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Hmmm... Full cover water blocks for custom water loops...or just a universal block.

Just to add my $.02: I did a clean install of Win10, upgraded from Win7, a few days after launch, and aside from the UI changes, nothing 'feels' better or worse. Programs open the same, close the same, goes to sleep and wakes up about the same. Games feel the same (BF4 and Skyrim so far)...

concrete-core chokes and hardened MOSFETs

I haven't read all the text, but i thought the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 prohibits 'ownership' of celestial bodies... http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty_of_1967 I think this came up once before somewhere after companies started selling land on the moon as some kind of scam...

I'd take the opportunity to upgrade my whole system around it.

Thanks for the heads up. I thought i followed through the Win7 links at AMD's site to get the right drivers. Maybe i didnt. I'll try again and update if necessary. *EDIT* A-HA! The site had a combined link for both Win7 AND Win8 when i downloaded the first time. Guess that was actually for...

**EDIT** When i first downloaded, the link was for Win8.1 drivers but was labeled as "Windows7/8.1 x64". Windows 7 has a separate download/install package. Problem solved! Just adding my experiences, in that the new Omega 14.12 didn't work for me. Ran DDU to clean out the old beta 14.11...

Count me in.

Sorry i havent updated in a while. I kinda got tired of testing. And then half way through, there was an Origin client update and the mantle stuttering i was seeing seemed to be eliminated. So i'll do a couple more tests with the different presets to check the frame times. In the mean time, here...

I'm going to run a test on each of the image quality presets and see what i come up with. Maybe i'll be able to isolate the performance killer to one particular setting.

Well i started a quick test just to satisfy a curiosity, and this is the result. What you see below is the VRAM usage graph from a GPU-Z log file... using Mantle... on all LOW settings. I jumped into the test range, set the video settings to the LOW preset, exited, then jumped on a full Siege of...

My post-Feb13-patch results havent improved any. If anything, it's worse. The hiccups/stutters started immediately. Freshly rebooted. No change in settings other than to Mantle API. Full Siege of Shanghai server, just after the building went down. i5-2500K @ 4.3Ghz 8Gig 1866MHz DDR3 Radeon...

Excellent. I'll update and try it out later and do another round of testing.

The only setting i changed for testing was back and forth between D3D and Mantle between tests. What i did was have GPUZ pulled up and start its logging when BF4 starts to load. Then while in BF4 i set the in-game frame log file to run and play without interruption or alt-tabbing. I switched...

Okay, graphed my data logs. System Info: i5-2500K @ 4.3GHz, 8G DDR3-1866 RAM, MSI HD7950 @1100/1250MHz, Win7Pro-x64, 1080p. Recorded on a full 64 man Siege of Shanghai server. Game Settings: ===================================================================== VRAM usage as logged by GPU-Z...