Recent content by JStrauss

Btw Headfoot I like the personal tag there at the bottom of your posts. I'm going to keep looking around to see if I can find a r9 290 with better reviews. Tower airflow has been noted as needing to be high for this one. I've got that covered. I'm fairly excited about my prospects here. Been...

There are a fair number of bad reviews for that particular gigabyte r9 290, but they're all over half a year old. I wonder if they have since fixed the issues...

Oh nice, I'll have to talk to the wife about that extra cost, but that's looks like a good deal.

Thanks for the input! In that case I'll probably just go with whichever I can get a better deal on.

My other concern was if I do get the 960 and run it with my 295 if the cpu would get bottlenecked. Though I suppose that's something I'd have to try and see. Can always overclock some. My tower keeps the CPU several degrees cooler than the average i5-2400 runs at with full load. Do you think the...

I appreciate the quick response. I've been using this 32' sony bravia hdtv as a monitor for ~7years now. Still looks as sharp as the day I got it, so I don't see myself replacing it anytime soon. I was hoping to save up more for a better gpu and possibly monitor but it doesn't look like it's...

I'm looking to upgrade from an old hand-me-down GTX295. Running an i5-2400 cpu, 16g 1600mhz ram, asus 98z77-v mobo, and psu is a cooler master silent pro 1200w. I'm not dead set on either AMD or NVidia, but my price range is ~$200. Considering raising that to $250. VRam shouldn't end up being a...