Motana Bob
New Member
Help me out here guys,
I bought all this stuff that is overclockable. I have it all running at pretty much stock everything with the exception of screwing around with the BIOS and letting the thing give me another 6% or so. I am trying to learn everything I can about messing with this more with performance upgrades in mind, but I can't get my mind around what good it is going to do me with my gaming usage.
What I have:
Asus 970 pro gaming MOBO
Vishera 8350 AMD
Radeon r9 270x GPU x 2 w/ crossfirex enabled
1500W PSU
Hyper X ddr3 x 16G memory 2x8 2400
POS case that I need to get replaced
Windows 8.1 64bit which works just fine for me.
HDD x2 = 3TB not in a RAID config
and good old cable internet that claims 60 megs but gives like maybe 35
and there's the rub. If I crank up my computer to the very peak of its performance limits, am I gunna be stuck by my internet connection for a choke point?
I use my computer for internet surfing and my version of gaming is crap like mmo's or PvP. I realize that some of this stuff I have is for "Video Editing" but who the hell does that? I built it thinking that I would have a super fast machine, which I do comparatively speaking, and even if I go with something super cool like a water cooling unit and a 360mm radiator, how much faster am I going to be able surf, etc with the internet connection I have.
So how much of an upgrade is 4400 or 4600MHz going to be over the 4100 I have now?
What are some of the better games to play that will utilize both Graphics cards? I play TESO and World of Warplanes and can't get any life out of GPU2 according to MSI Afterburner even though the fans work and I have everything updated daily.
I know both GPU'S work and have posted this query elsewhere with the conclusion that the games can't utilize both.
Last, if I do decide to start crapping out $100.00 bills, whats the best under $300.00 water cooling set up to get for poser level enthusiast?
Thanks in advance
I bought all this stuff that is overclockable. I have it all running at pretty much stock everything with the exception of screwing around with the BIOS and letting the thing give me another 6% or so. I am trying to learn everything I can about messing with this more with performance upgrades in mind, but I can't get my mind around what good it is going to do me with my gaming usage.
What I have:
Asus 970 pro gaming MOBO
Vishera 8350 AMD
Radeon r9 270x GPU x 2 w/ crossfirex enabled
1500W PSU
Hyper X ddr3 x 16G memory 2x8 2400
POS case that I need to get replaced
Windows 8.1 64bit which works just fine for me.
HDD x2 = 3TB not in a RAID config
and good old cable internet that claims 60 megs but gives like maybe 35
and there's the rub. If I crank up my computer to the very peak of its performance limits, am I gunna be stuck by my internet connection for a choke point?
I use my computer for internet surfing and my version of gaming is crap like mmo's or PvP. I realize that some of this stuff I have is for "Video Editing" but who the hell does that? I built it thinking that I would have a super fast machine, which I do comparatively speaking, and even if I go with something super cool like a water cooling unit and a 360mm radiator, how much faster am I going to be able surf, etc with the internet connection I have.
So how much of an upgrade is 4400 or 4600MHz going to be over the 4100 I have now?
What are some of the better games to play that will utilize both Graphics cards? I play TESO and World of Warplanes and can't get any life out of GPU2 according to MSI Afterburner even though the fans work and I have everything updated daily.
I know both GPU'S work and have posted this query elsewhere with the conclusion that the games can't utilize both.
Last, if I do decide to start crapping out $100.00 bills, whats the best under $300.00 water cooling set up to get for poser level enthusiast?
Thanks in advance
