td4guy posted:

If anyone's waiting on the dual-fan overclocked EVGA SC Signature 2 GTX 680, it's apparently still coming, and more information will be released on it at the end of the month. _(source)

No idea why you'd want it over the ASUS version aside from brand loyalty though.

KKKLIP ART posted:

My Asus 670 will be here tomorrow and I am super stoked. I am using a GTX260 now, so this is going to be such a massive improvement that it isn't funny.

Agreed posted:

It doesn't demand a GF110 card's full resources, but it does clock up to full (stock) speed, and you can overclock the memory to get some added bandwidth.

But don't do it unless you're messed in the head, there are with the addition of Borderlands 27 games of dramatically varying quality that have GPU accelerated PhysX implementation.

If you're gonna play a LOT of Borderlands 2, I guess hang onto it if your power supply can handle a 670 and the (hungry hungry) GF110-based card simultaneously; my 750W Corsair HX is actually a 900W-safe CWT and it can pretty effortlessly manage a highly overclocked 2600K, a highly overclocked GTX 680, and the GTX 580 (which will, annoyingly, sometimes spin up even when there is no GPU PhysX going on at all - blame the drivers), as well as one optical drive, two 2TB HDDs, and 3 SSDs. And 4x4GB DDR3 1600 DIMMs at 1.525V. I ought to get a measurement tool to see what my total system draw is, but the added energy bill component is about the same as having a 100W lightbulb on in a room constantly. To carry the analogy, you also only go into that room about once a month. Not a major expenditure there, but it is part of the final analysis.

Another drawback - if you aren't using an Ivy Bridge processor, the lack of PCI-e 3.0 support and a tendancy for most Sandy Bridge motherboards capable of running two 16-lane devices in 8x/8x mode will mean that a modern, high-end graphics card will be somewhat bottlenecked (game dependent, but expect as much as 5% for PCI-e 2.0 8x). So it's going to cost you a portion of your possible performance at anything lower than PCI-e 3.0 8x/8x to do.

The benefit, in that minority of games that support it, is that at all resolutions, you will get superior framerates using a dedicated PhysX processor than if you used, say, two 680s in SLI. No kidding, the rendering hit and the inefficiency of juggling the card's shader resources as CUDA cores no they're shaders no they're CUDA no they're shaders is big enough that you end up eating poo poo for FPS in demanding PhysX calculations if you have ANY rendering card, SLI or otherwise, trying to pull double duty.

FISHMANPET posted:

I'm pretty sure the cameras are all IP cameras, so it's just a matter of opening however many browser windows is necessary.

I'm not sure what you mean by needing a video engineer. What kind of inputs do you think I'm talking about?

Boten Anna posted:

For shits and giggles I tried with a copy of Black Swan using VLC and while Final Fantasy XIV was still running (a hog of a game even though I'm standing in my small inn room). I have a 3770K and a GTX 670.

Everything started artifacting heavily though my computer was usable at 16, 12 was choppy but I've seen people think worse is acceptable.

I closed FFXIV and tried again and it is almost watchable but there is still artifacting which I think is an issue with disk I/O (256GB Crucial M4 SSD notwithstanding) as it doesn't start until I pick random seek points. It seems I could do 13 videos smoothly; still kind of choppy but not as bad as 12 with XIV open.

I think you'd need two of my computers to run a 16 screen video wall well, but it'd be cheaper to use four lesser specced ones I think.

Scalding Coffee posted:

The noisy card might have been getting used to being on all the time. It very occasionally made that buzzing sound, but it seems to be as quiet as my 560ti. Just getting used to that new card smell.

Glen Goobersmooches posted:

Gigabyte's 670 is literally the thinnest model there is. The problem would have to be your motherboard's crowded PCI-E array.

Also, 144Hz? What monitor is this? If you've got a 120Hz you should basically never need vsync ever, unless you're playing ancient games without some kind of frame limiter on the high end.

Goon Matchmaker posted:

I honestly have to wonder why MSI did that. From a warranty perspective they had to have realized that they'd be burning out cards left and right. The end cost to them is going to be far higher replacing all the burnt out cards than they'll make in profit.

It's just utterly stupid.

Endymion FRS MK1 posted:

Do all 7950s come with the never settle bundle? Or just ones from Newegg? I want this MSI 7950 TF, but it says nothing about the free games.

Factory Factory posted:

So I was just reading this article on high framerate (HFR) filmmaking and The Hobbit; there's hubbub that 48 FPS showings of the movie are triggering Uncanny Valley effects in a good number of people by being effectively faster than the brain's Conscious Moment Per Second rate - about 40 at rest state, 80 to 100 during intense activity. While the eye can distinguish motion at a faster rate, again varying by person but on average 66 Hz, apparently that 40 Moments per Second rate is killing the suspension of disbelief, because 48 FPS film no longer looks sufficiently different from reality for a lot of folks.

It makes me wonder: Why doesn't this happen with video games? Or will it, in the future? For many people, the difference between 30 FPS and a 60 FPS in gaming is not only incredibly noticeable, but it's incredibly desirable, even if we have no problem with 30/25/24 FPS video. What distinguishes these situations? Is it the stylized aesthetics or other cues for non-reality, so that the uncanny valley isn't approached for other reasons? Or does the interactivity make a game sufficiently "real" in terms of our brain function that the imagery itself has different standards for uncanniness? Is it simply a remaining enormous gulf between real-time generated imagery and photoreality? Or does the higher framerate reduce latency between action and reaction in a way that reduces unreality more than the increased framerate increases it by itself? Or are all video game players hyperspergs who don't find Japanese robotics incredibly weird?

A lot of TVs with temporal interpolation - like, upscaling the framerate to 60 or 120 FPS from 30p or 60i content - look great to some people and awful to others. Yet I'm not sure those categories map or correlate with video gaming - I know I love a solid 60 FPS in games, but motion interpolated video has a kind of hyperreal queasiness to me, like the difference between a 24p film and a 60i football game taken five steps too far.

Brains man. What gives with brains?

Don Lapre posted:

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

Klyith posted:

Your issues sound very similar to a thing I had happen to me about a year ago, except mine was with my nvidia card. At some point I installed new drivers over the top of old ones without fully uninstalling. Windows XP used to be ok with that, but 7 gets hosed up.

Basically every time after that when I tried to update drivers, windows would dig out this old version from the depths of WinSXS and try to install its files instead. Driver cleaning programs would remove the active files, but not the backups from whatever buttcrack they were lodged in. Finally I had to remove any new drivers, and let windows go back the old ones so I could find which exact version they were. Then I got that exact version from nvidia's driver archive, installed it, then used the uninstaller properly. That finally got rid of everything, and I could update again with no problems.

booshi posted:

I've tried the receiver, which doesn't pass through the TV (the way my system is set up is that all devices connect to the TV via HDMI, then audio out via digital audio from the TV to the receiver), and tried with only the receiver connected to the computer. If I could find a way to allow both of my digital audio cables to be plugged in and work that would be fine. The way it is now, I have a splitter that I run in reverse, with one input from the receiver and the other from the computer. I can mute my computer and everything else (TV, Xbox, etc) work fine, but I can't mute anything else to stop a signal from going when the PC is also going, so no signals come through since you can't just mix digital optical audio signals. So, my current solution has been to just switch what is plugged in to the splitter.

I'll play around with it some more, as I had a feeling that what nVidia said was the case: using EDID info. If anyone else has any tips feel free, and if I get it working I'll update with my fix in case anyone else runs into the problem.

booshi posted:

It's part of a Sony HTITB, a year old. 2 HDMI in, 1 out, a few of the other standard inputs, also a digital optical audio in, and has 5.1 surround, blu-ray player, one of those types. I may actually be in luck because my Dad has been complaining about issues with his Sony receiver (a real one, not like my current one) with his new Samsung TV. I think he has/is about to buy a new one and is going to give it to me, since I have a Sony TV, and their receivers and TVs work really well together with the Bravia sync stuff. Only issue is I only visit my family flying, so it's either they ship it to me or I take a bigass receiver back on the plane somehow.

Alereon posted:

No, only nVidia's GK200 GPUs support DX11.1. That said, essentially all DX11.1 gaming capabilities will be usable on nVidia's DX11.0 cards, only non-gaming features are missing and preventing compliance.

Agreed posted:

This is awesome. Ran smoothly for me except for one part when a thing got gelled and blew up, probably around 10-15fps.

Everyone should definitely watch this, though, hot drat what a demo. Raytracing For Real, Maya-quality in realtime. Woah.

PC LOAD LETTER posted:

Fixed cuz' you were right the 1st time.

Agreed posted:

THE DOG HOUSE posted:

Yeah its the 1080 ... but

SwissArmyDruid posted:

Eh, I question the value of that monitor. It doesn't hit that range and is only 40Hz - 60 Hz.

To be clear: I think 4K is dumb right now and if you're going to game at that resolution, you want LFC even more so than usual.

FaustianQ posted:

We're entering bizarro timeline where AMD drivers and control panel are consistently better than Nvidia's. I am okay with this.

spasticColon posted:

Okay, who on here is going to buy a $1200 Titan X?

For $1200 you could build a decent gaming PC from scratch.