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  1. osbios
    Start windows in Safe mode (Before win8 just press f8 at start before the windows logo shows and then select save mode start option) and use this tool to remove all the driver stuff: DDU http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html Reboot normal and install the driver.
  2. osbios
    That phenomena mainly comes from very cheap PSUs that use there load peak wattage as the advertised number and have like 15 Amp on the 5V rail.
  3. osbios
    The 390x is still a GCN 1.1 chip. The fiji is GCN 1.2 and therefor comes with color/delta compression and saves a lot of bandwidth when handling framebuffers.
  4. osbios
    How about we just take care that the information is out there for other people to know so they can decide for them self? The critic against nvidia in case of the slower 0.5 GiB of the 970 was all about them withholding that information. And in case of limiting there mobile chips max. voltage it was the fact that a new driver was forcing this limit onto the users if they didn't want to stick with older drivers. As a counter example take the double precision performance of the 980, 980TI or Titan X. Its actually quite bad, but thats ok! Because the infomation is avaible to all buyers and they can decide if the need it. Fiji is not even out in the wild and we already got the information that the memory won't run faster then the stock 512 GiB/s. So its all up for the potential buyers to decide if they are OK with that.
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    Note that the 280x actually comes in two different chips. Tahiti XT2 and Tahiti XTL. The later on is a bit better. Also it is GCN 1.0 and for that reason does not come with trueaudio, slower tesselation, limited to OpenCL 1.2, no dynamic freesync, no delta compression(helps with bandwidth) and eats a bit more power. On the other hand it has the best(!) double precision performance of all single-chip cards in the 200 and 300 series and has more bandwidth then the 380 (288 vs 182.4 GB/s). Some of this factors won't affect you and you can just ignore them. E.g. just for gaming the double precision performance is not really a factor. I still wait for the fury nano and then will decide if I go build a machine for VR (with a fury nano or 290) or non VR, then the 280x is my personal favorite.
  6. osbios
    Would you be so kind and explain to me what happens to the energie that is used but not transformed into heat, and why that it is not breaking the second law of thermodynamics?
  7. osbios
    Hmm this prices make no sense if this cards are not really upgraded/refreshed somehow. I can get a 290 tri-X for 290€ and a 290x tri-x for 360€ here in Germany. Maybe they want to milk the "stupid marked" first and then in a PR move drop the prices hard???
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    Think more about engines like Unreal. Where there are a lot of games using it. But for technical reasons (PIC-E bandwidth) I think you still have to hold most of the data on all GPUs, at last for game workloads.
  9. osbios
    That's called sparse memory. (also calling it tilled just ask for misunderstandings -> "tilled rendering") Rage was already using sparse memory via OpenGL. And that was released end of 2011. Looked it up and apparently DirectX 11.2 already supports sparse memory. https://developer.nvidia.com/content/taking-advantage-directx112-tiled-resources Considering the die size, isn't fury also manufactured using a smaller node? Or is it sill on 28nm?
  10. osbios
    Just wait a few weeks and see what the prices will be after AMDs new cards hit the market.
  11. osbios
    On alternate.de the lowest 980TI is listed with 739€.
  12. osbios
    That is not true for a long time now. CPU and GPU use significant amounts of power only on demand. And everything else does not use enough power to have big enough heat fluctuations.
  13. osbios
    That's more superstition then anything else. I would expect it to "wear" way more when running it 24/7 opposite then to turn it of at last 8 hours every night. (Your mother does sleep, doesn't she?) Also in the lower end spectrum (where I consider AIOs to be) there is way lass voltage and heat fluctuations that really can wear down components. And you have a big random factor of production quality. To simplify: Run it when you use it! Make backups of data that you want to keep. The machine can break 10min after you used it for the first time or it can still run fine in 20 years.
  14. osbios
    Actually it looks like he has to enable overscan on the GPU/driver side OR hopefully he can disable it on the screen side. I still don't know why HDMI tv screens need overscan. After all HDMI is a digital signal. But it seems so bad that for some years now the AMD driver uses a 15% overscan setting as a default and you have to disable it if you have a decent display.
  15. osbios
    Most modern Mainboards enable you to chose a boot device at start by pressing a button (f8, f9 or f11, etc...) So that should work just fine. Otherwise just install windows first and then your Linux Distribution of choice. The Linux boot manager (Mostly Grub2 this days) will then boot into whatever you want. Its pretty easy if you don't do exotic things like encrypting everything.
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