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What would the AMD Catalyst Control Center equivalent to this setting be? On the times that I was able to exit the game before the game crashes my system and I had gpu-z on, I've noticed that my R9-280x downclocks from the factory OC of 1100 MHz drops to 300 MHz and around the times the screen start flickering. I've also had this happen on Borderlands 2. In many cases with both games, I would have to underclock the GPU to 900 MHz and I would be able to get half an hour or even more(more often 2 hours,) but I am wondering if there is a setting like that in CCC.

Skyrim is a CPU intensive game but if I remember correctly, the AMD CPUs do lag behind the intel CPUs. I would turn off mods that you don't need running(wherever you don't need hi-res textures,) or upgrade to an FX-8350. The only other option is building an intel CPU system using a decent i5. My sources: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8350-vishera-review,3328-14.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106.html Should definately look over both articles.

From the looks of things, it doesn't look like youtube is going to fix the content id system under almost any circumstances anytime soon: http://kotaku.com/heres-what-youtube-has-to-say-to-angry-youtubers-1485168478

I've knew someone who has hit 4GHz on stock cooling with a Phenom II X4 965 and using a good thermal paste like arctic silver 5, but I would suggest a better cooler(like a Hyper 212+ or evo,) before trying to hit that mark. Also the resolution you have is a killer on what ever processor gets pushed. If you are using Vista or 7, disable Aero, Aero Peek, transparent glass, show shadows under mouse pointer and windows to name a few features that you might not need.

The limitation is that Vsync is enabled by default and you are only able to toggle it in the Skyrimprefs.ini file by adding iPresentInterval=0 to the bottom of the [Display] section, or you can try to get the graphics card to ignore the ingame setting in the game's profile of the NVidia Control Panel or the Catalyst Control Center. Vsync tries the match the frames displayed per second to the monitor's refresh rate so getting greater than 60 frames per second is a matter of having a monitor with a refresh rate greater than 60 MHz.

Running a second card almost always brings a new set of problems. In most cases, games don't get SLI/Crossfire support until months after the game is released so you will be playing a game for a while without using that second gpu. Chances are, your 660 GC will no longer exist as a new purchase by the time you do the upgrade and will have to look for a used or refurbished card and that can open up a whole different can of worms. Most system builders will suggest the best single gpu solution over a multi-gpu solution unless you plan to game at ultra-high resolutions.

Have you tried to clear out your cookies and browsing history? I know that they've had planned downtimes throughout the week to transfer the databases to a new setup, but they had a planned down time a week ago for similar issues to yours and a common suggestion on that news thread was to delete the cookies for the nexusmods site.

I currently use windows 7 for gaming and anything iTunes related, and I use Fedora(after installing EasyLife and rpmfusions) for almost everything else. Edit: In case you decide on Windows 8, here is an article for you to check out. It is a couple programs that you can use to get rid of Windows 8 style UI and use the desktop. http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/stardock_start8_vs_classic_shell2013?page=0,1

Depends on how tech savvy you may be. As far as I know, only certain Intel SSDs(I'm not certain which ones) seem to have TRIM support for raided SSDs but garbage collection algorithims have gotten better to all but negate the need for TRIM. Even so, it would be better to with one SSD as a boot drive and a second SSD for games. The big disadvantage with RAID 0(I am assuming that you would be using this RAID setup) is if one drive fails, the data on both is lost.

The install path is different from what it should be. Skyrim's install path should be ..\steam\steamapps\common\skyrim. You could move the skyrim folder to a different location as long as you make a directory symbolic link("mklink /d" in windows vista/7) named skyrim in the common folder so that steam will then be pointed to the correct location.

Samsung now has the 840 series out and it seems to be better than the 830 to most benchmarks. Also, it may do you well with learning how to use the mklink command or use steam mover to make symbolic links. I keep my older games and games made by Valve(which frequently update) on an HDD while newer games are on the SSD. For my steam games that are moved to the HDD, I go into the command line(as administrator) and navigate to the steam\steamapps\common folder and then run mklink /d "exact name of game folder" "new location of said game folder(on my computer that would be e:\game\steam\<folder name>.)" As a little side note with the mklink command, the quotation marks are necessary. Steam Mover will actually move the folders you want to move and make the links as well.

What bug would that be considering Haswell isn't out until June at the very least? idk what Samadchaz is talking about because I havent been following Haswell, but just because it has not been released doesnt mean it hasnt been reported to have bugs. i bet the Chip has been done and has been in testing for awhile now. so If someone somewhere got a hold of a copy (like a developers kit if you will) and reported on it having USB bugs (illegally of course since there is no way the contracts of the Chip's use would allow public talk of it) then thats what he could be referring to. however, i feel like a USB bug would be more the fault of the Chipset/Mobo and not the actual CPU. but honestly Im not too knowledgable on CPUs and Mobos and archetecture and whatnot so its just an assumption :P USB bugs would be mostly on the chipset and not the CPU, but Haswell is suppose to have a native USB controller integrated in it. All news about Haswell's performance and bugs I've heard have been with engineering samples so I don't put much stock into that news until official release. I've just found the bug that was mention. Hawell had trouble exiting S3 sleep with a USB 3.0 device plugged in. The bug is described as "nuisance" and fixed by restarting the afflicted program. Also Intel has started the chipset changes to fix the bug. Here's the link: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Haswell-S3-Sleep-Problem-PCN,21896.html

What bug would that be considering Haswell isn't out until June at the very least?

If you can, wait for haswell coming out this year if you still want to go intel. It should have an update path in the future where the Ivy Bridge cpus will be the end of LGA 1155. Haswell will be socket LGA 1150.

My guess, a "Yo Ho Ho, and a bottle of rum" version, or he is trying to get a legit version to work with Cider, Wine or some other kind of emulation like program and it isn't work. In the case of the former, goodbye real soon, and in the later case, you'd be better off going to that program's site than here or using boot camp to get a windows OS onto the system and playing Skyrim that way.