You all understand that prices on US webstores does not include state tax and shipping charges right? Different states, different tax percentage. USD174 in NY is actually $196, 13% tax.

Uhm, 2 pipes are still not in direct contact irregardless of the nickel copper plate.

Dell just announced their first G-sync monitor: S2716DG.
1440p, 144hz, G-sync and ULMB.

At first I was like awhhh yissss!! Then, I found out it's a TN panel. Fudge.

/waitingcontinues


*EDIT*
Yes, I know the TN panels on these sets will be of the highest of end panels. And yes I know IPS has its own set of issues too, backlight bleed and IPS glow are notorious on them. But damn, having used IPS for several years now, it is difficult to go back down to a different color gamut. It's just weird not being able to tell gradients apart, something which even the best TN panels cannot cope with.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Aug 28 2015, 03:38 PM

Good that the Asus PG279Q now has a definite release in Nov. Too bad they didn't go with a different panel and stuck with the same one as the Acer XB270HU, I expected better considering the delay. Darn it.

Not without extensive modding, the answer is no.


No issues here either. Win 10 and Win 7 64bit.

$899 USD is MSRP. But people are buying for $950 now. Here? Expect at the very least, RM3.5k not including the fact that our ringgit will bomb down further.

That said, early reports are not convincing, QC wise. As expected, because it uses the same panel as the Acer XB27HU the PG279Q are already facing less than optimum panels. Dirt sandwich in between the anti-glare sheet, dead pixels, bad to terrible bad light bleed, scratches on the screen and so on.

And no, this problem isn't a minority. The people who buy these type of monitors are already a minority, the fact that it costs a kidney and not being damn near perfect QC wise, that's a damn shame. It's still early days, let's see 2 months down the road and if the problems continue to crop up.

Nvidia is planning to lock down "Game-Ready" drivers to GFE sometime in mid-December. You will need a verified email add + install GFE and have it running compulsory to get driver updates.

Screw off nvidia. Go dai in a pit wet shit fire plis.

#goingtoAMD

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Oct 16 2015, 12:50 PM

Not about it being bad or not. There are people who just don't want to use GFE, period. Why must a driver be tied behind a software wall? Free or not, like I said, it's about choice.

For me personally, I just don't like unnecessary bloatware. Guess what? GFE is an unnecessary piece of software.


Pretty much. I find no point in using GFE, ever. I always like tweak .ini files to maximise IQ, instead of relying on in-game settings which in recent years has been atrocious.

I completely understand. Which is why GFE should be entirely optional and those who has a use for it, then that'd be great.

But why must it be forced upon everyone? I mean, like I said, I don't use shadowplay, I don't care about pre-set settings because I like to do my own stuff and you know, Nvidia's game ready drivers this year has been pretty shitty to say the least of which I'd like to cherry pick the best set and go from there.

Yeah. It's just another extra time-wasting step now to first extract each new driver available from GFE.

Nothing is stopping Nvidia from nerfing this setup in the next driver update.... just sayin'.

Remove the throttling by bios modding, issue solved. All Maxwell cards throttle, nothing to do with brand.

Err you just said:

You are recommending other brands because of their coolers, isn't it?

And the temps are safe thresholds. People bios mod to remove the throttling at ~60c and ~70c, but leave the 83c threshold there. Nvidia purposefuly did this.
Since when was ~75c dangerous?

The MSI Gaming cooler is perfectly adequate to keep a 980Ti under ~75c.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Oct 30 2015, 07:04 PM

Uhm to be quite honest, anything from Kepler and up (6xx and 7xx, excluding 750Ti) will bottleneck that CPU. But the real question is, what work are you doing in the first place? The bottleneck may not be as crucial as you think.

At 1080p, the GPU becomes the bottleneck with the 750Ti.
The 750Ti is just a slight bit faster than the 960m, it can pull ahead slightly more with some OCing.

So yeah, if you're looking at locked 30fps gameplay for GTAV, the 750Ti does okay on that.

Sure.

Please play until you reach Lexington and the later part of Diamond City, then report back. I guarantee you won't hold 60fps solid at ultra settings.

No man. AA doesn't kill performance in Fallout 4. It isn't using MSAA at all. Just temporal AA of which is post processed, doesn't affect performance significantly.

What kills performance is godrays and shadow distance.

The slow 512mb VRAM on the 970 is not really much of an issue on Win 10 btw, for those who still likes to keep joking about it.

Typical recommendation because one is a huge brand, the other is a who-are-they brand.

If you did a little bit of research, the Strix from Asus was and still is one of the worse 970s around. From the fact that its voltage is locked a lot lower than its competitors, something that even a BIOS mod can't reliably alleviate, to the fact that the cooler is subpar.

As for reliability... err lol.

You gotta set your expectations of "smooth" then. 1080p60 is not smooth to me, especially since I'm playing at 120hz.

If 60fps is your definition of "smooth", then a 960 can technically give you that if you're willing to drop details and not use gimpworks. Comparatively, a 970 couldn't give me 120fps consistently at 1080p on recent games at max details. A 980Ti was needed and that's with a game maxed out.

There are people, believe it or not with SLI 980Tis who play at a locked 4k30fps and they call it smooth. Go figure.

So, what's your definition of smooth?

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Dec 28 2015, 02:45 PM