RX 480 and 1440p monitor

[BeastyBaiter]

In the event anyone was wondering, the RX 480 runs BoX at max detail at 1440p just fine. I grabbed an Acer monitor during a week long sale at newegg for $220 (sale going till Monday, will link at bottom) but was nervous my RX 480 might not run it at a locked 60 fps no matter what. That fear turned out to be unfounded for BoX, I rarely drop below 80 fps on my system in BoS and haven't seen below 60 fps yet. Average FPS is certainly lower than at 1080p of course, but both my old 1080p monitor and the new one only do 60 Hz, so whether the average fps is 80 or 120 makes no difference. The minimums in both cases are over 60 fps. DCS 1.5 is in a similar situation, I'm heavily CPU bottlenecked with an I5-4690 (3.5GHz base, 3.9GHz boost). So there was actually much less of a change there. WT tanks had a similar change to BoS, so still locked at over 60 fps but the average is no longer 150 fps. Full system specs as follows:

 

CPU: I5-4690

GPU: MSI RX 480 Gaming X 8GB clocked to 1380 MHz core (fixed) and 2025 MHz for the memory.

RAM: 16GB DDR3 PC2800

OS: Windows 10 Home

 

 

The monitor itself is perfectly fine. Out of the box it is set brighter than the sun, but it's much nicer after dropping it to 20%. As a whole it seems well made, no complaints there. Oh, my RX 480 also claims it is a free sync monitor, but I haven't been able to verify that. It wasn't advertised as one.

 

Link to monitor: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009969

Edited April 15, 2017 by BeastyBaiter

[Jaws2002]

In the event anyone was wondering, the RX 480 runs BoX at max detail at 1440p just fine. I grabbed an Acer monitor during a week long sale at newegg for $220 (sale going till Monday, will link at bottom) but was nervous my RX 480 might not run it at a locked 60 fps no matter what. That fear turned out to be unfounded for BoX, I rarely drop below 80 fps on my system in BoS and haven't seen below 60 fps yet. Average FPS is certainly lower than at 1080p of course, but both my old 1080p monitor and the new one only do 60 Hz, so whether the average fps is 80 or 120 makes no difference. The minimums in both cases are over 60 fps. DCS 1.5 is in a similar situation, I'm heavily CPU bottlenecked with an I5-4690 (3.5GHz base, 3.9GHz boost). So there was actually much less of a change there. WT tanks had a similar change to BoS, so still locked at over 60 fps but the average is no longer 150 fps. Full system specs as follows:

 

CPU: I5-4690

GPU: MSI RX 480 Gaming X 8GB clocked to 1380 MHz core (fixed) and 2025 MHz for the memory.

RAM: 16GB DDR3 PC2800

OS: Windows 10 Home

 

 

The monitor itself is perfectly fine. Out of the box it is set brighter than the sun, but it's much nicer after dropping it to 20%. As a whole it seems well made, no complaints there. Oh, my RX 480 also claims it is a free sync monitor, but I haven't been able to verify that. It wasn't advertised as one.

 

Link to monitor: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009969

 

 

You know that you can overclock your monitor, right?

 

I have a 27 inches wide gamut Dell Ultrasharp U2713H, 60 Hz monitor and I have it running at 73Hz for about three years. First I had to use a third party software to overclock it, but now, you can do it right in the Nvidia control panel.

 

The difference is very noticeable in games.

 

Discalimer: Overclocking your monitor will most likely void your warranty and may shorten the life of the screen, so if you want to do this do it at your own risk.

 

 

 

Basically you have to create a new "custom resolution" in the Nvidia settings, then keep increasing the refresh rate and test it, until it tells you it doesn't support the resolution. Then you just drop the refresh rate by one or two Hz and save it.

 

Here's the exact tutorial:

 

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/pc-peripheral/how-overclock-your-monitor-3635779/

Crap. You have a radeon, so it's different, but there's a tutorial for AMD cards there as well.

Edited April 17, 2017 by Jaws2002

[Dutch2]

Wow 73hz is great, a couple of years ago I did use the Toasty tool to adjust my 27" Dell 2560x1440 IPS monitor, only I did reach only 63Hz so useless for me.

[Jaws2002]

That's what i used for about two years, but now you can do it in Nvidia control panel.

 

I love this monitor, IPS with very good colors and wide gamut, but from the factory was slow for games. Now it's decent.

Edited April 17, 2017 by Jaws2002

[BeastyBaiter]

It wasn't advertised, but in playing with it shortly after my first post, I discovered it's actually a 75Hz monitor. And yes, it is a very noticeable difference. Not going to overclock it as I'd like to get a decent life out of it. BoS is locked at 75 fps now, don't think I've seen any dips below yet. I do overclock other components btw, my RX 480 is running a 1400 MHz core clock, factory overclock is 1313 and reference is around 1250 I think. Stays pretty cool too, MSI stuck a nice cooler on that card. My current I5 is a locked model, but I think I'll do an unlocked CPU next time.

[Jaws2002]

This newer multi fan coolers are really effective and quiet.

The cards get bigger and bigger though. I'm looking at this custom GTX 1080 TI's and they all are taking almost three slots and weigh a ton.

I'm worried about the poor motherboard. I already have a huge Noctua NH D14 CPU cooler in there and the thing is bloody heavy already.

MSI makes some fast and well designed hardware.

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

Remove the huge old school air cooler and fit a little Closed loop liquid cooler
You will drop about 15-20*C specially on idle and will make near no noise
OR
Put a custom liquid cooling on there and idle at room temp
(i have a huge custom loop and FX8350 @ 4.3Ghz Sits on Room temp idle (even if thats 10*C) Peaks Around 45*C on PRime.)

Edited April 19, 2017 by =R4T=Sshadow14

[BeastyBaiter]

That's just silly. Why would anyone put a $100 cooler on a $250 GPU? It would make far more sense to buy a $350 GPU instead. Besides, the card is already silent and hovers at around 57C under full load with my overclock. At idle, the fans shut off completely, not that I could tell without opening up radeon settings and checking the current fan speed.

Edited April 19, 2017 by BeastyBaiter

[Dutch2]

And you could power up the 480 to https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/xfx-rx480-8gb-flashed-to-saphire-rx580.232489/

[Jaws2002]

My CPU is running at around 35-45 degrees Celsius with this cooler and it's very quiet, so I wouldn't get much from water cooling it.

Maybe another build in the future, but for this box, It's not worth it.

[Dutch2]

You know that you can overclock your monitor, right?

 

I have a 27 inches wide gamut Dell Ultrasharp U2713H, 60 Hz monitor and I have it running at 73Hz for about three years. First I had to use a third party software to overclock it, but now, you can do it right in the Nvidia control panel.

 

The difference is very noticeable in games.

 

Discalimer: Overclocking your monitor will most likely void your warranty and may shorten the life of the screen, so if you want to do this do it at your own risk.

 

 

 

 

 

Basically you have to create a new "custom resolution" in the Nvidia settings, then keep increasing the refresh rate and test it, until it tells you it doesn't support the resolution. Then you just drop the refresh rate by one or two Hz and save it.

 

Here's the exact tutorial:

 

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/pc-peripheral/how-overclock-your-monitor-3635779/

Crap. You have a radeon, so it's different, but there's a tutorial for AMD cards there as well.

I did give it a go and reached 69hz, did one run on Woff UE and it did run well, only a crash at the end. So yeah I geuss two clicks lower would bring me to an safety 67hz. Only I do not think that extra 7hz can be detected, so I keep it to stock 60hz.

Edited April 23, 2017 by Dutch2

[Jaws2002]

I agree. For just seven HZ it's not worth it.

 

I just replaced the EVGA GTX780 superclocked, with a Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080 TI overclocked and it made a huge difference in game. First of all, it doesn't crash anymore.  . Then I ran at 2560x1440 with everything maxed out in game. with the Vsinc turned off it runs at around a ninety to hundred fps in qmb, with maximum number of planes. With Vsinc on it sits mostly flat at 73 FPS.     Love it.

 

What's cool. my DCS 2 now runs butter smooth. 

Edited April 25, 2017 by Jaws2002

[Dutch2]

Use the fast Vsync and feel the difference.

[Jaws2002]

Use the fast Vsync and feel the difference.

Didn't even know such a thing exists.

 

Will try it.

 

Thx.

[kestrel79]

Any have a 580 series ATI card or are we all waiting for Vega?

[Jaws2002]

Use the fast Vsync and feel the difference.

 

Thank you for the tip. 

I just tested it today with the fast sync and a typical 8 vs 8 dogfight QMB runs at around 140fps.   No tearing at all.

 

When i turned the labels on it dropped 30 fps. I think that area needs a bit of optimizing.

Edited May 5, 2017 by Jaws2002