Recent content by freerangeninja

Haha noo don't say that. My wallet is already sulking in the corner.

Must say, thanks ever so much guys. You're all amazing.

No difference with the 3d settings. Gonna go find a good guide on RAM overclocking because that seems to be the main differentiation now.

Okay so after upping RAM to 1800MHz I'm now at 113fps but I don't think its quite stable. I'm gonna try Krenum 's suggestion next.

Krenum I haven't enabled it, I'll try that too.

doubletake Yeah Overclocking to 4.6GHz hit the throttling limiter so I only got about 2fps increase. I've upped my RAM clock to 1800Mhz from 1600MHz and I'm gonna try that.

And doubletake I looked at overclocking RAM, jesus that looks like a minefield. I will do if I cant get any more performance increase from altering the CPU but I'd rather not touch it with a barge pole.

Ramped CPU up by 200MHz and no change in FPS. Gonna try 4.6Ghz again and report back.

Oh and Supercharged_Z06 yeah the stock cooler blows (hehe) apparently. I'll invest in a beefier one tomorrow.

So I reapplied thermal paste (which I should have done ages ago admittedly) and gained 10fps. So I'm at 105fps which is better but not where I want to be yet. Gonna OC again now that I've managed to stabilise my temps a bit and see what happens. The CPU throttling due to overheating would have...

Also just monitored my temps whilst running the benchmarks, the core temps are reaching 90-100c... Is it possible its throttling the CPU clock when these get too high?

skiddierow Its on the Very High Preset, 1080p with vSync off.

Oh also, skiddierow could you do me a solid favour and run the RotT benchmark tool (in the menu) and let me know what FPS you end up with at the end? If it is a CPU bottleneck then we should theoretically have the same FPS.

Also whateverer, yeah you probably have a point with DOOM but Rise of the Tombraider does have a built in benchmark tool and that's what I've been using.

Okay so I overclocked to 4.6GHz (up from 3.9GHz) and still got 95fps on the Tombraider benchmark... And nearly overheated the system whilst I was at it. I think we can agree its not a CPU bottleneck now. Does anyone else have any ideas?