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Moving some of my older computer crap, and I had an idea-
Find the oldest thing I had with a pcie slot, and stick my 970 in it and try to game. For shits and giggles. 
I have some REALLY old machines, but the oldest I had to fit this bill is a dell inspiron 530 with a 2GHz Pentium dual core. (E2180). 4GB of ddr2 memory, and when used had a BFG 9600gt in it. 
I thought this would be a great combo because I used the 9600 in a phenom x4 system for a minute before I got my new gpu and I remember significantly better performance then, so even the 9600gt is bottlenecked by this cpu
Sorry ahead of time, my shitty moto x camera is all I have atm, and my office area is kinda dark as always (the moto x needs perfect lighting to take a fucking photo). 
 
So, I pulled the gpu out. (Turns out the old PSU in it, while not a good one at all, is good enough for the 970)

(Yes that's 3 hair brushes I use all of them.....shut up)
 
The 970 carefully stuffed into the system

 
So here's where I ran into the first problem....

For some dumb fucking reason, there's a lip on the top of the PCI slots, meaning I couldn't plug in the cords all of the way. I was about to go get a dvi cord, but it turns out hdmi works half plugged in. There's only 1 PCIe slot, so I was kinda stuck with this. Good enough
 
Alright, time to install the drivers.....
the fuck? 

Ok.....
Anyway, solved that problem by manually installing the drivers...
moving on
 
Let's try GTA5 first....
 
 
GTA5 and windows can't fit on the hard drive at the same time...
ok fine
 

moving on
 

you don't say?
just start!
 

Ok, this is a good start.....
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Something isn't working right....been like 5 minutes.....
tried again...
still not working 10 minutes later
so I took a break and went to the gas station for a drink. Came back and sat down to watch it finish loading in front of my eyes
 
Minimum settings, 800x600




Not stable, between 15-40 fps. Jacking it up to 1440p and the nearly max settings I normally run it at, there was ZERO difference in the framerate. 
 
 
 
 
Let's try something easier.... CSGO min settings, min resolution 


I expected this game to run well, but again no difference between 1440p maxed and min settings. Interestingly, running bots DID NOT affect performance. 
 
Well there you have it. Extreme bottlenecking
BUT WAIT! CAN IT RUN CRYSIS??
Let's try !

Kay...

Kay......
 

cmon I wanna try the fucking game !
 
 
Hey look V 

^ This is nothing new
(For some reason I couln'd t select higher than 1600x900 and not my native 2560x1440, and was too lazy to change it manually.)
wait...wha't this? 

Are you...plaything this on a 970 and a Pentium dual core? 
 
So far, running pretty good on max settings 1600x 900


 
About average framerate, max settings, no AA I think

 
Medium settings (50-60 fps)

 
 
YES! IT CAN PLAY CRISIS, AND NOT CSGO!
it was a fun test.

Check mechanicalkeyboards.com. Otherwise get a K70 RGB and set it to green.

I have my finger, toes, and ass crossed that AMD can beat the Titan X and 980 Ti while staying around $700.

Waiting is your best bet right now.

No... the TITAN X is a $1000 GTX 980 Ti. The 980 Ti isn't a good value, it's that the TITAN X is way overpriced. But if the 980 Ti seems like a good value to you then I guess NVIDIA's marketing plan is working. Release something incredibly overpriced, then lower the price and it will look like a good value. That's basically what they've done, just a marketing 101 trick  apparently still effective though...

The 295x2 also consumes 500W+ and not all games properly support CFX or SLI. And considering how close it is to a 295x2 or dual GTX 970s, it's pretty impressive that a new single card can keep up with two of the lower tier. And AMD aren't in the best spot, they haven't been for a while. Their GPU game is strong, but the GPU side only won't keep them alive.

tbh, that looks like a super sexy beast of a card at night.

SOURCE: http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/gpu_displays/asus_teasing_directcu3_cooler/1 
 

 
 
Could this be the new cooler from asus? Or could it be the mars 4???? Or maybe the 390x???? Or maybe the titan x???? 

I actually really like that design, to be honest.

This looks awesome (knew it was gonna be crazy before opening the link).
 
But @asim1999 this. Please put some text into your posts (and pics maybe?) as well as some of your thoughts. Don't just  open topics with 1-2 line of text, they might get locked.

This trick is pretty well known in the steam account trading community. Even there a lot of people are not using it anymore, simply because of it's risk :-)

Let's see .. One of my friends works in Microsoft .
2 work in Google .
My cousin brother used to work in Intel .
A girl I know works in nvidia.
My friend's uncle works in ubisoft ( he made the citizens in ac3 )
Oh... Oh... A guy I know was offered free Ph.D program in complexity theory in M.I.T.... And my mother's friend's brother is the head of the artificial intelligence department in M.I.T .....
Does that count ??..
Soo... A metric butt ton of people ..

Star Wars Battlefront. BF3/4/Hardline.

nb4 mcdonalds

Many people forget that there is an open earcup alternative to the Clouds: QPAD QH-85. It's the same, but with perforated earcups, you can hear your surroundings better and as an bonus better soundstage so you get more natural sound in music as well as better audio positioning in games.
 
They currently go for around €90-100. 

stay away from Steelseries there pretty bad.

Hyper X Cloud / Pro / II or Qpad QH 90

In this review, my very first one I will be talking about my experiences with the two headsets. I very much enjoy both headsets and I've been using my HyperX Cloud 1's for 20ish hours straight. Now let's get right into the review.
Comfort - Let's start off with the Kraken Pro, The Krakens to me feel a bit lighter which feels better when I used them for 4+ hours of gaming. The Kraken Pros Ear pads are very nice right out of the box but they feel like they are squeezing your head and they would give me minor headaches the first 2 weeks until they broke in. After that I had no complaints about them comfort wise. Now the HyperX's are a whole new story. They may be heavier but right out of the box I could tell they felt better. The Ear pads felt broken into already and fit nice on my head. The memory foam headrest was very nice ( The Kraken Pros was also nice ) but the HyperX was just like putting a cloud ( Ey ? Ey ? ) on your head. The removable ear pads were very nice but the cotton ( Think they are cotton ) Just weren't my thing. They didn't feel as good as I thought they would and it blocked no sound, almost like putting mesh around your ears. All in all comfort wise.
Kraken 7/10
HyperX 9/10
Sound Quality - The kraken pro right out of the box is nice but they didn't meet my expectations, I had to mess around with Razer Surround so when listening to bass songs I could actually hear the song instead of a nice head massage. The Kraken Pro is very bass heavy for headphones in my opinion and are very nice but I did have to mess around in Surround to get them to meet my style Gaming wise the surround was very nice and that is what gets it the score it gets, games like DayZ it was nice to know where everything was coming from and that feel that you were in-game really did push the Kraken. The HyperX's out of the box exceeded what I thought for $80 headset. A bass boosted song full blast I could hear the song clear enough with that nice bass feel. It could use a little bit of tuning but was insanely nice for out of the box.Now the HyperX Cloud 1's which do NOT have surround are still very nice, and you can hear things like footsteps a bit clearer with the HyperX Clouds. ( Cloud 2's have Surround) All in all for Sound Quality
Kraken 7.5/10
HyperX 8/10
Mic Quality- I can't say to much but from messing around with each for about 3ish hours the Mic on both are fine for your everyday Skype calls or DayZ usage. It is in no way a YouTube quality mic. The ?Clouds have a very nice mic for a headset, It's removes le and comes with a coverup just incase you don't want it and have for say a Snowball. The quality out of the box the HyperX has won it. The kraken seems a little more quite and doesn't seem to pick my voice up as well, I love that it's retractable. All in all for Sound Quality
Kraken 6/10
HyperX 8/10
Looks and Style and Durability - Both mics come in different varieties. The kraken pro comes in ( First is Primary Second is Secondary) Kraken White/Black Black/Green Green/Black, I had the white/black ones. The HyperX Black/Red and I believe it was Black/White (or silver).The Kraken Pros are very nice, everything is covered up one way or another, very bulky feel, but the big feel sometimes made my ears start to sweat and around the rims of the ear pads. The HyperXs are smaller but earlier like I said weigh more. They have more of an open feel and even after 6 hours they just started to feel like they were on my head. But there are these "wire" looking things that when you have on correctly go from the headrest to the earpads on the left and right side. Durability wise both are very durable but the Kraken Pro being made of plastic and HyperX is made of a more metal ish material. The Krakens ear pads fold in so if you drop them less of a chance of breaking. The HyperX been bended ( without to much force) still held just fine and same with the Kraken. The wire on the Kraken pro seems to be made of some cheap rubber material that after a week easily brokeup and had to be black taped. Reason I got the .hyperx is because the Razers cheap wiring with the littlest of force dang near ripped it in half and the right side quit putting sound out. The HyperXs wiring seem to be made of a much more fabric material, much more durable and even after folding it in half nothing seemed to get them to wanna give. All in all
Kraken 7/10
HyperX 8.5/10
Last but not Least Packaging- The Kraken pro at first sight seems to be in a better state. With a plastic I don't know like window thing to show them off. But when opened there was no foam, nothing, it came with a cheap audio splitter cable which may I add didn't even work and I'm not the only one with that problem. With a nice drop the headphones would of easily broke from the cheap box and packaging Razer decided to use with the same things you get in every Razer product some silly stickers ect... Now Kingston has overdone themselves with packaging. The HyperX's packaging is unbelievable. Nothing like I've seen before. You open it up and oh look another box not one of these. This is a very durable box that the cover has a nice paragraph welcoming you to the world of gaming with this headset. The headset sat in atleast 2 inches of foam on every angle except the top which still had a sheet of foam. I could of dropped these off my roof and they still would work. The ?hyperX's came with plenty of wires, a audio combining thing which turned the audio and microphone cable into one to plug into your mobile device. A audio splitter cable, a thing to turn your mic off and on, turn the volume up and down and a button that from all I can tell Kindda Is like a click, which plays and pauses videos on YouTube on your mobile device. Plus a good 10 foot extension cord is crazy. They did not have to do this but they did. A little box at the bottom when pulled out contains all this and the 2 extra cloth ear muffs. Plus a mesh bag to put your headphones in, plus a front slot which can cary every cable, the extra ear pads, and the mic. Oh the mic was also in a very nice spot which was safely secured. I absolutely loved the Unboxing experience of this product and it was unbelievable.
For quality packaging..
Kraken 4/10
HyperX 10/10
Now all in all, Both are very nice headsets and the HyperX Clouds obviously come out on top. Which should you get? The HyperX Cloud's and Kraken Pros both at $80 the HyperX I would of paid $100 for. I got the ?hyperX on sale for $71 on Amazon. I would honestly go with the Cloud 1's, So much quality for the price. I love them so much for the time I've had them and they have out done the Kraken Pros by so much.
Kraken 7.5/10
HyperX 9/10
Have Fun

When you hear the sound of a 12 year old voice saying "were in the military", and all you think is "Bitch I bet you still in boy scouts".

Why do these lizard squad kids think they are untouchable I bet a lot of them could easily be doxed and why the hell is the law not doing anything about this and that other kid in the background when he says "i am in the military" is he f*ck did he mean the cadets he sounds like he is 15 :lol:  and even if he was in the military there is no need to even mention it I think he is just trying to make his epenis look bigger 

* Sees LizardSquad * Oh god ... These people are too toxic ...

That is the most hideous chair I have ever seen. It looks like it was designed by a 12 year old.

how to make a tacky chair more tacky

at this point!?
 
Ladies and Gentlemen, place your bets!  :lol:
 
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