You really have to keep an eye on it and grab a bargain when it comes up. Identify to buy mine off ccl, but their mobile site was incapable of coping with seperate billing and delivery addresses and then managed to get it 10 quid cheaper on ebuyer anyway. Think I got it for 180 which ain't bad
Lol, no hate here mate. Yeah, I've been keeping my eyes open for some. But at £200 for 16GB 3600MHz it does not interested me, as it will be a £700 outlay to upgrade for a smidge more performance.
I know mate, I'm genuinely surprised how capable this Mini Ti is coupled with my current Ryzen kit @true_gamer, I think looking back, we've all blown silly amounts of cash over the years for the sake of ego over practicality (guilty as charged right here to) - equally so I think we've learned to appreciate the value of other things in life more as a result of. Back to the subject of DDR4, yes I had noticed how it riles you so; your not in a minority there mate - ideally, what would you want to realistically spend? And what would you want to have in terms of speed and capacity?
This is so true. It's not that I don't have the money, as I do. But lately I've been spending money on stuff like my Sim cockpit etc where I can appreciate it's been money well spent, rather than be disappointed with a smidge more performance. Yeah, a few of my friends have put their foot down and won't pay the prices either... Ideall, I would like 16GB 3600MHz+.
1080p Extreme = 6322 Spoiler 4k Optimized = 9959 Spoiler 1900X Stock (so anywhere from 3.9-4.15Ghz such is the way XFR does its thing) DDR4 @ 3333 1080Ti @ 2050/6000 GPU clocks fluctuated quite a bit on the 4k, probably need to find a moded BIOS to remove limiters. My other TI was a bit faster than this one.
This drops into the realms of showboating I guess (I was trying out the stability of a new memory kit at Über high speed/low latency ). I could up the CPU overclock to...
i7 3770 Zotac 1080 Mini All at stock. Trundles along well enough on my 1400p. It's made me notice my drivers are a bit out of date though
Agree re my 1080 mate. My first Zotac and first mini, been very impressed how it performs without getting too toasty. It's a bit whiney but I use headphones so that only drawback is mitigated for me, not sure if you find the Ti is the same.
Overclock, spill it's blood. Overclock, spill it's blood. Overclock, spill it's blood. Overclock, spill it's blood....
You know a juicey bios mod is just a flash away..... I've had issues with my 970 choking despite being made of cheesecake, but a bios mod, even one that rags it senseless, has smoothed thing out no end. I'm playing far cry 5 on ultra with great amd smooth fps, even though geforce experience wanted to knock things down below stock high settings.
No, no such issue with whine at all with the Ti - This is my third Zotac, previously I've had a 970 and a 1070 (which @Impatience now runs), their five year warranty and quality of product are spot on IMO
Actually it turns out it's not whine. Gamed a bit without headphones and I just think it's the fans at certain points when maxed out to max plus maxy max on certain screens. Ignore me, more than happy with the mini
Sorry for the late reply. couldn't remember the details and this is the first time i've been able to sit at my rig since tuesday and now i'm getting dragged away to go 'visit people'. ugh, people I dwnloaded this bios from somewhere, oc.net forums i think. I did have my own bios mod on here previously, but had only upped the wattage and voltage slightly and pushed clock increases through software. It was better than stock but not as good or consistent as this bios. PCI slot power stays at 75W but set for both norm and max values, both power cables up to 90W norm, 95.4 max, total power 200W norm, 250W max which enables power target to be set to 125%. Volts pushed up to 1.2813. tdp base clock up to 1291, 3d base clock and boost clock set to 1531.5, slight mem bump to 3705 (but overclock further in PX when gaming), temp target up to 84, but max stays at 91. not that it ever gets anywhere near that. I would not go this far unless you had a full cover block on though. even with that and a backplate with extra heatsinks, the vrms get a bit toasty . If i hadn't already sold my old cpu block i would have considered strapping it to the back somehow. lol There was once after a good 6 or 7 hours on far cry that i thought i saw a few artifacts pop up, red dots out on the water, but i had set a REALLY quiet fan profile. I've since beefed that up slightly and not seen any further issues, i might still drop down the clocks to 1500 for gaming though. The best thing is the clocks are what you set it too. the core clock graph stays as flat as sigourney weaver.
just having a bit of an overclocking sesh and setting some scores before upgrading the pci riser to see if it makes any difference and then i'll be upgrading to a 980ti, so want to see how that compares. Got my cpu up to 4.7, but had to notch the memory down to 3333. first run was shocking, 2100 or so, well below my 2450 best. second run was a 2468 though, higher than any 970 scores on the leaderboard* when i closed it down i noticed my cpu temps weren't dropping, opened up cpuz and was held at 4.7, but i've got speedstep/c-states enabled?? lets have a look what's running...... oh. OOOHHHHH. turns out i'd forgot to stop prime95 running after a quick stability check so not only did i get my highest and THE highest score for a 970*, but i did it while running small fft's on prime. watch me go get a lower score now it's definitely off....
Looking through the Superposition benchies I've run so far, my worst score on 1080p High - not counting the systems that don't have enough VRAM to go over 720p Low - is 567 (Asus PB60); my best, meanwhile, is 14,439 (Shuttle SH370R8 with a Core i7-9700K and GeForce RTX 2080 crammed in it). Good luck to the poor bugger at PC Pro's layout department who has to fit both of those scores on the same graph and have it be in any way meaningful! (I'd probably break the SH370R8, 'cos people get super confused if you go logarithmic.)
When I was at uni my tutor set us a bit of work that included drawing a logarithmic graph. He had to go sort something out with a PhD student so asked if we knew what one was so he could leave is to it, everyone said yeh sure. When he came back and said right let's see what you've got. We presented 4 nice curved graphs, only mine curved the other way and platued, much to the amusement of the other 3 in my tutor group. My tutor was not so amused. "****s sake you lot. Don't tell me you know how to do something when you don't or you'll end up blowing yourself up. You might as well go Andy I need to go over this with them." Smug mode was well and truly engaged.