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You can snag the legit Microsoft one for $20, but I heard mixed stuff about Windows 10 support (can anyone confirm). I have a wired controller too, and I might just stick with that.
Nope. Those are the only ones out. MS doesn't offer one by itself so you already know if it's fake.Can you get a Chinese knockoff that isn't a big ing 2006-esque dongle?
You can snag the legit Microsoft one for $20, but I heard mixed stuff about Windows 10 support (can anyone confirm). I have a wired controller too, and I might just stick with that.
Rarely come over here anymore, but read RG and bb go back and forth made me think of my aging 4 year old rig. I spent about 1400 at the time, put most of the money in the i7, it still runs well. some time soon ill pick up a proven mid range card for a couple hundred and squeeze out some more years. I think game graphics have come to a point where, at full hd resolution you dont need anything near the top 8gb+ cards, those are just for measuring contests and billionaires with 4kscreen(s) and basically 1-2 games per year that are made almost just for that purpose. Im only just beginning to really have to lower settings in AAA games, though Im accepting sub-60 fps some times, in most games its not an issue, unless the game is buggy to begin with. I think its just not as important as it was in the 90s to have a top flight rig for gaming, at full hd you can get a rig well over the rec specs of 95% of games coming out in the next 3-4 years without spending 500 dollars on a video card. though they are wonderful toys and its natural and necessary to push that edge...
I honestly wouldn't buy a $200 video card today. For $250 (or $230 after rebate) you can get an R9 290 that will completely destroy a $200 GTX 960 or R9 380.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814131569
Or for $300 (or $280 after rebate) you can get pretty much the best reasonable 1080p card out there.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125805
If you have a Sandy Bridge i7 from 2011 then it's more than powerful enough to not bottleneck these cards. Or do you have one of those monster Sandy Bridge-E i7 like a 3930k or 3960x? Those are still really killer.
Though if you're running a high end older GPU like a 680, 670, 7970, or 7950 I wouldn't even bother with a GPU upgrade until Nvidia's Pascal and AMD's Artic Islands cards come out in late 2016, since they'll be moving to 16nm from the current 28nm that GPUs have been stuck on forever. Now if you're running something like a 580 or a 6970 then you'd get a huge performance bump from an R9 290.
Last edited by baseline bum; 09-23-2015 at 10:35 PM.
yeah thanks for the advice thats my plan, wait a bit longer for the next gen and get something current gen for cheap, I wont be winning any measuring contests but it will let me keep gaming a good 3-4 more years with good settings
700.00+ GPU Club, you broke ass peasants
Buying a $700 GPU is stupid tbh when a $350 one is beating it a few months later.
Only way you're getting an official Microsoft receiver is by buying the Xbox controller for Windows, it comes bundled. Only way you're getting an official one by itself is used.
As for Windows 10 support, mine is working flawlessly with Windows 10. Plug and play.
I got my dongle by itself from Microsoft, but this was in like 2009.
Thanks!
(this post from my new rig, while Win 8.1 is downloading)
Well, your GTX 960 blows away my GTX 950m in my new laptop, but I like my i7-4720HQ over your i5. It's a littl;e over 10% faster.
Recently, I purchased a MSI GT70 2QF Leopard Pro. Cost me $1,050. No SSD, but 8 GB ram, 2 on the video, and a 1TB HD.
I'm making a trip to Fry's today. If they have the right memory, I'll go to 16 GB. maybe throw in a SSD as well.
I love the i7, but it's another extra $100 on top for the desktop version (which does have more cache). Not so sure about the 4720HQ being that much better though. Same cache, does have HT, but it's 100Mhz slower per core.
I would suspect it's slightly faster on Mul hreaded apps, but slightly slower in single core performance.
That said, all these intel CPUs are really great, tbh, and for games, which is primarily what I'm gonna use it for, it's plenty for now.
I probably could've gone with a 2GB 960, but the 4GB was like $30 more and it's a good way to future proof it a bit for a small fee.
All in all, I like the setup. What I need to get is a Y splitter for the fan connector. This mini-itx mobo only has one system fan plug, but the case has two fans, and while the temperatures are fine with just one fan and the stock cooler (CPU ~45º on idle), I wouldn't mind having both hooked up in case one fails.
BTW, the Corsair 250D case is bigger than I thought, but it's still highly recommended. Fairly spacious, and really well put together. Love the slide in drive bays (you get room for two HDDs and two SSDs), once installed, almost everything can be accessed without tools. It has one big, silent fan on the front, and another smaller on the side. All the fans exhausts (including GPU side) come with dust filters. Just a really nice case.
It looks really nice. I do highly recommend an SSD these days, even if just for the system. Once you're used to SSD's speed, it's hard to go back to HDDs, tbh
It's a good time to buy DDR3 RAM, it's cheap as right now and will probably do nothing but go up in price as DDR4 becomes the new standard and DDR3 becomes scarce. I'd definitely try to max my RAM out before the end of the year if using DDR3.
Damn, 45C idle? That seems really high, as my Xeon E3 runs about 30C idle on the same stock cooler. But I also have it in a pretty big case (Phanteks Enthoo Pro).
You definitely need that side exhaust hooked up. It should lower your GPU temps too, people with that case say their GPU temps improve a lot with the exhaust setup when they're using cards that exhaust the heat into the case.
I'd imagine the 4720HQ is significantly faster in workstation use, as the Passmark score is about 1000 points higher. But yeah, for gaming the 4590 should be quite a bit better thanks to being able to run at 3.5 GHz on all cores at load without throttling while the 4720HQ's max is 3.6 GHz on single and dual core loads. I'd imagine the full quadcore load turbo clock is a lot closer to the 2.6 GHz base clock so it can hit that 47W power target.
Don't forget your Xeon doesn't have a GPU... but yeah, I want to hook up the other fan too...
The 960, SSD and HDD, all report around 35C... that's why I'm not super worried...
Yeah, but didn't you disable your iGPU in the BIOS anyways?
Damn the 960 is a cool running card. My 970 idles around 38C and that's with a 200mm intake fan blowing on it.
I do, but even if you turn it off, the jam packed transistors are still there, so it's bound to be hotter anyways. Your Xeon really is the best solution, tbh.
I don't think the temps are too out of range, and I'll make sure I don't go over 85C on load. Probably hooking up the splitter cable will do it.
The iGPU is still there on my CPU too almost certainly, it just can't be enabled.
Actually, I was wrong. The CPU does idle at 35C...
Nice, I know the 250D does a great job cooling for a mini ITX case, but with only a single intake fan plugged in that's really impressive. I'm surprised your GPU fans are running at 1170 RPM at 28C though, I thought most Maxwell cards came standard with fans turned completely off below certain temperatures. Mine by default don't turn on until 60C, but I changed the fan profile to have them turn on at 45C and ramp up based on the temperature.Actually, I was wrong. The CPU does idle at 35C...
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