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Serephucus · 20-07-2013 03:27PM

Hard to say. I haven't really done any stress testing since this god-damned heat started, so I couldn't say for sure, but they're roughly about the same. Prime maxed out at 93° after an hour (that's with fairly high ambients, I'd take a stab and say around 25°), where-as the old setup got to around 80-85° on a normal day.

Erper · 20-07-2013 04:04PM

out of curiosity...
did anyone had chance to play with gigabyte P67A-UD3P-B3??

ShadowHearth · 20-07-2013 04:13PM

glynf wrote: »

Hexus review of Asus' PQ321Q 4K monitor.

This is the interesting thing:

Maximum reported framebuffer usage is 1,872MB in Crysis 3. Looks like all the games are below 2gb.

Gumbi · 20-07-2013 04:34PM

I have screens of my 7950 using over 2.6 GB with MSAA on :P But AFAIK, it's just a quirk of the game engine (not bothering to give the VRAM back even if it doesn't necessarily need it).

PseudoFamous · 20-07-2013 04:54PM

Erper wrote: »

out of curiosity...
did anyone had chance to play with gigabyte P67A-UD3P-B3??

er I use a Z68X UD3H B3 if that's any good to you

BloodBath · 21-07-2013 01:27AM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

This is the interesting thing:

Maximum reported framebuffer usage is 1,872MB in Crysis 3. Looks like all the games are below 2gb.

I'm surprised the 7970 performs so close to the 680gtx and the titan. I may just have to get a 1440p monitor and a second 7970 at some stage.

I've only got an ASrock pro4 board though. Does anyone have any benchmarks for how much performance loss there is on a 4x lane for crossfire.

Was the crossfire driver update released and tested yet?

Monotype · 21-07-2013 08:36AM

You're talking about a 5% hit with the PCI-E 2 x4 bandwidth, with a single card.
I reckon there could extra communication in crossfire so it could be more. Looks to be worse at lower resolutions.
A single 7970 actually handles a 1440p monitor monitor quite well.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Intel/Ivy_Bridge_PCI-Express_Scaling/23.html

game4it70 · 21-07-2013 10:59AM

BloodBath wrote: »

Was the crossfire driver update released and tested yet?

31st of July is the expected release date.

Gbear · 21-07-2013 12:17PM

This is clever - a little vortex gun that gives feedback to gestural interfaces:

http://www.disneyresearch.com/project/aireal/

glynf · 21-07-2013 05:52PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

This is the interesting thing:

Maximum reported framebuffer usage is 1,872MB in Crysis 3. Looks like all the games are below 2gb.

Yea, if I have read it correctly, the highest anti aliasing setting they used was 4x AA-bit pointless at that pixel density I suppose. AA & modded textures seem to have the biggest culprits for high VRAM usage. Found a good article about this somewhere, will post when I find it.

What a monitor though..wonder what 3 of these in eyefinity/surround would look like:eek:

Can't find the vram article, if you are looking-google auto-complete threw up 'VRAM flap'-don't be in a rush to look at this people....

Gumbi · 21-07-2013 11:15PM

Have any of you Quickfire TK users figured out the correct way to get into the BIOS (via the 4 (DEL) key)? I managed to do last week, and I can't seem to replicate the necessary steps as I applied them last week. Here is the link I used: https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.coolermaster.com%2Fentries%2F23816768-Can-t-Enter-Bios-with-Keyboard&ei=hF3sUYX_NKS47Qalo4GACg&usg=AFQjCNFLhwM8Vkl57X5mSd7SGMb0_0VdXw&sig2=_ZPc38UHXCkv5aVS0lMP2Q&bvm=bv.49478099,d.ZGU

Bazzo · 22-07-2013 12:40AM

Gumbi wrote: »

Have any of you Quickfire TK users figured out the correct way to get into the BIOS (via the 4 (DEL) key)? I managed to do last week, and I can't seem to replicate the necessary steps as I applied them last week. Here is the link I used: https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.coolermaster.com%2Fentries%2F23816768-Can-t-Enter-Bios-with-Keyboard&ei=hF3sUYX_NKS47Qalo4GACg&usg=AFQjCNFLhwM8Vkl57X5mSd7SGMb0_0VdXw&sig2=_ZPc38UHXCkv5aVS0lMP2Q&bvm=bv.49478099,d.ZGU

A quick google suggests that you need to disable num lock before entering the splash screen and then hit the del/4 key:

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/peripherals/61076-cmstorm-quickfire-tk-keyboard.html

Edit: Sorry, I skimmed your post and didn't see the link, which already points out that numlock has to be turned off...

..Brian.. · 22-07-2013 01:18PM

..Brian.. wrote: »

So I came home this evening to find a delivery from OCUK, new keyboard and Xbox controller, only took 2 days but even more amazing, in amongst all the bubble warp was .......... a packet of jelly tots!!!

Bizarrely this happened again! I ordered another 7850 from OCUK last week (and received 9 frees games as opposed to the 8 advertsied!) and another packet of jelly tots! I wonder do they just do this on all orders?!

Tea_Bag · 22-07-2013 01:27PM

..Brian.. wrote: »

Bizarrely this happened again! I ordered another 7850 from OCUK last week (and received 9 frees games as opposed to the 8 advertsied!) and another packet of jelly tots! I wonder do they just do this on all orders?!

No. It's usually haribos :P

Monotype · 22-07-2013 01:41PM

Most of the time I just get 'free' coupons for vistaprint whenever I order from amazon. Or wine and clothes shop coupons from hardwareversand.

I've gotten a few random freebies from ebay sellers though. A few rubbers when I was ordering stationary, a retractable USB cable when getting some computer stuff. I think it's a nice touch so long as it's useful to me. I'd don't think I'd eat the jellies though; they probably have cocaine in them to get you to buy from them again.

..Brian.. · 22-07-2013 01:45PM

Can't say as I ate them either tbh but it's a nice touch, makes you laugh!

Gumbi · 22-07-2013 04:31PM

Bazzo wrote: »

A quick google suggests that you need to disable num lock before entering the splash screen and then hit the del/4 key:

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/peripherals/61076-cmstorm-quickfire-tk-keyboard.html

Edit: Sorry, I skimmed your post and didn't see the link, which already points out that numlock has to be turned off...

Any more tips as to the above?

Headshot · 23-07-2013 11:38AM

Any where I can get specific saved files for Crysis 3? I thought origin had them saved for me but looks like it didnt

Gumbi · 23-07-2013 12:01PM

Headshot wrote: »

Any where I can get specific saved files for Crysis 3? I thought origin had them saved for me but looks like it didnt

Should be in a game folder somewhere. Or in a games folder in your Documents (starcraft saves replays here).

Headshot · 23-07-2013 12:08PM

Yes I know but doesnt exactly help since I did a clean install recently

Danger781 · 23-07-2013 02:03PM

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

Worth: 1642,85€
Games owned: 131
Games not played: 119
Percentage: 91%
Hours spent: 804.3h

Yeaaah... My backlog has gotten pretty bad.. That's not including PS3 Games, Origin Games, or Amazon direct downloads..

halp.

Serephucus · 23-07-2013 02:20PM

That's pretty nifty. Here's mine:

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

Worth: 1580,52€
Games owned: 126
Games not played: 73
Percentage: 58%
Hours spent: 484.1h

And that hours spent doesn't include Minecraft time either. :P

NTMK · 23-07-2013 02:40PM

My Steam Profile

Worth: 1914.71€
Games owned: 151
Games not played: 88
Percentage: 58%
Hours spent: 224.5h

that hour figure doesnt include all my offline time (about 300h at least playing Civ) or my time in SC2 or Fifa

and theres still a **** ton of games in my inventory:pac:

thewheel2.0 · 23-07-2013 03:43PM

Damn I just dont have the time I used to have before college

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

Worth: 1537,09€
Games owned: 160
Games not played: 99
Percentage: 62%
Hours spent: 264.7h

..Brian.. · 23-07-2013 04:03PM

`My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

Worth: 755,71€
Games owned: 53
Games not played: 38
Percentage: 72%
Hours spent: 169.3h

Steam sale accounts for so many unplayed games! And I logged about 100 hours on Skyrim but it's on me brothers account!

ShadowHearth · 23-07-2013 05:40PM

**My Steam Profile** *(from [SteamDB](http://steamdb.info/calculator/?player=76561197983856210&country=de))*

* *Worth:* 2266,72€
* *Games owned:* 177
* *Games not played:* 75
* *Percentage:* 42%
* *Hours spent:* 1,322.9h

YUP....

cherryghost · 23-07-2013 05:58PM

Hurray!

* *Worth:* 3857,70€
* *Games owned:* 354
* *Games not played:* 161
* *Percentage:* 45%
* *Hours spent:* 2,155.1h

Dothehustle · 23-07-2013 06:22PM

i really wished i didnt look at up

Worth: $2361.49
Games owned: 170
Games not played: 100
Percentage: 59%
Hours spent: 781.2h

only really started playing pc games last year

marco_polo · 23-07-2013 06:31PM

Under 50% not played, I have clearly been underperforming in recent steam sales. :P

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

Worth: $1386.22
Games owned: 87
Games not played: 38
Percentage: 44%
Hours spent: 855.6h

Lu Tze · 23-07-2013 06:44PM

My Steam Profile
Worth: $873.49
Games owned: 55
Games not played: 24
Percentage: 44%
Hours spent: 213.9h

Doesnt account for all the crap i have in my inventory seeing as i tend to buy things as gifts during the sales

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