywhere from 59 to 99 while playing. At one time it went from 99 to 71 to 76 to 99 again. It was doing the random fps drop also.

Did those dips in percentage load occur at the same time as FPS drops exactly?
 
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