Delphi1662

Its a bit early to be april

Their stance on the hardware side of things isnt great either

Its a bit early to be april

If they do a chair I'm sold

An image summing up the current situation at Tek Syndicate 
 

This has clearly become completely derailed at this point. Sorry OP I'm going to have to lock it.
 
I'm busy and I don' t have time to PM everyone involved in this ridiculous network switch discussion, but grow up, you guys.
 
As for my comments on the Tek Syndicate thing, I haven't worked with Logan or anyone from his team since HighLANder, so I don't have any comments.

E3 is actually a solid foundation for launching a high end graphics card given AMD is presenting the PC Gaming Show at E3. With as many big name game developers that are going to be there all Lisa Su has to do is to step on stage at the beginning of the show and go "before we jump into the games, today we're officially launching our 300 series" and pull an "Nvidia" (as you could put it). With yanking the actual card out of a box to showcase on stage. From there all she has to do is throw out a few more words "every game demo you will see today will be running exclusively on the R9 390X" to seal the deal. With how many people that will be watching this event the publicity will be massive and oriented towards the people that you want to be selling these cards to. I don't think it would be a shit launch at all (albeit not as soon as most would hope) it would definitely bring more publicity than Nvidia got with the TITAN X at GDC. As GDC is for the developers meanwhile E3 is for the gaming enthusiast consumer.
 

Oh! Gratz then so your the one winner they could give that stuff to? 
But yea 960 Sli will do fine as long as your aren't trying 4k with them but even then turning down settings and depending on the game 

and Harming others in the pursuit of your goal will turn more away than it will draw them....

We already know a few that would do so on the spot at the slightest hint of dissenting opinions

I dont think this was a issue with the I3 just the g3258
 
And honestly if your keen to stick with amd I think you can upgrade the mobo+cpu for that budget

wow this looks like a crazy deal. not too crazy about that PSU though

wow this looks like a crazy deal. not too crazy about that PSU though

the igpu in the i5 you have should handle everything fine until that gpu comes in 
which 970 are you getting is the key here I think 

The answer to that deserves its own editorial. Maybe I'll write one some day.

But here's what happened in a nutshell. 2002 Jerry Sanders founder of AMD decided to retire after achieving the goal that everyone else believed impossible for decades. Beating Intel at their own game. At the time AMD was making record profit and revenue, thier CPUs were both faster and more efficient than their Intel counterparts and in two short years AMD controlled up to 50% market share in the x86 CPU business.

Hector Ruiz succeed Jerry as President and CEO. Ruiz decided that AMD should now involve itself in the graphics business. AMD began negotiating an acquisition between Nvidia and ATi. It was later decided that ATi should be acquired. AMD vastly overpayed for the acquisition. ATi was finally acquired for 6 Billion dollars in 2006, nearly what AMD is worth today.

Overbidding on ATi quickly began to show its financial effect on AMD, the company began to lose the momentum it once had. 1 billion dollar profits every year turned into 1 billion dollar losses.
Ruiz then decided to sell AMD's manufacturing to save the day, in 2008 AMD's manufacturing was spun off as Globalfoundries. Hector Ruiz was then quickly dispensed with after allegations of insider trading and after destroying what Jerry worked so hard to achieve in over three decades.

Dirk Meyer was hired to replace Ruiz. Meyer was a brilliant engineer and one of the two AMD engineering legends, the other being Jim Keller. Together with Keller, Myer contrived AMD's most successful CPU architectures in recent history, the original Athlon and the Athlon64. Under Meyer as CEO two CPU architectures were designed and introduced. A low power core code named Bobcat which was a resounding success and a high performance core code named Bulldozer which turned out to be a major flop.

Unfortunately the board of directors saw that Bulldozer flop as Meyer's fault. They pressured him to invade the mobile space with haste to redeem what they saw as his mistake. He however disagreed. He believed that AMD should first regain the strong foothold it once held against Intel in the market that AMD knows best, before attempting to break through an even tougher market that AMD had no previous experience in and a market that's controlled by multiple competitors just as strong as Intel. This disagreement spilled over to a disaster and Myer left in January of 2011.

8 months passed with no CEO leading AMD. Finally Rory Read was brought in by the board. He was seen as the hero that will resurrect AMD just as he helped Lenovo climb to the top. While Read was a brilliant manager he unfortunately had no prior experience in semiconductors. He was responsible for cancelling AMD's high performance CPU only designs. But he did bring Mark Papermaster on board as the Chief Technology Officer. Who by some miracle convinced Jim Keller to rejoin AMD and he's been designing AMD's future CPU architecture ever since.

The new CPU core will allegedly debut next year. AMD's long term x86 success relies entirely on this new core, code named Zen. So here's hoping for the best.

About time there is a plan for a halo pc game ...
I'd rather see the actual games themselves get ported but...one thing at a time I suppose
 

ITT, people complaining about 3 year old architecture even though they are doing so on a system that uses 30+ year old architecture (x86)