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How to check I'm getting the most out of me 1070?

jaybee82

jaybee82

jaybee82

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Hi all,

I'm currently playing Dying Light The Following at the moment, and considering I'm running it on a 1070 (i5 processor), I find some of the frame rate dips down to 30 a little strange.

Most the time it is maxed at the locked 60FPS, but I'm not sure whether either me system is bottle-necking somewhere, or whether I am even using the full power of the card. Is there any tips that you can give?
 
It would help if you actually told us what the rest of your components are and what res you game at. It's no good asking if you have a bottleneck and then not giving us any details of your setup. Your i5 could be a i5 750 for all we know.
 
Monitor CPU and GPU usage. One will hit 100% during the dips to 30 fps, then you will know how to stop them.
 
Get the 4670k clocked. You should be looking at somewhere around 4.4Ghz with a decent cooler.

As already mentioned, trim your siggy down. You have a lot of stuff in there that isn't needed. If you cut out the bits I have underlined you should be down to 4 lines or less:-

GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming 8192MB GDDR5 |
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 | <Put your overclocked speed in when done.
MSI Z87-G43 Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) |
Corsair RM Series RM 650 '80+ Gold' 650W | < RMx or RMi?
Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB |
TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz
 
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pastymuncher said:
Get the 4670k clocked. You should be looking at somewhere around 4.4Ghz with a decent cooler.

As already mentioned, trim your siggy down. You have a lot of stuff in there that isn't needed. If you cut out the bits I have underlined you should be down to 4 lines or less:-

GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming 8192MB GDDR5 |
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 | <Put your overclocked speed in when done.
MSI Z87-G43 Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) |
Corsair RM Series RM 650 '80+ Gold' 650W | < RMx or RMi?
Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB |
TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz
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Thanks for the advice, have now amended.

Re overclocking, I'm guessing I better buy a new cooler before doing this? I'm just using the stock one at the minute.
 
yes, a full custom watercooling loop. circa £5-700. anything else is not enough.










sorry :) there are lots of good air coolers out there, im afraid i dont know what they are as i like coolers which can destroy your whole pc if you arent careful, but i'm sure someone will be in to let you know! Id recommend you take a look in the 'overclocking and cooling' forum.
 
james_2k said:
yes, a full custom watercooling loop. circa £5-700. anything else is not enough.










sorry :) there are lots of good air coolers out there, im afraid i dont know what they are as i like coolers which can destroy your whole pc if you arent careful, but i'm sure someone will be in to let you know! Id recommend you take a look in the 'overclocking and cooling' forum.
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It all depends on your case and how much clearance it has for a cpu cooler so which case are you using? Basically you get what you pay for so the more you spend the better the cooling. Some of the budget ones have a lot of performance for your money though. Here are a selection for you to consider.

Budget end.

My basket at Overclockers UK:


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Medium priced.

My basket at Overclockers UK:


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Premium priced.

My basket at Overclockers UK:


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Be aware that some of the bigger ones are gigantic and there may be ram clearance issues which you would need to doublecheck before buying.
 
The Cooler Master Hyper 212 probably sells more the all the others combined it gets recommend so many times. You might want to take a ganders at this website it will help you choose.

Also before buying put a mild overclock on your CPU to see if it does help with those drops (push to it to the same speed as it's max boost clock 3.8Ghz).
 
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