Strider

All I know is, there had better be a VLOG.

The pointless hate in this thread is hilariously disturbing. lol Wait until they find out about that AM1/290X build I'm doing. *Muhahaha*

What would I use the i7 5820K for? Drop it into an X99 MicroATX board (probably the EVGA X99 Micro 131-HE-E995-KR) and put it to work as a dedicated editing, capture/streaming, benchamrking, and server PC. Replacing an old X79 i7-3820/MSI X79A-GD45 Plus based system that I have been using for most of that work for a while now. For gaming, streaming, and capturing it's overkill, as most any decent mainstream high-end CPU/build would get that job done, especailly when using something like the AverMedia Live Gamer HD. However sicne it has the extra power to handle that, and more, why not use it? I don't do a lot of video editing yet, but I will be in a few months, so hopping on the X99 bandwagon would help save time and streamline that process. Benchmarking (mainly gaming) would be something the system would be used for a lot, since I do a lot of that for reviews and customers. It would sit in my "test bed" quite a lot I think, as the old X79 based system currently does. I host a lot of game servers for local friends, family, and LAN parties. Working for your ISP lets you get away with such things. This is something I would also use a system built around the 5820K for quite a bit. Last, and the most obvious reason, for winning the 5820K would be the money savings you could dump into another part. In this case, probably the DD4 RAM or motherboard, since I have all the other hardware needed for a full build on hand already. Well, there you have it. Best of luck to everyone. =]

Favorite 900 series feature? The low TDP. For me, that's the real selling point. For these Zotak cards, the factory overclocks are always a plus, since they are guaranteed out of the box. Secondly, that beefy cooler means I can try and push the card harder, over that factory OC. Between that cooler and the low TDP, temps would be less of a concern. So you may be able to squeeze even more performance out of them. =]

... I try really hard not to hate on these so called "modern" consoles, because I dislike being a "hater", but it's idiotic things like this that make it bubble right over the top. To be fair, it's not the gamers I hate, it's the what the consoles (and companies) themselves have done to the gaming industry in my humble opinion. Crappy ports. Outdated tech that's expected to last 8+ years. Dumbed down games targeting lower-end console hardware. These things are not "next gen", they are outdated even before they hit the shelves. The consoles have been a hindrance to the advancement of the game industry in my opinion, at least in a technical aspect. Then I see crap like this article, and it's not just a hindrance any longer, but a HUGE step backwards! Resolution is just a number? 60 FPS too hard to reach? Neither of these really have any effect on image quality? ... *sigh* ... Sit myself, or most any PC gamer, behind a game and let us see if we can tell the difference between 30 and 60 FPS. Especially in first person shooter titles. There is a huge difference. I will grant that telling the difference between 900P and 1080P would not be as easy for some, but it's still perceivable. Especially side by side. But in this case, that's not the point. We are moving past 1080P to 1440P and beyond. You can easily tell the difference between 900P and 1440, or 1080 and 1440, and don't even get me started on 4K. Anyway, I think I should stop there, I can rant all day about idiotic claims like this. Thanks for letting me rant a little, made me feel better.

Yeah, like most others have said, do the RMA on the card. Also, I feel the need to point out that if you were swapping modular cables between different PSUs, that's not a good idea. They are not all wired the same so not all of the modular cables are compatible with all modular PSU's, even if they fit. Unless you were talking about using molex to PCIe power adapters, then that's fine.

I have both of those cards as well, currently running the 290 Tri-X in my main rig, love it. Great comparative review, thanks for sharing it. =]

Exclusives only hurt the industry as a whole in the long term. If Bethesda does decided to do this with Fallout 4, it's going to hinder the game and it's sales far more than help it. All they have to do is look to Titanfall to see a small preview, a game that could have done so much better than it did, at least it's already been said the next game in series will not be an exclusive. Fallout is obviously a far larger are more popular game, with a huge following. If a new franchise is suffering for it's decision to be a console exclusive, imagine what it can do to one that's already a huge hit across all platforms. Oh, and I am a PC gamer, I have a special place of hatred for what "modern" consoles have done to the industry in my humble opinion. That's a conversation for a different time, however I am of the opinion that there is no reason for any AAA company (or any developers with the means for that matter) to ever limit a game to a single platform.

How does that make me feel? Disappointed. Not in Nintendo, not in King, but in people. Why? For making a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy (insert a few more dozen copies here) of an unoriginal game idea that insanely popular. A concept that been around for about 25 years, give or take? And then PAYING for it time and time again. *sigh* There are times when I don't want to live on this planet any longer. This is one of them. heh

Yeah, it's nice to see this craze come to an end, always knew it would not last but I really had no idea how long it would continue. Nice to see some good news on this "FCC screws over net neutrality" day. One huge factor is due to "Scrypt mining is moving to ASIC mining hardware". This makes GPU mining much less profitable, though you can still mine with a GPU of course, you're just not going make a lot less using a GPU now, and pay out even more in energy. I grossly overpaid for my Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC, $620 at the time and it's now selling for $430, but I also really didn't care. At least now I can double up and run Crossfire and it won't cost me another $600. =P

No way of knowing as of yet, but I personally think it will help, but I also don't see it being all that drastic. I think the benefits will slowly show themselves over time, just as with Mantle. All I know is, I don't care if it's DX12 or Mantle, it's just nice to see this change happening.

No, I hate the pay to play model far more then the free to play one. I hate being forced to pay to play a video game, I would rather either just buy it outright and be done with it, or have it be free to play and have optional in-game purchases. Even with micro-transactions being a slippery slope that can easily be abused, I would still pick that over being forced to pay to play anything.

No way I can keep it at 5 specific titles, but I can do it like this, and limit it to PC only. lol All of the Original ID Software and 3D Realms games. Classic RTS games such as Dune, Warcraft, and Command & Conquer. Crusader No Regret and No Remorse. The classic LucasArts games. Some of games under those banners have been "rebooted" or otherwise continued, either by developers or fans. In such was as source ports, or new incarnations such as Rise of the Triad, or they were just pushed on by developers with no care for the original core concepts of the game such as the Command & Conquer series. I would still enjoy seeing many of the games under the above banners re-released, IF they remained true to the original.

While I like the Shield, no, I don't take it "seriously" in any real gaming respect. Yes, it's cool, but in my humble opinion it's more of a niche item with a very small target audience. I really don't ever see it taking off in terms of sales, or being accepted as a mainstream gaming device. Now the concept of streaming games to other devices, I have far more faith in that, such as where Valve is going with SteamOS. Just not portable devices in the foreseeable future. Just my thoughts on it anyway. =)

Technically, I started on the Magnavox Odyssey, my father had one when I was born in 74. I really don't count it since I was obviously so young and I don't remember it, until I got older that is. However, in early 78 he picked up the Atari 2600, and I played on that, and I do remember it. That being said, in 1981 at the ripe old age of 7, I got my first computer. The Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. It was gift to me from my uncle who worked for McDonnell Douglas, he actually had three of them, one in use and two still in the box. We had went to visit him one weekend as part of a family gathering in St. Louis (where I am from), and I spent the entire weekend on his TI-99/4A. He was so taken by my interest in the machine that he gave me one. He kept sending me new carts, peripherals, and software for it as they became available. I credit him for locking in my love of computers. From that point on, I was both a PC and console gamer, and it stayed that way until the PS1/N64. They were the last consoles I truly and and actively gamed on. After them I all but dropped consoles, except for retro gaming, and moved almost exclusively to PC. Well, that's it, my abridged gaming history. lol