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ludi wrote:
I'm so old, I not only remember when Google wasn't evil; I remember when Nvidia wasn't evil.

Nah. nVidia was pretty well always evil. The minute they bought out 3dfx, they were evil.

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Yes. It's worth it. I tried CL16 2933 RAM with my Ryzen 7 1700, and you can feel the difference with DDR4 CL14 3200MHz ram. Just do it.

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Assuming longevity is desirable and they have no local tech support, I'd prioritise: - 5Y warranty, possibly with on-site repair depending on cost ... Keep it coming gerbils! I'm glad to be hearing the suggestions and the questions! The problem with building your own PCs for years and years and yea...

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AMD has never managed to cozy up to any of the major OEMs. Their entire large-accounts team should have been fired years ago for completely failing at sales forever. Except whoever brokered the XBone/PS4 deal, that's an actual legitimate win and a big one too. When they had better products, Intel b...

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Those crazy bastards at Canard PC supposedly have word that Intel is preparing a two fold counter to Ryzen: i7 7740K, pretty much the i7 7700K with a 100MHz speed bump. Then more interestingly the i5 7640K, which should have SMT enabled! While I don't think Intel has much to worry about in single t...

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3) Wait for the arrival of Polaris.

It's been very specifically designed with VR in mind.

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Just curious on this. A few articles have come up lately about 'async compute' http://www.techpowerup.com/215663/lack-of-async-compute-on-maxwell-makes-amd-gcn-better-prepared-for-directx-12.html http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/08/directx-12-tested-an-early-win-for-amd-and-disappointment-for-nvi...

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For younger crowds, he also voiced Mr. Krabs and Lex Luthor, as well as many other voice acting roles. He also played a major role in Carnivàle . But most importantly, Clancy Brown plays this freak, "The Kurgan" in Highlander! https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQqj6HyBx...

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We can hope. Those graphs should be taken with a huge fistful of salt, but it shows something with roughly the performance of two Tahitis, which ties in nicely with the rumoured spec for the next-gen AMD part - the Fiji XT is supposedly a 4096-shader GCN part. The thing that makes me suspicious is ...

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Apparently, there's cause to believe this 'mystery card' is an AMD Radeon 380X:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ca ... 28129.html

If true, we're going to see AMD's response to the 900-series and it's going to be very good.

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For AMD, its clear that they have tech other dont already have and cant easily on their own. Example Microsoft and Sony. Also ask qualcomm, ARM, etc.. to make a 2.5 TF double precision compute card in 235w TDP. Only Intel and nvidia are currently capable of doing what AMD is doing... and its anythi...

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GeForce 3 ($450): June 26, 2001 (missing some here, i know) GeForce 8800 ($599): November 8, 2006 GTX 280 ($649): June 16, 2008 GTX 285 ($379): January 15, 2009 GTX 480 ($499): March 31, 2010 GTX 580 ($499): November 9, 2010 GTX 680 ($499): March 22, 2012 GTX 780 ($649): May 23, 2013 GTX 780 Ti ($6...

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Did the simplest explanation occur to you? That nVidia targeted GM104's debut at 28nm years ago because it was the lowest risk option, and that releasing a new class leading product for the holiday season helps sales volume? And the $330 price tag on the GTX 970 isn't nVidia being generous, it's nV...

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Imagine Ubisoft fixing ACU with Mantle for AMD users in the next couple of weeks, and hanging nVidia users out to dry because there's no Mantle for nVidia, and no DX12 until well into next year. I was going to say what Savyg did: Mantle will work with Nvidia GPUs once they have the SDK later this y...

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Ah, I don't think most gamers would touch Windows 8 with a 10 foot pole, so it's a non-issue. The point is that you'll have to upgrade your Windows 7 if you have an nVidia card, and you won't have to if you have an AMD card. Now that it's public information that Microsoft is not providing DX12 supp...

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Now I understand why nVidia decided to release the GTX970 and 980 cards on 28nm early, instead of waiting for the next process node shrink to 20nm at TSM early next year, like they normally would, and why nVidia is suddenly, mysteriously charging a lot less for their hardware. And it has nothing to...

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http://media.giphy.com/media/FICogzS6iahYA/giphy.gif Not sure if 'masturbating chimp' is directed at the OP or nVidia for doing this... OP for the conspiracy theory. Well, first of all, way to refute my theory. I'm sure the gratuitous movie of a masturbating simian convinced all who saw it that I'm...

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Mantle.....heh. I want to ditch my 280x for a NV 970/980. Personally I don't see the advantage of Mantle. Heck in the two games I have played, BF4 & DA:I, I dont see it. That and with AMD drivers being crappy at best. I want to jump ship back to Nvidia and deal with it later. I bought a GTX670 ...

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The only think missing from this conspiracy theory is a sentence about how a GTS 450 can run DX12... Well, I could have mentioned a grassy knoll, but I thought that might be too over-the-top, even for Jen Hsun Huang. :) Seriously, though, even though I could easily be wrong, this IS exactly the kin...

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im still not sold on how good mantle is i was praising it before it was released thinking it would increase performance drastically but since it has been released it has shown almost no benefits except of the lowest of the low end cpu's and most gamers usually have a decent cpu so it hasnt really d...

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So you're saying...they rushed it out so they could get people to buy Windows 8? I've seen no indication that DX12 will not come to win8. I also can't make sense of your theory. They wanted to stop people from moving to AMD by making people continue to want to move to AMD? Is that what you're going...

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bthylafh wrote:
http://media.giphy.com/media/FICogzS6iahYA/giphy.gif

Not sure if 'masturbating chimp' is directed at the OP or nVidia for doing this...

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I don't know. That's kinda complex. The sort of people who would really want DX12 from day zero are probably the sort of people who would just flog their cards on eBay and get news ones. Also, if DX12 is Win10-only and not also Win8, it would take a few years until it's really relevant to games...

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So you're saying...they rushed it out so they could get people to buy Windows 8? I've seen no indication that DX12 will not come to win8. I also can't make sense of your theory. They wanted to stop people from moving to AMD by making people continue to want to move to AMD? Is that what you're going...

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Now I understand why nVidia decided to release the GTX970 and 980 cards on 28nm early, instead of waiting for the next process node shrink to 20nm at TSM early next year, like they normally would, and why nVidia is suddenly, mysteriously charging a lot less for their hardware. And it has nothing to ...

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I have the 512GB version of the Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive you've got listed in your specs. The only thing I'd mention is because of the way the memory controller works, going from 512GB to 256GB halves the number of channels from 4 to 2, which cuts down on the performance a fai...

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If you I were you, I'd get the guaranteed 4GHz FX-8350. In the very few decent single threaded games still clinging onto life support, the clock rate is what matters, but for modern, multi-core optimized engines, the 8 cores will kick ass. I bought an FX-8350 when they first came out, along with a G...

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Company of Heroes 2

May try Diablo III 2.0 pretty soon, too.

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I use muriatic acid to get my **** clean. Oh to hell with muriatic acid! Weaksauce! I'm going to use hydrofluoric acid, for Christ's sake!!! :lol: P.S. That was a JOKE. DO NOT ACTUALLY USE HYDROFLUORIC ACID on anything!!!! It is probably the single most dangerous acid there is. And just in case you...

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Does a strong AMD with a very competitive line-up really help the x86 industry have lower prices? Of course a strong AMD should help keep prices lower. The trouble is, in order for that to actually happen, Intel has to be inferior for an extended enough period of time for them to be forced to lower...

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