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$30k PC with 7 GPUs can play Crysis

For best effect you would want 7 sound devices, pass-through to the virtualized OS just like the GPUs. QEMU could of course emulate a sound card, but then all the audio would be sent to your one host sound device, and it'll be up to the software and/or hardware mixer on the host machine to make...
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- Post #47
- Jan 26, 2016
- Forum: PC Games
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can I specify which GPU to use for which apps?

Nvidia Optimus did exactly this -- for apps they knew would benefit from GPU the rendering calls would be done by the 'external' GPU. "Under MS-Windows the nVidia driver also provides the option to manually select the GPU in the right-click menu upon launching an executable."...
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- Post #7
- Jan 26, 2016
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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[eteknix] GoodBye Catalyst Control Center Hello Radeon Software Crimson Edition!

My people have a words for that in our language we call it "Linux on the Desktop." But more seriously, this control panel is using Qt widgets, which means cross-platform. It'll be running on OSX and Linux as well as Windows. Not all that horrible, considering.
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- Post #67
- Nov 20, 2015
- Forum: AMD
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So, Skyforge... As an official thread as it gets.

1. Yes, there appears to be a stair-step progression which gates how many points you put into each node in a tree. 2. Action RPG. Cooldowns and rotations. 3. Unknown. Videos show group of 1, discussions seem to be about smaller groups. 4. Of course. Depends on dungeon instance. 5...
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- Post #3
- Jul 15, 2015
- Forum: PC Games
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So, Skyforge... As an official thread as it gets.

Open beta starts 7/16/15. It's by the Allods online guys, so I expect a visually satisfying grinder p2w experience. But in spite of my decision to swear off of F2P titles (because of whale up or GTFO business plans) I'm planning giving it a shot because it has some interesting features. No...
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- Jul 15, 2015
- Replies: 2
- Forum: PC Games
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Deciding between which Android phones is very difficult!

My wife *LOVES* her OPO. No issues aside from the ever so slight yellow tint on the bottom 1/2" (every OPO has that, it's a backlight design defect), fast, battery lasts forever, responsive. But it doesn't have an official OTA Android 5.0 yet.
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- Post #19
- Mar 11, 2015
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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[AppleInsider] Apple may abandon Intel for its Macs starting with post-Broadwell

Not port, recompile. Unlike Android where most of the apps and OS services are written in Java, iOS apps are honest to goodness ARM executables produced by an ObjectiveC compiler, linked to libraries also produced by same compiler. It wouldn't be a huge effort to do the same sort of thing...
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- Post #454
- Mar 9, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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$50 off Ting (Now supports T-Mobile GSM) Device or Service:

Great news on no longer requiring Sprint's awful service or difficult to resell phones. But one caveat. Like the $30 plan, is T-Mobile native towers only. No roaming on AT&T in the boonies. Sprint may terrible everywhere, but at least it exists. T-Mob literally has no towers in most of...
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- Post #7
- Feb 25, 2015
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Building old computer for 1990s games

Meanwhile, in Linux land... WINE runs many, many ancient Windows games perfectly. This is where having a 5-10 year lag in development compared to "real" windows pays off. You can even have a Wine configuration with DirectX 5 while another has 9c, side by side. And different games running...
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- Post #39
- Nov 13, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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9to5 Google claims this is the Nexus 6/X.

I'm sure they will sell hundreds of these to the right buyers. With iPhone now being offered in larger screen sizes the key advantage Android devices have is price. Priced the same as an iPhone 6 (which will likely have a $200-$300 trade in value 2 years from now while the Nexus 6 will not)...
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- Post #162
- Oct 15, 2014
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Marvel Heroes, F2P "Diablo-like" game... **Official Thread**

I gotta admit, I tried it when it first came out and my reaction was much like Penny Arcade. It's cool to be The Thing, far less so standing around as one of several Things. But with the hero variety now you hardly ever run across a clone explosion. Very enjoyable mindless time-waste. I...
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- Post #345
- Sep 17, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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Budget gaming pc suggestions

I was pleasantly suprised by the performance of a $170 cpu/mboard microcenter bundle for the AMD 8320 and Asus a5a97. It's $10 more today, but still not terrible. Unlocked multiplier, so I notched it up to 4 ghz, threw in 12GB of ram and a R270. About $500 in total parts if sourced new...
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- Post #18
- Sep 15, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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Free Raspberry Pi Type Board From MS!

Yeah, why on earth would I want this when I could get a proven, well understood, huge community Pi pretty much anywhere including Microcenter for $30-$35? Also lost nothing but a few minutes of time, so can't complain. Still feels like a completely flubbed effort.
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- Post #78
- Sep 15, 2014
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Verizon, you won.

Same with my Nex4. It was starting to feel a bit sluggish. What I did: full backup of OS, apps and data, load a new ROM with format of FS, re-load apps from store and restore ONLY data. Back to like-new!
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- Post #28
- Sep 15, 2014
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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August was T-Mobiles biggest month ever with 2.7 million gross adds

Count me as one of those 2.7M August subs. +4 subs, actually. It's a combo of living in an area where T-Mobile has excellent service and Sprint sucking more every year. I had Sprint in 2010, and it was good. In 2011, still usable. 2012? Without hyperbole I was getting low kilobit speeds...
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- Post #18
- Sep 15, 2014
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Fire Phone gets a $200 price cut

A few gimmicks (I get this, I love cool features to use when showing off my toys) plus ease of spending more money with Amazon. And a year of Prime. What I think they will do is blow these out at $200-$250 unlocked and w/o Prime and the tech support app. They'll call it "Fire Phone Special...
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- Post #22
- Sep 9, 2014
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Something is telling me I should of got the new moto x

Agreed, it's not coming with a $650 flagship price tag. It's potent enough to run any new apps even though it's not the latest hotness, and the usability features make up for the last year's hardware. Once it drops to $350-400 in a month or two it'll be a very decent phone (assuming Nexus6 is...
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- Post #4
- Sep 9, 2014
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Fire Phone gets a $200 price cut

May not be completely the fault of the phone (though there are plenty of reports of battery-eating bugs and gimmicks not working very well). This was an AT&T exclusive, which means it's a device targeted solely to the well-heeled customers not heavily invested in the iTunes app store -- a...
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- Post #19
- Sep 8, 2014
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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MMO Long Life Cycles and new MMO development

That's the biggest thing I hate about today's MMOs -- the content is completely pointless until max level. Back in the day you knew you'd be the same level for several days, so shopping for or otherwise obtaining level-appropriate gear and optimizing a bit made sense. You'd get several days...
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- Post #35
- Sep 4, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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T-Mobile and Sprint now battling plans

Moved the fam over to T-Mobile's service as a result of their promo. It's blazingly fast here in the Denver area (16 megabit down on LTE consistently!) $117/month for 4 lines, I can live with that. I can always switch to Cricket once the 2.5gb/month promo is over to save the ~$17/mo. Sprint...
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- Post #20
- Aug 26, 2014
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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I'm glad that some game companies are porting to Linux

Ugh. I'm not happy about this at all. I really, really hope it doesn't catch on. Why? Because at 2.4% of the desktop there's absolutely 0 reason to write worms, viruses and trojans for Linux. I can practice some pretty lax security and be fine. My 80+ year old parents can click on as...
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- Post #12
- Aug 22, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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Xiaomi Redmi Note 5.5" 3G Smartphone for $164.99 + free shipping

While that seems like a pretty decent mid to low end phone for the $ please note ahappymango has a reseller rating below 1. http://www.resellerratings.com/store/ahappymango I know that because they're also "selling" the One Plus One. Buy at your own IMO extreme risk.
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- Post #2
- Aug 21, 2014
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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EA: Dungeon Keeper Failed by "Innovating Too Much"

Penny Arcade also had one about Real Racing 3 and paying real money for gas (or even more real money for a tow truck if you run out of gas). That was an ambitious cash grab obvious to all, yet many a white whale bellied up to pay OVER $1000. I kid you not, people on the RR3 forums admitted...
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- Post #47
- Jul 18, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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Exploring the mmorpg/rpg realm,need suggestions on good games.:)

I actually have no idea what prompted me to put "the original" etc. Maybe I meant to say "first MMO gone from sub to f2p" but that would have been be Anarchy Online. I guess the best I can do is: "well known MMO-saved-from-death-by-going-f2p"
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- Post #36
- Jul 18, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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Question About LAMP Processor Choice

That's a very good point, how big is your typical development data set? For most PHP dev I've seen the databases are quite small, on the order of a couple hundred megs. If that's true than RAM performance and CPU performance will be your bottlenecks (all the disk pages for your whole DB will...
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- Post #8
- Jul 18, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Question About LAMP Processor Choice

i3 is $140, not a stretch from there to a higher clocked and unlocked i5 for $199. And yes, plenty of people overclock their dev boxes. If you don't go nuts with the OC the productivity gains from a 20% faster compile or load add up. I'm not talking about setting an OC record, I'm talking...
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- Post #6
- Jul 18, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Question About LAMP Processor Choice

Wife's starting to complain about the AMD Phenom 820 in her LAMP dev box, so I've got some of the same kind of thinking going on. I started with looking at the G3258 ($60 at microcenter) and the cheapest 1150 board I could find for a total of about $100. AMD is straight out, for single core...
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- Post #2
- Jul 18, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Verizon contract is up this month, what say you?

Depends on where you live. I've been on prepaid for years and loving it. Current carrier is Lyca Mobile. I mostly text (a few thousand/month), maybe an hour of voice, and not much data (since I'm almost always on wifi). Currently on a $29/month plan including all bogus fees and taxes for...
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- Post #57
- Jul 18, 2014
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Free Raspberry Pi Type Board From MS!

Got the same response. Just as well, I'm far more familiar with Linux than Windows when it comes to slinging code.
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- Post #36
- Jul 9, 2014
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Exploring the mmorpg/rpg realm,need suggestions on good games.:)

I think we could get a sticky on "which MMO should I dip my toes into?" since this pops up often enough. Here are the MMOs I've had recent experience with, in no particular order: 1. D&D Online. The original MMO. Very dated graphics, not much D&D left in it, only a gear grind at the top...
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- Post #21
- Jul 9, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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Titanfall for $36 on Origin - is it worth it?

IMO not really worth $36, but if you're EVER going to play it, buy it now. By the time it drops to $20 or lower in six months there will be a small, dedicated hardcore group left playing it. And you. You will not have a good time. Agreed with a 6/10 or at most 7/10, some cool ideas...
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- Post #35
- May 20, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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Hearthstone

Been playing the Paladin "go for the face, Boo!" charge deck lately. Works decently well against everything, seems like the meta today is shooting for turn 6-7 blowouts.
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- Post #1,080
- May 12, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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What is your favorite PC Game?

#1. Original Deus Ex. For its time it was simply amazing. #2. Planescape Torment. #3. Morrowind Honorable mentions to Akalabeth, Wizardry, Ultima III, Diablo II, Starcraft, KOTOR and original Fallouts. The most time I've sunk into any game was eve online (2006-2010). But I don't consider...
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- Post #107
- May 12, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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Online games and their respective payment methods?

My vote is for trying a few f2p MMOs off the bat to get a feel for what kind of thing you like. Some people like grinding, some people just want a new level curve to climb, and others like raiding or crafting or lootmongering. Just don't get caught up in the endgame, all f2p seem designed for...
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- Post #7
- May 12, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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Eve Online - restarted playing

Haven't been playing since 09 or so, stopped ship spinning some time in 2010. Every time I consider re-joining I'm overcome by a wave of ennui. Helps bunches that I looked and timecodes are 750 mil, which means my 60 bil or so in assets isn't going to go very far with 4 accounts. They keep...
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- Post #43
- May 12, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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Is ESO going to self destruct before it even launches?

Oh, it grabs, it grabs. Just not a $60 + monthly fee + way more $ to unlock content worth of grab. Basically, I can get the exploration and random loot drops in any of the dozens upon dozens of existing f2p MMOs. I have yet to see a single thing that makes ESO worthy of being $hundreds/year...
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- Post #69
- Feb 6, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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EVE!

When it comes to eve, sufficiently advanced play is indistinguishable from work.
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- Post #3,674
- Feb 6, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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Oh My Science! South Park - The Stick of Truth

The way I look at it, DRM is a value subtract. So if a $60 game requires Steam to start up, that's -$20. UPlay is another -$40. So until it's basically free as part of Humble Bundle I will not be getting this.
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- Post #71
- Feb 6, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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Is ESO going to self destruct before it even launches?

"Play as an Imperial Play as an Imperial and play in any Alliance. Gain unique bonuses, crafting styles, gear and more" -- this doesn't sound cosmetic in the least. I think I'm done with MMOs. Same model in every one* -- race to level cap, then spend years grinding the same quests with...
- v8envy
- Post #65
- Feb 6, 2014
- Forum: PC Games
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need suggestions for futureproof gaming

Also consider total cost of system. You're going to need a new motherboard, at a minimum (possibly ram, PSU -- yours are getting up there in age). So the extra $80 for an i5 over an i3 becomes a smaller % of your total outlay compared to the amount of hardware the increment buys. IMO it's a...
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- Post #10
- Jan 16, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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