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dav1257

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  1. Just roughly worked out the price-performance on a few card versus games and the difference between 780 ti and 780 is not that big surprisingly. Between £1.00 - 1.40 per frame. Obviously the 290 is a completely different story but Mantle is still an unknown at this moment in time.
  2. Thanks a lot for all the advice guys. Theres so many reasons to hold off upgrading, epsecially with mantle and g-sync, but you end up waiting forever with that attitude. I agree that 780 ti is overkill for many games and definitely expensive for it, but i do think lookin at the guys benchmarks that there are still many games that push the card. Especially at 1440p. Also performance is more important to me than price to performance so it looks like i will probably just go for the 780 ti upgrade and leave the rest of the rig as is. Thanks again everyone. Appreciate it.
  3. I am planning to upgrade from my 680 to a 780 ti. Mainly as i would like to upgrade to 2560 x 1440. My original plan was to upgrade my entire rig and just go balls to the walls. However, is there any compelling reason to upgrade to Haswell and the 1150 socket or should i simply upgrade my GPU. Currently i am running an Intel 3570k with an Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe. Thanks in advance.
  4. So the Titan was a questionable decision from Nvidia. Seems like they have kind of exploited the enthusiasts. Little shady in my opinion. Also Nvidia are still having a hard time with the AMD focus titles. They still cant run Metro. 1440p anyway
  5. It seems like Microsoft have watched every horrible decision EA has ever made and decided they are gonna do it too. EA finally decide to ditch Online Pass by admiting it was a bad idea and then Microsoft are basically implementing their own system? Seems a bit silly. Also have the community not basically said that we hate the idea of needing an internet connection to play all of our games?
  6. Sony should name the new Playstation the 'PSToo'
  7. Ok so i have to post again because i am gettin more and more agitated by the name alone. XBox One? What?? What genius came up with that??? I'm more excited about the next gen console just to see what they call it. Any suggestions?
  8. It's hard to put into words how little i cared about the next gen console and sumhow i now care even less. Ok a bit harsh lol. At the very least the PC should get sum better ports for the more console orientated game titles. So thers that i guess.
  9. Thought i should wade in and agree with every1 else lol. 7770. It does seem that with all AMD cards they manage to step it up with driver updates and overtake similarly priced Nvidia cards. In other words as long as a card has been out for a sufficient amount of time, AMD seem to be the better option.
  10. Just checked my wallet after i read this. Dya no when u get a a bag of cookies and they giv u a stamp card that says when u get 6 stamps u get a free bag of cookies? I have 6 of those . . . they each have 1 stamp . . . . . . . . . . DAMNIT!
  11. I am really surprised everybody is using Chrome? I use chrome purely for youtube for the extensions but firefox for general browsing. Anyway obviously drivers, updates, antivirus, then i kinda just download as i mess around and realise what i need . . . prob Steam tho
  12. Personally i have had bad experiences with razer. I can never get the Synapse software to work and settings are constantly resetting on my peripherals. Dpi, lighting, etc. Also i have the Razer Naga but it constantly locks at random times and i have to lift the mouse away from the pad for a second then put it back down. Not ideal. (I would like to note my naga has just locked while typing this post) So personnaly i have had bad experiences with Razer to the point where i will prob steer clear from now on. It is a shame because there stuff looks gd and feels gd. Software is awful tho.
  13. If its a gaming pc u do not need an i7. i5 3570k is the best choice. Gpu is gd choice because the 670 is a completely different price point. Think the 7950 is better than a 660ti. And 2400MHz memory is a little pointless. 1600 is ideal. There will be practically no difference. For the Mobo i would also go for a similarly priced board from MSI, Asus, or Gigabyte.
  14. It is pretty awkward at first tbh but after u get used to it, it can help u react a bit quicker.
  15. I set my dpi to around 3000 when playin fps games. Maybe a bit higher for others and just max it when browsing and such. 6400 prob. High dpi when gaming can be difficult at 1st but you get used to it and then it feels weird when u put it back down
  16. Short answer is 2Gb is exactly what you need. Also the 7950 is a gd solution also. I may lean more towards the red side here. And as far as future proofing goes . . . there is no such thing. If u are concerned with future proofing then u will never commit to anything. The industry is changing constantly and it is impossible to predict what you will need or want in the future. The best thing to do is figure out what u need for what u want to do now and go for it. 1 year later u may wish u made a different decision, but there is really no way to predict that now.
  17. Tbh in my opinion the only real downside to air cooled GPU's is the noise it makes under load, however i do use a headset so doesnt make much difference to me. Of course a water cooled solution will get you better temps but i dont run into any temp issues whatsoever with my 680 overclocked as far as i can get it. I should note i do plan to watercool my whole system eventually but i will be doing it for aesthetics and noise reduction rather than temp issues.
  18. I have a Xonar d2x with PC350's and i didnt notice a huge difference at 1st which was slightly disappointing. HOWEVER . . . After a few months of using my soundcard with the headset i decided to test my old setup. I started using my monitors speakers with the onboard sound just to hear what it was like and it was horrendous lol. I could not believe the difference in quality. There was so many small things that i was taking for granted. After about an hour of watchin some youtube vids and playing a wee bit of a game i couldnt take it anymore. So long story short . . . it makes a huge difference even if you are a bit sceptical at 1st.
  19. I literally just had this conversation with my girlfriend about doping in sports and how i felt it was similar to cheats in gaming. I went on to say that at least sports ppl or athletes have something on the line that pushes them to cheat. Their career basically. Gamers who cheat in a casual online game have no excuse other than being complete and utter . . . . well u get the picture. Just ruins the game for other ppl. For me satisfaction comes from accomplishment in a game and trying to win something by playing well. Just for the record if you hate cheating i would avoid half the servers on BF3. 3 times i tried to log a complaint for cheating only to find it was admins that were doing it.
  20. TO ALCOHOL . . . the cause of, and solution to, all of lifes problems. Homer Simpson
  21. Just remember that the memory will be set at 1333 when you install it. Has to be changed in the BIOS. Although there are exceptions for this, you should check. 3570k is what you want. Thats's what i have in my system and im a gamer
  22. I may be wrong but was it not Bioshock Infinite or something similar that has been showing a decent benefit with i7 over i5? I should also note i would still not advise an i7 for gaming, just curious to see the direction games are heading for in the future.
  23. I agree with this for now, however rumours are that there will be games in the future that benefit from multi threaded cpus. But yeah, for now multi threaded cpus are not for gaming
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