A single stress test isn't universally conclusive, but it is strange he can do 10 hours of p95 with no issues though.
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Detectives Needed: It seems I have a bottleneck
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A single stress test isn't universally conclusive, but it is strange he can do 10 hours of p95 with no issues though.
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True and I forgot that it was tested 10 hours with Prime, which would have likely failed if the Psu was going south. My youngtimers kicks in somethings when trying to help too many people.
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Here's the link to the thread where I was shown, told how etc mate - Overclocking A8 6600k – Need hand holding!
I'm interested in finding out why my rig under performs in comparison my friends rig. I had another friend help me out (who's in data analysis), he put in my 3dMark results as well as Nathan's (the compared rig) results and a selection of other higher results into some lovely graphs.
What's odd is that my friends rig has the A10 CPU but a slower GPU and he gets better results in both Arma II and DayZ but here's where it gets interesting; he scores a fair bit worse in 3DMark. Feel free to look at the data if you like: https://public.tableau.com/profile/js.adam#!/vizhome/3DMarkScores/GPUClocksxScore
The linked spread shows the biggest correlation. Nothing out of the ordinary there right? Exactly. Except for that fact that my rig performs better in seemingly more complex scenes but not when running Arma III or DayZ. He thinks it might be something do with the 'draw call' process that the CPU apparently handles? I have no idea about this but he explained the CPU basically tells the GPU what to draw?
Maybe, the additional load from of a CPU intensive game is stepping on this otherwise unbridled process which in turn is bottlenecking the GPU. Effectively making the GPU have to wait longer before it knows what to draw?
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Ran better than last time for sure at least on the demo. No issues other than severe frame rate drops with the combined test which is to be expected.
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You mention your friend has an "R970 GPU".
Did you mean R9 270, R9 270X, GTX 970, or something else?
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Oh did I get that wrong, my bad. It's a R9 270, sorry.
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Can you find out which driver version he's on?
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He's on the latest.
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Did the beta drivers help at all?
What's the model number of your RAM? 1600 11-11-11 seems very high for the timings.
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Just trying out the betas now.
The RAM well I really don't know what it is as the model only brings up Russian stuff. Have a look.
R538G1601U2S-UGO
I've never touched timings; I don't have the first idea about them.
The RAM well I really don't know what it is as the model only brings up Russian stuff. Have a look.
R538G1601U2S-UGO
I've never touched timings; I don't have the first idea about them.
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You've lost me; you'd wager a bet that the correct timings of RAM are my problem? I can't use CPUz no, I've that many similar applications on my system I really don't need another. HWiNFO / AMD Overdrive / MSI Afterburner seems good enough?
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Yes, because those timings are very high for that speed.
I'm trying to check if your memory is actually running in dual-channel or not.
I know where to see this information in CPUz, but I'm not sure where to see it otherwise.
If you don't want to install it, just run the portable version instead.
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*shrugs* these timings are the default so... I dunno!
But yeah, it's just the one stick of ram. A few people were initially like "oh my goawwdd" about this earlier in the thread but it's just how it was bought.
Turns out CPU Z works just fine, must have been thinking of something else.
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I bought a basic system to build upon and that's how it came. You genuinely think that having dual channel RAM will sort my issue? I will have to look into why specifically as I don't really understand. Appreciate the help though.
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