Will the Corsair HG10 N980 work the 980ti? I have an extra CLC so I think this would be a good alternative to the EVGA Hybrid since it's never in stock. What would be the best card to get with the plan to use the air cooler until the HG10 N980 comes out, is EVGA the best choice because of their...
Third time I've received the auto notify from EVGA for the hybrid and it's never in stock (even 5 mins after the email). Does it just sell out insanely quick or is there something I'm missing? I want to buy the card but it's never in stock :(
Same here, I'm buying it as soon as it's in stock but it hasn't been for weeks. Even got a email notification from EVGA that it was in stock, checked and it wasn't :( A good site to track is http://www.nowinstock.net/computers/videocards/nvidia/gtx980ti/.
Now that cards have been out a few weeks, any consensus on the best card to get for moderate overclocking? Originally I was really interested in the EVGA hybrid but it looks like the ACX cooler is really solid and $80 less (not to mention in stock :P). Are there any others that are worth...
What's the chance of a 980ti price drop if Fury X comes in $50 to $100 cheaper with the same performance? And is there any reason to wait for custom pcb's versus just getting the 980ti hybrid if I want to OC a little but not go crazy?
Worth upgrading from R9 290 to 2x970 SLI or waiting for 980Ti? I've had to tone setting way down (1080p, med/high) to get decent frame rates online and the AMD experience leaves a lot to be desired. I want to be able to play 3440x1440 @ 60 fps average, med/high+ settings when possible.
My...
+1 for the LG 34U95M. I've had it since it came out and it's amazing. Productivity wise you get two 5:4 windows next to each other with more pixels than your 1080p monitor and no bezels. 21:9 1080p movies look amazing using the entire screen with no black bars. The little bit of gaming I've done...
Just to throw in my two cents, I listened to comments like yours when I bought a reference 290 off ebay and it absolutely is terrible. I replaced it with a G10+H55 and basically broke even with the cost of an aftermarket 290. If I was to do it again I would have gone with one of the many tri-x's...
This is what I've been using with Skyrim without any issues. Still loving this monitor, even more so since I upgraded my GPU from a 670 to R9 290 with 4GB RAM.
I took advantage of the great deals on ebay and upgraded from a 670 to a 290 at almost no cost (sold my 670 for $225). The performance boost is great but I'm also seeing a big benefit from the 4GB ram since I'm running 2.4x the resolution of 1080p. Overall it was well worth it.
My...
Thanks to those that were pointing out temps were too high. I pulled everything apart, reaplied thermal paste, put it back together and bam, max temp at 1125/1450 MHz was 52C. If I had to guess the culprit was not tightening the G10 bracket enough. THe directions say hand tighten but it's hard...
Those are temps using the stock voltage and 1125/1450 MHz GPU/memory overclock, I did not grab a screenshot of stock settings.
I'm using the Corsair H55 which only has a single radiator and fan and this is the first time I've used a closed loop cooler so I wasn't sure what to expect. The 290...
I've been looking at cooling solutions over the last week for a reference 290 I picked up off ebay for $214 shipped. The H55+G10 looked like a perfect fit however the one big issue is high VRM temps since there are no heat sinks. One fix is to get one of the aftermarket kits and attach it. The...
Haha, I like that philosophy.
Considering I just upgraded my monitor to 3440x1440 and now have to drive 2.4x the pixels this deal is perfect timing and too good to pass up (4GB is perfect for this res). I picked up 2 of them for $422 shipped so we'll see how it goes. I might underclock them as...
Thanks, that makes sense. It looks like this particular opportunity has passed but I wasn't ready to jump on it without doing some research first since they are used mining cards. If a similar deal pops up again I might go for it.
Whats the risk buying some of these mining cards that might have been run 24/7 for 6+ months? I'd imagine most cards are spec'd for multiple years at max load so they can't be that risky, right?
$400 for crossfire 290's is a crazy deal, I might seriously consider this.
I bought the LG 34UM95 at microcenter a week ago and so far love it.
I'm coming from a 24" 16:9 1080p TN monitor so this is a huge upgrade for me. The monitor is amazing for productivity and general browsing since you essentially have two 5:4 monitors at your disposal with more pixels each...
Which might be compounded even more if AMD is trying to build up stock to take advantage of this craze. If crypto currencies crash while AMD continues to try to ramp up production they may be left with a lot of new stock in a super saturated market.
To be fair there are better deals to be had on Intel CPU's. Microcenter has the 4670k for $180 and the 4770k at $240. Those blow away the FX8350 which is also $180 at Microcenter.
Not really, time must now be spent to implement 2 API's. If all you expect is a minimal increase for Mantle support you are better off spending the time and resources to optimize for DX and 100% of users. The difference needs to be significant to justify the extra development costs.
This is a pretty poor demo. They invent a scenario where you use lots of draw calls but don't have anything to show for it. The flaw with this demo is you could achieve the same thing and even better with a more honest implementation using currently available technology (DX).
A good tech demo...
I'm going to wait for a less biased review than benchmarks given by AMD/DICE before drawing any conclusions. It's incredibly easy to cherry pick a single scene that shows 45% for a given setup but that doesn't mean it's representative of average or even normal game play. For all we know they...
Is anyone ever going to be using that configuration? I would think you could get way more than a 45% increase by better distributing your funds between CPU and GPU. I would bet mantle will look the best when you combine a GPU that is a step higher than your CPU. If the GPU outclassed the CPU by...
In my opinion the biggest benefit for this tech will be smoothing the transition to higher res monitors when GPU's might not keep up. 1440p is 1.78x the pixels vs 1080p, 4k is 4x the pixels. If gsync can make 40-60 fps look really good then high res monitors can be playable today without...
What about the clock frequency of iGPU vs dGPU? Is there an advantage and if so is it a design choice or result of better transistors and process advantage?
For reference I remember reading "For the lulz... i5-4670k + HD4600 gaming performance" where BallaTheFeared is able to hit a 1.75GHz...
What size MBA is yours? I thought the 13" was good for 10+ hours of video which is why I'm looking at it for my next pc.
The MBA release set my Haswell expectations too high with regards to battery life. I was really hoping the windows ultrabooks including the yoga 2 would be competitive but...
It makes all the difference. Audio samples on a phone's mic usually have terrible noise and quality. The samples need to be heavily filtered and characterized before uploading to the remote server. Lots of phones are using an on-board DSP or MCU to do this, Apple integrated the DSP into the SOC...
Some good points made. I guess I need to wait for 8.1 and the new ultrabooks to make my decision and I also need to decide if 8+ hours is enough. I've been keeping a close eye on the Yoga 2 but I do wonder what the screen res will do to the battery life when its ~4.5x more pixels than the MBA...
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them out. Price is not an issue as long as it's reasonable.
What's strange to me is that the MBA was released months ago with Haswell and delivered exactly the battery life boost you would expect. Yet Windows ultrabooks are lagging behind by 3+ months...
What are the ulrabooks with the best battery life? I'm looking for something to replace both my laptop and tablet. The only reason I own a tablet is for 10 hour battery life when traveling. I'd like to get close to that with a new laptop. Right now my list only includes the MBA but I'd rather...
When you travel a lot a 13" super thin ultrabook with 10+ hour battery is the ideal computer. The target market for this type of computer is someone with a lot of disposable income and very little care about gaming.
There's a lot of speculation about the design choices with regards to CPU vs iGPU and the trade offs.
I think from the power numbers we've seen Intel did a good job of balancing the power draw of the two, not performance. We can all agree that Intel's CPU perf/w is going to be much better than...
Marketing exaggeration and trying to confuse people with different ways of representing data (SDP) is one thing. What you're insinuating is in another league and would seriously hurt Intels credibility.
I think the much more likely case is that Intel is simply really proud of Baytrail and...
So "theoretical performance" aside, over three generations we've seen the performance double each time. It's rumored that GT4 will be up to 2 TFLOPs which would be another 2x gain. If Intel can deliver something that fits in a macbook pro form factor with that kind of power I would be very very...
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