a friend of mine also kena like you, he upgraded gpu memory just to play tomb raider 2 in windowed mode @ 320 x 400 res at software mode. I was using 3dfx voodoo2 that time can up 800 x 600 in hardware mode 

Anyone playing Dirt Rally and get inconsistent GPU usage or fluctuating clock speed? I know it's still in early Alpha, just wondering if anyone else experienced the same.

Fui yoh. Suddenly wanna go retro mode.

My first pc has 2 be pentium 2 300mhz back in 1999. Memory is 8mb and hard disk 40mb. gpu was nvidia tnt if not mistaken. My favorite game of all time at that time half life 1 with opposing force. Hahahaha.

My first PC is Intel 386, 2MB RAM and 100MB HDD IINM, comes with 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disk drives, running MS-DOS and win 3.1. No sound card/
Actually not my PC, but my parents bought for their work.

Then after many years got a pentium 3 533Mhz, I learnt from surfing internet on 56kbps modem, overclocked it to 733Mhz. That time the shops at kota kinabalu didn't even sell any aftermarket CPU coolers and I DIY another fan to blow into the CPU fan and cooler to make 733Mhz stable. No BIOS overclock, have to do it via motherboard's physical FSB switch and controlling the FSB multipliers on RAM and AGP. Upgraded GPU from Savage 4 to Geforce 2 MX 400, modded into quadro via soldering 

After that PC kaput then Pentium 4 1.7Ghz + Radeon 9000. I was Nvidia fan all that time but bought Radeon because better value.

Then in uni bought Athlon 64 2800+ and Radeon 9800 Pro. Was still Nvidia fan and got pretty pissed that 6600GT was out after few months, so dengki. lol.
I remembered so impressed at my friend using 8800GTX, he's in lowyat forum too lol.

After that AthlonII X4  635 + HD5670.

Now first time get the high end GPU lol, still AMD/ATi

I glad I bought R9 290X before playing GTA V. The card is absolute BEAST. Even better I been running the card at measly 1000MHz core and 1000MHz memory (VDDC offset is set at -93mV) yet the performance doesn't drop one bit! It eats measly 148W VDDC In and 125W VDDC out from GPU-Z. My system is as quiet as it was idle at this clock It still scored 127xx in 3DMark11 at this clock.

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You need one as a proof? Im too busy playing GTA V

thenu need to get one, should be cheaper than titan rite 

Mine is 78.1%. I guess ASIC quality reading don't mean much these days.

using lanun at the moment..lol

later will buy ori when it's lil bit cheaper 

still, even original copy users got the same problem like me, especially R9 270 and above users

bukan u ready to buy bro  , u better pre order it nanti no stock 

HBM is interesting. But knowing how they dealt with the challenges of DRAM stacking is even more interesting.

But here are my predictions;

- Memory overclocking will be quite shit. Simply the issue of multi layering DRAM makes routing and vias a huge issue and signal integrity and timing will be tight. But this is a trade of for shorter delays.

- Thermal management. Sharing the same substrate is an issue as thermal density increases, also proximity to the core which has higher leakage current than the mem poses thermal management issues.

- Price. Yields will be crap, I do not expect prices to do down until a process improvement takes place and that will take longer than the usual cycle.

Waiting for a beyond3d or Arstechnica article, but not holding my breath haha!

Black Magic Women? or the 4 stars ring benz?

yeah sometime new tech need time to reach its maturity.. im pretty sure when the 390/390x come out, user will find out the problem with the new HBM.. but maybe the prob will be very minimal and may not affected the real performance very much.. im going to wait like 2-3 months after the release of 390x and check ppl review.. if everything good, sure will grab a pair of it 

Black Magic Woman = BMW?
4 stars ring benz = Mercs?

lol! 

Not necessarily. The performance would be pretty good out of the box, just that OCing would be an issue. I personally don't overclock most of the time as I don't see a point to it.

Above all the multiple die single package system would save a lot of board space and increase density, which means interesting prospects for SFF systems.

i might throw my current u2713hm for this https://rog.asus.com/420062015/gaming-monit...z-and-freesync/

any comment on the panel used?

that is TN?