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Manny Calavera

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    Manny Calavera got a reaction from zzzzzzzhhh in AMD A4 6300 - Best GFX Before Bottleneck?   
    http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/part/pny-video-card-vcggtx550txpb
     
    its slightly better than 7750, but alot cheaper
     
    it does consume more power, thats true
     
    maybe buy used gpu?
     
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    "I know this is really late but this is for anyone who comes across this. I Had the radeon 7750 in my system and it was good played all my games better then my previous Geforce GT520....expect GTA IV and Crysis 2 were very laggy and unplayable on max settings. I just purchased the GTX 550 Ti for 109.00 with 20.00 mail in rebate so for 89.00 not a bad price (radeon was 149.00 at best buy). I play every game out now at max settings with frame rates between 25-60 very playable imo. Some examples would be :

    GTX 550Ti / Radeon 7750

    Skyrim - min 27fps avg 44-60fps / Min 16-20 Fps Avg 27 Fps

    Guild Wars 2 - min 20fps avg 33-60fps / Min 16-17 FPS Avg 24-27 Fps

    Star Wars The Old Republic - min of 30 fps Avg 60 Fps / Min 20 fps Avg 30-40 Fps

    Crysis 2 - Min 25 fps Avg 40Fps / Unplayable on Ultra Settings

    Borderlands 2 - Min 24 Fps Avg 40-50fps / Min 16-20Fps Avg 30 Fps

    GTA IV - min 16-17 fps Avg 30fps / Unplayable on Max Settings

    System Specs
    Processor Intel Core 2 Quad Q9950 2.83GHz
    8 GB DDR2 PC6400 800mhz Ram (I know old school and prob Bottle-necking me)
    750GB 7200rpm Harddrive
    460W Power supply
    Creative X-Fi Gamer Edition Sound Card
    PYN GTX 550 Ti 1GB
    "
    http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/341278-31-radeon-7750
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    Manny Calavera got a reaction from TomvanWijnen in Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500,000 cars, Faces $18 Billion Fine Over Emissions Defeating Software   
    Since this was really dick move from Volkwagon, i suppose they will just fire factory workers, cut wages and stuff ya know..
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    Manny Calavera got a reaction from Sithhy in Squad - new upcoming FPS for realism freak mature gamers   
    Tell me one game that runs crappy on unreal engine ( any unreal engine )
     
    It will run on a freaking cheapest gaming pc you can build.
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    Manny Calavera reacted to WaterproofBeanie in Budget SSHD   
    The only difference between those two drives is the total capacity. One has 1 terabyte of storage with an 8gb cache, while the other has 2 terabytes of storage, but the same 8gb of SSD cache. They should both perform roughly the same, but you will be able to fit more on the first linked drive.
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    Manny Calavera reacted to Clyne in Should we support AMD?   
    Since it's moving to 14/16nm, i would also expect it to be more power efficient and gain more IPC anyway...
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    Manny Calavera got a reaction from Castdeath97 in Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500,000 cars, Faces $18 Billion Fine Over Emissions Defeating Software   
    Since this was really dick move from Volkwagon, i suppose they will just fire factory workers, cut wages and stuff ya know..
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    Manny Calavera got a reaction from Sakkura in Valve: 'Vulkan is the Future, Not Much Reason to Create DX12 Backend'   
    Inb4 @ butthurt Micro$oft
     
    " We are gamers "
    " We will support games "
    " Games for Windows Live "
                        ...
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    Manny Calavera got a reaction from PlayStation 2 in Should we support AMD?   
    if AMD lied about 40% more ipc ( over a10 7850k ) then no
     
    if they didnt lie, that means it will be up there with i7s
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    Manny Calavera reacted to 79wjd in Build-Off Contest 2 (September-October 2015)   
    Does it have to play games or can it stream from another computer? 
     
    PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant   CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($242.99 @ SuperBiiz)  Motherboard: ASRock H81M-ITX Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($58.89 @ OutletPC)  Memory: Team Elite 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($35.99 @ Newegg)  Storage: Silicon Power S60 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($40.99 @ Newegg)  Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 390 8GB SOC Video Card  ($289.99 @ Newegg)  Case: Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced (Black) Mini ITX Tower Case  ($29.99 @ Newegg)  Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($44.99 @ NCIX US)  Total: $743.83 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-16 19:38 EDT-0400
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    Manny Calavera reacted to dragoon20005 in Cheap as chips ITX rig for church   
    i will suggest steer clear of the Dell OEM PSU
     
    first that is a instant fire risk!!! 
     
    imagine the whole church burned down all because of the cheap PSU
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    Manny Calavera reacted to KieranFretwell in Noisy P.C   
    A GPU is still useful for that. 
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    Manny Calavera got a reaction from iamdarkyoshi in Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500,000 cars, Faces $18 Billion Fine Over Emissions Defeating Software   
    Since this was really dick move from Volkwagon, i suppose they will just fire factory workers, cut wages and stuff ya know..
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    Manny Calavera reacted to Shine_Syahr in The incoming 380x. It should beat the 290, right?   
    I see it that way too. If it performs very close to a 290 or similar. I'd get the 380x. Since it's a newer card. It is interesting to see what the performance of the 380x would be.
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    Manny Calavera reacted to deviant88 in Valve: 'Vulkan is the Future, Not Much Reason to Create DX12 Backend'   
    "Windows Gamers are XBOX Live customers" - Microsoft 2015
    Get fucked ms.
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    Manny Calavera got a reaction from deviant88 in Valve: 'Vulkan is the Future, Not Much Reason to Create DX12 Backend'   
    Inb4 @ butthurt Micro$oft
     
    " We are gamers "
    " We will support games "
    " Games for Windows Live "
                        ...
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    Manny Calavera reacted to SteveGrabowski0 in Valve: 'Vulkan is the Future, Not Much Reason to Create DX12 Backend'   
    I like the BASH shell, if you know even a little bit about programming it makes automating things easy. If you're comfortable on a command line Linux makes it so easy to do things. Stuff like download every image from a site, make a copy of a streaming video, rename all the files in a directory, etc. Another big plus is there is so much amazing free software out there for Linux. Half the time when you install free software for Windows they try to sneak in a browser toolbar.
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    Manny Calavera reacted to SteveGrabowski0 in Valve: 'Vulkan is the Future, Not Much Reason to Create DX12 Backend'   
    Don't do it cold turkey. I have been using Linux for 15 years so I'd do the switch overnight. But it's different and not everything will be familiar to Windows users, so I'd advise installing it on another partition and getting familiar with it for a few months at least.
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    Manny Calavera reacted to Shakaza in Valve: 'Vulkan is the Future, Not Much Reason to Create DX12 Backend'   
    Hey, if Vulkan becomes mainstream, we can all shave off $100 on our gaming builds since we can use free Linux instead of Windows! That just got me really excited!! (Though, for people like me, I might still have to use Windows since I want certain programs that Linux doesn't have. Then again, WINE would hopefully work for at least some of them. Exciting possibilities ahead either way!)
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    Manny Calavera reacted to SteveGrabowski0 in Valve: 'Vulkan is the Future, Not Much Reason to Create DX12 Backend'   
    I also really hope so, mainly because I really do want to switch to Linux.
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    Manny Calavera reacted to HKZeroFive in Valve: 'Vulkan is the Future, Not Much Reason to Create DX12 Backend'   
    AMD has already developed a prototype driver for Linux, although it will be closed-sourced initially (but they promised to make it open-source later).
    You can read about it here: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/451982-amds-vulkan-linux-driver-closed-source-at-first/
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    Manny Calavera reacted to Trik'Stari in Valve: 'Vulkan is the Future, Not Much Reason to Create DX12 Backend'   
    I really REALLY hope that the Devs take this advice to heart, and support Vulkan in a big way. Mainly because I REALLY do not want to switch to windows 10.
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    Manny Calavera reacted to HKZeroFive in Valve: 'Vulkan is the Future, Not Much Reason to Create DX12 Backend'   
    The video in question (please watch from 1:41:01):
     

     
    Here's a full transcript, courtesy of everyone's favourite website, WCCFtech:
     

    As for my thoughts, I think it's great for Valve to push for competition, pitting themselves against Microsoft and DX12. We just need to get some good performance numbers, get developers on board and I think we're all set. Here's hoping that Vulkan will be successful, if not more than DX12. It's pretty much a win-win scenario for us.
    Source: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/47646/valve-excited-over-dx12-talks-up-vulkan-api/index.html
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    Manny Calavera reacted to manikyath in is 2GB vram enough for 1080p?   
    depends on the game.
     
    like 100% depends on the game.
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    Manny Calavera got a reaction from iamdarkyoshi in Xiaomi launched the Mi 4c, Snapdragon 808, 2/3GB of RAM, USB Type-C, and a 3080mAh battery for $200   
    Phones need 4gb+ of ram.
     
    We need to be able to run desktop games on em. Like unity 5 games.
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