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Time to upgrade from that GPU tbh.
Thanks man, I appreciate the help.
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Time to upgrade from that GPU tbh.
Black Friday pricing a little early.. 220.0 i5 3570k perfect for a new high end PC on sale currently at Microcenter for 149.00. That 70 you save can go towards a bad ass GPU.
Black Friday pricing a little early.. 220.0 i5 3570k perfect for a new high end PC on sale currently at Microcenter for 149.00. That 70 you save can go towards a bad ass GPU.
Wow, that's an insane deal. I'm thinking about upgrading my crap motherboard. Can you let me know if you see any?
Motherboards are cheap to begin with. ASRock Z77 for 84.99 here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157325
That will get you the popular Z77 chipset great for easy overclocking of the processor, plus the 1155 socket that will work w/ the 3570k.
I'm sticking with an AMD cpu for now though
Upgrade to an FX 8350 processor (199.00) and a new graphics card.
Last edited by DJR210; 11-19-2013 at 12:06 PM.
This has always baffled me. What games do you play where the sound isn't exponentially louder than the noise coming from your case? I can't say I've ever been playing Battlefield or Sleeping Dogs or Deus Ex and been like, "man, I wish I could hear these explosions over the sound of my fans."
Also, FWIW, I've been with AMD since my 8800 GTS (and 3 of my friends who were running the same card) launched themselves within 3 months of each other and NVidia refused to admit a problem with the card design.
Never had a SINGLE issue with AMD cards that weren't related to poor coding on the game's part.
That said, BF4 is crashing like a mofo right now. xD
NVidia's recall history is quite extensive too.
I don't know how to explain it. It's just annoying. I have a reference model 680 and my fan curve is set to be 5% higher than the current temp (for example 50 degrees = 55% fan) and when even at 70% fan it just bugs me. Also keep in mind, people aren't always going to have speakers on high volume, or want to wear headphones. I can only imagine a card running "normally" according to AMD at 90 degrees, it's basically now a GPU/space heater tbh.
Screw NVIDIA, always work with the manufacturer. EVGA has the BEST damn customer service I've probably ever dealt with. The "Step Up" program allows you to swap out the GPU you bought assuming a better model launches within 6 months of purchase, and they will also send you a new replacement card prior to getting the faulty one back from the consumer.
Any idea of the cause of the BF4 crashes? VRAM maybe? Is your 7950 a 2GB or a 3GB? Settings too high? Have you tried running as an admin, or disabling any overlay programs like Precision X (gives me problems on a few games, namely modded Skyrim and Deadpool) or MSI afterburner?
All products will have their problems, but based on reading years of people's posts on tech websites, AMD users seem to have quite a bit more problems.
Last edited by DJR210; 11-21-2013 at 04:48 PM.
Hurried code. They pushed it through too fast. BF4 crashes a lot for *everyone* AFAIK. Though I played yesterday and I think I only had one crash the entire time, so it seems to be abating slightly.
I'm a little biased, I took some ty calls during two huge NVidia recalls for laptop vid cards.
Yeah, I've heard about a load of bugs. Glad I didn't buy that tbh, I'll wait until it's on sale.
you did customer service for Nvidia?
No, but I work for a company that uses them as an option a lot of the time.
Dell I'm guessing?
Apple. Repair related supervisor requests. It sucked.
So MBP's do have their share of issues contrary to the common belief I see.
that's where the award winning service steps in!
I think they ditched NVidia for a few years after. All the big companies were hit pretty hard by that, as well as the Sony lithium battery thing.
Side-topic: How many years is a cost-effective refresh of PC? With godly specs of parts today, it seems that a good rig is future-proof for five years on average.
You can hang on to various parts for various times. A good mobo can last you two chips in my experience - 3-4 years. When i gamed, i generally upgraded my vid card 12-18 months depending on deals i would find.
First, no such thing as future proofing. Second, if you're not a gamer having your PC refreshed is much easier. , an SSD with your OS freshly installed on it will make you feel like you have a brand new PC. Things get more difficult to refresh for gaming purposes as you may have to upgrade the processor, and to upgrade the processor you need to upgrade the board, and the new board requires different RAM, and so on.
NZXT Lexa S Gaming Case
Intel i5-2500k cpu
EVGA Geforce GTX 580
8 GB Kingston Hyper X system memory
120 GB Kingston Hyper X SSD
Cooler Master 700W Power Supply
This baby runs anything I throw at it on Ultra Settings and this rig is 3 years old
Last edited by illusioNtEk; 12-08-2013 at 03:49 AM.
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