Off Topic Thread V2.0

I'm in the market for one as my trusty Samsung series 9 is getting a bit shook/ battered, 2.5 years as work daily driver, record for me ;

Have it down to an I5 shylakeMS surfacebook, or an Asus Zenbook UX301LA I7 Haswell...hopefully they update soon though I won't be doing much more extreme than office, basic CAD & browser based stuff so an i7-4558U should do fine.

Anything else I should be looking at for €1500-ish?

EoinHef wrote: »

Regardless of vsync on or off games run noticably smoother @96Hz so i wouldnt say its a case of you dont see any benefit while using v sync with high refresh rates

The image will be smoother at higher Hz and FPS of course, with or without v-sync.

My point was that the real benefit of high Hz displays isn't for a game to look smoother but to feel smoother and be more responsive. It feels smoother and is more responsive because there's less delay between when something happens to when it's displayed on the screen thanks to the screen refreshing more often. V-sync ON would buffer the frames until the monitor is ready to accept them introducing a lot of input lag. It ruins the point of high Hz and FPS. Turn V-sync ON (even on a game that never tears) and right away I can feel the lag. Anything fast with accurate controls and a solid framerate. Drives me mad... hence why I turn it off for 99% of games.

You play Warframe. Not the best example since it drops FPS all the time when with other players but here's a test you can do. Turn the in-game FPS counter on; it shows the frame timings. Go SOLO into a random mission and compare the frame timings from v-sync on/off. Lower = better. Also move your mouse around and aim at things normally. If you have your sensitivities done well to your preference you should notice v-sync off being more responsive.

Just make sure you let the game be capable of changing v-sync since it sounds like you might have override on all your games from your GPU CP. Would be too much of a bother to have to reboot the game to keep changing it from the GPU CP and wouldn't allow you to quickly compare the differences.

I know that g/free-sync are supposed to eliminate the lag because the GPU doesn't wait for the display to be ready but instead the other way around. I have not experienced that myself but I know that it doesn't increase responsiveness or FPS and is still about removing tearing which I don't get in any of the games I play where I hit 120+ so I'll probably never care.

Gumbi wrote: »

Sweet... You need to join the Fury master race! Would pair very well with that monitor, those cards perform great at 1440p! And all of them have fantastic air cooling.

Yeah I think it's overpriced though. I've never spent more than €400 on a g-card but that would have bought you the top or second from top end card not too long ago. I hope €550-800 is not the new price range for high end cards.

It still doesn't seem enough of an upgrade over the 7970 for the money. Only 4gb of memory, HBM or not, and it's still a power hungry card with virtually no overclocking headroom.

If I was going to upgrade I'd get a good 970 and overclock the crap out of it but I think I'll wait for the new 14nm cards next year.

BloodBath wrote: »

Yeah I think it's overpriced though. I've never spent more than €400 on a g-card but that would have bought you the top or second from top end card not too long ago. I hope €550-800 is not the new price range for high end cards.

It still doesn't seem enough of an upgrade over the 7970 for the money. Only 4gb of memory, HBM or not, and it's still a power hungry card with virtually no overclocking headroom.

If I was going to upgrade I'd get a good 970 and overclock the crap out of it but I think I'll wait for the new 14nm cards next year.

I think for 1440p or above, compared to nVidia offerings the price is OK, but in general, I agree it's expensive.

No overclocking headroom is pretty much on the button too (1100mhz is what you're looking at at best). Not too bad on power consumption to be honest, I think it uses less power than a 290 by a little bit.

I sold my 290 Vapor X for 250 euro, and grabbed a 290X Vapor X 8GB for 300 on Adverts Adverts can be great for little deals like that. The cooling is phenomenal too. Far superior to any other 290x/390x offering (except maybe the 290X Lightning).

Started my ITX build yesterday with an Asus Maximus VIII, i5 6600k and thermaltake core v1. The thing is feckin tiny! Hoping my temps will be stable with it since i'm not using any liquid cooling but i'm just blown away by just how small the whole thing is! Waiting on a GTX 980 to be delivered, hoping it fits in the case now...

Well lads, grabbed an Asus H61M-G mobo for a mITX build I'm doing. Have a G1610 qhich I'm hoping will work with it. Wondering if this board offers voltage control? I presume it does. I know the G1610 won't be overclockable, but the voltage control helps with efficiency.

I was also considering grabbing a second hand 2500k. Does anyone know if this H61 board has access to multiplier overclocking? Thanks!

Digital Solitude wrote: »

I take it my cooler master hyper 212 evo isn't supposed to be able to rotate in place? :eek:

Hmmm........ Nope

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Kicked the fecking thing moving into my seat

Keep the doors on your PCs kids

My ex kicked my 290 while in was in the PC, and the PC running once! It was accidental, but Christ I could have trottled her! No issues thankfully.

Except that she became ur ex!

deejer wrote: »

Except that she became ur ex!

That was an unrelated incident :pac:

And of the five SATA cables I brought to Galway, only 2 work, I need 4 drives at once.

This is not a good day.

Lads anyone recommend a laptop for around 500 euro? Lower the better tbh.

Just going to be used for general internet usage

Gumbi wrote: »

I think for 1440p or above, compared to nVidia offerings the price is OK, but in general, I agree it's expensive.

No overclocking headroom is pretty much on the button too (1100mhz is what you're looking at at best). Not too bad on power consumption to be honest, I think it uses less power than a 290 by a little bit.

I sold my 290 Vapor X for 250 euro, and grabbed a 290X Vapor X 8GB for 300 on Adverts Adverts can be great for little deals like that. The cooling is phenomenal too. Far superior to any other 290x/390x offering (except maybe the 290X Lightning).

Yeah I've just made an offer for a second hand Gigabyte G1 gaming 970 for €300 on adverts.

Hopefully I'll get €150 or so for the 7970.

twinsen wrote: »

It's not the psu though. Had the same issue, I was going crazy,changed cpu,ram,psu. Nothing helped. It turned out it was gpu setting in the bios that was causing this. I'll go through my stuff tomorrow and find out which one it is.
EDIT:

Found it : Power on by PCIE (ENABLE) . It should fix cold boot issue

Cool ill try that,although using a new power supply the issue disappeared. Reinstalled the old one and the issue re appeared. So not sure how that setting could be the problem.

Gumbi wrote: »

Quick question guys. I want to swap out my laptop HDD with an old SSD of mine (M4). Just wondering if it's as simple as installing Windows on the SSD and using the same key again?

It should be (it was when I did it).