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sethleigh

AHowesThere's some g-sync 4k monitors but in 27". Smaller screen plus 4k has gota make everything in Windows tiny.

It does but it's a non issue, since Windows has a setting that scales up the icons and such so that the desktop and programs and whatnot remain usable. But yeah, if I turn the scaling off on my 28" 4K monitor crap gets really tiny. In some ways that awesome because it's simply a reminder of just how high resolution these beasts really are. I've got stuff scaled up so it's still smaller than it was on my 24" monitor so I get more usable space on my monitor, but still larger than unscaled so I can actually use it.

I keep vacillating between 175% scaling and 200% scaling at 4K.  Basically at 200% the interface is exactly the same scaling as it is at 1080p @ 100%. However, as you know, it is so much crisper and detailed.

I've got mine at 150%. It took a small amount of adjustment on my part to get used to things being a little smaller, but it does make my monitor feel like it has more usable space, which it certainly does. And I agree, things look much cripser and detailed.

I just fired up the Witcher 3 a week or so ago and played for a couple hours. OMG. At 4K that game almost feels like watching a movie instead of a game. It's by far the most beautiful rendered video game I've ever seen. I haven't downscaled to 1080p to compare, but at 4K it's simply stunning.

I'm on a 50" Sammy JU7100. On a smaller screen closer up, I could use a smaller scaling value.

moknowsbest
So i am playing the division right now. Probably play for 20mins because i am dead tired lol but will start my hour time tomorrow. Btw what the heck is that on my screen????

If you turn your cell phone around so I can see your screen....ha ha.

Okay, so after playing for about half an hour-ish i wasn't too impressed with the gameplay...maybe my settings aren't right?

I have turned all my options to ULTRA or very high depending what each category can offer me. Also resolution to 200% with 100% sharp details, and 100% object details.. My visual res was set to 1920x1080 and 59.94 frame rate. even after all this i was getting a little lag here and there...may because i was on wifi net since i saw folks in my game? i guess i can't play this game offline since it's online only game...correct?

ALSO, first i tried the 4k option but omg it was laaaaaaaaaaaaggyyy like screen tearing AF! and my game crashed when i tried reverting back to lower visual lol. i guess the 1.2 display port i'm getting tomorrow may fix this issue? also does it lag if my second screen is on desktop mode and changing desktop wallpaper every second? I will be playing this game more than an hour or so to see if I have a faulty card...
 
Thanks again in advance :)

So I read through most of the posts and skimmed some so forgive me if this has been covered but! I know this sounds stupid but I just want to be sure as it was the first thing that came to mind. In Nvidia control panel SLI default is disabled you do have it enabled correct. Just wanted to be sure.

hapkiman
I have no lag whatsoever in The Division or screen tearing on my Dell 4k monitor.  Like I said I get 40-50ish FPS.  And you do need to be connected to the net.  Even at 50FPS, it runs very smooth on my rig.  What were your temps like after 30-45 min of playing? 

Okay i will connect my pc via ethernet port to online. How do i check my temps? :/

sethleigh

moknowsbest

MikeBGeyer
So I read through most of the posts and skimmed some so forgive me if this has been covered but! I know this sounds stupid but I just want to be sure as it was the first thing that came to mind. In Nvidia control panel SLI default is disabled you do have it enabled correct. Just wanted to be sure.

Yes it is enabled :) what is the best Sli bridge out there? I have the RoG Sli bridge :(

The high bandwidth bridges are the best, like ones from EVGA. For what you're doing though you're unlikely to see that much benefit from going to it. At 4K you might at times, but at any res below that you probably won't.
 
In The Division I often had that bug where changing the video settings and hitting apply during a game would crash it. It's not your video card.

I have no doubt that at 4K the display port 1.2 cable will be helpful. On my 4K monitor it was necessary to get up to 60 hz refresh.

thank you. so i put the product on auto-notify because it is not available... :( also i even had screen tearing issue on my desktop when i first changed the res to 4k and it said it can only do 30hz. this is why i had to buy a display port 1.2
 
i just don't want any laggy res while gaming on the division is it because i only have 24gb memory ram?does that make any difference?
 
 
....i'll try to record from my phone if i can and post it here somehow....

MSI Afterburner or Precision X OC will show your card's temps.  You can configure either to show it in a On Screen Display while you're gaming.  Or place the app on a second monitor if your are running more than one.

Cool GTX
If EVGA restock is slow, these also work well 
 

 
EVGA HB Bridge: 0, 2, 4 - slot in stock at Newegg ....now
 
EVGA HB Bridge: 0, 1, 2, 4 - slot in stock at Amazon ....now
 

This one is OP?

sethleigh
If you decide to buy a HB SLI bridge just be sure to get the one with the right spacing for your motherboard and where the two cards are placed in it. I don't know what the correct spacing for your board is, but as an example, on my FTW K board the two PCI-E slots designed to be used for SLI require the 2-slot spacing.

I wouldn't worry too much about the SLI bridge. Just put the EVGA one on auto-notify and pick it up eventually when it becomes available again. There's really no rush, since the benefits you see with it will be modest.

I'm glad you're learning a lot here. That's the way to go. If you keep at it, when it comes time to upgrade your system you'll be able to make informed choices and pick the right gear for what you want. For now your machine will be fine, even if you might have done a little better with some of the choices. It's certainly a pretty rocking machine, whatever else might be said about it.

Thank you! So i just took the time to take some pics of my PC and post it :) also it shows my cards to help me for which sli bridge to get :)
 

okay so i ran a benchmark on the division and it gave me.
 
AVG FPS - 9.0
TYPICAL FPS - 9.0
AVG CPU - 22%
AVG GPU - 25%
 
is that how far my pc can push? pretty embarrassing...... Also after running msi after burner, my Card 1 was around 70c and Card 2 was around 30c ....

CoercionShaman
Did you enable SLI? Sounds like the second card is idling.

Yes the SLI is enabled :) but the temp on it is around 33 while the other is around 80'ish... what should i be doing to unleash my cards true power? ;p

CoercionShaman
Apparently SLI is a wreck in the Division.



Run it with SLI disabled and check your FPS.

OMg! it's so much better! lmao why ubisoft is so weak?! anyways! after turning it off i am getting 30 - 42 fps rate <3 you my friend are awesome!!!! sucks the fact i can't use both cards on this game....

Another quick question....what is the best SSD Internal drive out there? looking from 500GB to 1TB. THANK YOU! <3

You need to tweak the fan profile on those card. Don't run them with the default fan curve as your cards will idle back when they get up in temps.

Also would be nice to see more pics of the fans in the case.. to make sure there blowing in the right direction. I bet they mounted the cpu radiator in the front with the heat blowing onto your hot cards. Should be up top blowing hot air out and cool air and a lot of it blowing in front the front for your rad and graphics cards.

Look up jays2cents on youtube. He has a bunch of 1080 videos. One were he highlights how to adjust just the fan curve to up your cards performance and another for overclocking.. but with heat like that forget overclocking for now. You gota get those fan kicking.

Get them up to what you can bare during gaming. Try 75-85% when the temps get to 50+. Idle should be in the 30s. When your gaming they will get to the 50s-80s so it will crank the fans when needed and not after the fact when your cards are already hot in the upper 60-70 range.

Also all that heat is blowing in to your case. The founders edition 1080s were best with there blower style air cooler as it blows the heat out the back and not into your case. But your card is better thrn those.. the custom coolers are best for single cards not runing sli with all that heat in the case.

You need good exhaust to get the heat out and good cool air flow to the cards. The new evga case does a great job in that department with its added fans on the left of the cards that would blow cool air into the cards as needed. No other case does that.

His monitor is 3440X1440 which is 4,953,600 pixels.  You are running 3840X2160 which is 8,294,400 pixels.  You are running 1.67 times more pixels.  The easy answer is to move away from a 4K monitor to get those frame rates.