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    Kitty Jail 2: You Can (not) Escape

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    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    1600€ For a 144Hz 24" display, and a prebuilt computer with an i5, GTX970, 1TB HDD and a 120GB SSD?

    When I badly add up the costs of the indiidual components I go past the asking price for the build. I might actually get this one. Any reason I shouldn't? How long will a 970 keep me swimming in the mainstream if video games?

    That is pretty good.  That i5 and 970 are well balanced which is all too rare for a prebuilt, even gaming ones.  The 970 is very powerful (although DX12 won't be as good for current Nvidia cards as it will for AMD's, but widespread DX12 adoption is still several years off anyhow) aside from the obligatory 3.5 out of 4.  I say go for it.

    That's terrible.  Definitely not a better deal.  It may have a hexa-core i7, which is good although definitely overkill for gaming, but it comes with a GTX950.  Definitely very poorly balanced, and not favorable for games at all.  And on top of that it comes with only a SSD with no additional HDD, there's no Wireless Internet, no monitor, and not even Windows.  Adding all the options to match the Acer brings the total to 2120.70€. 

    Modding News 2

    in Cafe Lame

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    It's the real deal but like I said that can change since the pack is still indev.

    Oh ok neat.

    Hmm

    Well I'm stumped.

    EDIT So what is Zetta Industries?  I've found the Github, but there's no information written about it.

    Modding News 2

    in Cafe Lame

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    "everything" as you wished.

    Well, jokes aside. Tekkit is not a finished project so everything about it can change. I can make a teaser but I'll be embarrassed if the makers are going to change something and my teaser will be out of date.

    Well, ok, here's one:

    as far as I know the new tekkit will include:

    QmlnIFJlYWN0b3JzLCBTb2xhciBGbHV4IGFuZCBaZXR0YSBJbmR1c3RyaWVz

    wait, what's that? I wanted to hit the "submit" button but I hit the "cipher" button instead D: Going to leave it like that.

     

     

     

    So is that an actual encrypted teaser, or did you just make that up?

    Kitty Jail 2: You Can (not) Escape

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    Technically, it's not a requirement, but with an Nvidia card, I can get apparently get something like 20-30% more oomph out of the limited bandwidth with their Optimus compression. If AMD had something similar, I'd get a 380 in a heartbeat.

    But yeah, at some point in the future, I'll probably end up building a desktop and slapping that in it. I can re-use 3/4 of the parts that will go into the eGPU in a desktop, and I can probably sell the last one for a reasonable amount.

    I think what I'll do is wait and see if I can get in on that Microcenter $230 GTX 980 crazyness if they do it again; failing that, I'll try and grab a 970 on a good sale come cyber monday. Or a 960 if there's a really good sale.

    Yeah definitely go for a 970 then, it's really quite a jump over the 960, and (nearly, lol) double the vRAM.  I can imagine only 2GB being a limitation not too far in the future.

    Kitty Jail 2: You Can (not) Escape

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    Question time.

    GTX 960 Vs. GTX 970 with the following constraints.

    Expected resolution for now is 1600x900, 1080p in the future.

    Assume a 20% hit in overall performance. (Because reasons.)

    The card will probably end up in an entirely new desktop rig in the future.

    I could stretch my budget and get a 970 if I reeeeally needed to, but if it's not going to do much good, I'd rather not. 

    Any opinions?

    The 380 is the clear winner over the 960 at your resolution, but Nvidia is a requirement because you're going to be using it as an external GPU for your laptop, correct?

    Although, the gap between a 960 and a 970 is pretty big.  If you can get it, I'd go for the 970.

    Kitty Jail 2: You Can (not) Escape

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    I don't really see what the problem is with this "spying" data collection/telemetry.  I don't delude myself into thinking I'm important enough for someone to want to look at my files.

    Overall I'm liking Windows 10, I'm a fan of Edge and the visual changes.  I've had only one hiccup with the audio drivers on my laptop, which pretty much solved itself.  I didn't even have to reinstall my GPU driver on my desktop.

    Kitty Jail 2: You Can (not) Escape

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    at first I thought, "why the hell is dwwojcik reporting his own post?"  then I saw all the double posts.  forums must be fucking up again I suppose.

    Oh, you saw that?  Good.  I didn't think it had gone through, the report window wasn't loading properly.

    I'm thinking of rebuilding my computer, since the PSU broke and the motherboard is 9 years old. I've mostly settled on these parts so far, and am considering either AMD or Intel CPU/MoBo/coolers. Any advice?

    Intel wins easily in single-threaded performance, AMD is better value and offer more cores for less price.  So it depends on what you plan on doing with the computer, if it's mainly games for example go Intel.

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