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Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Tab8715 posted:

What's with the delay of the next gen ATI/Nvidia cards? Shouldn't they be out by now or should we have some kind of update?

The 680 didn't come out till March 2012

# ¿ Jan 28, 2013 16:14

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 07:32

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

zer0spunk posted:

I want to replace my 680, but not with a $900 card that is basically a 690 if the "titan" stuff is true. I thought we moved past the ludicrous "ultra" line Nvidia?

They arnt going to replace the architecture every year.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2013 17:01

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

What is the reason for buying it?

# ¿ Feb 1, 2013 23:51

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

dog nougat posted:

I keep seeing people talk about coil whine on their graphics cards. What's the difference between that and the fan just being loud because it's moving a lot of air?

Edit: I found this wikipedia article about it. I'd it really that loud/so prevalent that it's a big deal? I don't think I've ever noticed any sort of coil noise, just the fan being loud as gently caress on my 570 HD.

One is a noise coming from the video card, one is a noise coming from the fan.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2013 18:57

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Maarak posted:

Is there some trick to getting Windows 7 to recognize a GPU that's PCIe 3.0? I have a nVidia 660 attached to an Asus P8Z77-V LX (Z77 ATX), and while I'm getting video the nVidia control panel doesn't seem to see the card at all.

Can you be more specific? were you able to install the nvidia drivers and its showing as a geforce 660 or whatever in device manager?

# ¿ Feb 18, 2013 23:23

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Amazon has EVGA 670 FTW 2gb cards for $315 open box.

Shows 11 left right now.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0083Y6MV6/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1361753609&sr=8-1&keywords=evga+ftw&condition=used

# ¿ Feb 25, 2013 01:55

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

KillHour posted:

Jumped on this like a fat kid on the last Twinkie.

Since they have a bunch i wonder if they had a bunch of busted boxes. Mine will be here tomorrow, cant wait.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2013 16:46

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

EVGA is still doing borderlands 2.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2013 21:08

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Got my $315 GTX670 FTW from amazon warehouse. Box is beat to hell. Card has been opened and has some wear on the plastic almost from a sticker it looks like, but its working perfectly. Running furmark now without any problems or visual artifacts. All accessories were in the box and sealed, even the poster and stickers.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2013 19:47

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

drat, it says it may come repackaged but it sucks your fan wasn't working.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2013 02:19

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Endymion FRS MK1 posted:

Or maybe we should just wait until its refined a bit and more than one game that literally just came out uses it until we make judgements?

Its not like amd is making a big deal about that one game or anything.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2013 17:46

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Bleusilences posted:

Should I go for a 660 or a 660 TI. It is for Arma 3 and Borderlans 2 because they run physX.

Quick edit: the difference between the 2 is 100 $.

How cheap are you getting the 660? You can get a 3gb 660ti for $279 after rebate

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...T_k9P9Y9X1zqanw

# ¿ Mar 5, 2013 20:28

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Tressfx works great on my 670 till the game and video card vomit all over themselves.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2013 02:52

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Using nvidia inspector and adding tomb raider exe to the hitman absolution profile seems to fix the problems.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2013 03:58

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

deimos posted:

RMAing the open box GTX 670 would make it more expensive than a brand new 670 (and go into the 680 price range). Time to return it to Amazon I'll never see again.

Amazon pays return shipping and should refund your original shipping.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2013 16:31

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Amd naming is so god drat confusing.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2013 04:32

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Sounds like bad video ram.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2013 03:03

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

hayden. posted:

A couple days ago my GTX260 started idling at around 83C. I tried a million different drivers and finally just reinstalled Win7. It seemed okay for about a day and then went back to crazy idling temps. If I had to guess it's just a recent Windows update that's loving it up, but it's weird that no one else seems to have this problem. Is my card maybe just dying?

Have you tried cleaning it?

# ¿ Mar 14, 2013 18:17

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

The 700's will probably just be budget cards and/or OEM only as well.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2013 20:47

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

beejay posted:

Well I'm still getting the hangs even after rolling back to 314.07. The event viewer just says "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." Could this be related to my CPU overclock in some way? I am losing my mind.

See if anything funny is running in task manager. Bitcoin miners can cause this.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2013 04:03

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Those optimium requirements are probably also taking 3d into account.

Don Lapre fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Apr 18, 2013

# ¿ Apr 18, 2013 16:13

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

770 is so god drat huge. Hopefully the 8 series has a new architecture and we can get a 870 in a smaller card.

# ¿ May 30, 2013 15:46

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

incoherent posted:

This is impressive.

Thought it was passive until

# ¿ May 31, 2013 19:53

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

randyest posted:

I hope this doesn't count as an upgrade question, but I just ordered that insane SC GTX780 ACX beast and I'm wondering if it'd be worthwhile to keep my GTX570 in the box for PhysX only or just sell it? It runs super cool and quiet, but maybe it's overkill and a waste of electricity? Of course I'll try it and compare once the 780 gets here, but any info / experience would be appreciated.

I saw some tests done and showed if you are using an older card your 780 in this case would end up waiting for the old cards physx poo poo and slow things down.

# ¿ May 31, 2013 22:35

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Sepist posted:

My 660ti is going to a black screen then returning a second later when it gets over 55 degrees celcius with less than 70% fan speed, is that normal without overclocking? I can circumvent this by having the video card fan go to 70% and set all of the stock fans on my phantom case at full speed. A nvidia driver infected with a bitcoin miner was running on it for 2 days before I found it which I'm afraid damaged the card :T

Sounds like you still have a bitcoin miner running.

# ¿ May 31, 2013 23:23

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

I was gonna wait for the 800 series but im just too tempted. Ordered an MSI 760 twin frozr. Looks like the coolest card that will fit in an SG05.

# ¿ Dec 30, 2013 21:07

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

If you have a silverstone SG05 I can confirm the Twin Frozr 760 fits.

This must be the largest card you can get in there without modification.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2014 04:36

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Zero VGS posted:

Funny, I was just cranking the PhysX last night for Bureau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJClNPiyOYQ

It's nice to have something productive for old 460's to do.

I thought benchmarks showed dedicated physX cards actually slowed the machine down vs just using one card.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2014 17:56

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Zero VGS posted:

If a factory overclock version of a GPU is otherwise indentical as the baseline one from the same manufacturer, does that always mean it has been binned as having more potential? Or can the baseline model sometimes/usually be overclocked just as high?

Depends on the yields of the gpu's. The answer is maybe.

They could all be amazing chips and they simply bin based on what their partners want to buy. Or there could be legit better chips that they pick out based on performance.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2014 17:15

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

But it runs correctly stock. Are you returning it cause you cant overclock it as high as youd like?

# ¿ Jan 13, 2014 23:51

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

eggyolk posted:

Can anyone explain what the deal is with the Tegra K1? It seems to be taking up a lot of headlines but hasn't been mentioned here yet.

its just the ARM of the month.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2014 16:05

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Psion posted:

I haven't paid any attention to card brands in years, is there really any difference aside from pack-ins and bonus games and whatnot? I was under the impression the particular garish brand sticker on the heatsinks was about it for differences. Is that not so?

Most companies offer custom coolers now that are different.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2014 01:58

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

I remember when 3dfx was pimping motion blur. It was a quake 3 feature.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2014 06:12

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Id just spend the money on a better quadro card and game on it.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2014 15:53

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Duro posted:

Well, I got hosed over by NCIX and they gave me a Sapphire card despite me asking for anything but one. I think they shipped everything too, so I dunno what to do now. I think I'll just accept my fate and go with the flow. It might not be that bad....

Return it? What do you mean they gave you a sapphire card? Did you just click a button that said order video card?

# ¿ Jan 24, 2014 23:21

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Gyrotica posted:

I have a question about the GTX Titan. Are there any neat/fun/useful things one can do with a Titan that makes use of its compute capacity? My rig is primarily built for gaming and I'm not a molecular biologist, but I can't shake the feeling that I should find other uses for it since I have the capability.

I briefly dallied with cryptocurrency mining, but apparently CUDA just doesn't cut it.

If you are only playing games, you should sell the titan and buy a 780ti

# ¿ Jan 28, 2014 22:21

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

SlayVus posted:

So, if nvidia isn't going to step up the VRAM in their consumer line because "the bottom line" won't that make AMD the goto for multiple display setups? It just seems like Nvidia is shooting themselves in the foot.

Unless you are going over 3x1080p then more than 2gb doesn't matter right now

http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Video-Card-Performance-2GB-vs-4GB-Memory-154/

http://i0.wp.com/alienbabeltech.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/MainChart.jpg

# ¿ Jan 31, 2014 06:25

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

spasticColon posted:

Now that the good Maxwell cards have been pushed back I'm really tempted to get an R9 290 after the price gouging ends but would my Corsair 650(HX or TX?) be enough to power it?

Easilly. This system in this review is only pulling 350 with a 290/290x. You could use a 450w power supply if you wanted too. Anand was hitting around 380w with 32gb ram and a Intel Core i7-4960X @ 4.2GHz

http://www.techspot.com/review/736-amd-radeon-r9-290/page8.html

# ¿ Feb 5, 2014 22:05

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

subx posted:

I just picked up two 27" 2560x1440 monitors, and was wondering what mid-high end video cards will support those and a 1080p television? My old video card (a 5850) only supports two monitors, so I'm using the onboard video to support one of them. I'd really prefer to be able to disable onboard video completely, especially as I'm not even sure if iit will support that high of a resolution (and I often play games on the TV, so I don't want it powering that).

Any modern high end card should.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2014 18:31

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 07:32

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

HalloKitty posted:

The 5850 should have two DVI, one HDMI, and one DisplayPort, right?

I'm sure the only restriction is you can't run all four, or 3 on DVI (which includes HDMI).

So you should able to run 3 if you went DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort or DVI/DVI/DisplayPort.

Yea i think you have to use displayport on the 5850 for 3 monitors. Active adapter also.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2014 18:36

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