May I know what's the different upgrading driver by going to nvidia website and download compare to going to windows updates and update the intel and nvidia driver ?

What GameWorks Is And Why It Exists

GameWorks is a developer program set-up by Nvidia to provide game developers with a collection of graphics libraries and tools aimed at improving the visual quality of games. It includes technologies such as PhysX – Nvidia’s proprietary physics engine – as well as VisualFX which encompasses a number of Nvidia optimized rendering techniques and in-game visual effects. These include things like shadows, anti-aliasing, depth of field, global illumination, hair simulation, ambient occlusion, lighting and other effects.
Below you will find the VisualFX solutions as listed on Nvidia’s website.

VisualFX provides solutions for rendering and effects including:

HBAO+ Enhanced Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion
TXAA Temporal Anti-aliasing
Soft Shadows Improves on PCSS to reach new levels of quality and performance, with the ability to render cascaded shadow maps
Depth of Field Combination of diffusion based DOF and a fixed cost constant size bokeh effect
FaceWorks Library for implementing high-quality skin and eye shading
WaveWorks Cinematic-quality ocean simulation for interactive applications
HairWorks Enabling simulation and rendering of fur, hair and anything with fibers
GI Works Adding Global Illumination greatly improves the realism of the rendered image
Turbulence High definition smoke and fog with physical interaction as well as supernatural effects

One of the discussion points that Brian and I talked about which did not make its way to the interview was about the balance of trading performance for added visual quality, and how much performance was being lost for some GameWorks features such as HairWorks.

I argued that due to how intensive HairWorks is at tessellation factor x32 ( the standard setting for the feature ) many gamers, including ones using NVIDIA hardware, may choose to disable it completely in favor of improving the overall performance of the game. And that those gamers would have probably appreciated the choice of toggling between different tessellation factors just as they would normally toggle between different gradients of any other effect such as shadows or anti aliasing. Rather they are forced to accept x32, which is very intensive, or nothing at all.

Oh yes, I do mean the bezels and the cheap stand that wobbles pretty badly. It may not seem like an issue, but the glossy bezels do cause reflection and personally, it is extremely annoying for me. I know, because I owned several Samsung and Viewsonic monitors back from 2009 when glossy was like icing on the cake, everyone must make something glossy.

I agree the panel is indeed very good, there's really not much qualms about it. AUO has been doing a great job lately, over the last few years. They've really stepped up their game.

But like I said, the issue lies with Acer's QC. You can read up on other forums like reddit, neogaf, OCN even, there are numerous issues like terrible backlight bleed that just happens over a few weeks of usage. There many stories on dead pixels too, pretty much unacceptable for a monitor of such high price.

Moogle Stiltzkin
sorry , can explain the step again ?

The pc having both driver , one is intel and another is geforce.

The DDU driver uninstall tools cannot uninstall Intel driver right ?

Installing at Window 7 update driver at the optional section better or Using DDU better ? or just download the nvidia driver and get it install ?

Same graphic , didn't change anything , just wanted to update for some extra features

Over the weekend, Gordon Kelly at Forbes posted an article about Microsoft's botched Windows 10 Nvidia driver patch. Advanced Nvidia customers are furious -- for good reason. Thanks to the magic of Windows 10 forced updates, the good, old Nvidia driver was replaced with a new Microsoft-approved version, and all hell broke loose.

Waiting for ti users to flood with vram swapping issues with w10.

Moogle Stiltzkin Thanks for t he guide

"Nvidia Gameworks typically damages the performance on Nvidia hardware as well, which is a bit tragic really," he told PCR. "It certainly feels like it’s about reducing the performance, even on high-end graphics cards, so that people have to buy something new.

“If you look at Crysis 2 in particular, you see that they’re tessellating water that’s not visible to millions of triangles every frame, and they’re tessellating blocks of concrete – essentially large rectangular objects – and generating millions of triangles per frame which are useless.

errr...you water cool it or put it "under" the water?

care to give pics or how to do?

Thinking of watercool my gtx980ti, our ringgit so low the block +backplate nearly cost RM700

Short answer:
Nickel plated blocks are slightly more corosion resistant.

Long answer:
As stated nickel is corrosion resistant. Also as stated copper is the best option for a heat sink. Nickel plated copper blocks do only have a thin layer of nickel.

The major benefit of a nickel plated copper water block is that if the surface to be mounted against the cpu is nickel plated it will most certainly be mirror smooth and will allow the thermal grease to flow without entrapping air bubbles. A non plated block could also be polished on the mating surface but will tarnish upon exposure to air so it would have to be done immediately before mounting and any buffing compound would have to be removed.

For corrosion resistance of an uncoated copper water block you could simply use some clear coat on the externally exposed copper except for the mating surface. Assuming you don't have large quantities of dissimilar metals in your system internal corrosion wouldn't be an issue. Keep in mind that any two dissimilar metals in contact or in the presence of the same electrolyte(A liquid which supports the flow of electrons) will incur a galvanic reaction. Most water based solutions are an electrlyte to some extent especially when you factor in contaminants.

If I were to design a small scale cooling system I would use all copper and solder which is meant for it to limit corrosion. Silver is a natural anti-microbial and would inhibit mould growth. Many potable copper pipe solders are silver bearing. The use of an automobile heater core which would be almost all copper would be perfect as a radiator. Standard car coolant of 50/50 mix would be fine as a coolant.

sifu wanna ask, what is the different between Acetal+Nickel waterblock and just the Acetal waterblock? i read it is the same performance is it true? do i need the anti corrosion coolant?

and on ek website, it says the block designed to accommodate a weak pump, so if i want to cool just my gc, suffice for me to get the cheapest and weakest pump right?

thanks in advance

Even liquid with a corrosion inhibitor won't last long. You'll likely be changing coolant very often. It's best not to use them together at all.

The most damage would be to the aluminum radiator, not so much the block (which is unfortunate, because you can't see the damage inside the rad). Eventually, you'll probably end up with pinhole leaks in your rad.

I'd recommend getting a copper radiator or a nickel plated block..... or a lot of anti-corrosive liquid.

Liquid usually turns into a milky color when corrosion is occurring in your loop.

There is no difference really.

Nickel plated and full nickel are the same thing just worded differently.
Acetal is a type of plastic that the top is made of, it will either be acrylic or acetal.

EN nickel is a newer type of nickel plating that EK uses and is supposed to reduce the likeliness of the nickel flaking.

Copper and nickel are almost the same chemically so there isn't any problem mixing them.

EK only sells EN nickel now as they had some major problems with the nickel plating flaking off.

Some people will say not to use EK due to the nickel flaking problems which still seems to happen sometimes with the EN but I have had no problems with mine (running since May)

Distilled water is water that has many of its impurities removed through distillation. Distillation involves boiling the water and then condensing the steam into a clean container.

so much info! thanks a lot! now i think i have more confidence in starting water cooled setup

The day Malaysia gets snow is when the world will perish... logically and scientifically speaking.

But on a more on-topic note, I don't know where the assumption comes from if snow = super low temps for PC? Okay sure, definitely lower than in hot countries but the perception of living in a cold country and having low temps on PC is wrong. I stayed in the US during winter, several times. Guess what? We have to turn on the heaters.

The house is actually dryer and hotter with the heaters than in Malaysia where you'd just have the fan on instead. Ironic? Yeah.

Don't turn on the heaters? Well, if you enjoy wearing 3 layers of clothes, then be my guest.
Also, one of the main reason for going water is for looks. I don't know why people found it pleasing to have 2 AIOs in their system, it's so tacky and n00bish looking. I mean, I'm not trying to even sound like a snob here but it is what it is. Might as well just optimize for air cooling instead, because good air cooling is nearly as effective as AIOs (in some cases, even better), cost less and guess what? It won't break (where as AIOs will, just read up the numerous amount of stories about AIOs dying prematurely).

There are 3 main reasons for water, temps obviously, looks and noise.

I personally don't like AIOs at all. They're inconsistent, could either be noisy, look terrible, or just like I said... prematurely fail without you knowing.
That's why I said if AIO is the last resort for lower temps, that I do not agree at all. A very well optimized case for airflow and airblow is just as good as AIOs, if not better (the latter, if you bring cost into the discussion).
Keep those fingers crossed. I'm not trying to hate on AIOs, but when I open up and see how low quality the stuff are in there, it cringes me when people go around and say AIOs are awesome. They didn't even know what they paid for. AIO isn't even leak-proof to begin with, yet it is being marketed as being so...?

Good that your AIO has not died. But just keep an eye on it when you start hearing the pump squeel. Have seen several systems died because of a failed AIO and the system was left running at very high temps for a long period of time.

At the top of the pack are a pair of water-cooled cards. The GTX 980 Ti HYBRID uses a closed loop water cooler with a 120 mm radiator and retains the cooling fan to keep the rest of the card cool, similar to the solution used for AMD's R9 295x2. EVGA claimed the hybrid cooler significantly lowers GPU temperatures.

Also announced is a Hydro Copper edition with dedicated water block that includes G1/4 threads for use with standard water cooling fittings.

Zero chances of any existing blocks working for Pascal. The fact that the PCBs will definitely be smaller and also the GPU + HBM dies being overall bigger, there's just no way for any existing block to be compatible for Pascal.

Yeah, one problem with GPU waterblocks is that it isn't compatible forever. More so in Malaysia where the WC community is quite puny, selling it off is also quite difficult. US and EU has a way larger market where even blocks back from the Fermi days can still be sold relatively easily.

This new LGA 1151 socket is backwards compatible with most air and water CPU coolers which is certainly welcomed.

Actually... there's more to the story than just avg fps and 10% higher numbers.
In a nut shell (since this isn't an Intel thread), Skylake > Devils Canyon/Haswell by a noticeable margin when it comes to min.fps and most importantly, frame latency.

It's even more significant if comparing Skylake to SB/IVB though. So... yeah, don't just look at the avg.fps and draw the conclusion.
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Where's the Intel thread anyway?
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See how frame hitching on i5 6600k is as good as an i7 4790k at lower clockspeeds? OC that thing mildly and wham! It's a clear noticeable difference!

Hurm, not worth uprgrade, need to buy new mobo,cpu and ddr4. I think I will skip Pascal as well. Wait until HBM matured 1st. Maybe build new rig when pcie 4.0 release

Ya i kinda agree this hbm thing is really future tech. If u see benchmark between gtx 980ti/titan sli vs fury x cf, u will see fury x is more efficient in cf
I will wait until they refresh the skylake and pascal then i will consider to totally upgrade my rig

Fury x 4GB almost beat 980ti 6GB. I wonder what if Fury x 6GB will do  Gonna save my money for future rig

Pascal refresh, PCIEx16 Gen 4, Skylake refresh, cheap DDR 4 and NVMe. Thats is the year I will upgrade the rig 

2 x PCIe 3.0 x16
1 x PCIe 2.0 x16
2 x PCIe 2.0 x1
2 x PCI