SixtyDashOne

Qualcomm.
 
Totally, Qualcomm.

we don't hate our lives we love them! because we control them

Yeah, get rekt Tapatalk
 
And crawl back to the hell you spawned from

Dude no way Why does everything think this crap. No card has yet mastered 1080p. As a 980 can only run Gta on high settings to stay above 60fps at 1080p. If you want to run that game every option Ultra, AA all the way up. Advanced options on you would need two titan x's and that is for 1080p. I have a 970 and i have to turn down the grass, Particles, Reflections,AA and have all of the advanced options off to stay above 60fps the whole time. Same with new games coming out to run them at max everthing you need more than a 980 so no graphics card yet has concurred 1080p. You need two 980ti,s or TItan X'es To Be able to play every game maxed out 60fps+ Also i like to play my game a 144fps so there is now way a 980 would do shit  

if its not on MSIs site then how could it be out...
please use some logic

Yeah what kind of idiot would do such a thing?
 

 
And that's even ultra wide monitors :lol:

my question is wtf is AMD even doing with the new gpus.  like seriously are you trying to go bankrupt?
I can see the fucking corporate meeting now
 
"Okay.  As a company, we are in need of some serious innovation that will bring in a large amount of consumers and grab a lot of the marketshare.  Any ideas on how to do that?"
 
"yeah why dont we rebrand the entire r9 series of cards and overhype them using a marketing campaign for the 1 card thats actually new?"
 
"holy shit jim you've done it again"

You shouldn't use Prime95 with Haswell's. Get Aida or something else for stress testing.

4K is a thing for me since I can afford to blow 1000-1500 in hardware to have it.
4K is not a thing for casual consumers (of which this industry is built off of) who are not spending that much on their equipment.
The day entry level cards like the 960 and 270 can do 4K, that's when 4K will be a thing.

Guys remember, FPS is only a number.

How stupidly biased can you get? The advertisement is pretty damn obviously saying that this card is meant for the 1% that uses 4K. You don't use the words "the most advanced graphics card in the world" and then say it's only good at a lower resolution.

not even a Titan X can power the latest games on 4K (max settings). Stick to 1440p if you want better visuals over more pixels.
Personally I dont like 4K, its has alot of teething problems that dont seem to be getting fixed. For example UI and text scaling (being too small).

i5 4670k @ 4.2ghz
2 x EVGA 980 SC
+125 GPU / +100 MEM
Avg: 83.9
Score: 3509
Setting: 1440p. 8XAA, Ultra
 
 

 

 

 
In comparison with my MSI Lightning 780 at 1080p:
 

this honestly looks like some 8th graders "what if" project
in which he received a D on

I was replying to the SLI Master Race thread because I recently got a second 980 to run in 2-way SLI, which is my first foray into multiple GPU's since the late 90's when I was running 2 x 3dfx Voodoo 2's. I recalled that, back then, SLI stood for "Scan Line Interleave" and each card shared the VRAM workload in drawing alternating horizontal scan lines. Card 1 drew row 1, card 2 drew row 2, card 1 drew row 3, card 2 drew row 4, card 1 drew row 5 and so on. Thus, adding a second video card was actually doubling the available VRAM.
 
I fell out of PC gaming for about 10 years, and when I returned, I learned that SLI rigs no longer increased available VRAM. I found this puzzling, because I knew SLI to mean "Scan Line Interleave" and this was a technology that was working some 20 odd years ago, and at some point (inexplicably?) went away and has been absent since, though Mantle and/or DX12 may provide for "stacking" VRAM... which would be a return to the tech we'd been enjoying ~20yrs ago... yay?.
 
I also learned that SLI now stands for "Scalable Link Interface", which I suppose accounts for SLI no longer behaving like the SLI as I knew it back in the late 90's.
 
I've read the Scan Line Interleave wiki page and though it cites "technical issues", it seems that "Scalable Link Interface" has had its fair share of issues in the past as well. FWIW, I was a hardcore PC gamer with those Voodoo 2's and never ran into any issues. Back then, there was no talk of SLI profiles, and "microstutter" was not even a thing.
 
I'm wondering why the market seemingly abandoned the Scan Line Interleave technology, which in my experience was working perfectly fine, only to revisit the tech ~20yrs later and tout it as a potential showcase feature for the upcoming Mantle and DX12 API's.
 
I'm curious to hear any explanations / theories as to why the Scan Line Interleave went away. Had we reached the point where we simply did not need to increase our VRAM, or was the market just dumb for abandoning the tech? Or, was it something else altogether?

Heyyo,
3DFX, the company behind SLI and those Voodoo 2's you talk of? They made some terrible business descisions and were going bankrupt and NVIDIA bought them out... pretty much when DirectX was really starting to take off? The majority of 3DFX cards could only render it in software mode which made games that didn't support OpenGL almost unplayable... that plus they weren't really interested in competing with ATi and NVIDIA with agressive pricing of their products and sadly 3DFX Glide didn't really take off either despite an original strong following of support.
So? NVIDIA kept the technology behind 3DFX's SLI and it was under revision for use with DirectX and NVIDIA's Geforce GPU lineups. The majority of engineers joined NVIDIA but there's still a bunch that decided to go the other way and join ATi and work with them to port Multi-GPU technology and help work on their future architectures at the time which was the X1000 GPU series.
That's how NVIDIA and AMD (who bought out ATi) have similar multi-GPU technologies. NVIDIA's SLI is essentially the sucessor to 3DFX's old setup. Due to varying 3D APIs at the time and DirectX and OpenGL didn't seem to care much about multi-GPU setups? VRAM sharing between GPUs have taken a back seat.. until now. So now with the upcoming DirectX 12 and Vulkan will we finally see proper multi-GPU support and get what was lost so long ago with 3DFX Glide and Voodoo GPUs.

Horrible cell phone pic but it's 2-way 980's in SLI. Prior to this, my last SLI setup was 2 x 3DFX Voodoo 2's, which I used to mostly play Quake 2 with. Back in the days when double the videocards ACTUALLY meant double the VRAM!
 
And yes, I realize the red cables are gaudy. Next mod is blue or perhaps white individually sleeved cable set from EVGA.

Also the argument regarding internet as a finite resource. Shouldn't the ISP be responsible for determining what speeds and capacity they can handle? They shouldn't sell a 500mbps line if they can't support it. This brings in the idea that not everyone is using 100% of their capable internet connection all the time which is why ISPs can sell such speeds. Well in that case, why not let this man use 100% of his connection? You used that logic to sell faster lines but then you turn around and say that logic doesn't apply when it doesn't benefit you anymore?

I'm torn on this issue. 7TB is a hell of a lot of data to burn through in a month for just one guy doing typical internet stuff. There is not a snowball's chance in hell that he went through all that data just from folding@home, so I think we can call bullshit on that. He has to be either running a server (in which case they'll obviously want him to pay for business class) or he's torrenting 24/7 or something like that. I think he would pretty much have to be unemployed and constantly downloading/uploading/streaming to recreationally burn through that much data in a month. Otherwise, I'd suspect he would have to be self-employed and running a server or something to even reach anywhere near 7TB in a month.
 
At the same time, the guy is paying $315 a month! FFS, how much do they charge for business class? While he's obviously full of shit with his story that he's just folding@home, if I was paying $315 a month, I'd be a little pissed if I got data-capped.
 
Another thing, the TOS does make mention of excessive usage. I don't know if this guy's plan is marketed as "unlimited" but if it is, that's false advertising. If it's advertised as unlimited but it's not really unlimited, then they need to stop marketing it as that. Also, if they're going to put a cap on people, they need to explicitly state where the cap is, not just have a vague statement in the TOS that "we prohibit you from using a bunch of bandwidth". People need to know exactly how much they're allotted. 

I can't wait! I got it for PS3 when it first came out, played it for about 20hrs or so, but that was around the time that I was building my PC. Once I got my PC built I figured I'd rather just stop playing the console version and wait for the PC version. Didn't imagine it would take nearly this long, but I feel like it will probably be worth the wait.

AC seems to have a pretty steep learning curve, took me awhile before I could get around a track without frequently spinning out. My problem though is I can't get my 360 controller to feel right. I've played around with the settings and it's either way too twitchy with the steering, or it's numb and slow and not responsive enough. So I've been holding off on playing it until I get a wheel. Assetto Corsa is more my style of game, but I've had more fun with Grid Autosport because the 360 controller works very well with it and it's got a nice lengthy career mode.

Yeah. Netflix set a very, VERY bad precedent with that move.
 
Hoping Victorious Secret is right. The US doesn't have the balls to stand up to ISPs or other big corporations/industries, whereas the EU is known for cracking the whip, so hopefully this gets squashed before it goes anywhere.

The EU will crap down this ISPs throat and stop this, because it seems like every other country except the US has their head on straight about dealing with net neutrality. 

And this right here is why netflix should have never accepted to pay american carriers. If they paid one, everyone else is going to want a slice of the pie.

The whole thing looks like shite. Reminds me of Test Drive Unlimited, which is a very old game at this point.
 
TDU2 arguably looks better and it's 3yrs old.