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My R9 290 purchase was probably one of the smartest PC hardware purchases I have ever made, it's now 3 years later and I could still make like 3/4 of what I paid for it back on ebay.
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MaxxBot posted:My R9 290 purchase was probably one of the smartest PC hardware purchases I have ever made, it's now 3 years later and I could still make like 3/4 of what I paid for it back on ebay. Yeah I bought like six R9 290 for $180 each that moment miners were panic selling the cards, and they all went back up by over $100 each by the time I flipped them on SA Mart.
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May 3, 2017 15:44
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I remember the frenzy when the used market hit $400 and long discussions about reliability of buttcoin cards then they tanked super hard after that and nobody cared anymore just but buy buy lol
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May 3, 2017 17:01
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400 is real high compared to how low they got. I remember when retail was forced to adapt to the used market killing all sales and you could get new 290s for 200 dollars. I almost bought one to upgrade my 680 but decided to wait for a 980 to launch. The lucky thing is that the cards were well designed enough that the 6 months to a year of 24/7 load ended up having no significant detriment to life so people picking up used 290s in the 100 range back when the choice was between a 680 for 450 or a 290 for 150 got amazing deals.
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May 3, 2017 17:41
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Yeah I'll give AMD that, all the resold mining cards did hold up to the abuse very well, like people buying them third-hand didn't really have any more failures than usual. It probably helped that most miners were undervolting them instead of overvolting.
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May 3, 2017 19:10
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Lower electricity bills = more profit!
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May 3, 2017 21:53
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more heat = drier strawberries!
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May 3, 2017 23:12
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May 4, 2017 00:12
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While silly as hell, that is also sort of awesome lol.
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May 4, 2017 00:15
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EdEddnEddy posted:While silly as hell, that is also sort of awesome lol. as awesome as getting heat stroke
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May 4, 2017 00:42
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EdEddnEddy posted:While silly as hell, that is also sort of awesome lol. The idea of reusing heat from computers is pretty awesome. Dusty-rear end rigberries are not.
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May 4, 2017 01:39
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Paul MaudDib posted:The idea of reusing heat from computers is pretty awesome. He set them on air filters like alton brown did in his dried fruit episode.
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May 4, 2017 01:49
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I feel like there is a market for a water-cooling heat exchanger/radiator that has a slot for fruit drying racks that the fans push air through. Definitely kickstarter bait I'll… start the wiki??
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May 4, 2017 03:04
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New Zealand can eat me posted:I feel like there is a market for a water-cooling heat exchanger/radiator that has a slot for fruit drying racks that the fans push air through. Definitely kickstarter bait Maybe if its thunderbolt and is aimed at the mac crowd. 
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May 4, 2017 03:11
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Alton at least sandwiched his jerky with air filters.
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May 4, 2017 03:29
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wargames posted:He set them on air filters like alton brown did in his dried fruit episode. Was Alton Brown running his air across a series of closely-spaced metal plates to increase the surface area of his heating element?
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May 4, 2017 03:34
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Fauxtool posted:as awesome as getting heat stroke This looks like it is a little more prepared, not setup in some one room apartment and falling sleep with the A/C broken.
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May 4, 2017 04:54
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[sketch of GPU steam generator labeled FREE ENERGY]
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May 4, 2017 06:16
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So Palit/Gainward tried a thing on their GameRock/Phoenix 1080tis with two pairs of counter-rotating fans. To everyone's surprise, transferring the concept behind air raid sirens or Soviet combat helicopters to a graphics card was a very bad idea.
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May 4, 2017 07:06
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May 4, 2017 07:40
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sauer kraut posted:So Palit/Gainward tried a thing on their GameRock/Phoenix 1080tis with two pairs of counter-rotating fans. It's not as bad as founders edition though.
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Ihmemies posted:It's not as bad as founders edition though. I looked at Techpowerup's review of the Palit GameRock one and it's all of one DP less under load, so basically just as bad as the FE as far as noise goes.
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May 4, 2017 10:28
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wargames posted:He set them on air filters like alton brown did in his dried fruit episode.  alton brown: quote:Lay 1 (14 by 14-inch) plastic dehydrator sheet on 1 of the air-conditioning filters. Place the fruit on the plastic dehydrator sheet and cover with another plastic sheet. Repeat this process with remaining plastic sheets and two more filters, stacking on top of the first one. Top these with the remaining empty filter. dusty strawberries
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May 4, 2017 10:40
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3 Vega SKUs, with the slowest being faster than a 1070 and the fastest equalling the 1080ti. Huge pinch of salt needed.
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May 4, 2017 11:27
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pls compete with the 1080 Ti so I can get that level of performance for less money
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May 4, 2017 11:37
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Any chance or risk of buttcoin miners snapping up the Vega cards after they finally release?
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No, polaris cards are much better for that.
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May 4, 2017 12:12
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I want the Vega leak to be true so badly. I really, really want AMD to be for real competitive, despite being almost strictly Intel/nVidia for my entire life. So I'm hoping for a win. What I'm expecting is the fastest card to barely hit 1080 speeds or the 1080Ti competitor to use like 4 billion watts. Don't screw it up AMD. Again.
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Lungboy posted:3 Vega SKUs, with the slowest being faster than a 1070 and the fastest equalling the 1080ti. Huge pinch of salt needed. The second screenshot is fake. Time Spy calculates the overall score by 1/((0.85/graphics score)+(0.15/cpu score)), so the score should be 9814 rather than 9753. Page 22: http://s3.amazonaws.com/download-aws.futuremark.com/3DMark_Technical_Guide.pdf repiv fucked around with this message at 14:08 on May 4, 2017 |
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Lungboy posted:3 Vega SKUs, with the slowest being faster than a 1070 and the fastest equalling the 1080ti. Huge pinch of salt needed. These are confirmed absolutely fake btw. They're simple source view edits of scores from a 1070 and a 1080ti to change the name for the screenshot. People on r/AMD even found the original results that were edited.
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May 4, 2017 14:57
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Ihmemies posted:It's not as bad as founders edition though. I just got a 1080ti FE and it's the quietest blower I've ever had... It is somehow far quieter under load than the EVGA 1080 SC dual fan cooler I just switched out.
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I'd hate to be a marketing guy in the cpu/gpu business. Talk about a rock and a tiger trap. It is funny though watching all the speculation and flame wars that pop up every time another faked set of specs shows up.
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May 4, 2017 15:50
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BurritoJustice posted:These are confirmed absolutely fake btw. They're simple source view edits of scores from a 1070 and a 1080ti to change the name for the screenshot. People on r/AMD even found the original results that were edited. Ah good, my huge pinch of salt wasn't wasted then!
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Zero VGS posted:I just got a 1080ti FE and it's the quietest blower I've ever had... It is somehow far quieter under load than the EVGA 1080 SC dual fan cooler I just switched out. Have you checked to see if it's throttling? From what I've heard, the fan won't go over 50% ever and that will cause it to throttle. Putting the fan to 80% would be obnoxiously loud.
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VulgarandStupid posted:Have you checked to see if it's throttling? From what I've heard, the fan won't go over 50% ever and that will cause it to throttle. Putting the fan to 80% would be obnoxiously loud. That might be the case, I'll check into that. Yeah I did set it to 100% last night just to see and got a dirty look from my boyfriend in the next room over.
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Zero VGS posted:That might be the case, I'll check into that. Yeah I did set it to 100% last night just to see and got a dirty look from my boyfriend in the next room over. 
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To be fair, though, that very well could be how vega ends up. Vega Pro Duo, Vega Pro, and Vega where, obviously, its 2x, 1x, and die cut enough to be just above the 1070 where the voltage is cranked up to enormous levels and the duo has like a 350W tdp or something
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i'll say this much, the Nvidia reference blower is leagues quieter than the RX 480 blower even when it is cooling 100 watts more. The RX 480 blower is just total rattly garbage, I took it off and put on a passive GPU cooler and strapped a single 140mm fan to that and was able to run it overclocked in complete silence.
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Zero VGS posted:i'll say this much, the Nvidia reference blower is leagues quieter than the RX 480 blower even when it is cooling 100 watts more. The RX 480 blower is just total rattly garbage, I took it off and put on a passive GPU cooler and strapped a single 140mm fan to that and was able to run it overclocked in complete silence. Yeah when the pcie-power-gate or whatever was going down there were a lot more detailed breakdowns of that piece of poo poo cooler than there would ever be otherwise. It's ... special
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