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When you change GPUs.... What do you test??

Keullo-e

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I remove all traces of gpu drivers, update chipset drivers, remove card, install new card, install whql drivers, run unigen heaven/valley and just game.
 

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3D Mark for me if I want to see the difference. I can go back 2-3 cards if I want to compare results. But mostly I just play the games I normally play and if it wasn’t cranked up it gets cranked up.
 

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Well after a day of testing with playing games and running benchmarks, I am kinda left feeling a little disappointed...

With one card, performance is pretty decent (when you stop crunching for cancer/WCG etc.. but only in lower resolutions such as 1080P... 1440P and 4k tests seem to be little to not much difference as seen with the tests of the cards in reviews..) which is fine and I can understand that.

What I do fail to understand is not just the price of the cards we buy now, RTX and all cards below, but why is it so difficult to get a game to support SLI when Nvidia have cut the support down to 2 cards and not up to 4??
Running some old favourites such as the Dirt series of cards ( Dirt 2, 3 and Showndown are the ones I currently own) these scale really well at 1080P and very happy. Yet something like Forza Horizon 4, was no different with one card as it was with two.. Final Fantasy XV test was actually slower for some reason than faster, which I think might be driver related as I'm running on 388.13 at the moment as when I tried newer models, Dirt 3 stopped working which was somewhat frustrating!! :(

With how expensive things are and how configurable a PC can be if we are limited to 1 graphics card then really what is the point in all of the SLI systems and such being sold (like 8 Packs big £27k system) when it either runs well, pants or just in the gutter... You'd have thought that developers might have actually sorted this side of things out considering how variable a PC specs could be.. Failing that I might as well get rid of every PC piece of hardware I own and go play on my Xbox One, which sucks in certain games.... (and I suck at as well... Can do FPS games with a controller lol) Maybe I expect a little bit too much with hardware and pricings these days but you'd have thought it would have got better as times goes on, but obviously not.... :(

Rant over... :)
 
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Benchmark Scores It runs Crysis remastered at 4K
I've yet to give that a go.. Question is, what version??! lol
The first of course, Steam version. I'm one of those who still likes to ask "but does it run Crysis", less or more serious. :D
 

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The first of course, Steam version. I'm one of those who still likes to ask "but does it run Crysis", less or more serious. :D

I don't think I have it on Steam, I think I have to go back to 'old school' and find the DVD from my collection lol :) I'll see what it costs on Steam as well just for giggles lol :)
 
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Firestrike, Superposition, Heaven, Witcher 3, Civ IV, Metro 2033. Recently added Kingdom Come. I mainly like to have a baseline to determine how much bennefit I'm getting for OC vs heat and if it's worth it.

The first of course, Steam version. I'm one of those who still likes to ask "but does it run Crysis", less or more serious. :D

One problem with the Steam Version is it doesn't have the 64 bit binaries by default (also DX10 support I think). You can download them if you search the steam community though.
I think the GOG.com and Origin versions have them by default.
 

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One problem with the Steam Version is it doesn't have the 64 bit binaries by default (also DX10 support I think). You can download them if you search the steam community though.
I think the GOG.com and Origin versions have them by default.
AFAIK it runs on 32-bit executable but it has DX10. I can try with the downloaded ones :)
 
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