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Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Girlfriends parts (hue hue hue) arrived today. The Hadron build is a go for tonight!

What did you get? I want to send mine in for an upgrade.

Not the best photo camera man in the world...
http://imgur.com/a/wnifj

I'd also like to point out, in my defence, the cables are too short to do any meaningful tidying. Braided cables are on the cards along with a after market cooler and some nice LEDs (nothing too tacky).

srumball wrote: »

Lovely little build

Wasn't as difficult as some made out. I forgot to route the Mobo 24-pin and 4-pin under the graphics card so that had to come back out, other than that it was a smooth build.

How is the 770?

Up til the weekend I have been holding onto my playstation 3 for the sole purpose of playing fifa. Which I am fairly addicted to. Its just that I have always played it on the PS so never really considered moving to PC.

My controller gave up on me last week - she had a good life, so while waiting for a new one to arrive I bought Fifa 13 for eur10 on origin just to tide me over. Honestly, Im don't think Im going to go back. Game play is excellent, the speed, the graphics - everything. Took a few games to get used to the xbox controller but after that fine.

PS is just a blueray player now.

External blu ray drive is the way to go

lads would 300 watt be sufficent for just the mobo, 2 SSD's and a hard drive?

Daniel S wrote: »

Yep

Perfect thanks

There's also Corsair's VS350. Can be found pretty cheap.

No it won't. GPUs are getting more and more power efficient all the time. For a GPU to use 500W, it would need three 8-pins. On the reference card. You will never see that.

An 1KW unit will be all you'll ever need for two GPUs, barring some massive technology shift.

The R9 series draws a stupid amount of power in general, and the 295 is a dual GPU card. Are you really going to run four-way Crossfire?

Listen, if you want to plan for the worst case scenario ever and never have to upgrade, by all means, buy a 1300W PSU or whatever, but the fact is you'll never use it. You buy that PSU now, and a 295 (probably not), and that's grand, you've got room for another one.

Next year NVIDIA launches the 980 and performs the same as the 295, but uses half the power, and has some other features that I'm sure NVIDIA will come up with between now and then. Are you really going to grab another 295 and deal with horrible scaling instead? Of course not, you'll get a new card. It'll be more power efficient, and perform better.

=> 1300W PSU is not needed.

Serephucus wrote: »

The R9 series draws a stupid amount of power in general, and the 295 is a dual GPU card. Are you really going to run four-way Crossfire?

Listen, if you want to plan for the worst case scenario ever and never have to upgrade, by all means, buy a 1300W PSU or whatever, but the fact is you'll never use it. You buy that PSU now, and a 295 (probably not), and that's grand, you've got room for another one.

Next year NVIDIA launches the 980 and performs the same as the 295, but uses half the power, and has some other features that I'm sure NVIDIA will come up with between now and then. Are you really going to grab another 295 and deal with horrible scaling instead? Of course not, you'll get a new card. It'll be more power efficient, and perform better.

=> 1300W PSU is not needed.

I agree. A 295 system draws about 700w under maximal load.

To be fair the new CF scales really well and outperforms nVidia. At the cost of wattage though. A 295 draws an absurd amount of power but matches or slightly outperforms SLI tis at high resolutions due to better scaling and the 512 bit memory.

A dual 290 system under water is very powerful.

VenomIreland wrote: »

Do UPS deliver on Saturday? My 780 is en route from Tamworth since early in the morning and I'm pretty certain they wouldn't deliver it this late in the day.

Itll be Tuesday now.

So no new GPUs ( proper new Gpus, not just rebrands ) in the near future. Not liking it and will push back 4k becoming mainstream.