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No, KSP is CPU intensive for the stress calculation between parts, before they fail. I wasn't sure about the gaming FLOP intensity between CPU and GPU.
So Founders Edition is just reference cards. No reason to spend the premium on them, you're just buying the ty reference cooler. Lame that they're charging more for the reference cooler, but it's what they did with the 970 that sold at $380 for reference (only at Best Buy) and $330 for the ones with better aftermarket coolers.
No, KSP is CPU intensive for the stress calculation between parts, before they fail. I wasn't sure about the gaming FLOP intensity between CPU and GPU.
Well, I swapped out the original GT 720 that came with my tower for an EVGA SSC (super super overclocked) GTX 950 I found for cheap. The 2D graphics mark didn't increase much. Only 15%, but the 3D is about 627% better, according to PassMark testing.
The tests aren't real accurate. not from a fresh reboot. The 950 test was right after updating the drivers available. I'm not worried about better test. The 3D difference is a very noticeable change.
I have two 1TB mSATA Samsung 850 EVO's on the way and one 512 GB M.2 Samsung 950 Pro on the way. I'll add one of the EVO's to my laptop, and the other two to my tower. I'll have three SSD's in it.
RandomGuy, it looks like the GTX 1080 reviews should hit next Tuesday. Now that's a $600 card but it should give an indication of how strong the 1070 will be, since the 1070 will be a cut down 1080.
Holy , Alienware was giving away free GTX 770s at DreamHack. I mean a GTX 770 is still a pretty ing awesome card.
I would have taken it and smashed it on the ground in front of them because IDGAF
Or you could sell it.
I'm really enjoying AC II (far better than the original Assassin's Creed), but that last tomb is ing infuriating with the double jumps off walls.
I played it a long time ago... but they were all fun at the time... the last couple of ones just got kinda repe ive and a bit boring...
Like the original? So is Rogue the last decent game in the series? I loved the first 3-4 hours or so of the original AC, but it was same ing over and over again for the next 30 hours. Now ACII is probably my favorite 3D platformer I have ever played (I hated Mario 64), but from reviews it seems like it's the high water mark for the series.
Everybody raved about the pirate one, I thought it was stupid as tbh. The game itself was on par with the others, but the pirate was just lame IMO
At least they haven't done a futuristic one like ty COD. I would take a Call of Duty with pirates and muskets over that Advanced Warfare bull .
I actually liked the pirate and sea battles, reminded me of the old Pirates! on the C= 64 but all 3D and nice.
The problem is that they rehashed that two more times in sequels, tbh
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The GTX 1080 just knocked it out of the ing park. In the Nvidia press event they were claiming 22% better performance than an X. It's actually more than that:
At 4k vs an X
21.5% gain on The Division
28.6% gain on Withcer 3
27.7% gain on Rise of the Tomb Raider (DX12)
31.0% gain on Ashes of the Singularity (DX12)
26.3% gain on Far Cry Primal
36.2% gain in Hitman (DX12)
29.5% gain on Project Cars
27.0% gain on AC Unity
So Nvidia's CEO was actually underselling the card in his presentation. These results are extremely impressive, and you have to imagine the 1070 is going to be a monster too based on these results. RandomGuy, man I would say these results on the 1080 make waiting until June 10th for the 1070 a must in my opinion. It's almost certainly going to crush everything else in performance around it at $380. The 1070 is probably going to be 45-50% faster than the R9 390 for the 15% higher price.
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1080 vs an X is an even bigger gain than 680 vs 580
Nvidia may not have talked about DX12 in their presentation, but they have delivered on it.
I don't want that POS 70 series crap, but I don't have 6 bills to drop on a GPU right now.. Gonna have to settle, but still a huge upgrade and for me my biggest issue is the 2GB crap with the 680..
I don't think the 1080 would make any sense running 1080p anyways. This is a 1440p/4k card. I mean 980 Ti is a 1440p card and this ing crushes the 980 Ti. Memory bandwidth will probably keep 1070 SLI from being a great 4k option, but it should be awesome at 1080p and 1440p. Especially considering how well Pascal overclocks. Get an EVGA ACX card ( the overpriced hot running reference) and you should have a monster.
4K from 2 feet away doesn't seem like it would be that big of difference anyway IMO.. 1440p seems like the sweet spot from that distance
The 1080p results look really impressive too
Pascal looks extremely impressive, AMD is really going to have their hands full this generation. They were already getting curb stomped by Maxwell and Pascal has corrected the weak points of Maxwell.
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At 1080p I'm going with a 1070 though
If I were going for 4K I'd probably be smart to wait for the 1080ti, no?
You'll be waiting bare minimum one year for that though. Their big die P100 chip doesn't go up for sale until January, 7.5 months from now, and we're talking $10,000 scientific computing and 3d modeling cards. So that P100 chip could see its way into probably a $1200 an by March or April. Then the earliest we'd see a more consumer priced version (say $750) would be three months later, so at the earliest June 2017. Probably more like September 2017 though, Nvidia releasing the 980 Ti only 3 months after an X was pretty strange and likely a result of them manufacturing it on an extremely mature 28 nm node.
Ah didn't realize the gap between releases was that large. Are you going with the 1080 or 1070?
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