Recent content by Nearox

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    Buy R9 290/780 now or wait for new generation in 2 months?

    Thank you all! I think I will be going for a used R9 290! However almost all of the used ones sold on second hand market are the noisy, original ones without aftermarket coolers. Questions: 1) How hard is it to remove AMD's coolor and to install a custom aftermarket cooler by myself? I have...
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    Buy R9 290/780 now or wait for new generation in 2 months?

    Judging from latest news reports it seems at least nvidia will launch new GPUs in like 2 months or so. Currently I play with a HD6950. Do you think it is worth waiting for the new generation? Do you think performance per dollar will become better than the current r9 290 or r9 280x?
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    Next Generation of Cards

    Thank you all!
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    Next Generation of Cards

    Been trying to find any sort of estimate or well informed guess on the internet but to no avail. By when do you think can we realistically expect the next generation of cards (or the next "line") by AMD or NVIDIA? Seeing as they recently brought out new high end cards like the r290x and...
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    AMD Framepacing Driver 13.8 review

    Will this also work for the HD6000 series (and the hd6950 in particlar)? In the reviews I haven't seen anyone testing this on Skyrim. Does any of you know/have experience with the .8 drivers in Skyrim in xfire?