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ShadowHearth wrote: »

I know, we need a **** truck of salt, but those numbers look extremely disappointing. And I have a feeling, that it wont be too far away from real numbers. Looks like they did same **** again as with other 2 generations.
Few months later there will be 980ti too...

It all boils down to pricing now. If its prices with usual "more performance, but more expensive" then we are back in squire one and its another disappointing generation.

20% speed increase for 980 over 780.looks good to me

Random bit of info as TDPs are floating around. Got a cheapy in-line power monitor thingy today, and did a quick test of my rig running Prime and Furmark, then some Star Citizen.

Max power I could pull was 402W, from the wall. That's about 340W through the PSU.

3570K @ 4.5/1.3, 780 @ +100 core.

Headshot wrote: »

Im a bit shocked.

I got a new motherboad but no motherboard screws

wtf

They come with cases not mobos

game4it70 wrote: »

Really? i've never gotten screws with any mobos.

I've loads of spares you can have.

Thanks for the offer but I got some to spare. Granted a mixture of types but they will do.

I have different worries. USB3 pins are slightly bent. Its like OC sent me a refurnished mobo.

Has anyone else had HWVS misprint the address on the label before? IIRC this happened before. Checking the site the "Address Line 2" part is missing, Id never have entered my address the way its in there now so Im wondering if they updated and mis-parsed stuff?

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Actually if I recall correctly they did that to my address too and I had to go pick it up from DHL. The address was just frozenfrozen, Co. Clare, Ireland. With an post it would have still got to me .

Exactly. Mine is Mr. ED E - [House Name] 00 - DUB14 Dublin

Ive called UPS and their warehouse is going to update the package soon so at least I wont have to collect it.

Ive squeezed as much as I can into the available field for future orders but its a bit dud for such a high volume ordering system.

MRTULES wrote: »

Anyone know if a 260x and a g1620 CPU will play bf4 on a 1680x1050 monitor alright?
Which will bottle neck first?

Depends on the game. That's nice cheap setup for a mid/low res monitor though. Generally the GPU will bottle neck first.

Anybody with the guts of 2 grand burning a hole in their pocket!?

Asus ROG Ares III AMD Radeon Dual Core R9 290X



Wonder if there will be much performance difference with the R9 295 X2, or will the premium just be for the svelte looks :pac:

The R9 295 X2 was £700 a couple of days ago on overclockers

ShadowHearth wrote: »

In my option high end phones are just pretty much useless now. Who the **** needs 4k in their mobile phone?! I got 1080p right now and I dont know why!
I got my phone ( Experia Z ) now for almost 18 months. My contract runs in early october. I dont see a single phone that I would take over me Z and feel like its improvement. I think ill just keep it and save up my upgrade as my bill is only 30eu anyway or go on a piss cheap plan.

All the phone manufacturers just running out of ideas. Why instead of making huge stupid screens, they cant just improve battery instead!

The Three 20 euro deal is great, unlimited texts and data, unlimited calls to other three people and unlimited calls to all mobiles are the weekend (unlimited being 3k texts 3k minutes and 3tB of data). Although it says no tethering and no 4G included, I can tether 4G to my laptop and have done for up to 30gb in one month and nobody noticed/cared/throttled anything!

..I don't work for three I promise

Serephucus wrote: »

^Indeed.

Give me a decent-ish ~5.0" phone with a high-quality 720p display, nice thin bezels, and a massive-ass battery, and I'd be happy.

But no, instead we get treated to 2560 ultra-thin crap. Oh, and let's not forget the 4K video capture either. Everyone recording a ten second clip of their cat to put on Youtube must be thrilled!

The obsession with dpi is absurd, I can't even see pixels on my 27" 1440p monitor, let alone individual pixels on a 5" 1080 screen.

the iphone is going in the right direction with framerate, stabilisation, and bitrate rather than just resolution like on the phones shooting 4k that only look good if you're viewing them at 4k... on a 5" screen.

I've had to buy an external battery for my phone, big chunky 15k mha one, unnoticeable in a big jacket but obviously unreasonable without that or a bag.

If lifeproof made a case that also had an equivalent of 200% battery, they could sell thousands of the things. All the phones are lacking battery life at the moment, and carrying any of the phones bareback without a case is taking your life into your hands with how fragile screens are.


iWatch could serve to save a good bit of battery if you're using the little screen on your wrist to pass the time rather than swiping left and right on the homescreen trying to make yourself look busy in public, though



Crazy to see how much people are willing to pay for phones again though, it's gone full circle from the release of mobile phones, the mid 2000s where a tiny cheap phone was completely acceptable and now the low end phones are still a couple of hundred to several hundred!

Headshot wrote: »

Why not?

Buyer buys a badass card, buyer can be a boss with his briefcase

briefcase is for holding all the unmarked 50 euro notes it costs to buy one of the cards

Don't forget the 900D to put it all in!

game4it70 wrote: »

And a m-itx mobo

Worth it for the easy cable management :pac:

I love that pic. They also stuck a Prodigy in there if I remember correctly. :P

212 evo killer. €32 from hardwareversand with geizhals discount.

http://www.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsps?adp=0&aid=158618&agid=669&apop=0

Review.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Deepcool/Lucifer/1.html

GTA 5 PC out January 27th, "next gen" is November 18th IIRC.

18th November 2014 for next gen, Jan bloody 2015 for PC.

My DeathAdder's thumb buttons are starting to not respond, anyone know what Razer's warranty is like? Alternatively, what mouse should I be looking at replacing it with? I was thinking possibly the Steelseries Rival, as it has a flawless sensor and looks comfortable. Another option is a Zowie FK/AM, my younger brother has one and it's very nice, also has a flawless sensor.

Gbear wrote: »

What's the general idea with selling on cards?

I've an XFX 7950 which I bought in the states. I got it October 2012.

I like to keep an ear to the ground with hardware and if there's a way I can upgrade without resorting to selling body parts it'd be sweet.

Stick it up on Adverts and you'll get a few quid for it. I've had good success selling and buying on Adverts. You'll probably get 160-170 euro for that card.

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

You won't get that for a 7950. Going by going rate on adverts and from experience, you'll get about 120 for a 7950 at best. Which is fair enough seeing as you can get a 270X for about 170 new..

I saw some goon looking for €250 for one.:P

Would it even be worth upgrading to the 280x?

I heard the next series of Nvidia cards is coming out fairly soon (next couple of months).

What sort of effect will that have on prices? Course it could mean my card drops in value as well.