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jeydax

jeydax

Death and Taxes
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I ended up buying aLogitech G710+keyboard yesterday for $100 which is $20-40 cheaper than it usually is. Pretty happy so far - definitely not as loud as some of the other mech keyboards I dicked around with. My fiance actually says it seems slightly quieter than my last keyboard, so that's nice... I won't get bitched at about it.

I'd say it was worth it. I haven't programmed any of the macro keys yet but the media keys and everything and the overall build feels very nice.
 
gogusrl

gogusrl

Molten Core Raider
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A single 240gb ssd is 175-200$ here.

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Mist

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joeboo_sl said:
Basically, the card is running 3.5GB of memory on a 224bit bus and .5 GB on a 32 bit bus, not 4GB on a 256bit bus
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That's not quite right either.

Anandtech has a much better article. It's really fucked up, but there aren't any actual usage cases in games where it matters.

Basically, it's a 3.5gb card, not a 4gb card. Anything that tries to use the other .5gb will show the same performance degradation as if it was using system memory instead. It also has effectively 1.75mb of L2 cache, but it still has an effective 256bit bus.

Anyway, here's a good article about DX12, so we can talk about the superiority of the PCMASTERRACE some more.

DirectX 11 vs. DirectX 12 oversimplified with Brad Wardell
 
Joeboo

Joeboo

Molten Core Raider
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Honestly, any game/resolution that is going to NEED 4GB of ram, a 970 isn't going to run that well anyways(4K resolutions), its a fairly moot point, but does seem a little misleading on Nvidias part to just claim "oops, miscommunication." That info was intentionally not disclosed
 
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I'll lol irl if people start sending them back en masse and I can pick up a refurb for $240ish.

I'm glad I waited, I definitely see a price drop in the near future for this line.
 
Joeboo

Joeboo

Molten Core Raider
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I have a 970, and I'm fine with it. However, I would be pissed if I had SLI 970s planning on doing 4K gaming with them, that could definitely be an issue. I won't ever be doing 4K gaming with this card though, that's still a few years and another upgrade away for me.

But yeah, people might see some damn nice refurb/discounted deals in the near future.
 
Crone

Crone

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joeboo_sl said:
This is a great drive, been using for about a month now, since Newegg last had them on sale for $120 at the end of December. It's damn fast and even comes with some super easy to use software for cloning your C: drive over to the new drive
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Going from a non-SSD to SSD even? Remembered being problems, but I assume they've fixed that these days.
 
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Yeah don't clone non SSD installs. I personally never do the clone thing at all for my own PC.
 
Malakriss

Malakriss

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I had no issues with straight cloning to my 840 on a Win8 factory install, but I went up to 8.1 shortly after.
 
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The problems aren't immediately visible, and Windows 8 does a better job catching it than Windows 7. (And in your case, the 8.1 upgrade probably effectively sysprepped the machine anyway and set it up that way) If you try to pull that cloning move on a Windows 7 install, it will have severe negative impact on longterm drive lifespan and performance unless you manually set a whole bunch of registry entries.
 
Joeboo

Joeboo

Molten Core Raider
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I only cloned SSD to SSD, works like a champ and only took about 30 min for the whole process (had about 70GB on my old SSD boot drive)
 
Mist

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joeboo_sl said:
I only cloned SSD to SSD, works like a champ and only took about 30 min for the whole process (had about 70GB on my old SSD boot drive)
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Yeah, cloning any modern TRIM supporting SSD to another should work just fine.
 
Lanx

Lanx

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picked up a r9 270 on ebay for 110$, i guess ppl are dismantling their mining rigs, it's going in my htpc, so i didn't want super power reqs and i can't deal with nvidia in my htpc, they didn't do audio over hdmi well so fuck it i just stick with amd. Wife suddenly decided she wants to play witcher2. (since it's htpc onboard video was doing just fine)
 
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