meritmaster

Honestly, I would go away and spend some time learning about cameras, jumping into this is a nightmare, there is A LOT of information to cover, and it would take me pages and pages to explain this
 
Honestly Its REALLY hard to recommend something when the person has no clue what they want or even what they are buying
 
Things to learn about: 
 
Sensor size and type  = APSC, Micro Four Thirds, Full Frame
Focal Length = Prime lenses, telephoto, zoom lenses, Macro, how APSC relates to full frame sizes, 
Apetures  = how wider apetures help in low light, and blur the background, smaller apertures increase sharpness
Noise and ISO = how well a camera performs in different lighting, 
Mirrorless vs Mirrorred, = size vs capability, lens choice, portability or performance
Focus types, focus points = Cross type, hybrid AF, how many focus points etc. sports or still photography etc
Stabilisation = In body stabilisation vs lens stabilsation, 3/5 axis stabilisation, VR, OIS, 
Flashes = freezing motion, lighting portraits, fill flash, high speed sync, 
Lens compatability = which cameras can use what lenses, mirror lesslens adapters, vintage glass
 
 
If you are studying photography, as much as it is an art form, and as much as it relies on creativity, composition and interesting subjects, your gear IS important, and you should spend time learning about it
 
 
You could always start off with something cheap like a Nikon 3300 for <$500 and use that to get started, and spend time learning abuot what gear you want to upgrade to
 
you can then sell the camera for $300-$400 in 6 months to a year and buy the gear that suits you best

I'll keep building and using desktops as long as there are parts to buy.

I think you could spend your money better this way:http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/M8CPHx

I've reviewed them unfavorably (link in siggy), but that was at a a much steeper price point. I'd say they're definitely worth this low price.
 
 
To use your own logic against you, they used to be over a hundred bucks. 

Would like a group of fellow LTT forum members to join me in heists! Especially as the general populace isn't actually friendly enough to join random games, so organized matches seemed to be the way to go.

Anyone?

 

Dang... I came back to get the number and you removed it... good thing morgan freeman invented the waybackmachine

Shweeet, a Nvidia Shield Tablet for full price!

This sale should be called "Shit we have to get rid of, please buy it!"

So far this is what i see, and it's a personal opinion.

  Nvidia lied, or misrepresented their products. People may say how? Others will reply, and say it was how the card was advertised as a 4GB card, but that's not exactly the case. The card will reach 4GB in a game, that is not in question, it's rather a mystery why other games do not use the full 4, but some use 4, and some games use 3.5GB, so the card does use 4GB of Vram. The reason the card was falsely advertised was that Nvidia directly lied, or miscommunicated to their marketing team about the memory specification, ROP's, and  the L2 cache, in which the marketing team relayed it to the reviewers(the people we base our opinions off of about a product, such as this) the false specifications of the card. Really IMO we should be blaming "Techies/enthusiasts" who reviewed the card wrongly, and actually didn't look deep into the specifications or the performance all to much. I think reviewers should have tested t he memory speed, not just take Nvidia word about it, as that tends to be a sign for a bias reviewer,and a lazy one to boot, but all that aside let's continue...

 
 
As seen here, a person has a misconception about the issue at hand; othertomperson assumes the reason people are mad about the issue, is that people think there is 3.5GB on the card, and not actually 4 GB, but that's not why at all; people are mad about the speed of the memory, thus making it pretty much a 3.5GB card, as the speed is on 50% better than system memory, this effects performance, and in aserious way if you're trying to play in 1440p, or higher, but also with even high grade textures @ 1080p. The .5 GB's  GB/S speed matters. 



Example where this card was falsely advertised: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erf0kyU0NAY#t=993 (This was the month it was released)

What was false?  How he reported the the memory bandwidth, as he said it has "It had 224 GB/s of total memory bandwidth", but that is not the case as stated        here: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-specifications,28464.html "

 
 Who does this affect? Anyone who thought this card would be able to play games @ 1440p, or above, as this card won't be able to do such, nor if it does for a small amount of game, it won't in a year. People actually bought these cards thinking they could play games @ 1440p or above, as they were advertised with specs that could do so. There are even people complaining about 1080p performance, as some games have very demanding textures. I feel as if all these people were jipped, and lied to. 

Are you Canada? ASUS is a pain. Call again, make it clear that you have a problem with your board and that it is under warranty, and that you can send them proof of purchase (fax or e-mail).
Remain calm however, and polite, but just be strict. Be sure you log everything. Whom are you calling, what is their FULL name or employee id, log the time and conversation...

If that works great, if that doesn't, you can try the old trick in the book:
http://consumerist.com/2007/05/11/how-to-launch-an-executive-email-carpet-bomb/

Reaching executives, always makes thing shake up. The first reaction that they'll get, is how did that person reach me, found me, and think it is critical. Having a well written complaint letter where you share max details on everything in a professional manner, shows that you mean real business. Usually they won't handle this themselves, but rather ask someone else to handle the case. Watch you getting a new board.

Personally, I had a horrible experience with ASUS when my motherboard broke. In my case, my 2 Ethernet ports broke. Now, I didn't have to do the above, but I did have to wait 1 month to get a replacement board, which was super dusty, like no joke, even dust in the PCI-E bracket, and smelled like it was in computer where the people in the house smoked. Disgusting board.
Pissed off, I cleaned it off, deeply, but properly, of course, and noticed how super scratch the board was around some screw holes. You can see that he had trouble installing it, probably used a wrong screw driver.
Well the board did work, but only 1 of the Ethernet ports work, not the other. I called ASUS, and I was put on hold for 4h, and hanged up on the face, called back, and was informed by an automated message that the customer service is now closed and to call back tomorrow.
I did call back the next day, and I was put on hold for 3h. Then I was told that the scratches are cosmetic and not covered, as for the second Ethernet, well, "the other one works, so what's the problem?". Thanks Asus!
Then I was told that they can't do anything, as my warranty is out now, which is actually true, as it broke less than a month before the warranty ends.

A friend of mine, several months later also had a problem, his experience was far better, but still took a month for his replacement. The board was not scratched. and only a bit of dust. Great!
Until he build back his computer and the motherboard didn't work. After long several hours of troubleshooting, and knowing my experience, and ASUS was now saying it was his fault, that he broke the motherboard. He pulled his motherboard out of his system, and snap it in 2 with his leg, and went out to a local computer store and bought an MSI board.

In my case, my board still works today. My father uses my old computer, which is great, I guess. But for me, ASUS made it to the black list.
On my newer computer I decided to switch with Gigabyte. And I was impressed. ASUS now does it, but at the time Gigabyte offered a rich fully detailed motherboard manual, the board felt even better quality, dual BIOS is really nice (at the time ASUS had no option for BIOS recovery). Sadly, the BIOS is a bit slow to boot up. And I lost the looks (it was before Gigabyte had black boards, they were blue), and only get the bare minimum accessories, despite a high-end range board (common to Gigabyte board). I never tried their warranty service, however, but so far it is holding up great. My experience is the same today, then was when I got it (When teh Core i7 930 was released, so its a been a couple of years)

The problem with ASUS, is that their product are full of great features, good price, good packaging, great accessories, and everything is smartly done.
Has a reputation for also making great overclock boards, implement many features asked, really in the community scene, loves to do a splash here and there to impress people, and their stuff is generally good quality.
So all in all, ASUS makes very compelling products, and no wonder why they are so huge, and highly recommended.
But their warranty is truly awful, sadly.

If its fine and working then you're good. If it had shorted then you'd know, Spillage on the power block won't short your PC but could cause line spikes that could damage components, it would happen instantly though.

I also just found out, I had power strip plugged into the power strip that had soda spilled on it, so it would of have to go through both power strip; the only thing I'm concerned about is, the fact my house doesn't have a ground in our plugs, so that could be a issue. I booted it up for five minutes, and it posted, so I'm thinking I'm fine, but I am not sure

Try and get the liquid off, then because it is soda, use a 80% Alcohol or higher to clean it (because it is sticky :unsure: ). Then let it try for 2 days with a fan on it. (If you do not have a fan do it for 4). 

Downloaded it from the MSI website. (Found your PC specs on your profile)

Yep
I just did it then..
Climbing.....25%/35%/38% sits about there with lower variations.

Yes

I grabbed the manual for your motherboard and found the debug codes and found D7:
 

 
Not sure how helpful that is though....

It's all about that load temp, no idle.

I feel that the main driver of any economy is demand,  demand and competition should drive up speed and lower cost, not legislation.  By forcing minimum speeds and imposing fines you artificially limit the entry requirements for new business in that any new ISP will require significantly more funds in order to assure it meets the legal requirements to provide said services.  These limitations will reduce competition.
 
Until a demand is known, the minimum required bandwidth could be set higher than is reasonably required.  As compression algorithms and software become more efficient the requirement for more bandwidth diminishes. Without knowing what advances or innovations will be made in communication software/technology,  to set the estimated bandwidth requirement for a ten year period is more or less just guessing. 
 
 
Just my immediate thoughts.
 
EDIT: one more thought,  law should protect business and consumers from anti competitive behavior and anti trust behaviour, not fine a company for poor performance.

It would mean faster load times for textures, so unless bf4 handles texture calls over a server, (which would be very weird [iM LOOKING AT YOU ARMA]) then yes.

The bill you propose would do nothing but restrict the free market, limit citizens to what they can do with their private property, and create opportunity for the government to control the flow of information; this section, section, is a perfect example.
Under section 2, you lay down a plan to set a minimum bandwidth bar for a private company to offer to its private customer, but this a total break away from a free market, as this a aspect of socialist economy, or a 'controlled economy"; this blockades the service provider to offer a cheap inexpensive speed to a customer equipped with less money, thus making fairly hard for the little man to get an internet connection.
You also up the bar as years go on, and this shouldn't be up to the government, but instead the private company, the party who decides how fast they develop their technology, as they develop their technology at there own pace, as mistakes cannot be made; if a company wanted to offer 5 MBPS speed only, and never research to get technology capable of outputing faster internet to it's customers, then that company will end up being put out of business by competitors, as technology will naturally progress through the free market, like it has been majorly for 200 years, or so.
 
 
You then announce in section 3 a plan for punishing ISPs, you suggest a system of fines, and eventually a possible expulsion from the state, but this doesn't seem sane at all. The ISP would not be able to output such speeds for everyone, thus making them not able to do what is requested, which will end up in said fines, but if they cannot output it, then how can they possibly deliver? Since they couldn't deliver they will be fined, and eventually kicked out of the state, this will the leave the state with one less ISP, and probably a big one like Comcast, so if they could not deliver what you want, and when you wanted it, then who could? No one, and your state would be left with little to no ISP's, or for at least 10 years, if they even decide to come back.
 
 
  Well... this doesn't sound good at all, and opens the door to corruption, and abuse; this could be used for steal money, funnel it in to the "Gerneral Fund", and special interest groups in politics can use it for their own desires. "General funds" aren't always a good thing.

The bill you propose would do nothing but restrict the free market, limit citizens to what they can do with their private property, and create opportunity for the government to control the flow of information; this section, section, is a perfect example.
Under section 2, you lay down a plan to set a minimum bandwidth bar for a private company to offer to its private customer, but this a total break away from a free market, as this a aspect of socialist economy, or a 'controlled economy"; this blockades the service provider to offer a cheap inexpensive speed to a customer equipped with less money, thus making fairly hard for the little man to get an internet connection.
You also up the bar as years go on, and this shouldn't be up to the government, but instead the private company, the party who decides how fast they develop their technology, as they develop their technology at there own pace, as mistakes cannot be made; if a company wanted to offer 5 MBPS speed only, and never research to get technology capable of outputing faster internet to it's customers, then that company will end up being put out of business by competitors, as technology will naturally progress through the free market, like it has been majorly for 200 years, or so.
 
 
You then announce in section 3 a plan for punishing ISPs, you suggest a system of fines, and eventually a possible expulsion from the state, but this doesn't seem sane at all. The ISP would not be able to output such speeds for everyone, thus making them not able to do what is requested, which will end up in said fines, but if they cannot output it, then how can they possibly deliver? Since they couldn't deliver they will be fined, and eventually kicked out of the state, this will the leave the state with one less ISP, and probably a big one like Comcast, so if they could not deliver what you want, and when you wanted it, then who could? No one, and your state would be left with little to no ISP's, or for at least 10 years, if they even decide to come back.
 
 
  Well... this doesn't sound good at all, and opens the door to corruption, and abuse; this could be used for steal money, funnel it in to the "Gerneral Fund", and special interest groups in politics can use it for their own desires. "General funds" aren't always a good thing.

Pfft. Please the card is a bonus.
All those adapters cost at least 69,000$
Kappa

Because it supports 10 displays and only requires power for the PCI-e slot so you could in theory stack 7 of them together for 70 displays.

oops miscounted display ports, it actually has 8, so could stack 7 for 56.

cos its a high quality potato. 

So I was inspired by this post to do this thread:
 
For me, well i don't know, I haven't really retired anything yet (I am close to retiring my 750 ti) but I predict that I will preserve my whole first pc and maybe make a wall mounted case