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Where can I get the highest possible FPS in a game?

Calneon

Calneon

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Ok bit of a weird question...

My 290x has coil whine, I've had it for a few months now and I think it's getting better ever so slightly over time, though it's hard to tell because it's very gradual. Anyway, I heard some people fixed their issues by letting it whine for long periods of time to basically burn it away.

The idea is that as time goes on, the coil vibrates and wears down, and 'settles'. The faster I can get it to vibrate, the faster this is going to happen. Hence I need something that will give me very high FPS which is what determines the frequency. I've tried HL2 deathmatch but it seems to be hard capped at 280 FPS. Ideally something like when you quit Unigine heaven, and it shows a window for a few seconds, which runs at 5000 FPS and makes my card whine at a very high pitch and quite loudly. Something like that which lasted a long time would be perfect.

Anyone have any ideas?
 
I don't know if it has to be a graphically intense game to work, but I used to get 333fps on a 7800gtx in Call of Duty (the first one) years ago, so I'm pretty sure on a 290x you could get way higher than 1000+. If you look at the sky or ground it should go higher as well.
 
The menu screen from Crysis has always been a screamer for me.

As others have said though, it may be worth considering an RMA if it's that bad.
 
I'm returning my MSI 290 Gaming due to coil whine :( I swapped my PSU just to make sure it was the GPU.

I got the squeals in Crysis menu, and the first futuremark 3D Mark test (IceStorm).

And yeah, you could just get a Quake 3 Demo and release the frame limit... which I might try for fun, see how loud it can squeal!
 
You need to give it time to bed in, whine can go away if you pound the cards for a little while.

I had whine on my 290s but it went away.
 
I had faint coil whine on my 7990; although I have stopped doing it now, a month of coin mining soon got rid of the whine.
 
I've already returned one 290x that had really bad whine (like 10x worse than my current one). It's only really noticeable if you're playing a game with low ambient sound. If the card still had the stock cooler it probably wouldn't be noticeable over the fan (I have it watercooled). Hence I don't think it's a candidate for RMA (if I'm wrong please tell me).

I can put up with it, I just wanted to see if I could burn it out.
 
I had a bit of coil whine on my 290x but i havant heard it since my mining binge in late November.

I don't think number of fps matter but the load of the card matters. A uncapped fps menu screen has put some PCs to some work, like when SC2 originally released with the SLOWEST moving background, i was maxing my system out at the menu more than the game lol. I think a few people even managed to run their PC's Overclock into the ground by leaving it AFK there but that has unfortunately since been patched up.

I would leave it mining a handful of nights to and see if it makes a difference, if you cant RMA it.
 
Mine only does it when exiting Unigine Heaven and in the odd menu here and there. Nothing bad enough to warrant sending it back anyway. It's not as bad as it was, so does get better with age!
 
I would argue its not high frame rates you need its high demand (perhaps what you meant anyhow!).

The most popular method is to run heaven on extreme preset and leave it looping for an hour or two.
 
Frame rates in the thousands would usually indicate less stress on your GPU as more than likely those parts are less graphically intensive.

pgi947 said:
I would argue its not high frame rates you need its high demand (perhaps what you meant anyhow!).

The most popular method is to run heaven on extreme preset and leave it looping for an hour or two.
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This ^.
 
As above it shouldn't matter what fps its churning out and i would think as long as the game/bench utility isn't cpu bound your card will be running at full capacity regardless of the in game fps.
 
I would also check its not whining due to the psu, a 130w x58 chip along side a power hungry 290x might be a little rough on a corsair 520w unit!
 
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