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thinking of changing my GPU some advice please.

D1craig

D1craig

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ill start from the beginning.

i bought a computer a while back from a competitor ( i think they are competitors lol ), it was great played the games i was playing perfectly. after 2-3 years my GPU started to become dated. i had a hd 7850. i think i killed it when i found MSI afterburner and ramped some settings up and never touched the voltage. (i have non knowledge of overclocking lol) it did end up giving me some artefacts and then my pc wouldnt start.

i then bought a GTX 770 after reading all the reviews saying it was awesome and would pretty much destroy any game of my type ie. wow etc. well after a month or so i noticed it was not "destroying" wow, it was comfortably playing it when i played it as an open world solo game. but as soon as i jumped into 25 man raiding and BG's my FPS would drop as low as 10 sometimes lower. this was mainly because of an issue with the nVidia HD Audio drivers clashing with the onboard audio. i sorted this issue but my FPS was/is not what i was hoping for.

the point and question of the story now is do you think i should get a R9 290 instead? how do i go about selling my GTX 770?

i am thinking of going the AMD route as my mobo supports crossfire, i overlooked this when getting the gtx 770 as i would much rather run one gpu than 2. my mobo is - ASUS® P8Z68-V LX.
 
i like to run everything at max settings, my resolution is 1920x1080.

PCS MAELSTROM T900 BLACK GAMING CASE.
Processor - Intel® Core™i7-2600 Quad Core (3.40GHz, 8MB Cache) + HD Graphics.
Motherboard - ASUS® P8Z68-V LX.
Memory - 8GB KINGSTON.
Graphics Card - Palit OC gtx 770.
Hard Disk - 1TB SEAGATE Barracuda.
Power Supply - CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE.
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit.

i am having some troubles in a new game aswell - Archeage. it runs my gpu at near 100% all the time and my fps isnt even at the v-sync 60 level. that game is a lot more visually intense than wow and my cpu isnt used nearly as much as it is in wow.

i have noticed in wow my cpu is mostly above 70% useage and can go as high as 95%. i did make a thread about my gpu and wow the other week.

wow and archeage are exactly the same type of game just different scenery or game engine. - MMORPG

EDIT - i found that my cpu was not turbo boosting so looked it up and changed something and now it does turbo boost but not tried wow since. im stuck into archeage now lol.
 
normal non k version. like i said i have no idea about OC so when bought the pc didnt want anything to do with it.

i have changed the turbo boost form x42 to x46

EDIT any tips about MSI afterburner target temp thing?

just been reading up about it and want to turn it up lol. will it be ok if i set it to 85 instead of 79?
 
I think with the non-K chips you have a more limited headroom for overclocking. All I can suggest is that you get what you can out of it, and check for a boost in fps. I don't think changing your graphics card will make as much difference as you might hope for.
 
ok thanx for the advice. as my cpu is one of the "harder to OC" cpus do you think i should upgrade it? would a stock model of any of the other cpus offer a significant boost?

i could then try and dabble in some OCing.
 
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