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Mod Note: In all of my benevolence (and the fact I'm tired of cleaning gag posts out of the BA thread) I have created a new (did we ever have one??) Off Topic thread for all your randomness and IT-related humour! The rules are: there are no rules. Although posting on-topic stuff here or stuff that belongs in Hardware Discussion etc. better may be moved randomly with extreme prejudice!! It will also make you look silly

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Gumbi

Seaaan wrote: »

Enabled V sync and so far, it's been good. Also changed settings to allow fan speed to go up higher. Staying at a nice 70 core and 75 vrm. Hasn't gone over 70% load

Nice

Gumbi

frozenfrozen wrote: »

probably because ddr4 is around the corner. I was thinking the same. The ram I have has gone up in price since I bought it too. Good thing I bought 32 gigs when I did, rather than buying 16 with the plan to expand

Supply and demand. The market was flooded a while back, now prices are back up and there is less supply and more demand.

ShadowHearth

SSDs and Hdds prices wen down nicely though. I will wait a bit more and then replace my 60gb boot one with 512gb when they drop a bit more.

WhiskeyGoblin

If I was purchasing more RAM would buying 2 x 8gb be fine, considering I have 2 x 4gb? Or would that cause any problems?

Genghiz Cohen

marko93 wrote: »

If I was purchasing more RAM would buying 2 x 8gb be fine, considering I have 2 x 4gb? Or would that cause any problems?

It will probably work fine. You have to have 64-bit Windows for it to be able to use more than 4GB though.

Son Of A Vidic

marko93 wrote: »

If I was purchasing more RAM would buying 2 x 8gb be fine, considering I have 2 x 4gb? Or would that cause any problems?

Just put your new 2x8GB RAM sticks into slots 1-3 and leave out the smaller RAM. 16GB of RAM would be serious overkill for most tasks on any PC, never mind having 24GB. Unless you heading towards 32GB workstation territory with serious video editing & rendering ect.

TerrorFirmer

Just thought I'd ask here as well, I have a 4670K that I'd be willing to swap for a non-k or lower clocked i5 with cash, as my new mitx build is using a h81 mobo. In case anyone fancies an upgrade. :P

Luck100

New NVidia drivers (337.50) out today. Haven't tried it yet myself but looks like good improvements for most DX11 games and big gains for BF4 multiplayer.

1080p 780Ti 3930K
THIEF: 15.6% improvement
Sleeping dogs: 7.7% improvement
ACIV: Black flag: 9.8% improvement
Bioshock infinite: 5.9% improvement
BF4 siege of shanghai (med details) : 27% improvement
BF4 siege of shanghai (ultra details) : 27.2% improvement
BF3 Strike of Karkand: 39.5% improvement
Hitman absolution: 40% improvement
Star swarm (5 run average) : 46.9% improvement
http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=10170731&postcount=24

Some charts from NVidia here

ShadowHearth

Luck100 wrote: »

New NVidia drivers (337.50) out today. Haven't tried it yet myself but looks like good improvements for most DX11 games and big gains for BF4 multiplayer.

1080p 780Ti 3930K
THIEF: 15.6% improvement
Sleeping dogs: 7.7% improvement
ACIV: Black flag: 9.8% improvement
Bioshock infinite: 5.9% improvement
BF4 siege of shanghai (med details) : 27% improvement
BF4 siege of shanghai (ultra details) : 27.2% improvement
BF3 Strike of Karkand: 39.5% improvement
Hitman absolution: 40% improvement
Star swarm (5 run average) : 46.9% improvement
http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=10170731&postcount=24

Some charts from NVidia here

Is it only for 7 series or 6 series get some love too?

Luck100

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Is it only for 7 series or 6 series get some love too?

Those results are for 7 series but definitely nice improvements for 6 series too.

Here's a post on another forum:
GTX 670 SLI

Star Swarm average FPS
335.23: 44.42
337.50: 54.18

ZeroThreat

Luck100 wrote: »

New NVidia drivers (337.50) out today. Haven't tried it yet myself but looks like good improvements for most DX11 games and big gains for BF4 multiplayer.

1080p 780Ti 3930K
THIEF: 15.6% improvement
Sleeping dogs: 7.7% improvement
ACIV: Black flag: 9.8% improvement
Bioshock infinite: 5.9% improvement
BF4 siege of shanghai (med details) : 27% improvement
BF4 siege of shanghai (ultra details) : 27.2% improvement
BF3 Strike of Karkand: 39.5% improvement
Hitman absolution: 40% improvement
Star swarm (5 run average) : 46.9% improvement
http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=10170731&postcount=24

Some charts from NVidia here

hmm 780ti would probably be overkill for 1080 on a single monitor though

glynf

Luck100 wrote: »

New NVidia drivers (337.50) out today. Haven't tried it yet myself but looks like good improvements for most DX11 games and big gains for BF4 multiplayer....

Hope this sorts the Bioshock BAS2 crashes, might just about finish it without putting my head thru the keyboard.

WhiskeyGoblin

Thanks for the help lads, I may just go for another 8gb. 16gb should be loads.

ShadowHearth

Where do you get those drivers? Official sites don't have them. Nvidia experience does not do update too.

Sarz91

Any opinions on the Kraken G10? Have an old h55 lying around back home and just got a reference 290.

NTMK

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Where do you get those drivers? Official sites don't have them. Nvidia experience does not do update too.

its a beta driver

Revoker88

If they take anywhere near as long as AMD have to get an official driver out i wouldnt hold my breath,Mantle is STILL only in beta drivers.

challengemaster

Luck100 wrote: »

New NVidia drivers (337.50) out today. Haven't tried it yet myself but looks like good improvements for most DX11 games and big gains for BF4 multiplayer.

1080p 780Ti 3930K
THIEF: 15.6% improvement
Sleeping dogs: 7.7% improvement
ACIV: Black flag: 9.8% improvement
Bioshock infinite: 5.9% improvement
BF4 siege of shanghai (med details) : 27% improvement
BF4 siege of shanghai (ultra details) : 27.2% improvement
BF3 Strike of Karkand: 39.5% improvement
Hitman absolution: 40% improvement
Star swarm (5 run average) : 46.9% improvement
http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=10170731&postcount=24

Some charts from NVidia here

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/136821-nvidias-new-driver-tested-benchmarked-comes-up-short-on-expectations/

NTMK

EoinHef wrote: »

If they take anywhere near as long as AMD have to get an official driver out i wouldnt hold my breath,Mantle is STILL only in beta drivers.

It takes about a month for nvidia to make them official

AMD appear to have ****ed themselves over with mantle already. I dont know why they released it so early when its a long way off being complete

Luck100

Tried the new NVidia drivers with BF4 multiplayer last night. I didn't run any benches but the improvement was big enough to be obvious. Average and min FPS are both improved, by enough that I can turn on 2 x MSAA and still have better FPS than I did before the update. GPU temps went up a little, probably due to higher utilization. I'm really impressed with the improved smoothness and lack of stutter.

Running 1440p with SLI GTX 670's, all settings ultra + 2xMSAA.

Gumbi

First 295x2 review. It's Forbes so take it with a pinch of salt but the numbers are certainly impressive. Out performing dual 780tis (much better scaling I imagine as a single 780ti outdoes a 290x) but a decent amount at 1500 dollars. Max temps of 60 degrees too apparently. Ihope the VRMs are judr as cool.

With the water cooling and those temps some decent overclocking might be possible too.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2014/04/08/radeon-r9-295x2-review-amd-delivers-on-a-promise-with-exciting-liquid-cooled-gpu/

ShadowHearth

1500$ :rolleyes:

Gumbi

ShadowHearth wrote: »

1500$ :rolleyes:

Yeah pretty crazy but given the numbers it's actually worth it (if you consider a 780ti worth it anyways).

ShadowHearth

Gumbi wrote: »

Yeah pretty crazy but given the numbers it's actually worth it (if you consider a 780ti worth it anyways).

Its lunacy to pay such money for a GPU, I would not care even if it comes with 1 year free hooker subscription. Throw in 2 and I think about it. :pac:
I really really hope that next gpus not just going to go with usual ladder of price and performance hand to hand. In a few years time, we will be paying 3k eu just for flagship GPU.

Gumbi

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Its lunacy to pay such money for a GPU, I would not care even if it comes with 1 year free hooker subscription. Throw in 2 and I think about it. :pac:
I really really hope that next gpus not just going to go with usual ladder of price and performance hand to hand. In a few years time, we will be paying 3k eu just for flagship GPU.

On this point I agree. They have good margins on these. The real value is 400 dollar 290 chips (some of which even unlocked to 550 dollar 290x chips). 290xs are only 5% faster clock for clock.

And now we're talking two chips for 1500 dollars... so ya I agree flagship models are getting crazy expensive.

NTMK

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Its lunacy to pay such money for a GPU, I would not care even if it comes with 1 year free hooker subscription. Throw in 2 and I think about it. :pac:
I really really hope that next gpus not just going to go with usual ladder of price and performance hand to hand. In a few years time, we will be paying 3k eu just for flagship GPU.

its taking advantage of people who want huge performance from an itx or m-atx pc. i nearly bought a titan because of that

I think its mad im paying £800 on 2 780's since i spent €450 on 6970's almost 3 years ago both flagship models

Vandango

Quick question, if I'm installing Windows 7 onto a new SSD. Do I need to format the SSD or can I just go and install away? The SSD will be the primary drive in a new PC.

Serephucus

Straight off install. Just remember to remove any other drives first to prevent Windows dumping boot information on the wrong drive.

Vandango

Serephucus wrote: »

Straight off install. Just remember to remove any other drives first to prevent Windows dumping boot information on the wrong drive.

Much appreciated, will do that.

Genghiz Cohen

Anyone in Dublin have an SLI Bridge they don't need?