NuclearPeace

Nobody should feel bad for Samsung. They skimped on the quality control for the battery. The battery is the most dangerous part of the phone since it has a capability to produce second degree burns from being held or starting a fire. Again, this is a company that decided to save a few cents while putting the life of their customers on the line. LG got eviscerated over bootloop issues. Apple had Bendgate. Other companies have gotten much worse press over much smaller issues, but here we are jerking Samsung off over selling a fire hazard.

Anyone who thinks that the headphone jack being removed off the iPhone or the Macbook for the user's benefit or to advance technology is kidding themselves. Its all about money. Apple is a publicly traded company and shareholders demand that profits constantly rise. When the sales of the 6S and the 6 are falling like a cliff because new phones provide little incentive to upgrade, then Apple needs to look for a new revenue source, which is licensing fees through accessories. Every adapter, splitter, or dock with Lightning has to pay Apple licensing fees. Apple didn't make a cent when people bought 3.5mm audio jack equipped headphones, but they do when people buy Lightning headphones or card readers. Apple also gets a cut when people buy Beats or have to go buy new cheap earbuds that sell like wildfire when they break their current ones. Even with Bluetooth, Apple wins. They will sell those $160 Airpods which are most likely going to have cheap build quality that will make it easier for them to break. Even if one earbud gets lost, damaged, or stolen, you're looking at dropping another $160. The same lunacy happened on the Macbook. Anyone with an ounce of common sense would know why just having one USB C port is dumb. If you need to charge and use a mouse at the same time? Well, Apple sells you this $80 splitter for that function. If you damage that USB C port and literally have no way to charge it again? Oops, I guess you should have bought AppleCare.

Its almost as if switching to a new and radically different API will have its initial hiccups... Also, the reason why DOOM runs so fast on AMD cards is because it uses AMD specific shader intristic functions and the fact that AMD's OpenGL drivers are hot garbage so Vulkan provides a dramatic speed boost.

If Zen is as fast as all of the marketing makes it up to be, then the era of cheap AMD CPUs are over. The reason why AMD CPUs are cheap now is not because of design or a strategic plan by AMD to beat Intel CPUs on value. FX CPUs right now are dirt cheap because dirt cheap is the only price that they are somewhat competitive at. The FX series was never meant to be economical; the name itself should really give it away that it was never meant to be a $100 CPU for a budget gaming rig. If Zen is truly competitive with Broadwell then you are more or less going to get the same prices as current Intel CPUs, but with slightly better value. There's no incentive for AMD to sell an 8 core CPU for $100 anymore.

Go for the RX 470 or the RX 480 4GB if you can afford it.

APUs are still far too slow for modern gaming. Just get a 845 and a RX 460.

I understand, I overreacted. It's all good, but the usual suspects are going to use this thread as a platform to keep fanboying for their team. Its a shame really because I would enjoy threads like this if people were more level headed and informed.

Who knows? Why drum up more uninformed and baseless speculation that is already endemic on tech discussion forums?

FLOPS is a measure of the theoretical power of a card. It measures how much floating point math a GPU can do per second if you keep it's shader cores fed 100% of the time. In most real world activities this is just far from achievable due to the enthropic and dynamic nature of programs such as games. Synthetic benchmarks can measure FLOPS because they are designed to be a predictable and easy to process workload.

Here's a few things to keep in mind while modding Skyrim. -Skyrim is a DX9 game, thus VRAM is mirrored into system RAM. Usually this is not an issue for DX9 games but for Skyrim it becomes a pretty big problem due to the scale of the world. This becomes problematic when the game can only use 3.1GB of RAM (unmodified) without crashing. -If you install ENB into the game you can increase the amount of RAM the game can use. If you are on Windows 7 then you can use as much VRAM + RAM is on your system, subtract maybe a few MBs. on Windows 8 or newer its limited to 4GB due to a bug. -Don't expect great performance on Skyrim. The game is old and very CPU dependent and the game isn't very good utilizing neither CPU nor GPU resources. Skyrim also eats up both types of RAM like crazy and once you inevitably start to hit RAM limits you are going to get micro and macrostutter. This is unavoidable if you want to make the game look good through ENB shaders and texture packs. -Skyrim above 60fps has broken physics.

Doesn't cache performance in some way (i forget if its latency or throughput) suffer the larger it gets?

JayzTwoCents already had a $260 EVGA Superclocked in which the 480 couldn't touch in any of his benchmarks. I would say at least in the States NVIDIA has it in the bag, especially with us still waiting for custom 480s.

Why? I get the point of high end motherboards but this is woefully late as the chipset hit the shelves 5 years ago (same amount of time between Conroe C2Ds and Sandy Bridge). Just wait for Zen...

This. I hate it when reviewers or pundits insert their own beliefs in biases in their video apart from a brief aside. I don't need to be told what I should support or what I should believe in. I also hate to hear someone moan constantly about how much they hate company xyz. I'm sure Logan is an alright guy in real life but I can't stand the self-righteousness.

AMD cards are getting much faster, and NVIDIA not by much. NVIDIA cards arent getting slower from DX12. I don't get why people, especially who already bought their cards, care so much about benchmarks. Play the games for yourself and if you don't like the performance then upgrade. The sky only seems like its falling for NVIDIA in DX12 if all you look at are benchmarks.