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After spending a long time thinking, I figured out there was only one thing missing from my life....  I was really missing giving facebook hundreds of my own dollars so they can put microphones and cameras in my house. Seriously though, "sure" they put a camera off button but, unless that button physically disconnects the power to the microphone and camera, it might as well not be there. I hope facebook paid good money for this video, it sounded like you were just reading the provided script from facebook. Where's the Linus that takes the whole thing apart to see if the button does any actual switching, or if it's just a gimmic to provide an illusion of safety?

It's all about heat as previously mentioned. Increasing operating temperature above 90C ish exponentially increases component degradation (such as caps and mosfets to some degree). Cards such as the GT 220 and all those other old cards ran cool because they relatively consumed almost no power and ran cool. If the VRMs and core run cool, it will likely last a very long time

The blade stealth: so thin, so portable. Just like Linus' receding hairline and toupee

2 hours ago, FriendKiller96 said:

That's actually what I'm doing right now. Temps went from 94C to 74C on full load for top card.
The temp in my room is about 83F.

Now that I know how to solve, I need to know where to put a fan in this case... and how as all my pan plugs on my motherboard are taken up. X.x

Get a PWM splitter and run all your rad fans off of one header then

2 hours ago, FriendKiller96 said:

What is TIM? If it's Thermal compound I already put third party stuff on it.

Yeah that's it. set fans up to blow air across the GPUs so they get some fresh air. These are some toastly little buggers

I have the same card. Get a fan blowing air across them so they get fresh air. I just changed the TIM on my MSI 390x yesterday and temps dropped from peaks of 95 with 100% fan to tops of 86 with an average temp of 82. They did a shit job putting TIM on (it was bubbled over the die on my card), and they used some weird sticky stuff. Change it and it should help. It also doesn't violate the warranty if you're in the USA

My thoughts are that essentially at the core you can call all FPS games a reskin of any other FPS game. The only real difference in FPS games is whether or not all the guns are hitscan or not. If you think the game is a stupid reskin, don't buy it. Simple as that. Buy it or don't buy it, no one want's to hear '(insert FPS title here) is a reskin of (insert FPS title launched last year here)'

9 hours ago, FPS-Russia said:

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unlike 4 with it's even worse net code, how you can make that worse is unbelivable.

BF4 now has the best net code of any battlefield game ever. The 60Hz servers are was better than the 20Hz found in BF3 and previous titles

It's a significantly better looking game, new setting, new movement mechanics, completely different weapons. I'm not sure what you want. If you want some long drawn out simulation go play Arma 3. Battlefield will always be the in between game between COD and Arma as far as game play goes. And that's what the community wants.

No, the game engine will dynamically load an unload the needed textures in and out of system and video ram. This is why loading screens exist

10 hours ago, manikyath said:

every intelligent person ever would tell you this:

 

my bet is the second gpu is dead, and baking just nudges it in the right way to make it work again.

This

9 hours ago, Edgar R. Zakarian said:

Just an update.

I can find both cards in Device Manager, working JUST fine, and also I can find it on GPU-Z.

 

It just says Crossfire Disabled. As in no connection between the cards. What the actual fuck.

 

Can I somehow use the secondary card as my primary or something like that on a DUAL-GPU card???

Something isn't working properly anymore. In the words of Chrome: He's dead, Jim!

windowed version hit $70 3 years ago.

35 minutes ago, jaffer said:

lol i would love to ruin console gamers' lives. but honestly, they're just going to stay in the silver region. 

This goes back to I forget what game where they beta tested console & pc cross platform play but then removed it because no one could ever win with a controller

17 hours ago, foamygopher said:

Great for cooking. Lol

can confirm, burned my hand on a friend's 480 once

Currently using a 390x to warm my room, I mean play games. Pls give lower tdp card

3 minutes ago, TubsAlwaysWins said:

Liquid and what is hsf 

hsf = heat sink and fan. As long as you have decent case airflow so the heat sink on it gets some air flow over it, you're fine.

18 minutes ago, imreloadin said:

I changed it about a month ago and the temps seemed fine until about a week ago, wouldn't an improper mounting be more apparent in the beginning?

maybe a screw came loose. double check it

2 minutes ago, imreloadin said:

So I have an old laptop, a Sony VGN-FZ240E, that I've had for a while. It originally came with an Intel T7250 cpu and I upgraded it to a T9500 as it was the same bus speed and same wattage (both being a 35 watt CPU). I've noticed that when benchmarking it has started to overheat to the point of throttling with the cores hitting 100-102C, when I replaced the CPU I used Gelid Extreme thermal paste and I was wondering if some Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra would help dissipate the heat a little better to help bring it below throttling or not since I have some laying around.

 

Has anyone used this on a laptop before? Let me know as I'm currently mulling over what to do with it lol.

Change TIM, maybe you didn't remount the cooler properly.

1 hour ago, SSL said:

 

Occams Razor applies here. This sounds needlessly convoluted; so there's supposedly "components" that allow the chip to perform better? But not additional power delivery or whatever.

I'm a mechanical engineering students and have taken a number of electrical classes before. TLDR: More phases doesn't equal higher overclocks. Electrical chip stability from the power aspect has more to due with tight voltage control and hitting an ideal impedance than just throwing more mosfets in to the power delivery system. A mosfet is really just a big switch more or less. It doesn't do anything for power delivery than potentially adding unwanted capacitance and/or impedance to the power delivery circuitry unless the mosfets don't have the amperage capacity to provide enough power. However, being that 1080 is such a low power card, the power per phase is really low compared to a 980ti.

10 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

 

This has been my experience when compared to buddies setups.  My FEs are on water and the cards just run at 2100+ all day long if I want.  Friends with some non FE cards are having trouble staying around 2000 or just above.  It might be the fact that I'm on water, but I'm seeing a lot of FE cards holding 2100 on their stock air coolers.  Who knows?

Nvidia says they are not cherry picking cores, for the sake of this discussion we'll assume they aren't. The only other possibility is that nvidia knows exactly what components produce the most consistent outputs and they then built their board around the core. By picking the board components around the core's design requirements Nvidia's engineers, who inherently know more about the core then AIBs, can build a better board than AIBs. Makes sense if you think about it

23 hours ago, The Spark said:

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This, and Jayztwocents said the only cards he had that consistently hit 2100 were his founders cards

11 minutes ago, Psittac said:

that might be a good idea, I have a 380 sitting next to me that should fit.  I'm very limited on length of card due to the reservoir.  Maybe I'll just pipe the whole thing up with no gpu for now and run a 380

I think this is a good idea. From what I've head from people with a Vive is that the more power you have, the better. So unless you're buying a vive right now, I'd hold off on a 1080 till we see 2 things:

1): Retail stock without nvidia price gouging (there could be stock but nvidia is holding back to generate more hype (no 1080s = more disccusion about 1080 and less about RX 480 and 'exclusivity')

2): A Competitive AMD offering. While the 480 is this supposed great value for money, it isn't a high end card and for those going with VR, it's irrelevant. When we see a fully fledged Vega card, 2 things will happen: 1080 price will drop to compete with Vega & Nvidia launches a 1080 Ti (aka fully unlocked big pascal)

46 minutes ago, Psittac said:

So I didn't do enough research when buying my gpu or waterblock for my custom loop.  I found out that my r9 fury nitro is not reference.  So now I have a water block and no gpu for it.  With the Rx 480 coming out it should give me more options.

 

here are the options I can think of

1: get r9 fury x reference and use in my system, but I was told 4g of vram is a bad idea

2: get rx 480 8g and new block, with option to add another down the road (I'm not fond of multi-gpu)

3: get 1070 and waterblock.  Cards are hard to find and overpriced, plus I don't know if 1070 will be enough

4: get 1080 msi w/waterblock or 1080 reference and waterblock.  Whole lotta money.

 

My plan is to get an htc vive and I know that each solution above would play it just fine, I'm trying to think ahead at what the VR requirements might do.  As for gaming I will be getting an ultrawide monitor so I won't be 4k gaming any time soon.  I only play a hand full of games at a time, currently minecraft, the division, GTAV and will be playing no mans sky when it comes out. (might get back into world of tanks)

 

So can I get some thoughts?  What combination would you go with for price-performance-futureproofing.

 

Rig:

I7 5820k @4.4

32g ddr4 3000

Asus X99 sabertooth

Samsung 960pro nvme m.2 256g

Samsung 850 x2 250g

Antec Edge 750

custom loop with 60mm 360rad and 40mm 140rad D5 pwm pump.

IMHO: Either go for #4 or get some cheapo card to use for ~6-8 months till Vega comes out

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Since the announcement of the RX480, 290 and 290X prices (on ebay, UK) have skyrocketed from 200+ pounds to 100-150...

Because people are stupid and think if they don't sell now it'll be worth nothing. Same thing happened with 7970's before 290s came out. They dipped in price and became stupid cheap. Then after launch prices came back up. Mind you all that happened before the mining craze.

That being said, if you want to sell your 209 for 100 pounds, do it. Or buy another for 100 pounds and have more GPU power.