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dwwojcik

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  1. It was kind of slimy how Nvidia conveniently forgot to mention that two of the RAM chips had to share a controller, resulting in awful performance if you needed that last 0.5 GB... apparently it was buried in the spec sheets but nobody noticed it. It's still a good card regardless, the issue rarely comes up. Most people never even notice. And yeah, really consoles are irrelevant, and have been for the past few years. The only compelling reason to purchase one is for the exclusives, a PC can do everything else a console can, but better and usually cheaper.
  2. ​As you know Intel has been doing a lot of work on Integrated GPUs, as I understand it they could simply scale their chips up. So it wouldn't be totally unreasonable to expect them to step into the discreet market. Also, apparently a lot of reviewers were using an old driver. The new one helps the Fury a fair bit. It's pretty consistently giving the 980ti a run for its money at 4K, if AMD can get the CPU overhead of their driver down they could win at lower resolutions as well. Additionally there is the general expectation that the Fury will simply be a air-cooled Fury X (Same performance, just with less overclock headroom) so considering its $550 price tag, would certainly be a 980ti killer- slightly less performance for a lot less money. If that is indeed the case though AMD really botched the launch, the air-cooled version for $100 less should have come out first. Or at least had the water-cooled version voltage-unlocked for the reviewers so they could see if the overclocking is worth the $100 water cooler. I do expect drivers to make a substantial difference. AMD has a history of fine tuning its cards via the drivers after launch. Many of their cards move up a level compared to Nvidia over their support lifespan. So overall a poor launch, (This generation's version of the 290X flamethrower stock cooler incident.) but the card has potential. I'm cautiously optomistic.
  3. It seems like the Fury X didn't quite pan out how AMD was hoping. They released benchmarks showing it soundly beating the GTX 980ti, but when reviewers made their own generally the two cards only tied at 4K and the Fury X lost at lower resolutions. Of course that's reasonable, Nvidia's 900-series drivers are mature while AMD's Fury-series are brand new, but that doesn't explain AMD's pre-release benchmarks. They had to have known the hype would crash. And, at least at this time, both cards are $650 and the 980ti offers slightly more performance, so it's clear which is the better buy.
  4. Ok new plan how about a 390? Or maybe this one? Which brand would you recommend? EDIT I'm going with the Gigabyte. It's cheaper and comes with a backplate. Sapphire's card is once again too long. Other than that, and the fact that a 750W PSU is reccomended (I have just 600W), it's perfect. Oh well, maybe for my next computer.
  5. ​ ​This is my waiting. I waited till now to see if any of AMD's new offerings were competitive with their old ones, but they aren't really. The 290X is a way better value than the 390(x) as you might expect considering it's old card price vs new card price. I'm not sure double the vRAM and a higher base clock is worth shelling out an extra hundred bucks for the 390X over the 290X. I can't wait a few months for the prices to come down, since I've promised my current 280X to my cousin. He's on a tight budget and it's the only way he'll be able to get a PC as good as the one he's planning on. Hmm. On the other hand, I did just get a load of graduation money, so either way it'll be basically free. And, you know, 8GB and a higher base clock isn't too bad, as well as presumably better support further into the future... I doubt 2XX series prices are going to go down further, if anything they're going to go up since they'll stop making them and supplies will run out. At any rate I can wait till tomorrow when the cards (along with the reviews and benchmarks) come out. Oh, and I have an ATX Mid case. There's a little over 11 inches of clearance for the graphics card, which is plenty. It's just that the Sapphire 290X was a little over 12 inches long since it had 3 fans.
  6. I'm going to upgrade my graphics card. How does this look? I wanted to get a Sapphire, but it's too long so this is my backup. It's possible the very tip will fit into the empty drive bays, but I don't want to risk it.
  7. ​Same here. I'll drink whatever as long as it isn't Skim. ​I'm definitely going to upgrade. DirectX 12 is going to be awesome.
  8. Even SSDs are getting pretty reasonable. Also, what the heck is going on with this spacing?
  9. I would very much like to switch back to XenForo. It was way easier to use. I don't think it's happening any more though, since the Admins obviously managed to get Invision working again.
  10. ​Sure. You can also tell me how to do it, I have some ideas too.
  11. ​Sure. If it was me I'd feel better about just getting a whole new computer all at once, clean slate and all that, but there's no reason why you couldn't just try a new graphics card. ​I think the forum software doesn't like to show a brand new page with too few posts on it, so it waits until there's enough comments to make a new one.. It's cleaner I guess but it's terrible for actually carrying out a conversation.
  12. ​A single more powerful card is always better than two weaker ones, especially since Video RAM doesn't stack. 6800 isn't very specific, but they all do have only 1 GB of RAM which is pretty tight. I don't know when you got your card, or the rest of your computer, but if it was around the time the 6000s came out then your PC is pushing 5 years old now, so at this point I'd say get a whole new one if you can afford it.
  13. Something broke. If you sit and wait at the bottom of the page for a while a little window will pop up asking you if you want to show the latest replies. (e) Looks like it finally decided to make a new page, I pushed it over the edge.
  14. ​Yes. But on a forum not a video game. (Edit:) Although I think it's more like worldbuilding than a video game.
  15. I've discovered www.reddit.com/r/worldpowers. Basically it's a roleplay/discussion thing where you take control of a real country and run it. You can do stuff like develop infrastructure and wage war. I was thinking a simpler version, perhaps where you would invent your own country, would make for a fun forum game. Any thoughts or interest?
  16. What the hell guys, I leave for a week and you end an era? C'mon. Oddly enough I was automatically subscribed to the 2.0 thread. Also my flight was just cancelled. Haiti is not a good place to be stuck.
  17. Nice, those look really cool. Illustrator and Photoshop are really good, but I'm cheap so I use Inkscape and GIMP instead.
  18. Nope, I'm a Windows and Linux guy. I take it it's an exclusive?
  19. Hey, nice art! What program do you use to draw it?
  20. I haven't been keeping track of StarMade, other than noticing it came out on Steam. I decided to watch the trailer, and... holy crap. It's come a long way.
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