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Grog posted:Anybody have any experience with the EVGA GTX 1060 SC? It's selling for about $60 (CAD) cheaper than an MSI Gaming X, but someone on SPCR got one and says the fan's bearing starts to "howl" at speeds around 1100 RPM, and some people on EVGA's forums can hear it closer to 1000 RPM. The only reviews I've found with temperatures have it around 75*C at load and "quiet" at 38 dB on the newer "0dB" BIOS, with the previous BIOS having the load noise around 5 dB louder at ~1500 RPM. If you tried to overclock it and wanted to keep temperatures low so it doesn't throttle significantly, it sounds like it might make the fan noise annoying. One person's 'howl' is another person's 'quiet enough for me.' As for grades...someone surmised a while back that it seems that very little 'binning' is going on with the 10x0 chips, and the lack of the EVGA Kingpin, Classified, and 'Lightning' SKUs from MSI seems to kind of confirm that. My guess is it comes down to 'does it work? Yeah? Okay, slap it on a loving card, we've got orders to fulfill" at this point. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Aug 26, 2016 |
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EdEddnEddy posted:While this is true, can't you walk into a BB with an ad at an online store (or other B&M store) that has it cheaper without rebates or anything, and just match it? BestBuy often gets manufacturers to give them their own special SKUs so that they don't have to price match. For example, Best Buy only sells the S2716DGR.
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Aug 26, 2016 23:56
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Paul MaudDib posted:BestBuy often gets manufacturers to give them their own special SKUs so that they don't have to price match. For example, Best Buy only sells the S2716DGR. The "R" stands for "Regret."
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Aug 26, 2016 23:59
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BIG HEADLINE posted:One person's 'howl' is another person's 'quiet enough for me.'
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Grog posted:Yeah, I wasn't really worried about binning and am more concerned with the noise and keeping the card cool enough. If I could find a recording of the fan somewhere then I'd be able to decide easily, but nobody seems to have recorded it. I have one, I can hear it a bit under full fan load but that was pretty rare playing doom. I'd call it a quiet card.
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Aug 27, 2016 00:11
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How is it so much faster than the 1080?
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Aug 27, 2016 00:11
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Because you're taking $1200 and shoving it up the rear end of diminishing returns.
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Grog posted:Yeah, I wasn't really worried about binning and am more concerned with the noise and keeping the card cool enough. If I could find a recording of the fan somewhere then I'd be able to decide easily, but nobody seems to have recorded it. Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOEryFcZfnY Or this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awB3VivRPAo Not that these should be taken as gospel, because every card is potentially different - either better or much worse. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Aug 27, 2016 |
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You could game on a Quadro. https://youtu.be/LC_sx6A5Wko Seriously though, you should wait for Volta. Nvidia's own road maps show it as being like almost double Pascal's capabilities and they have stacked VRAM as one of the features listed on many of the maps. You really need more than 4k@60 that the Titan does for VR. \/ Yes you can, Linus did a video on it yesterday. No performance improvements over a Titan X, but you get 24GB of GDDR5X. SlayVus fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Aug 27, 2016 |
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Not a P6000. e: I meant the P6000 wasn't what that video was talking about, I didn't know he got a P6000 as well. Anime Schoolgirl fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Aug 27, 2016 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOEryFcZfnY Lockback posted:I have one, I can hear it a bit under full fan load but that was pretty rare playing doom. I'd call it a quiet card. some dillweed fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Aug 27, 2016 |
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Subjunctive posted:How is it so much faster than the 1080? I wonder that as well. Considering the settings he is using, and the fact that I run the settings higher on my 980ti and I know I can hold 90fps some of the time. I plan to hold out... Plan.
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Paul MaudDib posted:BestBuy often gets manufacturers to give them their own special SKUs so that they don't have to price match. For example, Best Buy only sells the S2716DGR. R is for retail and it's not bb specific. It's for brick and mortar stores. Microcenter sells the same one.
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I tried finding a sound recording of the single fan cooler 1060, and it's almost disturbingly suspect how all the reviews of it seem to have some obnoxious music playing over the muted sound of the card actually operating.
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EdEddnEddy posted:I wonder that as well. Considering the settings he is using, and the fact that I run the settings higher on my 980ti and I know I can hold 90fps some of the time. The Titan XP has as follows 50.5% more cuda cores, 40% more texture mapping units, and 50% more render output units at like 10-15% slower clock speeds.
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Grog posted:Yeah, like those. My problem is finding the specific cooler for the EVGA 1060 SC since it uses a single-fan setup. It's supposedly the same cooler as on their 960 SC, but I can't seem to find any recordings of that either. There's some luck of the draw, some impact on case acoustics and heat dissipation affecting how hard the fan had to work. I don't think your going to get an answer, I'd order one and return it if it's too loud.
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Hey Anime Schoolgirl, XFX has a fanless 460. http://videocardz.com/63418/xfx-announces-fanless-radeon-rx-460 Looks like if you want the holy grail, the 460 will be the chip they use to make it. Separately, looks like the second wave of Freesync monitors is hitting. The Samsung CF791 is: * 21:9 curved * 1440p * 4ms response time * 3000:1 contrast ratio * VA panel * 125% sRGB * VESA mount * 100Hz Freesync (!!!!!) over DP _and_ HDMI http://techreport.com/news/30577/upcoming-samsung-cf791-is-a-high-contrast-freesync-ultrawide My white whale just got replaced, hard. SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Aug 27, 2016 |
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Oh god, and I was just wishing in this thread something like that existed the other day.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Hey Anime Schoolgirl, XFX has a fanless 460. Hey does anyone want to buy the XR341CK I can't shut up about getting a good price on? I'll give you a good price! 
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Hey Anime Schoolgirl, XFX has a fanless 460. 
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Hey Anime Schoolgirl, XFX has a fanless 460. Yeah, I mentioned these a couple times over the past couple of pages. There are also 24" 1080p and 27" 1440p versions of these as well! Hell, there currently already are prior versions of those for really cheap, like $175 for the 24" cheap (it has freesync, but I don't know what the frame rate is)
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:I am not very optimistic that they'll make something that replaces my LP 7750 on the TV PC without putting it inside the "Radeon Pro" product line ....You know what, I just thought of something. If workstation cards have the cooler that you want for the form factor you need, why not scrounge for a LP, single-slot, workstation card's cooler, so you can do a heatsinkectomy with an LP, not-single-slot's consumer card's cooler? I mean surely ebay has parts?
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Lockback posted:There's some luck of the draw, some impact on case acoustics and heat dissipation affecting how hard the fan had to work. I don't think your going to get an answer, I'd order one and return it if it's too loud. Man. I remembered today why I don't like buying hardware. I fret over it and have way too much ingrained guilt over spending money on these things. Thanks, childhood! 
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Hey Anime Schoolgirl, XFX has a fanless 460. What's the bottom end for Freesync on this? I've got 30-90Hz on mine, are we talking 20-100Hz?
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Nobody on the internet seems to have that information, or I'd have thrown that in, but I don't know how they hit 100Hz without being able to do the LFC thing. 40Hz as a floor isn't even reaching that hard.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Hey Anime Schoolgirl, XFX has a fanless 460. Mother of God.
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Now we just need an AMD card that can actually run anything at that resolution. I'm still holding onto my 7970HD hoping...
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isnt crossfire and sli pretty much only good for the use case of needing to push a high resolution? not that its a good idea
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Well the 980ti for $350 was too tempting, so I guess I'm running SLI now.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Nobody on the internet seems to have that information, or I'd have thrown that in, but I don't know how they hit 100Hz without being able to do the LFC thing. 40Hz as a floor isn't even reaching that hard. I was under the impression that LFC is a software thing that is automagically enabled by the driver if the top of the range is >= 2.5x the bottom range. Is that not so?
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I think there's a could missing in there. A wide enough range should be a pretty much certain thing.
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Gonkish posted:I was under the impression that LFC is a software thing that is automagically enabled by the driver if the top of the range is >= 2.5x the bottom range. Is that not so? Yes. "Automatically enabled on all AMD FreeSync™-ready monitors where max refresh is ≥2.5X min. refresh" "No user configuration or proprietary monitor hardware required" It's therefore not a thing a monitor supports explicitly, but a consequence of a decent refresh range.
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Fauxtool posted:isnt crossfire and sli pretty much only good for the use case of needing to push a high resolution? No, it's not really even good for that.
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Gonkish posted:I was under the impression that LFC is a software thing that is automagically enabled by the driver if the top of the range is >= 2.5x the bottom range. Is that not so? What HalloKitty said, but I was implying that as Samsung's latest and greatest, it would be dumb if they didn't engineer it to have the range necessary for LFC. It would be like taking a tiny dollop of turd and using it to replace a dot of frosting on an otherwise beautiful chocolate cake.
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So here's an interesting question: My dad went and got himself this 4k TV, and he wants to use it as a monitor for his PC. Naturally, his lovely Dell Inspiron piece of poo poo with an integrated Radeon HD 4200 or whatever the gently caress it is cannot scale above 1080p. So now I'm looking for a card that fulfills two things: 1.) Can actually push 4k at whatever the hell this thing's refresh rate is. 2.) Doesn't require an external power connector from the PSU, because this is a piece of poo poo Dell prebuilt and I'm 99% sure it doesn't have that poo poo, let alone a PSU that I would trust to support it, even at idle on the desktop. What's the bare minimum that I'm even looking for, here? I'd assume something like a GTX 960 or RX 460 or something? I have no idea. He has literally never played a video game in his life, so it's STRICTLY desktop stuff, nothing stressful at all, not even 4k video (he paints and wants to use 4k images as a reference).
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Gonkish posted:So here's an interesting question: RX 460 or GTX 950 seems like it would be the best choice here, since you need a card that supports HDMI 2.0. I think all GTX 960's need at least a 6-pin with some 950's being run off slot power. If you're willing to do a rebate, the GTX 950 is the cheaper option - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814126090&cm_re=asus_gtx_950-_-14-126-090-_-Product - 105 after rebate If not, spending 15 bucks more will get you a RX 460.
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Got my uncle a GTX 950 to power his 4K display on his crappy pre-built HP.
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Gonkish posted:What's the bare minimum that I'm even looking for, here? I'd assume something like a GTX 960 or RX 460 or something? There is no card that runs off slot power that will push games to 4k.
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Khablam posted:There is no card that runs off slot power that will push games to 4k. You chopped off this part in your quote for some reason: "He has literally never played a video game in his life, so it's STRICTLY desktop stuff, nothing stressful at all, not even 4k video (he paints and wants to use 4k images as a reference)."
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