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If you are willing to wait for those hardware releases then maybe by that time there will be more options in terms of cases. If the CoolerMaster Pro 5 is any indication of what their M ATX version is (Pro 3) then you can keep an eye out for that case as well when it gets released.

290 for sure, just dont get the reference or Asus variants, those coolers are not very effective at cooling the card.
And this whole 750W thing, I'm running an overclocked 290 on a 650W PSU and it doesn't draw that much more watts than my 760 rig.

Jay is mediocre when it comes to benches. We are talking about the guy who plays BF4 @ 75 fov, and did a full bench run in Witcher 3 with vsync on (and used the results in his vid). He is ok, and I do watch a lot of his stuff, but he is an admitted green team person. He tries to justify this with numbers not lying, but really, we all know that is not true, as you can just use certain settings and games, that favour one over the other. To his defence, it does seem like he doesn't use GameWorks, so that is very much competent.
 
But in this review, he uses only massively overclocked NVidia cards against a ~50mhz OC'd Fury X. He states this and then does a quick run of factory 980ti's, though we don't know what speed they run at, and compares that to the 50mhz OC'd Fury X, and uses that tiny oc against it. Not exactly fair.
 
I do get the critique of the small OC of the card, since AMD themselves, have stated this is an OC's dream card. Let's see, once the voltage regulation is unlocked, which we might see on software soon. As long as the MOSFETS can handle it, it should be good all around. The critique on not being able to OC HBM is really dumb though. NOTHING comes even close to the HBM Fury X has, no matter how much OC the GDDR5 vram gets, so what's the point? A new tech, that might not have the necessary headroom or stability in OC, as manufacturing is completely new. At least PCPer stated this was a complete non issue.
 
There is a reason why 980ti's are clocked the way they are: It is what NVidia can guarantee, so not all will be able to OC to 1500, or even 1300mhz. But at least he admits his bias, so just bear that in mind.
 
 
 
Linus literally dropped the card out of his car. These things happen, who knows what had gone wrong. Maybe one of the HBM modules had lost contact to the interposer or something. That is what happens, when you launch revolutionary technology.

Yes but these days the "future" really isn't that far away. My 780 Ti is getting destroyed by my 290x in most new games when it used to edge it out.  Vram is a very big deal and double it for the future...while still trading blows today.
 
To be fair the 390x is actually older tech than the 980.

Fanboyism. The same reason there are so many people out there with GTX 970s in spite of there being a much lower priced R9 290 whose performance is virtually the same. In spite of the 970's VRAM being broken.

Well too bad I don't have one. But I'll link LTT's 3d mark spread sheet here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10juOWiZuyX6VAv8hQDWsAM2d6f9dRFSEVf70-RJubK8/edit#gid=0
 
Its 10 time more credible than your "discussion" with "someone else".

Thanks for the benchmarks, makes me happy I got my 290 at nearly $260

If you can get off your fanboy horse one instant, let me tell you it's the developers' responsibility to optimize their games for graphics cards based on the drivers available, not the GPU manufacturer's responsibility. Yet GPU manufacturers keep having to do it because of the sheer amount of programming incompetency in the game development mileu.

The Phanteks Evolv is gorgeous, if it was available when I was building my rig last year it would be my case of choice, no ifs or buts about that.
Yea, the ball is in your court bro, so explore.

The feels indeed, at least you didn't blow $1000 on a Titan X, you know, so you wouldn't feel bad AND have ~$350 less money in your bank account

The feels indeed, at least you didn't blow $1000 on a Titan X, you know, so you wouldn't feel bad AND have ~$350 less money in your bank account

The feels indeed, at least you didn't blow $1000 on a Titan X, you know, so you wouldn't feel bad AND have ~$350 less money in your bank account

Dayyyummm...
 
 

^^ THIS!!
 
Bear in mind that nVidia does sponsor some of the reviewers out there, so I wouldn't be surprised that if they do find an issue they will just skimp around and say 'oh we found this-that to be a bit slow, but overall its a great card compared to -insert nVidia top tier card here (like they did with the Titan,780and 780Ti)-, blah-blah, price-to-performance, blah-blah'.

The reason I'm speculating Nvidia could try the same thing again is the fact they never did really apologize or own up to the VRAM thing, only to admitting that the card had less SMMs or whatever it was they disabled than their specs stated it had. They still to this day maintain the card has 4 GB of VRAM and advertise it as such, so I'm not so sure they wouldn't attempt the same thing again if they felt it would give them a percieved edge over an AMD card that had less VRAM on paper.
 
Yes reviewers will likely make sure the cards stated VRAM isn't crippled at all, and Nvidia would PROBABLY not want the negative publicity that would go along with reviewers discovering they did it again, BUT we are assuming everyone who buys Nvidia's cards obsess over such details, when a lot of people outside of forums like this probably don't.
 
If Nvidia did it AGAIN, they(and their fanboys) would again probably claim the benchmarks show what the card can do so its a non issue, and state that the card does "technically" have X amount of VRAM(even if some of it is gimped).

I think there is a nVidia internal note to the engineers which states:
 
Screw up the VRam on the next card and you're all fired.

Thanks, I really wanted a downdraft cooler for my current build but didnt want it touching my GPU, now its time to sell this NH-U12S 

Hmmm.....interesting....
 
I want to see the real world performance difference between GDDR5 and HBM and how it 'stacks up', eh eh   ....ok I'm done

Use 4 Port Gigabit switches at every location that has more than one device, as for a recabling to place, i dont see that happening in a completely finished building because of the work and tearing that has to be done i cant see them letting someone do that, Cat5e supports gigabit speed. just use a good router at the entrance, if your serious use an enterprise grade router if you need any specific features, then add an access point for the wireless devices off of one of the switches that is closest to the center of the place, that way wireless inst amazing at one side and horrible at the other. there really not much you can do besides what is the obvious thing to do unfortunately. you could put a 24 port Gigabit switch at the entrance and run cables outside of the walls but that would be weird. i see yourself adding 5 switches, and calling it good. My apartment is much smaller, so my infrastructure was done completely outside of the walls.
please let me know what your thoughts are and what your planning on doing or if any of this information was not correct.
-Tyler

My 4770K runs 4 GHz on 1.08v (stock volts), it may be able to run it at lower volts since mine runs 3.9 GHz at 1.02v.
 
TTL has an overclocking guide for LGA1155 that I found really helpful even though the 4770K is LGA1150, pretty much the same principles apply.
 
Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBEeXajbG2o
 
Hope this helps
 
------ I'd suggest testing your stability with Aida64 though since its validated for the new instruction sets for Haswell

Here is another one for you  :D

10% performance less power consumption, bettter RAM contollers, and better iGPU are all reasons to upgrade. Not from IVB unless you are an entusiast, but from older stuff. People consider AMD's top of the line CPU's which consume a ton more power and put out a ton more heat becuase they are trying to catch up, but they are not advancing. They are trowing more GHZ at the problem instead of improving perfomance ATM. They have to push and scale up so much more just to be competitive. even Intel's flagship (3970X (based on 2 year old architecture about to be updated soon tough)) is using less power than a 8350.

Zed for me  :D

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