Northmountain

Mind: Path to Thalamus.

Mind: Path to Thalamus.

Mind: Path to Thalamus.

This goes to show how much we are attached to our phones, people go batshit insane if they don't have them, and this guy just ended up being dead because of it.

What was that?

Is someone there?

S***

I'm gonna die im gonna die imergurna diyeee

Holy F@ we're all gonna die

You are missing the biggest problem with pre-orders, and that is the world of pre-order bonuses, for example Mortal Combat X, one of the characters was only available if you pre-ordered the game.. that is genuinly a part of the game you are restricting regular customers from acessing
 
the maximum I think is fair for a bonus is a plastic figurine, or a downloadable skin to show off, but locking off actual content is becoming increasingly common, and it HAS To stop
 
Also pre-ordering to get DLC etc, and day one DLC is bullshit too
 
Basically, pre-ordering offers no specific benefit, if it was just for discount, fair enough, I can understand that, but for other parts of pre-ordering I do not agree with rewarding people for ordering your game early
 
If you want to release a collectors edition with a plastic figure, speical art book etc - fair enough you are selling extra products to the customers, but the game content should be the same for both people

But wouldn't that be sexist?
 
Wouldn't it be more politically correct to give her a handicap?

Ahh the ninjas!

I've found that if it doesn't show the game, alt tabbing might help fix it. Maybe running in borderless window does too, needs further testing on my part.

Yes, end it. The trollshow shall be over.

Too bad about that case, though!

So, I decided to upload the sfw wallpapers I have. Most of them are scavenged from the internet and cropped by me, the fractals I made myself.
http://imgur.com/a/ioXrd
Let me know if you can't get to them, I have no idea how the private album thing works on there.

The only people worse then ones killing bosses quickly while everyone is gold farming them are ones playing this game with out macros. 

yolo

Hell yeah. I have this boxed somewhere, and I just gotta finish it before catalyst comes out. Now where did I put that box... Gotta see what this looks like in 21:9 and with specs that are not 10 years old.

"Hey guys, okay lets go-"
CYKA BLYAT

Hey guys, Joker here. Just wanted to do a short write up and share some of the numbers that I've seen with my testing so far on the GTX 980 Ti's in SLI.
 
First, I'll just say that these cards are an absolute beast to behold. Coming from using two 980's on a 1080p 144hz display and then snagging these cards within days of getting the new Acer XB270HU with 144hz, G-Sync & 1440p.. I was happy I made the leap forward. Basically for me gaming at over 60fps on ultra is essential. I don't even really play games that run at just 60, Wolfenstein excluded, because I just can't do 60hz gaming. The reason I'm explaining that to you is because going from 980's to 980 Ti's was like recapturing the performance I used to get at 1080p using those 980's which was just purely amazing. Being able to now crank Witcher 3 up with Hairworks at 1440 and getting 80-100 frames easily without my overclock is awesome because with two 980's I ran mostly around 60fps and at times dipping to as low as 50.
 
Overclocking. My cards both came in with average ASIC scores of 70.4% and 70.6% so I knew they would be decent overclockers. I found that +250 on the core was my sweetspot since boost kicking in has me hovering on 1450, which is what I've determined to be my max stable core clock. After 1450 some things begin to unravel. Valley and Heaven benchmarks would both crash if boost took me to 1460 with a +260 overclock. I didn't mess around with memory as much since performance gains are minimal. I just threw it on +200 and left it there. Avererage performance increase in games and benchmarks was 15-18% with my added 250 on the core.
 

 
Performance in 4K. Now I'm not a 4k Gamer by any stretch, nor do I plan to be until I see performance in SLI giving the types of numbers I'm now getting at 1440p and used to get at 1080p when I had my 980's, but that is strictly coming from a 144hz gamer, however.. If you are looking to play at 4K and 60hz is fine for you that is awesome and you can be assured tht the 980 Ti's will kick serious butt in doing so. The most VRAM demanding game I tested, Shadow of Mordor with the texture pack and every setting including anti-aliasing cranked up, I did not dip below 60fps and held strong at 5600MB of memory usage in the games benchmark. So if you think you need the 12GB of the Titan X for a single 4K screen.. then you are sorely mistaken. Triple 4K screens, certainly, but for a single 4k panel; I think two 980 Ti's is the much better option.
 
Overall just very impressed and I'll go back with what I just said in the beginning was that this has given me the perfect 1440 144hz gaming experience. I would also say that for 4k 60hz, two 980 Ti's is definitely the way to go over something like the Titan X with its insane price point. These are gaming cards and that is what they do well. Below are my benchmark numbers and game averages for those that did not have a built in benchmark. And lastly below that is the video I did for this review in case you would like to check it out. I hope you enjoyed this mini review. Later
 

 
 

My EVGA bridge arrived, and it does light up with my reference EVGA SC cards.
It's a darn shame NVIDIA hasn't seen fit to sell their sexy bridge outside of North America. I really really want one. Although not enough to pay over $150 on Ebay to ship one to Ireland, and then getting shafted by Customs fees.
 

Picked up an old bass

I recently upgraded my cooling:

The Dark Rock 3 is new, as is the Silent Wing 2 and the two NF-F12s in the front.

This is the second time I've tried SLI now. The first being an abysmal 7950GX2, that's driver support ended in almost 6 months.
I ordered them on launch day from Germany, and they arrived on Thursday.
 
I'm extremely impressed so far with them. 3 Runs of 3DMARK Firestrike looped, and hours of Witcher 3 gaming, and they averaged 35 decibels inside my NZXT H440, measured from where my chair is in relation to the system.
 
I get an average of 75fps in Witcher 3 1440p full ultra with all gameworks features. I kind of want a 3rd card now, but I doubt it would be easy on my EVGA 1000w G2 PSU.
 

Throwback Tuesday...?  A few from Mirrors Edge
 
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Some pictures I had left over from Opt-In #4.
Easier to use than ALT-TAB as it won't "break" your current game session also in AA:PA it gets rid of a lot of wavy line problems some users have been having.