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Name - N/A Cpu - Intel 4790K OC to 4.7ghz GPU - R9 290X Sapphire tri-x OC 4gb DDR5 512bit RAM - 2x8gb cosair vengeance OC 1866mhz OC'd to 2133mhz MOBO - Gigabyte G.1 Sniper Z97 Case is Carbide Series® Air 540 High Airflow ATX Cube

yea, its apparently leaked news, but i thought it would be interesting to see what the pros thought. i also thought it was a bit suspicious for some of the pics posted vs what was said. Anyone have more info on this one? I also saw its 4gb, wonder why they wouldnt go for 8gb since they are planning on getting the R9 290x's with 8gb. maybe due to the change in tech?

Coutersy of wccftech.com Leak] A recent presentation of the AMD and SK Hynix co-developed 3D stacked High Bandwidth Memory standard HBM has made its way to the web. This new leak gives us a very good idea of what to expect from the new technology in terms of performance and market availability. HBM was originally developed in tandem by both SK Hynix and AMD to replace GDDR5 as the new standard for bandwidth hungry processors such as GPUs. GDDR5 performance scaling has slowed down dramatically and grown exponentially more expensive in the last few years. Faster GDDR5 modules and wider memory interfaces were only going to take us so far, a new standard had to replace the aging technology. AMD Pirate Islands, R9 390X and 380X Will Feature HBM. HBM will allegedly make its way to AMD’s next generation of Pirate Islands GPUs starting early next year. With the introduction of the R9 380X powered by the Fiji GPU core and competing against the GTX 980. Also the R9 390X flagship powered by the Bermuda GPU which will be competing against the Titan 2 / GTX 980 Ti. Which is also rumored to be fully water cooled right out of the factory. HBM represents the revolutionary step that has been so badly needed in the evolution of memory standards. The first generation of HBM promises to deliver 4.5X the bandwidth of GDDR5 and a staggering 16 times the bandwidth of DDR3. Note that single channel DDR3 controllers normally have 32bit wide I/O. Leading to 8GB/s bandwidth. But that number is still eclipsed by the 128 GB/s figure for first generation HBM. The second generation promises to double the bandwidth by doubling the speed from 1Gbps to 2Gbps. While also quadrupling the memory capacity for 4-Hi stacks from 1GB to 4GB. AMD and SK Hynix will continue to scale this technology well into the mid 2020s. In terms of performance, capacity and power efficiency. Availability of HBM memory to SK Hynix and its partners begins as of now Q4 2014. HBM will not only make its way to next generation GPUs but also APUs. You can check our detailed coverage of the technology here. The first graphics products to feature HBM are allegedly going to be AMD’s 20nm Pirate Island Rx 300 series GPUs in 2015. In addition to all the new architectural improvements coming with the Pirate Islands graphics architecture. The Rx 300 series is expected to be the first to feature TSMC’s 20nm manufacturing technology a full shrink from the current 28nm technology. And also be the first to be equipped with HBM. TSMC’s 20nm technology allows AMD to drastically reduce power consumption and heat as as well as drive clock speeds up. HBM also adds a healthy doze of power efficiency to the equation by reducing active power of the memory system to nearly half that of GDDR5. Nvidia will be using 3D stacked memory on its GPUs starting with Pascal in 2016, a full year after AMD. Volta was Nvidia’s scheduled GPU for 2015 that was supposed to use the Hybrid Memory Cube or HMC for short which was s 3D stacked memory technology competing with HBM. However after HMC’s development fell behind the roadmap it put a lot of pressure on Nvidia to look for an alternative technology, which they did. What’s painfully ironic however is that Nvidia ended up using the AMD and SK Hynix co-developed HBM with Pascal. Which the company confirmed earlier this year. Nvidia very rarely uses a technology developed by their competition if ever. AMD bet on HBM early on, while Nvidia bet on the competing HMC standard. It seems AMD bet on the right technology and they stand to gain an entire year’s worth of exclusive access to the technology. Nvidia will simply have to make due with GDDR5 for 2015. The full presentation can be found below. HBM Memory Read more: http://wccftech.com/amd-20nm-r9-390x-feautres-20nm-hbm-9x-faster-than-gddr5/#ixzz3Iu6e7fSA

Thanks guys. I have now updated my current pc from your suggestions you can check in my profile details

Thanks mate. I will get another NIC and add it to the array, So far its mjust the one wireless NIC and built in NIC im using and it is not working too well. I have managed to get this far to log into the web page, but I suppose I am a long way off getting it to work directly. with 2 NICs I can just have the router added after the fact for wilress distro which kind of kills the whole purlose lol. Maybe in the end I will use the machine as a hotspot..

Thanks mate, yea I am getting the idea that this is going to be a hell of an undertaking lol. Is untangle any better? I have got both pfsense and untagle

Hi yea power would be more running a full pc as a router but I was looking at it from perfomance point of view. I suppose that the Idea of it all has intrigued me in undertaking this project. I see some posts that speed would e worse which actually defeats the purpose

thanks, but can you give links to how to set a wirelss card as signal sender? I will have to try figure the pfsense part out somehow. maybe int the end after i see how to turn the wireless card to send signal, i will use virtual box in that pc and set multi NICs after.

Hello Beautiful people I need advice. so I want to replace my ISP router with my old pc using Pfsense. I have the setup instructions. The issue I am having is that I need to know if I can use a wireless card internal to my pc to replace the ISP router to send signal as the wifi connection point and have the built in NIC to be the connection that is connected to the DSL modem.. is it possible or dfo i need to get another NIC and then sill use the old ISP router to send wifi signal? which kind of defeats the purposeI suppose.... I have a tp-link wifi card TL-WN851ND

so this is the choice, with your recommendations, what you think?

Thanks guys!! I will defo consider the Z97 with 4790K.. BANG FOR BUCK RIGHT!! you guys are awesome!! I don't really have a set budget, but if I can buy a powerhouse for less, why not right?

Hello all, Need quick tips, I am planning on getting a new mobo and CPU with Cosair gaming ram as follows. I checked for the RAM compatibilty vs the board and it is recommended !! I need to know that my recently purchased Sapphire R9 290X (which is in my old system cause I couldn't wait to use it!!) will bottleneck at the above spec and if I can get anyone that might have a similar setup to give me a heads up before i purchase the stuff.. I eventually plan on setting the above up with liquid cooling but for now I have a rig with a buttload of fans that seems to do well with my current specs that I will be transplanting the new hardware into (rubs hands and laughs like evil scientist! > ) Just for kicks, and probably there is a bottle neck here, my old specs are below: Can u advise on how much of a bottleneck I may experience? I can play most games on ultra except for COD Ghosts. Current specs: 8GB RAM - normal PC ram INtel LGA1155 i3 2100 3.1GHZ Emachines ET1870 MOBO I previously used a AMD RADEON HD6870 1GB DDR5 GPU before I bought the R9 290X