Kevin_Walter

Well then yeah, a 380 in that price range is a good bet. As I said, a 270x for $200 is a little high these days.

He asked which R9 card was best. He didn't ask which R9 card under $200 is best.

390/390x To be fair, $200 is a little too expensive for a 270x imo. It's a really good card, to be sure, but I paid around $220 for mine 2 years ago.

I have had plenty of success with both using multiple overhauls of various aspects as well as standalone overhauls. Playing the game with a bunch of mods like Immersive Creatures, Deadly Combat, Deadly Dragons, etc installed is quite interesting. It can be pretty hectic when you are fighting a bunch of Draugr that are all shouting at you, or when you face a dragon that is able to shout forth jets of fire from the ground. I've been playing Requiem lately though. From what I've played (about 10-15 hours so far), I really like it. It starts out pretty difficult, but once you start leveling up, it's not so bad. It overhauls pretty much everything though, so you really have to be careful what you install. I just think staying away from all overhauls just because of a bad experience with one is sort of shooting yourself in the foot with a game like Skyrim.

Been playing Skyrim with Natural Lighting and Atmospherics and some other mods lately. Been kind of annoyed because I really liked most of the textures and such from Tamriel Reloaded, but there were a lot of errors like mismatched tree lods and such so I stopped using it and grabbed some other texture packs instead. The end result is still pretty good, I think.

I know some people nearing level 1000 in Candy Crush... only taken them a few years of their spare time.

Probably knock the prices down a hundred or two per tier but force upgrades via lack of driver support for the previous generation.

It's an improvement.

No problemo.

I would avoid Tritton, personally. I've had two of their headsets and both of them broke within a year. The first ended up losing audio in the left speaker, and the second one physically broke. a crack formed in the rigid headband and eventually snapped entirely. As far as I know, you can use any USB headset with a PS4... don't quote me on that though. Also, yes. The Playstation Network acts like a store, the same way Steam does.

http://findicons.com/ https://www.iconfinder.com/ Sites like those can help. As for the red... no. Just use less of it. Personally, I would change the navigation bar and footer to a dark grey (almost black) color. Not unlike the header for this site... Color is always nice, but you need some contrast. You don't want to assault your visitor's eyes with a screen full of red as soon as they load the page.

So much red... Your social media icons are low quality and aren't aligned properly, and your navigation looks like it may be off a bit as well, though that could just be my eyes.

They could have easily separated them. Simply restrict running mod/cheat detection to whenever the online component of the game is running and forego it when it's not. Ultimately though, Rockstar is clearly anti-modding, despite the fact it's apparently pretty easy to do in the game. There are plenty of other online games available that allow mods... hell, some of them even have workshop support. Rockstar could take that road and enable VAC if they really wanted to, but they choose not to. Probably just too stubborn.

Steam uses less than 50 MBs of memory, and barely 1% of my 6600k while it's active. After launching a game, or just letting it idle, the CPU usage drops to 0. Compared to Chrome which is currently using 80 MBs of memory while idle. How exactly is Steam bloatware again? I don't understand this persistent hatred of Steam. I didn't like it at first either... you know, when a friend of mine first talked me into creating an account nearly a decade ago. Then I realized it wasn't so bad and I tossed my negative bias aside. It is what it is. If you don't like it, don't buy games that use it.

I know you said under $10... but seriously, the Eidos Collection for $31 is a ridiculous steal. I bought that during the summer sale last year in spite of the fact I've already played most of the games in it. But to meet the under $10 requirements, I'd say the $5 Tomb Raider collection is a pretty great value considering it includes Tomb Raider 2013. And you'd have plenty of extra cash left over (probably) to throw in Hitman Blood Money, which you could play to gear you up for the new Hitman coming out next week. EDIT: I see now that that is the Tomb Raider DLC collection, not the Tomb Raider collection. D'oh! But yeah, Tomb Raider was great. $5 for that game alone is a good deal.

"Your manufacturer is not valid. Please try again or contact support." Yeah... no thanks.

Yup. Pretty normal.

Yeah. My FX 6300 and R9 270X were hitting 60fps on ultra settings around Sanctuary at the beginning of the game on release. Then I started to actually explore. The further south you go, the harder it gets for your hardware to manage the game. Ultimately, I had to end up capping my fps at 30 and doing a bunch of tweaks and installing some performance mods just to get the game to maintain that 99% of the time. If I hadn't done those things, I would see drops into the mid-teens-20s far too often for my liking. Mostly around the financial district, and in certain select locations, such as around the Corvega Factory and in the Fens Street Sewers. Everywhere else was either 60 (more or less) or it would constantly fluctuate between 40-60, which isn't playable imo because it causes stuttering. Hence, the 30fps cap. Now I have a 6600k and a 390.Performance is obviously much better, maintaining 60fps the majority of the time everywhere. Oddly enough, when my framerates do drop, they tend to do it in different places, such as during conversations, where it will go from a solid 60fps before engaging in the discussion, and then dropping to as low as 20 when it switches to the dialog camera. It then immediately goes back to 60 once I exit the conversation. But turning off the dialog camera fixes that issue for me. Still, it's very strange. Basically, the game's not optimized at all in a lot of locations, which makes simple benchmarks difficult. Most of the benchmarks I've seen don't seem to get a large enough sample size to really test their performance. Like the graphs posted above... where all of the minimum/average (I'm assuming) framerates are within just a few frames difference. That seems like complete bullshit to me. In my experience with both barely-minimum and pretty decent hardware, the framerates are all over the place.

Yeah, it's kind of difficult to pick up and get into... especially because the noob human teams almost always get wrecked by noob vampire teams. It becomes a little more even once you get out of the "noob" servers though. Then you just get your ass handed to you all around. Some people claim the game is pay to win... but I never really felt that. Last I played it (which was admittedly several months ago), only cosmetic items like skins required you to pay. All of the weapons and abilities could be purchased for in-game currencies, and you got quite a bit of that currency per match.

The most disappointing thing about Playstation VR is that Highwire Games chose to use it as a platform for their first game. Does not bode well for that studio...

Nosgoth is pretty good... if you're into class-based multiplayer games.

My MSI is super quiet. Way quieter than my XFX 270X ever was. I'm guessing it has something to do with the fans and the blades themselves being quite a bit larger... http://i.imgur.com/coM93J7.jpg?1

Man, what am I going to do with this original Xbox, N64, NES, SNES, PS1, Sega Genesis, and Gamecube in my closet? I didn't know they suddenly became inert the moment new consoles were released. Shocking news... truly. No but seriously, isn't there a PCMR circle-jerk subreddit somewhere?

I LOVE my S340. $50 is a steal, that's only $10 more than the Source 210 Elite, which is a fantastic case for $40 anyway. I paid the full $70 for my S340 and I don't regret a single penny. The only thing is, I'm pretty sure the R4 will be quieter then the S340, which doesn't really have any sound dampening material in it at all. So if you're a stickler about having the quietest possible rig, then staying with the R4 would probably benefit you more. Other than that, I love the aesthetic appeal of the S340, the cable management is fantastic, and there's plenty of room for just about anything. I doubt I'll use anything else until mine is completely broken and they've discontinued them.

Well, I was hoping to pick up the first few Assassin's Creed games for a fiver each, but Ubisoft still has them listed normally at $20 and the sale discount is only 50%. I'm not paying $10 each for games I already purchased at full price 6-9 years ago. I guess I'll just be picking up Half Life 2 and the episodes and both Portals, because I still don't have those on PC.