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SwissArmyDruid posted:I guess we can also figure that this means that Microsoft's next console is probably going to be Crossfired out the door. I hope that means an end to microstutter. It's been well established that XDMA crossfire is very smooth.
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The Razer Core eGPU dock is going to launch at $500 with no card included. Ouch. http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...strip=0&vwsrc=0
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repiv posted:The Razer Core eGPU dock is going to launch at $500 with no card included. Ouch. Ouch. Better be able to amortize that over the life of multiple cards.
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Mar 15, 2016 21:19
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Mar 15, 2016 21:43
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quote:The Razer Core supports larger displays. It costs $500 without a graphics card, and it costs $400 when purchased with a Razer Stealth laptop. The machines are shipping in April. 
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Mar 15, 2016 22:27
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:Pretty expensive pcie slot When you take into account 3m charges $90 for a loving cable extension http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail...X00gaAp_88P8HAQ Its not TERRIBLE
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Mar 15, 2016 22:34
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http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-gameworks-sdk-3-1-released.html Some components of Gameworks are shifting to an open source model. Thanks AMD  The licence isn't quite as permissive as GPUOpen, but it's close. Developers are allowed to modify the code however they like as long as they credit Nvidia.
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As someone who's never been too concerned with the moral good that open source brings, what benefits does this have for me, the selfish consumer? Potentially better optimization?
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Mar 15, 2016 23:02
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Possibly AMD being able to driver-hack a way to get some Gameworks stuff running a bit faster on GCN/Polaris/whatever.
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Mar 15, 2016 23:05
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HMS Boromir posted:As someone who's never been too concerned with the moral good that open source brings, what benefits does this have for me, the selfish consumer? Potentially better optimization? It's so that NVIDIA can't make a game run poo poo on your AMD computer.
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Mar 15, 2016 23:06
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Sounds good. Thanks for the info.
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Kontradaz posted:It's so that NVIDIA can't make a game run poo poo on your AMD computer. TIL nvidia makes games
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Don Lapre posted:When you take into account 3m charges $90 for a loving cable extension To be fair to 3M, that cable is the only one of it's kind. It's a low-production cable that uses expensive twin-axial cabling to reduce crosstalk, which is the only way to get a PCI ribbon cable to extend that far. PCI slots were never meant to have riser/extensions and even a few inches worth of extension can necessitate going into your BIOS and clocking down to PCI 2.0 or 1.0 just to avoid launching into a blank screen. I also think that 3M will drop the price if you do a bulk order, as that super small Dan A4 case intends to ship with those risers. If you need a long riser, your next best bet is my homies at Li-Heat in China who make flexible shielded cables at $20-30 a pop, I can personally vouch that they make a great cable and it works a fuckton better than duck-taping aluminum foil to one of those $5 risers that were all pumped out of one factory during the Bitcoin era.
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Mar 15, 2016 23:23
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Don Lapre posted:TIL nvidia makes games nvidia will happily send developers to tune (read: fix) AAA titles for NVIDIA hardware
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I've had my MSI GTX 970 for 5 months now, and it has begun to make horrendous coil whine. Or at least I assume it is the card. I'm talking nails on chalkboard intensity. Any chance it could be a bulging capacitor? The sound only occurs during gaming, all the temps look fine, no overclocking. If it keeps it up I will have to record it because drat is it loving loud.
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Don Lapre posted:TIL nvidia makes games Run *like* poo poo is probably what they meant. Also, Nvidia will sure as hell send programmers over to help work on your game "better take advantage of Nvidia GameWorks". With pleasure. e:fb
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reagan posted:I've had my MSI GTX 970 for 5 months now, and it has begun to make horrendous coil whine. Or at least I assume it is the card. I'm talking nails on chalkboard intensity. Any chance it could be a bulging capacitor? The sound only occurs during gaming, all the temps look fine, no overclocking. If it keeps it up I will have to record it because drat is it loving loud. It would not be a bulging cap, it's those chokes that say "R32" or whatever on them. You can't open them up to put a dab of hot melt glue on them like you used to, so you'll just have to live with it or RMA it. Also, make sure you set a drat frame limit in your overclocking app, otherwise the card could be trying to render 3000 fps during a menu or whatever. You can try overclocking or underclocking to see if the acoustics change.
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repiv posted:The Razer Core eGPU dock is going to launch at $500 with no card included. Ouch. 
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All that talk of multi-chip GPU reminds me of something... and that didn't end very well for them...
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mobby_6kl posted:All that talk of multi-chip GPU reminds me of something... How was that thing cooled?
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I've mused about why AMD would bother making the Pro Duo when Polaris is around the proverbial corner. I figure it's a combination of halo marketing and dry run for a dual Polaris gpu. 
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El Scotch posted:I've mused about why AMD would bother making the Pro Duo when Polaris is around the proverbial corner.
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El Scotch posted:I've mused about why AMD would bother making the Pro Duo when Polaris is around the proverbial corner. Given the last minute changes I don't think even AMD knew what they were aiming for. In early February they were still teasing it as a 12 TFLOP card with 2x8pin, then 6 weeks later it reappeared as a 16 TFLOP card with 3x8pin and a bigger board. 
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SinineSiil posted:How was that thing cooled? Back in those days sensibly-sized passive heatsinks were still sufficient. First graphics card I remember getting with a fan was the original Geforce.
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Rastor posted:Hey, kids! Is your PC some crappy officeputer with a tiny power supply and no 6pin PCIe auxiliary power connectors? Well, now you can put a GTX 950 in it! MSI has joined ASUS in the board-powered GTX 950 game: http://www.techpowerup.com/220947/msi-launches-new-geforce-gtx-950-graphics-cards-with-75w-board-power.html
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SinineSiil posted:How was that thing cooled? Back then gpus didn't produce that much heat. They would have used little heatsinks with fans on them. This is a preproduction 3dfx 6000 board 
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Hell, my first proper video card was a GeForce MX440. That poo poo was practically passively cooled, with how small the heatsinks were. And the reference models were!
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Hell, my first proper video card was a GeForce MX440. That poo poo was practically passively cooled, with how small the heatsinks were. And the reference models were! The MX440 was SUPER low end at the time. It was basically Nvidia using the Geforce 4 naming to gently caress over consumrs. It was lower end than the previous geforce 3.
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El Scotch posted:I've mused about why AMD would bother making the Pro Duo when Polaris is around the proverbial corner. And speaking of multi GPU, how does stuff like PowerVR's multi core GPUs compare in terms of implementation?
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Hell, my first proper video card was a GeForce MX440. That poo poo was practically passively cooled, with how small the heatsinks were. And the reference models were! You're making me feel old. My first 3d card was a 3dfx voodoo banshee. It could get 60fps at quake 2 at 640x480! (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/3d-chips,83-7.html) The MX cards were a strange beast. The Ti4200 was the best deal of that generation (and incidentally, my third video card).
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My first card was a creative viper.  edit: lol check out this press release still on nvidia's website http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_20020109_5701.html penus penus penus fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Mar 16, 2016 |
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Naffer posted:You're making me feel old. My first 3d card was a 3dfx voodoo banshee. It could get 60fps at quake 2 at 640x480! (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/3d-chips,83-7.html)
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Don Lapre posted:The MX440 was SUPER low end at the time. It was basically Nvidia using the Geforce 4 naming to gently caress over consumrs. It was lower end than the previous geforce 3. That was my first one. As I recall, it was actually a GeForce 2 with some additional hardware. No shaders though, I remember not being able to play certain games because of it. Or an old shader model or something. The real GeForce 4 had them.
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Naffer posted:You're making me feel old. My first 3d card was a 3dfx voodoo banshee. It could get 60fps at quake 2 at 640x480! (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/3d-chips,83-7.html) Voodoo 2 + Mach64 4MB supremacy! 
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Voodoo Rush owner checking in. I had one in my Compaq P-75 running Windows 3.1. One night at like 2am I finally got
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PerrineClostermann posted:That was my first one. As I recall, it was actually a GeForce 2 with some additional hardware. No shaders though, I remember not being able to play certain games because of it. Or an old shader model or something. The real GeForce 4 had them. Right. It was a rebadged GeForce 2. A DX7 card in an era when there was DX8 and 9 capable hardware. That meant no vertex shaders, no floating-point color datatypes, none of that, in a market when the ATI Radeon 9000 series existed. I did say it was my first video card, after all. I was what, 12? I got it in order to be able to play the PC port of FF7. =P SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Mar 16, 2016 |
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First card I had was a Diamond Stealth II S220, 4MB of PCI goodness playing VQuake on an old-rear end Pentium 100 computer that had 8MB EDO 
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Ozz81 posted:First card I had was a Diamond Stealth II S220, 4MB of PCI goodness playing VQuake on an old-rear end Pentium 100 computer that had 8MB EDO First card I had was an original TNT 16MB, paired with an 8MB Voodoo II, both of which got replaced about a year and a half later by a $329 GeForce DDR 32MB. Before that was a super-cheap 486SX/33 husk that was upgraded with an 83Mhz 'Overdrive' processor (we got one of the ones that worked well, amazingly enough), and 12MB of mismatched memory and a stock 4MB DIMM. I called it the FrankenBox. repiv posted:The Razer Core eGPU dock is going to launch at $500 with no card included. Ouch. I'm sure you're paying for the same quality that they put into their ultra-reliable peripherals that I never hear anyone say bad things about. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Mar 16, 2016 |
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