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  1. Plimogz

    Nvidia Hit with False Advertising Suit over GTX 970 Performance

    Not planned obsolescence, I don't think. More like hitting the box-front bulletpoints: "4GB VRAM, like 980, 290(x)!" The craziest part is that 970 was every bit fast enough and priced well enough that had it simply been a 3.5GB card from the outset, no one would have much faulted it. The more...
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    MSI 290x Lightning - RMA process [Updated: Replacement in transit!]

    I've recently been having issues (i.e. daily crashes, bsods, hard locks w/ sound) on my sig rig and uninstalling Afterburner seems to have helped. Meanwhile my other system (AM3, unlocked PhenomII + 2x 7950) has been happily crunching along for a couple of weeks -- since the last power outage...
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    Mythbusters DOOM level

    Mythbusters had a video game special a couple weeks ago. Here's a link to the www.discovery.com page. The fourth item (DOOM level 1) gives you a taste; I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but it looks pretty cool. As an aside, the mythbuster's fruit ninja rig looks awesome.
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    DP versus MiniDP

    same here. I hadn't needed (mini)DP up until my MSI TF3 7950s, which coincided with a many-monitor splurge, but now that I've got the requisite mini-DP cables I find myself needing full-size connectors to suit my XFX 290s. All in all, it's par for the course as far as VGAs, display standards...
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    [Hexus] AMD initiating significant price cuts for 290 and 290X

    Congrats EightySix Four! That is a sexy beast... Though what's up with serving up the very best AIB card for what was (afaik) an unspecified prize? somebody, somewhere was feeling mighty generous. Consider me jealous.
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    Radeon 7850 or R7 260x? EDIT: Went with the R9 270.

    Which cards will actually be branded as full-fledged dx12 is still up in the air, afaik. I'd say you did fine if your $130-ish investment holds you over until Win10/dx12 hits and everything gets set in stone -- it'll keep a good share of its value and you can re-evaluate when all the cards...
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    R9 290 CF pull the trigger? for 1440p..

    This certainly is interesting to me. I should say that someone going CF 290(x) may want to look into how the different AIB partners' designs stack up when running two -- my XFX 290 DDs are excellent as single cards, but the temps on the top card aren't great (which is to be expected, granted)...
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    PSA: Raptr hacked, accounts compromised. **Time to change passwords**

    Stupid Raptr. More trouble than it's worth, IMO. Anyway, thanks for the heads-up.
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    Weekly Stats - February 1, 2015

    Thanks for the stats!
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    Return GTX 970 for R9 290x?

    ^^ Mmmm... What I wouldn't do with those spare Tri-X HSF's of yours... *** For single card 1080p, that 970 is still pretty much the great card it was a week ago. (except maybe for SoM -- what's up with that one game? :P) The DD cooler isn't half bad; certainly quiet, and it keeps my bottom...
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    [Hexus] AMD initiating significant price cuts for 290 and 290X

    ^^ I don't know how somebody could be complaining about lack of AMD driver updates at the moment, when Omega drivers (which are barely a month old) brought a lot of good stuff. From what I've seen over the years, last month's update was substantial. Part 2 is, I believe, set to bring...
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    Any pointers on crunching Einstein@home w/ R9 290?

    It started off as something like 50% invalid tasks (for the most part Perseus), so I switched sub-projects to Arecibo and still got tons of invalids. So I knocked down the GPU clocks, even though they'd been good enough for Moo, Collatz, F@H and maybe some others, I forget. Didn't help. Turned...
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    GTX 970 vs 980, worth $300 extra?

    Tell him to put up the difference.
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    [Sweclockers] Radeon 380X coming late spring, almost 50% improvement over 290X

    Solid deal! *** I don't know about others, but I welcome a 300W single GPU flagship, assuming the closed loop cooler is quiet and reliable (which seems likely) and the increased power is well spent. (i.e, efficiency doesn't fall off too badly compared to a more mundane air-cooled, 200W model...
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    AMD Special Edition Driver: Catalyst Omega

    ^ Pretty much.
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    i want to delid my 5960x

    But this isn't a 3770 4770 4790 you're talking about, is it?
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    AMD Radeon R9 300 series 3DMARK 11 score

    Heh, somehow I didn't think you sold off previous flagships when upgrading -- though it makes total sense, resale value and all that. Still, if my suspicions hold true, it seems that you wouldn't so much be selling it as renting it out -- after all, it, or another much like it, will likely find...
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    Five Generations of Radeons compared!

    AGP ATI AIW X800XT? Cool card; I remember wanting one a long time ago to replace a 9800 Pro AIW which had drowned in a flood. *** So, which do you think history will remember as the better card for its time: 5870 or 7970? I mean the 5870 has some impressive credentials to its credit, but...
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    Any pointers on crunching Einstein@home w/ R9 290?

    I'm keeping an eye out for invalids & errors, as I am using the Omega drivers, and I saw in your thread that there might be a problem. The app_config.xml I somewhat randomly grabbed was set to run 2 simultaneous Perseus per GPU (w/0.6 CPU per task) and 3 Arecibo GPU per card (w/0.5 CPU...
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    Any pointers on crunching Einstein@home w/ R9 290?

    Like I said, I decided to go with two simultaneous Perseus Arm Survey v1.39 (BRP5-opencl-ati), and after attempting to compare efficiency with your completed tasks I realize that I don't yet have one of these validated. Still, FWIW: zzuupp: Application: Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Perseus Arm...
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    Weekly Stats - January 18, 2015

    Thanks for the Sunday stats, GLeeM!
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    Multiple GPU tasks einstein@home

    Invalid/Inconclusive WUs, you say. Omega drivers, you say. 3-4 WUs possibly more efficient than 2, you say. Hmmm. *** Subscribed!
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    Any pointers on crunching Einstein@home w/ R9 290?

    I have to admit that I wasn't patient: I came across an app_config.xml somewhere about the same time that I figured out what the "GPU utilization factor" settings did -- and, well, the app_config file kicked in before the web client settings did. That being said, the project seems well...
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    Any pointers on crunching Einstein@home w/ R9 290?

    I'm finding that simply running Einstein in its default state results in pretty low GPU usage. And while this is the first Boinc project I've seen so far which offers settings to configure running more than one WU at a time through the project web page, it isn't working for me.
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    Any pointers on crunching Einstein@home w/ R9 290?

    Yeah, I probably should. But I'm still hoping somebody has done so before. I suppose I'll start going through the sub-projects tonight, seeing as I'm running out of Collatz work.
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    "Gender Issues" in gaming - politicaly correct gone wild

    So I watched most of that video, and then watched more of her stuff -- thoughtful, insightful woman. Some of the above posts are obvious knee-jerk reactions, sometimes bordering on misogyny which are made all the more telling from the fact that the posters mistakenly assumed the woman in the...
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    Bang for the buck???

    I wouldn't say so: my 7950s manage something like 120K-125K PPD running @ 1075MHz, but barely crack 100K PPD when running stock. On the other hand, overclocking would be detrimental to PPD when you reach that point where you're getting invalid results. F@H, I believe, allows for one or two...
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    Bang for the buck???

    Actually, 280=7950 & 280X=7970. Also, the R9s feature boost clocks, which not all 79x0 did, though I believe R9 280X isn't necessarily clocked as high as 7970 GHz Edition. And I'm pretty sure R9 285 isn't a cut down 290 given that Tonga (285) has newer features than 290. I look at Hawaii as...
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    Any pointers on crunching Einstein@home w/ R9 290?

    I was thinking about Collatz for my 290s, but the server has been down for the better part of 2 days and as I'm running out of WUs, I'm going to check out Einstein instead. Are there specific sub-projects I should shoot for, considering the 290s? And more importantly, are there specific...
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    If you had about $150 to spend on a video card what would it be?

    How common can $150 used 290s be? No very, I'm thinking.
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    If you had about $150 to spend on a video card what would it be?

    If you're open to used and are within the continental US (always simplifies shipping) you can check out FS/T: guskline is parting from some EVGA 670 at an interesting price.
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    THe Sandia Cooler - Breakthrough in Air Cooling design

    Obviously you would exhaust the warm air and draw in (relatively) cooler air from outside. Perhaps I didn't make that clear -- the idea isn't to build a convection oven in there. Your point about the closed room is a straw man, in that your own counter example used AC to evacuate the heat out...
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    THe Sandia Cooler - Breakthrough in Air Cooling design

    This may be slightly off topic, but as it pertains to fluid bearings, and I've always thought it was completely and utterly awesome, I'll go ahead: From the Wikipedia entry on fluid bearings, pertaining more in particular to one installed at the Holtwood Hydroelectric Plant 1300 years! :D...
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    Witcher 3 PC specs announced!

    Yeah, the CPU requirements do seem a little wonky. I mean, the step up from a 3.3GHz i5 2500 to a 3.4Ghz i7 3770 is minuscule, if you remove HT from the equation. So do we infer that 8 threads will really bring an sizable improvement? That seems unlikely. As for the AMD recs -- it'll be a cold...
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    i have concerns about bottleneck need help!

    Maybe, but it very much depends on resolution and graphics options. e.g. You could absolutely shift the bottleneck to the graphics card by running very high resolution & ultra graphics settings. Therefore, you should manually optimize your gaming experience by lowering your graphic options until...
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    Playing DAI, can't stand the noise on my ref 780ti, are there any 290x quieter?

    I was under the impression that the stock cooler on those cards (Titan, 780ti) was extremely good, not that I've ever seen one in person, mind you. Although, and correct if I'm wrong, but I believe that they made similar looking, albeit inferior models for their lower cards. (i.e. without...
  37. Plimogz

    9th Annual Holiday Season Folding@Home race

    Good race! less than half a percent spread; insanely close. Congrats to the victorious Aluminium Allies. I, for one, welcome our new MegaPPD overlords! And of course, thanks to petrusbroder for keeping stats throughout and producing those nice graphs. I look forward to picking it up...
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    2015 Formula Boinc

    Hey guys, it's just another one of those BigFish/SmallPond VS SmallFish/BigPond situations, what's the difference, really? Don't despair! Oh wait, I guess there'll eventually be sharks swimming around the pond if it gets big enough... Hmmm. Good luck with that.
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    9th Annual Holiday Season Folding@Home race

    Meh, but really, what's the point? what's crunched is crunched -- for science, I mean. And with you and Mark doubling down on the Maxwells in the last few days, all hope for a tin men victory is lost... All hail our Aluminum Allies Maxwell-folding Million+ PPD overlords.
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    [AMD] World's First Shipping FreeSync-Enabled Displays (CES)

    Ooooh, that 3440×1440 34" Freesync IPS is going to haunt my dreams. *** And damnit! it seems the answer to my implied question in a previous thread (http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2313933&highlight=) should've been 'can you wait 2 years?'. *** How much do you guys figure these...