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Diastro

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About Diastro

  • Birthday Nov 07, 1990

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    Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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    Music, technology, movies, TV shows
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    Audio Engineer

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  1. Thank you kindly, Sir Doge! Guess I'll be bookmarking GPUBoss for future reference.
  2. Wow, thanks for the ultra-fast reply, guys, I appreciate it. It's good to know that it's just a labeling thing, nothing is technically wrong here. Case closed!
  3. Hey guys, This is a bit of a long shot, but I'm curious so I'm asking either way. I'm a low level tech support employee for an electronics retailer, and I'm running into some confusing information. A customer who bought an Acer Predator G3-605 I8902 NL approached us and told us about the PC's GPU not corresponding with what's in the PC's formal specifications. The ones on the sticker, I mean. This PC is supposed to ship with an AMD R9 255 2GB, an OEM model. I opened up the machine and the card does indeed identify as an R9 255. It's an OEM card, and if I've done my homework correctly, this is a variant that can't really be bought seperately, it's just for OEM manufactuers. The problem that made the customer approach us in the first place, is that the card isn't recognised properly in Windows 10. It's labeled as an "AMD Radeon R7 Series / HD 9000 Series", everywhere, in Device Manager, GPU-Z, Speccy, etc. The rest of its tech specs, clock speeds, memory bus, etc, DOES correspond with an R9 255. It just labels it incorrectly. Updated the drivers to the most recent without any issue. No change. Performance-wise it's what you would expect from this card, which is to say, pretty mediocre. Reminds me on Linus' excellent rant on low-end cards... But I digress. What I'm really asking is, is this just a stupid software labeling error, that both I and the customer should totally ignore, or has there indeed been some kind of mix-up at Acer? Curious to know. Thanks in advance, guys!
  4. Fantastic, hit me up with your impressions!
  5. Thanks times a million to everyone for the replies, great tips and links guys! @Kiwiandapple: thanks for your detailed reply dude, that really rocks. Your list looks super solid, and I was I had taken more time to look at all the parts you listed because they're so very different from the ones I chose. Unfortunately, two things: firstly I've already ordered everything on my list, and parts are starting to arrive. Secondly I'm waaay too much of a noob to start with water-cooling and GPU modding. I'm going to start with my simple air setup and basic CPU OC. I've only just learned what push-pull cooling actually means, and going to apply that to my Mugen 4 PCGH as well.
  6. Do any of you perhaps know if orange BitFenix Spectre case fans will be compatible with the fan controller in my Fractal R4 case?
  7. Actually my good man Cookie Monster, I have. Though the only hint of this in the keyboard and graphics card. It's going to be amber/orange. I know the motherboard is red, but that'll still look really good with amber fans all over the place I think! Will post pics!
  8. Wow quick replies, thanks everyone, gonna have a great time with this!
  9. Right, so here it is. The build I'm going to run for my glorious return to PC gaming. Thoughts? Also do you guys know any great first-time-builder guides? MB: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming CPU: Intel Core i5 4670K FAN: Scythe Mugen 4 PCGH RAM: Corsair Vengeance LP 2x4GB 1600MHz GPU: Sapphire R9 280X 3GB Toxic SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB HDD: WD Caviar Green: 1.5TB (excluded from price) CASE: Fractal Design Define R4 windowed PSU: Corsair RM 650W OS: Windows 8.1 DVD: Samsung cheap DVD writer whatever KB: Razer BlackWidow Ultimate BF4 edition (because of the amber LEDs lol) Partpicker (prices are obviously incorrect): http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2njeN 1. Budget & Location € 1200 Euros. The Netherlands. I'm not super nitpicky about maximizing parts for price. I just want to get you guys' approval on this build. 2. Aim Only gaming. Both old, current and next-gen games. I'm going to use Battlefield 4, everything ultra, 1080p, 60fps as a benchmark. Going to OC the CPU, but I'm a newbie at that so I'm going for like 4 GHz to start with. No voltage modification if possible. Probably will get into more serious OC'ing once I get comfortable. 3. Monitors One 27" LG IPS 1080p monitor, 60Hz. Not interested in multi-monitor gaming. 4. Peripherals I've already got a monitor, mouse, mousepad en audio. Keyboard en OS are in the list. Thanks in advance guys!
  10. Added Windows 8. I'm hearing more and more people notice better performance in Windows 8 using AMD GPUs and DX 11.1. Also changed the RAM to low-profile models because the Scythe Mugen PCGH may get in the way of those gargantuan tow-bars on top of regular Vengeance RAM.
  11. Thanks for the tip, that does make a lot of sense. To be honest I got really excited and couldn't wait to get cracking at all this stuff, lol. Also up until two weeks ago, I wanted to go for a Sapphire R9 280X Vapor-X, but from reading lots of stuff online and friends' recommendations, I decided to wait till the non-ref 290s come out.
  12. I've looked at the Seasonic M12II, it seems everyone likes this PSU a lot. And I guess the 20% discount doesn't matter because the M12II is cheaper anyway. Guess I'll go with that. I don't think I'll be going for Crossfire any time soon. I'm not in a hurry either. I'm DEFINITELY going to wait till at least half way through January to see what the non-reference 290s will be. WOW, I didn't even NOTICE that Gigabyte board! Maybe I've looked completely past it, because I remember some friends of mine saying he's had a lot of problems with his Gigabyte board. Still, I'm reading the reviews and it gets nothing but praise. And it's cheaper than the MSI too. I think I'll take the leap!
  13. Hello everyone, first time poster here! I'll start this off with a confession, and you probably know what's coming because you've read the topic title. I've been a console gamer for the past 6 years. In my late teens I've switched over to Apple computers because I started studying audio engineering, and I'm very happy I did so, because I graduated and now have a project studio running on an iMac. But when I got one, I obviously couldn't afford a good PC gaming rig, so I got reluctantly got myself an Xbox 360 and had a good time over the years. But those times are over. Neither of the new consoles have impressed me, and PC gaming has been acting all Saruman trying to convert me and stuff. And he succeeded! So here we are, time to build a gaming PC from scratch. My experience: I have never ACTUALLY built a PC from scratch, but I have modified them in the past, follow the industry closely, and have the technical know-how and confidence to start building. I've based my current choices mainly on pro + user reviews, product scores, and bang-for-buck recommendations and some ​personal choices like the Fractal case. My current list: MOBO: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming / Gigabyte GA-Z87X-D3H CPU: Intel Core i5 4670K FAN: Scythe Mugen 4 PCGH cpu fan RAM: 8 GB Corsair Vengeance LP 1600MHz 2x4GB GPU: AMD Radeon R9 290 non-reference model (TBD in January, probably Sapphire) SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 120 GB HDD: Western Digital 1.5TB HDD I've taken out of an old My Book Elite external HDD I don't use CASE: Fractal Design R4 w/ window (includes 2 case fans) PSU: Corsair RM650 modular PSU -> Seasonic M12II 620W modular PSU Samsung whatever DVD drive OS: Windows 8 Now, the parts highlighted in BLUE are parts I'm able to get a 20% discount on, through my job at a consumer electronics store. This basically goes for ANY product from Samsung (SSDs only), Corsair, Western Digital and Sapphire. Updates following LTT awesomeness are in red. 1. Budget & Location I'm from the Netherlands and I use Euros. My current list is worth about € 1100 to 1200 euros, which to the current rates would be about $1500 USD, but prices don't work that way here. The components are more expensive than in the United States. So $1200 to $1300 US dollars is a good target for me. 2. Aim Well as I've told you I use Apple stuff – I know, I know – so I will use my Gaming PC build ONLY for gaming. All my productivity is done elsewhere. What SORT of gaming is a tricky one – it's very diverse. I like casual shooters like CoD and I used to play Battlefield a lot back in the day. I also very much enjoy sim games like SimCity, but on the other hand I'm a big Elder Scrolls fan, so I intend to play a lot of Skyrim with mods. To give you guys something concrete: let's say I want to play Battlefield 4 with everything on ultra at 1080p. I think that gives me enough power to play all easy-on-the-specs and back-catalog games but also the newest games on very high settings for the coming years. I also want to be able to easily upgrade my rig in the future. This will also be the first PC I'm going to overclock the CPU and graphics card. But not too much... 3. Monitors I have one 27" LG IPS277 running a 1920x1080 resolution. I'm not interested in multi-monitor. 4. Peripherals I have everything except a gaming keyboard. But that is excluded from budget. It's all about the rig for now. 5. Why are you upgrading? See intro. Any tips and insight will be very much appreciated guys! Thanks! Jesper
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