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Gsync is nice but the input limitation of 1 DP and 1 HDMI is annoying for multi input setups
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AMD “fine wine” was just AMD writing really lovely drivers back during the 290 days. You don’t see fine wine working with the 480 vs the 1060 to that extent anymore
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Jul 27, 2019 06:53
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I think the issue with nvidia is more with your personal perception. Both companies are putting out good and bad products and offering reasonable levels of support. Bleeding edge tech being buggy has been the norm since forever. Be happy with the healthy mid range component market where value is extremely high with very little compromise.
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Jul 27, 2019 07:35
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Paging Anime Schoolgirl. Anime Schoolgirl, please come to the customer service desk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynxYGZgcXp8
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Jul 27, 2019 09:44
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Paging Anime Schoolgirl. Anime Schoolgirl, please come to the customer service desk. 
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Jul 27, 2019 09:48
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I feel the 1050ti is the best choice for those old Dell/HP boxes. At that point they're capable of playing any AAA title at 1080p with decent graphics settings, even paired with an old Sandy Bridge i5. Worth the cost for the massive added benefit.
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Jul 27, 2019 11:26
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doctorthefonz posted:there are a bunch all over the place unless yer referring to the super (or are not in the US) I mean 2070 supers, none of the microcenters near have them in stock
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Jul 27, 2019 12:31
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SCheeseman posted:I feel the 1050ti is the best choice for those old Dell/HP boxes. At that point they're capable of playing any AAA title at 1080p with decent graphics settings, even paired with an old Sandy Bridge i5. Worth the cost for the massive added benefit. 1050s aren’t bad. I played hundreds of hours of elite dangerous in VR with one. They’re capable if you turn some settings down
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Jul 27, 2019 13:02
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I have a 1050ti 3x.series i5 dell refurb and use it a lot despite access to other systems ama
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Jul 27, 2019 14:37
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It’s so good to see you happy!
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SCheeseman posted:I feel the 1050ti is the best choice for those old Dell/HP boxes. At that point they're capable of playing any AAA title at 1080p with decent graphics settings, even paired with an old Sandy Bridge i5. Worth the cost for the massive added benefit.
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Statutory Ape posted:I have a 1050ti 3x.series i5 dell refurb and use it a lot despite access to other systems ama
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Jul 27, 2019 16:40
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That being said, apparently higher end video cards push the PCIe power lanes on many of those older Dells and HPs beyond their rated spec of ~20w, the 1050ti can peak to the 70s. That being said I have two of them, both with 1050tis and they've been rock solid for over a year with heavy use. Hopefully they don't catch fire one day!
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Jul 27, 2019 16:49
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PCI-E is supposed to be rated for 75 watts from the slot (For 16x cards) so Dell and HP are making up their own standards if they're not conforming to that.
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Jul 27, 2019 17:03
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Most SFF business PCs are non-standard. https://web.archive.org/web/20150906212154/http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/getpdf.aspx/c04168353.pdf On page 22. Not sure about Dell though, but I recall it was a thing. SCheeseman fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Jul 27, 2019 |
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Jul 27, 2019 17:18
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My PowerEdge T20 said to keep the add-in card to something like 20W or less but it was explicitly to protect the 280W PSU. Considering the entire rest of the system uses <100W under load, I felt safe to run with an RX 460 and I haven't seen any problems yet.
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SCheeseman posted:I feel the 1050ti is the best choice for those old Dell/HP boxes. At that point they're capable of playing any AAA title at 1080p with decent graphics settings, even paired with an old Sandy Bridge i5. Worth the cost for the massive added benefit. The point here is that it is a decently-powerful card in a form factor that is simultaneously both low profile AND single-slot. You can get cards that are one or the other anywhere from Gigabyte, KFA, PNY, and so forth, but then you run into problems like, blocking the only other loving slot that you need for a second RS232 or better networking or some poo poo, because that second slot is RIGHT loving UP AGAINST THE POWER SUPPLY. (I'M LOOKING AT YOU, YOU loving GX280S.) 
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Jul 27, 2019 18:17
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Can I ask why people are trying to cram gaming cards in SFF Dells?
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Can I ask why people are trying to cram gaming cards in SFF Dells? No
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Can I ask why people are trying to cram gaming cards in SFF Dells? id imagine they happen to have one around the house or in the office. a lot i've seen have surprisingly decent CPUs and RAM. less than $200 opens up a whole world of pc gamin.
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So in order to redeem the wolfenstein code for the rtx cards i have to go through bathesda and go through Epic again for control?
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ughhhh posted:So in order to redeem the wolfenstein code for the rtx cards i have to go through bathesda and go through Epic again for control? Yes to both. With Wolfenstein at least, you have to install it through the launcher, but after that, you don't actually need to have it open to run the game.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Can I ask why people are trying to cram gaming cards in SFF Dells? You can get em dirt cheap off of lease from big companies. A lot of enterprise clients have a mandatory replace program, like every 3-4 years. So stuff like Skylake 6500's with 16gb of ram are showing up now. Throw in a half height GPU, and you can get a great cheapo gaming computer for highschool/college kids. Unfortunately enough people are aware of it now that its getting way harder to find the kind of comical used deals on old Dells that you used to, though.
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Cross-Section posted:Yes to both. With Wolfenstein at least, you have to install it through the launcher, but after that, you don't actually need to have it open to run the game. so many accounts, so many launchers.... gonna need a dedicated card soon just to run all those launchers running in the background.
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Hopefully GOG's universal launcher actually manages to release and work with everything like promised.
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Enos Cabell posted:Hopefully GOG's universal launcher actually manages to release and work with everything like promised. I got into the closed beta, and as far as I can tell, it looks like it still requires everything to be installed and at least running when you launch the game. At least the idea of a unified friends list above the clients sounds good?
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Can I ask why people are trying to cram gaming cards in SFF Dells?
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ilkhan posted:They have the machine and they're idiots  I challenge you to build a better $200-300 SFF gaming PC. No, "buy a console" is not an acceptable answer. Stickman fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Jul 28, 2019 |
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Some of y'all have never built computers on an extreme budget, I see.
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If a capable half height/low profile GPU exists and the PSU can handle it, why not? If you’re willing to deal with the fan noise at least. It’s not like there’s a big difference in CPU power these days in any segment of the market Haswell i5 and beyond.
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Low-profile and single-slot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynxYGZgcXp8 More than I'd pay to make an old Dell capable of playing Fortnite. If your budget requires getting an old business desktop, never ever get the SFF ones. The mini-towers are better, not just for expansion room, but they also run a lot cooler and more reliably in my experience.
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i have a SFF dell that can run every game out today on decent settings and was less than $300 all in , if you need somebody to explain to you why thats beneficial in a thread where people are talking about $1200 consumer video cards youre either being disingenuous or the answers youre truly seeking are beyond the scope of this thread
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And 1080p medium is a good bit better than what the base model consoles are pushing these days, so it’s worth it if you happened to have and old OEM SFF fall on your lap for cheap or free.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Paging Anime Schoolgirl. Anime Schoolgirl, please come to the customer service desk. Aparently Yeston sells the 640 shader unit version and those can be unlocked to 768 shader units via driver/bios shenanigans. It's a pretty neat thing indeed
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TheCoach posted:Aparently Yeston sells the 640 shader unit version and those can be unlocked to 768 shader units via driver/bios shenanigans. It's a pretty neat thing indeed I'd be so tempted to pull the shroud & ghetto mod a bigger fan just to see what kind of OC it would push, but I'm dumb like that lol
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I have, from time to time, wondered what would happen if you took a standard 60mm fan, built a forcing duct to mount such a thing onto the end of a half-height card, and see how that works out, see if the higher flow improves cooling.
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Jul 29, 2019 21:53
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I had something like this for doing exactly that https://www.ebay.com/itm/60mm-to-80mm-Fan-Adapter-type-C-Converter-change-mounting-PC-Modding-Mod-Custom/282312588838. It was louder than my 120 mm native coolers, but it worked for what I was doing at the time.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:I have, from time to time, wondered what would happen if you took a standard 60mm fan, built a forcing duct to mount such a thing onto the end of a half-height card, and see how that works out, see if the higher flow improves cooling. This would be the worst Linus Tech Tips.
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Craptacular! posted:This would be the worst Linus Tech Tips. Worse than the actual time he tried to build a whole-room watercooling loop out of copper pipe and ended up turning the whole loop into a radiator?
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