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Ak Gara posted:On Nvidia GTX cards, what powers their HDMI Audio Out? Basically I'm looking for ALC1150 vs Nvidia's GPU Audio. The Nvidia poo poo is basically just passing a digital signal along. If you are hooking up to a tv or home theater there is no reason not to use it.
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mikemelbrooks posted:Scan, ebuyer, and overclockers UK . you can pick up some good used cards from avforums and bit- tech. Also don't underestimate amazon.co.uk they sometimes have decent prices, free delivery and free returns too.
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Are NVIDIA game bundles a retailer-specific thing for 900-series cards? I ordered a MSI 980 Ti Gaming from NCIX US and just realized that it doesn't have any mention of Arkham Knight the way that the product pages on Amazon or Newegg do. It's the PC version of Arkham Knight so it's not a huge loss, but still. e: I found this page which seems to list participating retailers, NCIX among them, so I guess I'll complain if I get the card and no game code.
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I don't remember which site it was but someone listed the bundled Arkham Knight as one of the cons in their review  I'm dangerously close to buying a new GPU, if you want to leave your email in thread I wouldn't mind giving it to you if I end up getting it bundled (don't have PMs)
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Botnit posted:I don't remember which site it was but someone listed the bundled Arkham Knight as one of the cons in their review If you're serious, I'll take it. ironrosesa@gmail.com
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veedubfreak posted:This is why I buy EVGA whenever possible. Between submitting my RMA request last night at like 10:30 I already have my confirmation. Still annoying to have to RMA something this big though. First video card since my 6970 to go bad. On the flip side, I sent in my video card at my expense, and it was supposed to be a straight refund. That was in early June and I'm still waiting. (I called them and they said there was a cheque in the mail...) Their online customer support is super awesome and fast. I'm not so impressed with the rest so far though.
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The Iron Rose posted:If you're serious, I'll take it. I am serious but I'll have to go with him first, I'm also not 100% sure I'm ordering it and if I do I'm not sure it'll be one with it bundled in, but will let you two know if I do. I'm currently asking in the parts thread what's considered the best 980 GTX Ti superclocked version if anyone knows, will probably be doing 4k gaming and little to no extra OC'ing on my end. The PC is about 6 feet away from me so noise isn't a big drawback unless it's jet engine level. Botnit fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Jul 9, 2015 |
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Botnit posted:I am serious but I'll have to go with him first, I'm also not 100% sure I'm ordering it and if I do I'm not sure it'll be one with it bundled in, but will let you two know if I do. Wow I totally misread your post and assumed you were offering it to the next person who posted in thread. My bad! Feel like a bit of an rear end now. Uh, to give some general advice, EVGA has the best warranty support, MSI and Asus are the quietest, Gigabyte and MSI have better overclocking headroom afaik. I also do recommend you overclock, the 900 series has incredible overclocking headroom to the point where you're leaving 10-15% of your potential performance on the table if you don't.
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I was trying to think of a good metaphor but let's just say not overclocking maxwell is like...not overclocking Sandy bridge. 15-25% OC's just pushing a button or moving a slider.
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Bleh Maestro posted:I was trying to think of a good metaphor but let's just say not overclocking maxwell is like...not overclocking Sandy bridge. 15-25% OC's just pushing a button or moving a slider. If a 2500K doesn't overclock by 45% from 3.3 to 4.8 I'd RMA it :v
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Okay, okay, I'll OC it modestly, didn't initially read into it how good it was OCing because it's going in an mITX case with air cooling, but The Goons have spoken 
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Jul 9, 2015 08:55
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Ak Gara posted:If a 2500K doesn't overclock by 45% from 3.3 to 4.8 I'd RMA it :v Pretty sure most 2500Ks are well out of warranty by now, unless you bought one brand new from a certified retailer that still miraculously had them in stock.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Pretty sure most 2500Ks are well out of warranty by now, unless you bought one brand new from a certified retailer that still miraculously had them in stock. Yeah I meant when new. Nowadays I see CPU's have a hard time overclocking from 3.5 to 4Ghz but I'm guessing it's because due to finer tolerances in production techniques, they're already being ran close to their limits.
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Ak Gara posted:Yeah I meant when new. Nowadays I see CPU's have a hard time overclocking from 3.5 to 4Ghz but I'm guessing it's because due to finer tolerances in production techniques, they're already being ran close to their limits. I can't wait to see how much more poorly Skylake overclocks
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Ak Gara posted:Yeah I meant when new. Nowadays I see CPU's have a hard time overclocking from 3.5 to 4Ghz but I'm guessing it's because due to finer tolerances in production techniques, they're already being ran close to their limits.  4.5-4.6ghz is still really easy and common to get though? You can buy 4ghz chips stock. The latest Haswell 4790-K chips are 4ghz base with 4.4ghz turbo.Yea, you're not going to get a ton *more* over 4.4ghz, but uh.. that's still the same clock in the end as a 2500k. Most 2500Ks did not hit 4.8ghz trivially without extra volts, 4.6 was probably a lot more common. And we're still at the 4.6 range, but now with more IPC and less power usage.
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Yeah, I have my 4770k set to 4.5ghz turbo, from 3.9 factory. From the way things look to me, it's that chips are getting more reliable, and thus getting higher factory clocks, as opposed to having to find a higher stable clock yourself  Silicon is at the end of its lifespan though. We've been at 4.x GHz since P4 era now (with only a couple generations clocking to lower than 4GHz), and even intel is having huge issues squeezing performance/getting smaller processes out. I'm more excited in what comes next. 
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Truga posted:Yeah, I have my 4770k set to 4.5ghz turbo, from 3.9 factory. From the way things look to me, it's that chips are getting more reliable, and thus getting higher factory clocks, as opposed to having to find a higher stable clock yourself Like this?
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It's worth pointing out the sacrifices P4 made to clock like it did back then, chief among them being that it loving sucked. Also, new AMD drivers dropped, looks like they already unified the drivers and have some performance boosts as well as expanding the compatibility lists for VSR and that fancy frame rate cap.
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 That's cool as poo poo. IBM's always had great R&D labs, hopefully they're able to actually commercialize that process tech.
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Last I read POWER8 was already faster than similar x86, so they may be on to something there. Of course, unless windows runs on that this, it'll never be relevant for pcs, and thus for me 
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Power8 is a great server chip for massively threaded stuff, but performance/watt wise they are still nowhere close to Intel. (I don't remember what process Power8 is fabbed on but it might still be 32nm? or 28?)
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Gwaihir posted:Power8 is a great server chip for massively threaded stuff, but performance/watt wise they are still nowhere close to Intel. (I don't remember what process Power8 is fabbed on but it might still be 32nm? or 28?)
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Submit RMA at 10:30pm Sunday Upload invoice and get approval Monday afternoon. Card finally ships Wednesday at like 5pm my time. Card is estimated to show up Monday. FML
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japtor posted:I thought you were gonna link this The comments. Allen posted:If 10 GHz is the best that Intel can do by 2011, AMD or somebody else is going to eat their lunch. 
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japtor posted:I thought you were gonna link this Hahahahaha Along with our flying cars.
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Budgie posted:Also don't underestimate amazon.co.uk they sometimes have decent prices, free delivery and free returns too. Yeah even though they often don't have bundled stuff Amazon are a way better choice if anything goes bad with the card, the turn around on me RMAing to Scan was 3 weeks, whilst Amazon sent a new card out after a single conversation on livechat.
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japtor posted:I thought you were gonna link this Those comments are the best thing I have ever read.
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Has anyone gotten AMD's VSR to work with a 2560x1440 monitor? I can get it to work on my 1920x1200 one but the option is nowhere to be found on the one I actually want to make prettier.
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Works fine on my HPZR2740w but honestly its hard for me to see a difference so I usually leave it off. I'm using older 15.4 beta drivers though too.
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Updated from 14.12 to latest and now my fans go into idle mode. They've never done that before. Well done, I guess, AMD. Actually added a feature in a driver update that I suppose would be really cool if I didn't care about noise from my computer.
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WTFBEES posted:Has anyone gotten AMD's VSR to work with a 2560x1440 monitor? I can get it to work on my 1920x1200 one but the option is nowhere to be found on the one I actually want to make prettier. Which card do you have? AFAIK its only r 290 or above?
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mikemelbrooks posted:Which card do you have? AFAIK its only r 290 or above? Most certainly not as of Catalyst 15.7, this is on my 7950 Boost (although because it's basically a 280, it always installs the 280 driver) with a 1920×1200 monitor: 
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There are still varying resolution limits on the cards that support VSR. IIRC some of the older cards can't do above 1440p downscaled.
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BurritoJustice posted:There are still varying resolution limits on the cards that support VSR. IIRC some of the older cards can't do above 1440p downscaled. THIS^^^^^^
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http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2015/07/10/sapphire-r9-fury-tri-x/3 Is this news? e: Almost as fast as Fury X in most cases, if this is priced lower than non-Ti 980 I might consider it. Truga fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Jul 10, 2015 |
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Everywhere I have seen showed Fury prices between $549 and $579.
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Can we mess with vcore on the Fury cards yet? The main problem I see with those Fury results is that once you OC a 980 it should blow right past the Fury at 1080p and 1440p at least. If the Fury was $450 it would be a great choice, but as is it feels like you should still just get a 970 or go all the way up to a 980 Ti.
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:Can we mess with vcore on the Fury cards yet? The main problem I see with those Fury results is that once you OC a 980 it should blow right past the Fury at 1080p and 1440p at least. If the Fury was $450 it would be a great choice, but as is it feels like you should still just get a 970 or go all the way up to a 980 Ti. I don't know, I think there's room inbetween. If it can get into a position where's it's priced a little lower than a 980, they're on to a winner. Although it's still consuming over 100W more at peak than a 980. (Yet it's still lower than the 390X which performs worse, so we're going in the right direction!) AnandTech's Fury review just hit HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Jul 10, 2015 |
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Allegedly the next version of Sapphire trixxx tweak utility will support vcore manipulation. Hopefully it drops soon, so we can see where we're actually at with all this poo poo.
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