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Update:
 
 
Source: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ubisoft-denies-it-lowered-ps4-specs-on-assassins-c/1100-6422784/
 
Original:
 
Ubisoft does it again. Now they do it with Assassin's Creed where they hold back the PS4 to have parity.
 
 
 
Source: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=907457
 
 
Bonus:
 

 

It`s a very very old game, so no problem and I had a great time playing it!

just heard it on The Tek. It's scary because that interent throttleing arguments from the ISPs are starting to make sense.

But as I already pointed out, people with systems using old hardware like that more than likely are not running an operating system that can actually use that much RAM. If you have a Core2Duo, and/or DDR2 RAM, it's unlikely that you have a 64-bit OS. Not impossible, but very unlikely. That kind of hardware would struggle just to run the OS.

Wait. There's more...
Some unwanted games:
Origin On the House: Wing Commander 3
Steam: Space Hack
DLH (Steam Keys): East India Company Gold
                               Enclave
 
IndieGala: Frozen Hearth
 
I know most of them are waste, but free is free..
 
Just typed so as to other dumb people will know about it...
 
I don't know if there's any more shit going around here...

I really like the crucial m500, good drive in my opinion.

You need the same GPU to crossfire... The 260X can only CF with another 260X, but the 270X can CF with a 270X, 270, 265, 7870 and 7850. 

Blast from the past, just a short time ago.
 
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Ignite-Engine-FIFA-E3-2013-Andrerw-Wilson,23139.html
 
"the current PC hardware platform in the standard desktop isn’t enough to power the Ignite engine".
"So could I see the potential for EA Sports Ignite to make it to PC in the future? Yes, I think it's possible, but a couple of things need to happen," said Wilson. First the current mainstream PC needs to catch up on a hardware level."
 
I would like to personally congratulate everyone who stepped up to the Q6600 which debuted in January of 2007 so that they could play on the almighty ignite engine. I would also like to congratulate the people who are sporting 2011 stock I5's so they can max it out on their GTX 650. We all know that the 750Ti can run Titanfall at 1080p at better graphical settings then the Xbox One. Guess that would be overkill. I am glad Nvidia stepped up and produced the GTX 750ti so we could enjoy these games. I think we should all thank Nvidia for this powerhouse card that "caught up" and surpassed the consoles..
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/149-nvidia-gtx-750-ti-unveiled-plays-titanfall-better-than-xbox-one/1100-6417813/
 
All joking aside I hope NBA 2k15 has their new game engine as well. 

I want NHL for PC, It is one of the only reason I would consider picking up a new console in the next couple of years

Thanks for all the feedback. I appreciate it.
 
One thing I really want people who long for the good 'ol days to consider is this: Have I really changed, or have you changed?
 
The timing of this post is particularly interesting since it comes RIGHT AFTER I uploaded not one, but two motherboard videos in just a few days... What is more "classic LTT" than a motherboard overview video? Yes, it's better shot, and I have a chance to gather my thoughts BEFORE the video rather than during it (scripting), but is it POSSIBLE that you just don't need to hear about every motherboard anymore since there just isn't really that much to say about them?
 
The reasons you see me branching out are not due to a focus on money, but because I believe in the longer term it will be better for the audience. #1 is that I try not to say or do the same thing twice if I can avoid it. If that means that I don't unbox all three capacities of the same power supply the way that I used to, then so be it. #2 is that I let my own personal interests and projects guide the direction of the content because if I'm not actually passionate about it, you guys will clue in for sure and then this is all just pointless.
 
I'm sorry to those folks that aren't as interested in headphones as I am, but the content will continue to be about the things I think are interesting, not just PC tech.
 
Also some of the complaints here seem to be pure bandwagoning... The folks that are saying that *I* have sold out to ASUS because *Logan* made however many ASUS videos with JJ... Are you for real? CES coverage aside, I've made 5 ASUS product videos this calendar year. FIVE. If anything you guys should be hounding me about not adequately covering them given what a MASSIVE player they are in the PC space...
 
And frankly many of the other criticisms are like that... Calling what we do a commercial compared to the older-style unboxings is laughable. GO WATCH THE OLD STUFF. I'M LITERALLY READING THE BOX ON CAMERA. I have no prior experience with the product. It is PURE commercial. Now go watch one of our recent reviews (bear in mind not everything we do is something I'd consider a review) like this one: 
 
Not a commercial. Contains many comparisons to other products. Ends with a recommendation against the product in the video.
 
As for us not going to Computex, quite frankly it's the viewer-base that spoke on this one. Last time I checked our Computex coverage last year got 1/2 as many views as our CES coverage, and cost our sponsors well over twice as much. You guys didn't care, so we aren't going this year.
 
CES 2013 coverage: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8mG-RkN2uTxynknFjCZ2YVM_RiBgde7-
Computex 2013 coverage: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8mG-RkN2uTyJKThbEAxoGGi8uXxNqnbb
 
edit: one more thing. Don't take the fact that I'm presenting my arguments here as a dismissal or to mean that I don't care about the viewpoints of my viewers. I truly do. If I didn't care, I would just be like every other YouTuber and ignore your message. I want our videos to make every one of our viewers happy. It's just not always possible

Purchased my sig rig April 2012 and always overclocked my 7970 to 1125/1500 at stock voltages.  Never had the guts to go above 1.175V.  Today, I managed to attain a blisteringly fast 1.2Ghz clock speeds.  After enabling non-supported overclocking mode in MSI afterburner I successfully managed to find permanent stability (at least in Tomb Raider) with 1200Mhz at 1.25V.
 
The reason for this post, well, I'm just proud lol.

Three drunk guys in a bar,
Guy1 : I walk by moving my right foot then my left foot that's how I make progress. (AMD)
Guy2 : No that totally doesn't work, if you want to make progress you have to move your left foot and then your right foot and that's how you make real progress ! (Nvidia)
Guy3 : I'm so drunk I can't even walk. (Intel)

So I was wondering how much the people of LTT protect their accounts. 
Personally I use different passwords on all of my sites, each at least 100 characters long, and gets stored in LastPass. I use 2 step verification where possible. The weakest link in my security is my LastPass password, which is only roughly 50 characters long. I am starting to change all of my accounts to a separate email that is just for accounts, and I don't send emails from it.

Or pci-e 2.0

If you have a line filter or line reactor on your power, then running dual PSU's becomes more practical, but still, it's very niche and specific.
 
The thing about batteries is that if you string them up, even if they all have slightly different voltages, etc, they'll equalize. Especially if you run them in series, you'll just get the combined voltage of all your batteries, but the same average capacity of any one of them. Running them in parallel, you'll get essentially the average between the batteries with douple the capacity. Obviously this works best if you use similar spec'd batteries with similar charges.
 
In terms of systems that use dual PSU's (Such as servers), there's power conditioning equipment involved, and they are specifically designed to handle two separate power sources. Also note that the system can be ran off just one PSU with the second being a backup.

My personal experience dealing with Corsair returns (Happy Ending):
 
 
Background:
I bought the Corsair K95 back in October 2013. Up until Beginning of April this current year, I had no issues. Until it mysteriously died on me.
 
 
The Quest:
I contacted Corsair via opening a ticket on their customer portal. I promptly received a response from the representative. They asked the standard questions, the issues I had and if it was the same result on a different machine. Then asked for confirmation of my purchase within warranty date (my Amazon invoice was sufficient).
 
He then issued an RMA request, no questions asked. I got my packing slip and address to send the keyboard. Corsair advise using a recorded deliver service with compensation cover (although not essential, but it was lost in transit, you’re fucked )
 
The only issue with this return RAM is that YOU must cover the cost of shipping. There is only one returns depot in the EU, and that is in the Netherlands. So, all in all. It cost me £35 to send it to them. Which I just said to myself, “Fair enough, the price you must pay to receive a new keyboard that is around £100”.
 
They received the keyboard within 5 working day, and I received an email 2 days later. Informing me that my replacement had been despatched. In less than 24 hours I received my keyboard.
 
 
Quest complete:
Hooray!!
 
 
Wait…. There’s more?
 
The next day my keyboard refused to work!! FUCK!! I was ultimately pissed off about this. Once I calmed down, I issued a new ticket to Corsair advising my problem with evidence of purchase and the ticket number to my previous claim.
 
I got a reply back promptly, again. The person sympathised and issued another RMA no questions asked. Only this time, he issued a shipping request from UPS to collect my dead keyboard, free of charge!
 
Yay! So now I don’t have to pay another £35 to send another keyboard back. Within an hour of completing my ticket request, the UPS man arrived at my door and took my keyboard away. 24 hours later, it’s back at Corsair in Netherlands!
 
It took about 2 days to process the return and issue the replacement shipping. So a new keyboard was on the way to me via UPS, expected to arrive the following day, Friday (Today). 
 
 
Conclusion:
Happy customer and a happy elf, once again
 
Apologies for the long post. I do tend to ramble and go into to unnecessary detail. But this was my personal experience I had with Corsair’s returns that I wanted to share with you all.
 
I hope this helped others and was informative to see how a first-hand experience with a returns went. 
 
Elven
 

EDIT: 3-4-5 what ever...
 
ALRIGHT! Here are the winners!


 
I will message you if you are the winner.
 
 
 
 
Hey guys I am here to tell you about a giveaway I am doing. It is an international giveaway so anyone can enter. I will be giving away 2 of a prize package to start. each package will have a 750ti and a Kingston V300 SSD (120gb) and more might be added. So here is how you enter!
 
Comment on this thread, and thanks for reading this and may the odd ever be in your favor.
 
Prizes: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2WswN
Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk  $65.99
EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card  $149.99
Total: $215.98
 
Last day to enter is the 31st of April, drawing is May 1st.
 
EDIT: I am not throwing in a copy of BF4 and Premium to go with it.
 
EDIT2: now* I can't believe I just saw the typo.

Long before the 290X graced the enthusiast scene with its loud reference cooler and 95 degree load temps, there was the GTX 480, the original bad boy of the GPU scene. Showing up (fashionably) late to the  party in Q1 2010, 6 months behind the ATI Radeon 5000 series, it certainly had a lot to answer for. Fermi being NVidia’s first foray into DX11, it was not without its share of teething issues. After being delayed for so long due to manufacturing problems, it finally released and took a respectable performance lead over the ATI 5870. But at a cost.
 
One fault that NVidia was not able to iron out in time was the heat, and boy did this card run hot. NVidia tried every trick in the book with their reference cooler in order to tame this beast. The most advanced vapor chamber cooler on the market, an external 4 heat pipe design, they even cut holes into the BACK of the PCB in order to feed the fan more air. But alas it was not enough. The card ran at a scorching 95 degrees under load, all while sounding like it was about to take off and join the mothership. And back then there was not boost clock, base clock voodoo temperature profile, power limit nonsense. The Card ran at whatever you set it to (a blistering 701 MHz at stock), and the fan would spin as fast as it needed to in order keep the GPU at or under 95 degrees. And if you happened to live in a particularly hot part of Australia, and it also happened to be summer, the fan spinning at 100% was not always enough to keep it cool. Resulting in random game crashes and graphical errors. At which point your options were as follows:
1.     Increase GPU ventilation in the case
2.     Invest in air conditioning
3.     Move to Antarctica
4.     Manually down clock the card to keep temps in check.
It was a simpler time. But that’s enough of a history lesson for today, lets get comparing the 480 to its closest modern equivalent the GTX 780.
 
Now the choice to compare the 480 and the 780 may seem a strange one at first, but they are extremely similar in terms of where they stand within their respective families. They are both slightly cut down versions of their architectures flagship GPU. The 480, with 480 Cuda cores, is missing one cluster from a full GF100 core, which has 512 cores. And The 780 has 2304 cores, while a Full GK110 core has 2880. And as far as these two cards are concerned that’s where the similarities end. 4 years is a long time, and the 480 begins to show its age when we take a closer look at the GPU-Z screenshots below.
 


 
 
One of the most noticeable differences is the amount of VRAM, a mere 1.5Gb, and the lower number of well…everything.
We should all be fairly familiar with what a 780 reference cooler looks like, but some of you reading this would have seen a reference 480 cooler, so here it is.
 



 
Notice the 4 heat pipes sticking out the top, the extra holes cut into the back of the PCB, and the metal heat sink directly above the GPU. That block of metal is directly attached to the vapor chamber, so don’t go touching it while the card is under load, unless you welcome 3rd degree burns. Also this particular 480 is a Dell OEM card, hence the metal support bracket on the end, retail 480’s don’t have this feature.
 
But the most important question of course is how does it perform in modern games? 4 years is a long time in the pc hardware space, but this card was at one point the best money could buy, and a 1.5Gb frame buffer is more than enough for 1080p gaming. So let’s see how it performs against a 780 in gaming scenarios.
 
Test System (full specs in signature)
·        I5 3570
·        8gb @ 1600Mhz
·        Sabertooth Z77
·        NVidia 337.50 Drivers
 
Benchmark Settings
·        Unigine Valley Extreme HD preset
·        Batman Arkham Origins 1080p, Max settings, 8xMSAA, PhysX off
·        Tomb Raider 1080p, ultimate
·        Metro Last light 1080p, Very High, SSAA off, 16xAF, PhysX off
·        Bioshock Infinite 1080p, Ultra with Alternate Lighting
 

 
 
480 average performance compared to 780 is: 39.8%
 
4 years is a very long time indeed. With the latest drivers the 480 manages only 40% of the performance on average of the 780. But when you take into account that a 780 will cost you $500 US new, and a 480 can be had on ebay for around the $100-$120 mark, that difference is not so bad. If you eased of the AA and some of the other settings, a 480 can provide a very respectable gaming experience. Standing somewhere performance wise between a 660 and a 760. Which is not too bad at all.
 
If you enjoyed this little blast from the past please say so in the thread below. I also have many older flagship cards from yesteryear (8800 ultra anyone?) if anyone is interested in hearing how the stack up in modern games. Thanks for reading!

So today I ordered parts for a NAS solution based on FreeNAS and 10Gbase-T (Copper based 10 gigabit LAN)
 
Why it seems ... a bit much maybe ... for the average user, I decided to go with it because of multiple reasons. To understand it though I have to start at the very beginning.
 
I've got a Mac Pro, one of the new ones, pretty expensive, very small SSD in it, since i work with large media files, an upgrade was inevitable in some way. Stressing out this SSD isn't the ... optimal solution, I would say. I still have to transfer lots of data to other devices. 
 
I've got a Windows workstation as well, some programs just don't run on Macs. But that isn't that much of a problem, when rendering stuff on one of them I'm using the other, as long as I don't have any render nodes I actually like that.
 
My thought process now was: I need more storage space, this space needs to give me at least 300MB/s transfer speeds (i would prefer something around 400+ MB/s), so a potent RAID solution is needed. Now there were some options:
Putting HDDs in the Windows workstation as well as getting a Thunderbolt external RAID case (Promise Pegasus2 R4)
That would be something around 2500$. I still have to get the data from one Workstation to the other. So i need a NAS as well. Transfer speeds would be at approximately 120MB/s, that's not INCREDIBLY much but it should do the job. Let's add another 2000$. 4500$ in total. OUCH Round Robin LAG (aggregating LAN ports) would be an alternative that would work with a performance orientated NAS. Round Robin though can lead to starving connections, and in general lead to lots of problems with your network. Additionally Macs do not support RR LAGs. Bummer 10GbE Ethernet with iSCSI - New network switches by Netgear and 10Gbase-T are getting cheaper and cheaper. It's at around 850$ for the XS708E, Network cards are getting cheaper and cheaper as well, starting at around 200$ already for PCIe cards. The Thunderbolt network card is available for 1000$ though, quite hefty. Then building a NAS or buying one with the option of adding a 10gbe card would complete the solution. When going for such an extreme network solution not using iSCSI would be such a waste though. I do not trust in the ability of Celeron / Core i3 powered NAS devices to handle block level IO though. So in that case i would have to build a NAS. So i started planning
 
Network
Netgear XS708e 850$ 2x Intel X540-T1 250$ (Got these ones really cheap) Sonnettech 10Gbase-T Thunderbolt 920$ Makes 2200$ there
 
 
NAS
Intel Xeon E3 v3 1265L 270$ IStarUSA S-917 Case 180$ (Awesome case, no built in 3.5 or 2.5 drive bays, just 7x 5.25inch bays across the whole front) Two Chenbro SATA/SAS HDD Cages 3x5.25in to 5x3.5in HDD 120$ each AsrockRack E3C224D4I-14S Motherboard 300$ (Onboard 8x SAS connector in a m-ITX formfactor + 4 RAM slots and a broad range of OS support, i am amazed!) Icy Dock ToughArmor 5.25inch to ODD+2x2.5inch SAS/SATA bays 100$ BeQuiet! Straight Power E9 480W with cable management option (Server/Workstation certified) 100$ 8x Seagate Constellation ES.3 2TB 150$ each 4x WD XE 300GB SAS 10.000 RPM HDD 180$ each 4x 8GB ECC RAM 85$ each. ZFS needs 1GB per TB + RAM for the system + RAM for additional services, and the more the better. Sums up to 2300$ / 980$ without HDDs
 
FreeNAS will be the OS, those 4 10k RPM HDDs will be running as a raid5 iSCSI target while 8 Seagate HDDs will run in a raidZ2. All in all this gives me a good flexibility, 12TB storage will be enough and if really needed the NAS will be expandable.
 
I expect the throughput of the iSCSI to be at around 550MB/s with high IOs, while the raidZ2 throughput should be around 700-800MB/s with lower IOs. I had the Xeon at home already so I tested around a bit with 1gbe, getting cpu usages of roughly 25-35% for 4x full 130MB/s from 4 clients to the server via LACP bonding (with 8x 1TB Seagate Constellation HDDs in a raidZ2) so the Xeon shouldn't be the bottleneck and will do just fine. It's all down to the HDDs.
 
For me it's a really good performance at a reasonable price. 
 
Once everything is here i will post some pics and keep you up to date with the experiences i made + some testing since it's my first step into 10gbe networking.
 
I would love to hear some opinions and what i could have done better.
 
 
Ahnzh

Toms Hardware already did this. Very little performance increase, if any in some benchmarks. Certainly not worth the time or money for most people, even enthusiasts 
You can find it here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-295x2-crossfire-performance,3808.html

Just saw this in the weakly deal at newegg.ca. Neadless to say i laught a lot haha
 

O hey I have that same back massager I stole it from my moms room haha

I drive a car
That said at least you don't have to pay for gas

Thats what im thinking as they already have a 8 inch Google play edition tablet by LG so im looking forward to see what this one is like. 
HTC should really look in to wireless charging for this one though haha.
I can take a guess at that it will have a nice set of front facing speakers which will be great.

I know a laptop can be used in motion, I do that all the time.   Just the way you stated it originally made it sound as if you thought that hdds in motion were damaged, which is not right. You have to introduce massive shock while the drive is powered most times to cause any major damage.