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KillHour posted:You need to link that. €510 Point of View GTX 480 €227 Club 3D 6870 €255 Asus 5870
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Wish I could convince somebody to buy my HD 6970 for its MSRP, could do a nice upgrade
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Haquer posted:Wish I could convince somebody to buy my HD 6970 for its MSRP, could do a nice upgrade
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NihilismNow posted:While looking for RX 480's (at a not insane price) i found a store that still has 8 geforce GTX 480 in stock @ €510 each. Should i jump on this deal? I know we get ripped off in Europe but they're pushing it, you can get a 1070 for that price Seriously who is going to buy that.
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FaintlyQuaint posted:Finally got around to installing my Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV on my 1080 to replace the ref blower. That's awesome. Can the accelero fans be controlled by the card without an adaptor for the fan plugs?
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wipeout posted:That's awesome. Can the accelero fans be controlled by the card without an adaptor for the fan plugs? I just plugged the fan power into the board and set a custom fan curve and it seems like everything is running as expected? I can definitely manually adjust the fan speed, as well.
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Just got a 1070 Founders Edition because I was drunk and impulsive at Best Buy. Its weird how I managed to convince myself that my GTX 760 was doing OK when it couldn't handle Doom at reasonable resolutions.
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Would you gentle goons say that it is worth having a 1080 card if you don't buy one of those big deal $740 IPS monitors? I would like to think that I'll get on the VR train once they start making actual games for the things, but right now I'm just a goon with moderate colorblindness who is bad with his money. If I go with a 1070 I'll probably end up saving something like 800 dollars all told (and still be able to play the games I like, namely overwatch and total war: Warhammer), since both a dell monitor and that card are half as expensive as an IPS and 1080. I can afford either option, though, which is where my conundrum comes from.
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The 1070 can run Overwatch at 144fps at 1440p, so maybe get that and the good monitor
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:Would you gentle goons say that it is worth having a 1080 card if you don't buy one of those big deal $740 IPS monitors? I would like to think that I'll get on the VR train once they start making actual games for the things, but right now I'm just a goon with moderate colorblindness who is bad with his money. Get the good monitor and a 1070, the 1070 will be plenty for 2560x1440 and VR too.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:The 1070 can run Overwatch at 144fps at 1440p, so maybe get that and the good monitor With what setup and graphical settings?
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I just found out that you can lease enthusiast GPUs. It seems about as good an idea as renting rims. You are locked into a 12 month contract and you still pay the same monthly rate even when the value of the card inevitably suffers many price cuts. You can make a 13th payment at the end to buy the card. They are basically selling you the card well above retail on a payment plan.
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Laranzu posted:Just got a 1070 Founders Edition because I was drunk and impulsive at Best Buy. I also upgraded from a 760 to a 1070, new computer should be arriving today or tomorrow. The 760's not completely obsolete yet, I can still run Witcher 3 on medium settings, but it's definitely not cutting-edge anymore.
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Fauxtool posted:I just found out that you can lease enthusiast GPUs. It seems about as good an idea as renting rims. You are locked into a 12 month contract and you still pay the same monthly rate even when the value of the card inevitably suffers many price cuts. You can make a 13th payment at the end to buy the card.
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Yeah I wish price cuts were inevitable after just a year. Maybe if gouging less counts as a price cut.
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Fauxtool posted:I just found out that you can lease enthusiast GPUs. It seems about as good an idea as renting rims. You are locked into a 12 month contract and you still pay the same monthly rate even when the value of the card inevitably suffers many price cuts. You can make a 13th payment at the end to buy the card. Welcome to Rent-a-Center
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<3 David Kanters' analysis: http://www.realworldtech.com/tile-based-rasterization-nvidia-gpus/ Might be a strong participant in Maxwell's gain in energy efficiency.
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I'm about to sell my MSI Gaming GTX 960 2gb to a colleagues son. I'm not sure the kids PSU has an 8-pin, would using a 6-pin to 8-pin adapter deliver enough power? I think there was a 6-pin to 8-pin adapter in the box when I bought it.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Welcome to Rent-a-Center In case someone isn't from the US and isn't familiar with Rent-A-Center, and I'm not sure if other countries have predatory businesses like this, they're stores that allow you to rent-to-own furniture, appliances, or electronics. A $400 Playstation 4 is only 52 payments of $29.99 a week for a grand total of $1559.48 in my area. A $700 (at bestbuy and amazom) LG 4K TV is only 104 payments of $29.99 a week for a total of $3118.96. It's legal because it's all in writing and it's your fault if you didn't read the terms. Because, sir/ma'am, it's only $30 a week. $30 a week so you can have this new TV in your house.
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Trump posted:I'm about to sell my MSI Gaming GTX 960 2gb to a colleagues son. I'm not sure the kids PSU has an 8-pin, would using a 6-pin to 8-pin adapter deliver enough power? I think there was a 6-pin to 8-pin adapter in the box when I bought it. IIRC 6 and 8 pin deliver the same power, right? Just 8 pin has 2 grounds.
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Shrimp or Shrimps posted:IIRC 6 and 8 pin deliver the same power, right? Just 8 pin has 2 grounds. One is 75w and the other is 150w. I'm just wondering if they used the 8-pin out of convenience but only really need the 75w of the 6-pin.
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averox posted:In case someone isn't from the US and isn't familiar with Rent-A-Center, and I'm not sure if other countries have predatory businesses like this, they're stores that allow you to rent-to-own furniture, appliances, or electronics. A $400 Playstation 4 is only 52 payments of $29.99 a week for a grand total of $1559.48 in my area. A $700 (at bestbuy and amazom) LG 4K TV is only 104 payments of $29.99 a week for a total of $3118.96. So the catch is you can't return it until after a fixed period of time? This all sounds like an insanely bad deal and I can't imagine who would go for it.
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PerrineClostermann posted:With what setup and graphical settings? I get 80 to 90 fps at 1440p with all ultra settings, or whatever the max is called I think its something different for that game, and 1.5x resolution scaling. I imagine if the scaling was off you could approach 1440p edit: 144hz with max graphical settings Phlegmish posted:So the catch is you can't return it until after a fixed period of time? This all sounds like an insanely bad deal and I can't imagine who would go for it. Its not a place for people who make sound financial decisions. Although you can return things (I'm sure there is more cost involved ) and truly rent items, but the core business is to essentially scam people. They tell you though, it's not an actual scam, its just ... A psychological scam. penus penus penus fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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averox posted:In case someone isn't from the US and isn't familiar with Rent-A-Center, and I'm not sure if other countries have predatory businesses like this, they're stores that allow you to rent-to-own furniture, appliances, or electronics. A $400 Playstation 4 is only 52 payments of $29.99 a week for a grand total of $1559.48 in my area. A $700 (at bestbuy and amazom) LG 4K TV is only 104 payments of $29.99 a week for a total of $3118.96. We have the same setup in the UK, with stores like Brighthouse. They basically prey on poor people who can't afford £1500 for a tv in one go, but can just about scrape together the £30 a week or whatever. For example, a £1.5k 55" LG tv (a touch overpriced but not crazy) with delivery, installation and service plan (total ~£2k) is just 156 payments of £26. £4k!
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:Its not a place for people who make sound financial decisions. Although you can return things (I'm sure there is more cost involved ) and truly rent items, but the core business is to essentially scam people. Having never used them myself I do believe you can actually return things as mentioned here. I would assume there are additional fees involved as well. As far as rent-to-own you can stop payments at any time if you're strapped. They come and take their poo poo back until you can pay up again. I would bet that the pick-up and delivery aren't free in that situation. Lungboy posted:We have the same setup in the UK, with stores like Brighthouse. They basically prey on poor people who can't afford £1500 for a tv in one go, but can just about scrape together the £30 a week or whatever. For example, a £1.5k 55" LG tv (a touch overpriced but not crazy) with delivery, installation and service plan (total ~£2k) is just 156 payments of £26. £4k! I thought you guys were supposed to product your consumers 
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Phlegmish posted:So the catch is you can't return it until after a fixed period of time? This all sounds like an insanely bad deal and I can't imagine who would go for it. Poor people with really bad financial literacy. A majority of Americans fail a simple financial literacy test that ask really simple things like "which is more $200 with 5% interest over 5 years or $100 with 50% interest over 5 years"
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PerrineClostermann posted:With what setup and graphical settings? Well I haven't done it myself, but I'm planning for a 1070 myself so I ran across that Overwatch benchmark. It was actually 135 min / 142 avg on Ultra, so you could probably lock in 144 with some tweaking or overclocking? They were using a 6600K w/ DDR4-3000 as well. http://www.techspot.com/review/1182-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070/page2.html 
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Yeah. That's just a normal fan.
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averox posted:I thought you guys were supposed to product your consumers Sorry, but where capitalism is present, there's money to be made! loving over poor people is profitable, pretty much always.
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That's a normal fan with a shround on top. The shroud helps keep the air moving and properly cooling the entire heatsink and you can see the vents where the air can exit. http://i.imgur.com/eO6RE82.jpg This here is a cross blower fan. Does the fan look like this? It's a cross blower.
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:I get 80 to 90 fps at 1440p with all ultra settings, or whatever the max is called I think its something different for that game, and 1.5x resolution scaling. I imagine if the scaling was off you could approach 1440p with max graphical settings What CPU are ya on? I'm on a GTX1080, 1440p, and 100hz monitor and I've had to dial scaling back to 100%, and Dynamic Reflections/Refraction Quality/AA to high from ultra to avoid obnoxious framerate dips. I'm on a 2500k @ 4.3 and with a couple sticks dying and dropping me down to 8 gigs of RAM I'm really thinking about dumping the setup for Skylake. I'm gettin' super spoiled with higher refresh rates and the dips to ~60 are getting almost as noticeable as when I'd drop to ~40 at 60hz (especially in VR  ).I just loaded it up real quick wondering how they got those 170+ framerates in that chart just posted since afaik there's no built in benchmark so I hopped into practice range where I'd expect it to be much lighter than an actual game, and got much lower numbers. Huh. CPU definitely running at 4.3, GPU definitely clocked up (usage was at 99% until the alt tab to screenshot). Fullscreen vs. borderless didn't make a difference. Avg 125 or so just looking out at the map, and I had to go in a corner and look down to hit 160. 
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teh_Broseph posted:What CPU are ya on? I'm on a GTX1080, 1440p, and 100hz monitor and I've had to dial scaling back to 100%, and Dynamic Reflections/Refraction Quality/AA to high from ultra to avoid obnoxious framerate dips. I'm on a 2500k @ 4.3 and with a couple sticks dying and dropping me down to 8 gigs of RAM I'm really thinking about dumping the setup for Skylake. I'm gettin' super spoiled with higher refresh rates and the dips to ~60 are getting almost as noticeable as when I'd drop to ~40 at 60hz (especially in VR I have a 6600k at 4.6 ghz. I'll test it at 1.00x scaling just for giggles. I did mean real gameplay fps earlier though, not sure what reviewers are testing with. I'll boot up ye old fraps recorder
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:I get 80 to 90 fps at 1440p with all ultra settings, or whatever the max is called I think its something different for that game, and 1.5x resolution scaling. I imagine if the scaling was off you could approach 1440p with max graphical settings CharlieFoxtrot posted:Well I haven't done it myself, but I'm planning for a 1070 myself so I ran across that Overwatch benchmark. It was actually 135 min / 142 avg on Ultra, so you could probably lock in 144 with some tweaking or overclocking? They were using a 6600K w/ DDR4-3000 as well. Man, what the hell. Is the 2500k/2600k so old now? I'm running with a 2600k @ 4.3GHz, and 16GB of (slow) RAM, I'm not getting results like that from my 1070.
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There's a single slot half height Polaris 11 card  ...it's the firepro WX4100 with a $400 price tag 
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ItBurns posted:This is why you buy cases that resemble the trunk of a 1995 Lincoln Towncar. This is why you buy cases that only fit in the trunk of a 1995 Lincoln Towncar.
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