1080 FTW VS 960 FTW

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2016/10/26 13:43:59 (permalink)
Soooo, like a lot of you my 1080 gave me the black screen and it never booted up again. While I am waiting for my new one to arrive Monday, I decided to put an old 960 in my current rig just so I have something. I am getting a little frustrated because I am seeing VERY VERY close performance in frames on WoW and League of Legends. I have not tried any other game, but what gives. Anyone have any ideas.
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    Re: 1080 FTW VS 960 FTW 2016/10/26 13:51:55 (permalink)
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    Soooo, like a lot of you my 1080 gave me the black screen and it never booted up again. While I am waiting for my new one to arrive Monday, I decided to put an old 960 in my current rig just so I have something. I am getting a little frustrated because I am seeing VERY VERY close performance in frames on WoW and League of Legends. I have not tried any other game, but what gives. Anyone have any ideas.


    You'd have to give us more details on the rest of your hardware. The two titles you listed are not very graphic intensive is another thing to consider.

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    Re: 1080 FTW VS 960 FTW 2016/10/26 13:59:28 (permalink)
    This is my build, I guess it is really hard to explain now without the 1080. I feel like the 960 is giving it everything its got, while the 1080 was barely even running. (My whole build is running hotter now).
     
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    Re: 1080 FTW VS 960 FTW 2016/10/26 14:08:01 (permalink)
    mjs2425
    Soooo, like a lot of you my 1080 gave me the black screen and it never booted up again. While I am waiting for my new one to arrive Monday, I decided to put an old 960 in my current rig just so I have something. I am getting a little frustrated because I am seeing VERY VERY close performance in frames on WoW and League of Legends. I have not tried any other game, but what gives. Anyone have any ideas.


    Both those games are cpu intensive. What resolution are you running?


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    Re: 1080 FTW VS 960 FTW 2016/10/26 14:08:37 (permalink)
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    Soooo, like a lot of you my 1080 gave me the black screen and it never booted up again. While I am waiting for my new one to arrive Monday, I decided to put an old 960 in my current rig just so I have something. I am getting a little frustrated because I am seeing VERY VERY close performance in frames on WoW and League of Legends. I have not tried any other game, but what gives. Anyone have any ideas.


    Both those games are cpu intensive. What resolution are you running?




     
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    Re: 1080 FTW VS 960 FTW 2016/10/26 15:44:52 (permalink)
    Yes WoW is very CPU intensive and I believe there is a frame cap on the game, you can edit this in the config file if you wish. With this game it is very rough to stay over 100 fps in general areas. 
     
    For League of Legends please make sure you are not capping the frames (this should be in settings if they haven't changed it). If you have Vsync enabled in either the game settings or in Nvidia Control Panel you can turn it off for higher framerate. 

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    Re: 1080 FTW VS 960 FTW 2016/10/27 14:38:39 (permalink)
    If those are the only games you play why did you buy a 1080?


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    Re: 1080 FTW VS 960 FTW 2016/10/28 12:30:07 (permalink)
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    Yes WoW is very CPU intensive and I believe there is a frame cap on the game, you can edit this in the config file if you wish. With this game it is very rough to stay over 100 fps in general areas. 
     
    For League of Legends please make sure you are not capping the frames (this should be in settings if they haven't changed it). If you have Vsync enabled in either the game settings or in Nvidia Control Panel you can turn it off for higher framerate. 


    There is no FPS cap in WoW, other than vSync, I can get 120+ FPS on ultra @ 4K with a GTX 1080 Hybrid, but my 4.4Ghz Hex core is slammed.  OP is most definitely CPU or Addon bound on WoW.



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