Computer thread!!!

[lambo]

Why would your GTX 770 be affected by this? The whole idea is that Nvidia has its dirty hands dipped in the development process so developers will optimize games for their cards and not AMD's.

Nvidia needs to get its act together. Doubtful that will happen, though. This isn't dissuading me from an Nvidia card at all as I don't see the merits of an AMD card and AMD's processors have been lagging for a little bit now. Hopefully their Xen line ups the ante.

[kickinindian]

My setup, 1tb. 125SSD, 2x gtx760 4gb, 16gb ram, i5, 750watt

Used to be crazy about gaming and built it with a friend, spent ~$1700 on everything probably a year back. Thats including a mic, mouse, mousepad, monitor, keyboard, cd drive etc. It's a beast!! I can't find a game it won't run on max settings

is that Cpu cooler on the wrong way? the fan should be pointing towards the back right?

[Wschnitz]

Why would your GTX 770 be affected by this? The whole idea is that Nvidia has its dirty hands dipped in the development process so developers will optimize games for their cards and not AMD's.

Nvidia needs to get its act together. Doubtful that will happen, though. This isn't dissuading me from an Nvidia card at all as I don't see the merits of an AMD card and AMD's processors have been lagging for a little bit now. Hopefully their Xen line ups the ante.

Read it again, they are biasing Nvidia Gameworks for their newer maxwell cores, giving poor performance to kepler core owners and horrendous performance to AMD card owners.

Its 90s intel all over again IMO.

[Wschnitz]

is that Cpu cooler on the wrong way? the fan should be pointing towards the back right?

You can mount it either way, heat rises so some people face it vertical.

Mines sideways though:



Noctua all the things!

Ignore ghetto pencil case GPU support.

[e30onBBSs]

^ nice comp! You got gta?

I think my fan is the right way, i have left it on overnight for like 5 days to render something and it didn't even blink!

[E30 Wagen]

^ nice comp! You got gta?

I think my fan is the right way, i have left it on overnight for like 5 days to render something and it didn't even blink!

The way it's mounted it looks like the CPU fan is blowing the hot "exhaust" from the CPU onto the back of the video card. I would flip it 180 so it blows up and out of the case. But if the fan is actually blowing up through the cooling fins then I would leave it.

[Wschnitz]

Pushing air through the fins is more efficient from what I've found.

And yeah I have GTA

[lambo]

Read it again, they are biasing Nvidia Gameworks for their newer maxwell cores, giving poor performance to kepler core owners and horrendous performance to AMD card owners.

Its 90s intel all over again IMO.

http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/36ycco/nvidia_working_on_updade_for_underperforming/

[nando]

wait, so newer, cheaper video cards outperform older, more expensive cards..

uhh. So, how long have you been building computers? :p

The posts about the VooDoo cards bring back some memories. I used to have a dual CPU setup with a VooDoo5 & Voodoo3 on an overclocked AGP bus (the Nvidia cards at the time didn't like having a 2x speed AGP bus, but the VooDoo didn't care). haha. Actually, it held it's own for way longer than anyone gave 3DFX credit for. I used 3rd party drivers for a long time after they went defunct, I think eventually my motherboard just died (probably from all the hardware mods I had to do to overclock it - nothing in the bios, so I swapped crystals) and I had to move on.

[Wschnitz]

The difference is some of these cards are less then a year old, and that they perform fine in almost any other game that isn't nvidia game works run.

Aka game works is setup to push people to buy new cards.

[GAbOS]

You can find examples in both camps where they reuse older GPU's on newer cards. The r7 260x is a rebadged 7790. :)

Here's my current wish list build for this year from Newegg.

Cooler Master HAF 912 (finally time to retire the Lian Li PC-70 to File Server status. Best case ever owned!)
ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z AM3+ AMD 990FX
EVGA SuperNOVA 850W PSU
AMD FX-9370 Vishera 4.4GHz Socket AM3+ 220W 8-Core Desktop Processor - Black Edition FD9370FHHKWOX with Liquid Cooling Kit
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 2133
Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s (x4 for RAID)
Extra case fans

I already have an R9 290 GPU

[HennaE30]

My setup, 1tb. 125SSD, 2x gtx760 4gb, 16gb ram, i5, 750watt

Used to be crazy about gaming and built it with a friend, spent ~$1700 on everything probably a year back. Thats including a mic, mouse, mousepad, monitor, keyboard, cd drive etc. It's a beast!! I can't find a game it won't run on max settings

Tried The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt yet? I've heard it's pretty crazy on max settings. Was reading about it the other day.

[e30onBBSs]

Tried The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt yet? I've heard it's pretty crazy on max settings. Was reading about it the other day.

No I haven't. Is it worth the $?

[HennaE30]

No I haven't. Is it worth the $?

I played it a little on my sisters Bfs computer yesterday and it looks fun as shit, i just bought it and am in the process of installing it right now. Whats your steam name?

[e30onBBSs]

I played it a little on my sisters Bfs computer yesterday and it looks fun as shit, i just bought it and am in the process of installing it right now. Whats your steam name?

my steam name is e30onbbss as well, do you have GTA V?