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Really looking forward to this. Been a long time in the making and it's incredible what they have done with it.

This would be a good option http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-ga970aud3p

Did that, explained the problem to them and showed them the other adapter that works properly. They just suggested an exchange so I gave them a chance. I either got another defective adapter or the adapter is defective by design. Thanks for trying to help though, will have to go back again after I figure out which it is.

The adapter & my GPU has the necessary pins for analog or else I wouldn't be getting any display at all, cable is fine as well as it works flawlessly with the other adapter.

Bought this DVI adapter from Canada Computers, it was causing the display to show up as a Non Plug and Play monitor in Windows and was not showing the correct resolution options (the adapter seemingly isn't passing off EDID information to the GPU like it should). In addition it was causing the display to flash white bars across the screen during boot. I did an exchange and still have the exact same problems. There is an option to override EDID settings in Catalyst Control Centre but I haven't had great success with it, when I tried setting it to native res (1600*900) on my brother's display it stretched the picture off screen and left a black bar at the top. Overriding EDID worked fine on my 1920*1080 monitor but still had the white flashes during boot. I have another DVI to VGA adapter which is working perfectly fine (Showing monitor name under Windows as well as proper resolution) this is what the DVI pinout looks like in comparison to the adapter from Canada Computers. Can anyone explain the cause of this? I assume the extra pins are confusing the graphics card/causing a conflict.

Couldn't find any posts about it on the most recent 5 pages, hence why I posted it.

Great value, quality, and reliability for budget builds. OEM is Superflower, 5 Year Warranty. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182068

Sorry in advance for the long read. Back in December of 2014 I bought 2 Asus Radeon R9 280X 3GB DirectCUIIs, pretty much straight away after I bought them I started experiencing some minor artifacting/strangeness which I ignored for a while. After playing more and more games on my new system it became apparent that something was definitely going wrong, some games showed almost no artifacting aside from some small amounts but with others it was blatantly obvious that there were problems. I started checking around to see what was up and I found this massive thread of complaints on the ASUS ROG Forums: http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?43057-R9-280x-DirectCU-II-Top-Artifacts!! Dota 2 and BF3 were the games where the artifacting was most obvious. I procrastinated for a few months before RMAing the two cards because pretty much any experience that I have ever had with customer support of any sort has been a pretty shitty and stressful process where I start to dread communicating with them. (Spoiler Alert: This is turning into one of those) On top of testing the cards 1 by 1 in games I tested both cards using OCCT in error checking mode (2000MB Test, Shader Complexity 7, Fullscreen, DX11, Unlimited FPS). The card that I had found to be less prone to artifacting ended up with 6K+ errors in a 15 minute test. The other card passed a 1 hour test but had far more frequent and far more severe artifacting problems which I found odd. I have no idea the exact specifics of OCCT's testing methodology but real world games seemed to be the best at catching problems in this situation. Anyhow, I sent in an RMA near the end of November, I made a video of the artifacting, provided screenshots of my OCCT test results, system specs, all drivers and versions, the whole lot. The RMA was processed and I got two different cards just before Christmas. Unfortunately the happiness didn't last long. While unboxing the two cards they both had small nicks on the cooler, it wasn't really that bad but it was an annoyance and I was not exactly thrilled when I saw that. I was going to let it slide if the cards worked properly, which was not the case. Within 15 minutes of installing the first new card on a fresh install of Windows 8.1 (upgraded from 7 while my cards were being RMA'd) I got a BSOD, SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED caused by the AMD driver. I hoped it was a coincidence and wasn't because they had sent me another lemom. Well my hope didn't last long. I got a lemon, two infact, and with even more severe problems than before. The first card started to rear it's ugly head while I was playing RIFT. I decided to start up Dota 2 since it seemed to be be the least forgiving to problematic cards, got into a game and instantly artifacts galore for the entire 40ish minute length of the match, it was worse than either of the two cards that I RMA'd. The second card has major thermal problems, the first thing I tried with it was OCCT. The GPU temperature spiked 20 degrees celcius in a matter of seconds, within 20-30 seconds it got all the way up to 89 degrees and at that point I cut it off because I am not interested in ruining my hardware. Personally I start getting unconfortable when my cards start getting into 80 degree territory. Started up CS:GO to see if it had the same effect and sure enough the card would typically be in the mid to high 80 degree range. I am not impressed to say the least. You would think after ASUS messed up the first time they would be sure to not embarass themselves again, apparently not. So here are the questions I have, you guys may not be able to answer these and I may end up asking customer support but some of you may have extensive RMA experience that could be able to answer these questions. I would also appreciate any general advice. Would ASUS give me a shipping label since I paid for shipping the first time? Would ASUS refund my money so I could go out and buy something else? (Likely preferred at this point) Would ASUS be willing to trade my cards for a different model? e.g. 780ti (Not very keen on giving their 280Xs a third chance, well technically 5th and 6th chance) (Paid $325 per card before taxes) Thanks in advance guys.

My bad, couldn't find this posted in the news section at all on pages 1, or 2 using CTRL+F and the keywords, Gabe, Indie, Threat, Kill so I assumed it hadn't yet been posted. (I still don't see any posts about it, in the news section atleast)

Surprised how much this guy absolutely lost it considering his game got front page on Steam when a lot of games never have that opportunity, sure they got the early access thing wrong which might discourage some people from buying it who avoid early access games but would it really hurt sales that much? Source: http://kotaku.com/indie-dev-threatens-gabe-newell-has-game-removed-from-1648678869

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Pretty happy that not all of the prices have been jacked up. Since some games have stayed the same price in CAD we will be getting them slightly cheaper than our American counterparts. How long this will be the case has yet to be seen though. As for the games that are currently unavailable for purchase in Canada... "Most games previously available in USD are now priced in CAD and are available for purchase in Canada, but an occasional product may be missing until it is priced in CAD." FAQ: http://store.steampowered.com/cad Price Comparison:

I hope not. I don't think motherboards take 120V/240V AC too well.

Found this on the front page of /r/GlobalOffensive. This guy thinks you can stop DDoS attacks by only having a pfSense router on your network. Because you know, putting the preventative measures after it has gone through your connection and already clogged it up totally works. It needs to be done further upstream before it can even get to your connection in the first place. I can't believe the amount of upvotes, do that many people actually have that little knowledge about the basics of networking? http://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/2armre/having_read_about_pro_players_and_streamers/

You are truly Satan.