Recent content by Italiano86

I'll definitely check that setup out. Is that probably as cheap as it gets for a single slot solution? I don't have to go that route and can look at cards with dvi if it will save me some money. If it's not that big of a difference then I will probably go with single. Thanks!

Hey all. Been awhile since I've been on here. I broke a capacitor off my watercooled 290x and now it only runs at 100mhz unfortunately, so I need a new card. I am wondering which card you would recommend. Obviously I will be overclocking the hell out of it and take full advantage of my...

I just turned the shaders to highest and it does look extremely good. I turned grass to the third highest to get some more performance. What settings tax our cards the most? Hmmmm, Turned down post fx from the highest to one below and the game feels silky smooth now.

How is the game running for people using a 290x? Mine at 1920x1200 seems to be solid at 60fps with mostly highest settings but I get a lot of massive frame drops, even if I turn down the graphics in most sections.

I tried to change around the with or without powerplay support and still don't have the automatic profiles setup on the profiles tab. I am running the latest msi afterburner, but i noticed you have screen and video capture which I don't have. Your version seems different. Having powerplay set...

The noise is playing the game and in the menu, turning vsync on or off doesn't seem to matter much. I went to the profile tab and i only see 4 boxes to put hotkeys for each profile...

Hmmm, I did what you suggested and set my core to 500 and it got rid of the whine! I wish I could enable ulps so it can keep my temps down but oh well. I suppose it's not taking up too much more power than leaving the card at idle 300/150. I just wish there was a way where I can edit the...

How would I set a frame rate cap in 2d mode on the desktop? What exactly does ulps do, and how does it correlate to cranking the clock on the card? How exactly do I lock the clock speed via afterburner? I can do this but I'm hoping I don't have to really raise it alot to stop the whine.

I used gpuz this morning and used the little rendering test to tax the card and the noise stopped. I don't like the idea of turning off the power saving to get rid of the noise which in turn would run the card higher than normal. I'll try turning off vsync in game and see if the clock stays...

This whole throttling thing with the 290x is just strange. I understand they are doing it to save power when the gpu is hardly being used but it seems excessive. Playing watch dogs today I noticed the core clock was all over the place, and it didn't get much higher than 8-850, which I thought...

What do you think it could be?

I have a feeling it does have to do with frames because it only seems to happen when I'm on the desktop and of course the frame rate is insanely high. Could my psu be getting old? I bought it back in 2008 so it's 6 years old now but it's been solid. What are the chances getting a new psu...

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I just got this used msi 290x card off ebay a couple days ago and just got all the drivers installed, which happened to take 20 mins. Not too happy about that but it's all done finally. I grabbed the 14.7 beta which shows up as 14.6 in afterburner. Anyway, it's sporting anice ek water block...

I bid 480 on it and someone else had it set to 475 so that's what I got it for. Was hoping to get it for a bit cheaper but oh well. It comes with the block already installed plus a backplate and the stock cooler comes with it too. I think I paid more than most other auctions but most don't have...