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So yeah, as a fellow owner of a Lightning 290x, can I say I'm jelly?

Going to be coming to you a lot when I'm doing my custom loop.

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The thing is, doing the loop first doesn't really make sense, as buying a second 290x is cheaper than the custom loop that would cost $700 then add in an air 540 and it's like $850 basically.

It makes more sense to buy two 970s in terms of heat + power consumption + less cables to manage + easier airflow and more performance.

 

 

The thing is, say I buy another 290x + 4k monitor,  I'd have to worry about heat & noise the entire time, versus selling my 290x+block and buying two 970+ 4k monitor, I dont have to worry about heat or noise until I get my custom loop done.

You won't fit two Lightning's in there without severe heat throttling. Trust me, I did it and had to move up to something bigger. The HDD trays on the bottom of the 540 will prevent you from putting a second three slot card into the computer.

I actually took one of mine out and it ran better with a single card, it was so bad.

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You won't fit two Lightning's in there without severe heat throttling. Trust me, I did it and had to move up to something bigger. The HDD trays on the bottom of the 540 will prevent you from putting a second three slot card into the computer.

I actually took one of mine out and it ran better with a single card, it was so bad.

Is that only with the hdd installed? Or what?

 

 

My friend sent me this from a google images search, but my top card would be one slot lower because of my top slot on my mobo being a pci-e x1, so it appears the cards will have to be squished together, or I'll have to remove the HDD cages?

 

I don't have any HDD's,(nor do I plan on getting any) so that wouldn't be an issue.

 

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Is that only with the hdd installed? Or what?

 

 

My friend sent me this from a google images search, but my top card would be one slot lower because of my top slot on my mobo being a pci-e x1, so it appears the cards will have to be squished together, or I'll have to remove the HDD cages?

 

I don't have any HDD's,(nor do I plan on getting any) so that wouldn't be an issue.

 

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Yeah, If your slots further down the board, not only the HDD's but the tray itself will get in the way. I had a Sabertooth 990FX if that's any sort of help in your own there.

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Yeah, If your slots further down the board, not only the HDD's but the tray itself will get in the way. I had a Sabertooth 990FX if that's any sort of help in your own there.

So just removing the trays will fix it?

I don't have hdds nor will I ever put them in, so it's not an issue for me as I'll just have two ssds. And since ssds can basically go anywhere I don't really need the trays.

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So just removing the trays will fix it?

I don't have hdds nor will I ever put them in, so it's not an issue for me as I'll just have two ssds. And since ssds can basically go anywhere I don't really need the trays.

Yeah, that should absolutely work.

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Yeah, that should absolutely work.

 

 

Alright thanks :D

 

Good news I got a buyer for my headphones + amp everyone, so I'll be making a few small build log updates as well as a lot of setup updates.

 

It's a little bit less than I was asking for, but it gets the stuff outta my hair so it's OK.

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Alright thanks :D

 

Good news I got a buyer for my headphones + amp everyone, so I'll be making a few small build log updates as well as a lot of setup updates.

 

It's a little bit less than I was asking for, but it gets the stuff outta my hair so it's OK.

Yeehaa, keep it up you're doing awesome!

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Sold my amplifier guys, bought some AKG k712 headphones instead, and a guy is buying my HD800's tonight.

 

Then around Christmas time I'll have all this stuff: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GmdjLk

 

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Sold my amplifier guys, bought some AKG k712 headphones instead, and a guy is buying my HD800's tonight.

 

Then around Christmas time I'll have all this stuff: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GmdjLk

 

xD

 

You don't want Mantle? D:

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You don't want Mantle? D:

 

 

You mean the thing that works on one game and is like totally irrelevant? :P

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You mean the thing that works on one game and is like totally irrelevant? :P

Totally irrelevant?

 

Mate it's already in like a load of released games, and is slated for about a billion more

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Totally irrelevant?

 

Mate it's already in like a load of released games, and is slated for about a billion more

 

 

I've used it in BF4, didn't notice a dam difference whatsoever lol.

 

And seeing as DX12 will be released anytime now, isn't it supposed to be essentially the same thing? lol

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I've used it in BF4, didn't notice a dam difference whatsoever lol.

 

And seeing as DX12 will be released anytime now, isn't it supposed to be essentially the same thing? lol

 

I think there was a thread about AMD's Mantle, and how they wanted Intel and Nvidia to use it. People were arguing quite a bit in that forum, so you might want to read it, they have pretty good arguments too

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I've used it in BF4, didn't notice a dam difference whatsoever lol.

 

And seeing as DX12 will be released anytime now, isn't it supposed to be essentially the same thing? lol

Mantle was supposed to help take strain off of lower end CPUs and alleviate bottlenecks, it's not supposed to help us 4790k/290x guys

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Mantle was supposed to help take strain off of lower end CPUs and alleviate bottlenecks, it's not supposed to help us 4790k/290x guys

 

 

Then it's somewhat irrelevant to me still :P

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Just bought a Gigabyte G1 970 and a Logitech G27.

 

Once it shows up, I'll do benchmarks vs my 290x, then I'll sell my 290x+ block and buy a second 970 G1.

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Just bought a Gigabyte G1 970 and a Logitech G27.

Nice. What are you going to do with the 290x then? Sell it I assume.

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Nice. What are you going to do with the 290x then? Sell it I assume.

I'd give him about 12 bucks and a shoeshine for it...

 

 

If i had 12 bucks

 

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Nice. What are you going to do with the 290x then? Sell it I assume.

 

 

read above post ^

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Sold my amplifier guys, bought some AKG k712 headphones instead, and a guy is buying my HD800's tonight.

 

Then around Christmas time I'll have all this stuff: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GmdjLk

 

xD

Now, I enjoy my 712's, but I really hope you like classical, cause that's the only genre that is done justice by these headphones. Also, what amp are you now using since you got rid of the Lyr?

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Now, I enjoy my 712's, but I really hope you like classical, cause that's the only genre that is done justice by these headphones. Also, what amp are you now using since you got rid of the Lyr?

 

 

I'll get a magni modi later on, my onboard is fine for now.  It was about 95% of the Lyr's sound quality TBH.

 

Also about the classical thing, that all comes down to person preference :P

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I'll get a magni modi later on, my onboard is fine for now.  It was about 95% of the Lyr's sound quality TBH.

 

Also about the classical thing, that all comes down to person preference :P

I hope you enjoy them then, and I have heard very good things about the magni/modi combo, so it seems like you'll have a real winner.

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Tonight will consist of a lot of benchmarking.

 

http://imgur.com/a/IgF1n

 

xD

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