re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

3DMark doesn't like my old system.

I fricking love my Sennheiser 598's I got a few weeks ago. Paired with the Soundblaster FX 5.1 mainly for the amp, they are absolutely fantastic listening to my massive collection of FLAC music most of which is 24 bit, and when I kick on a game that I need surround, the Creative virtual surround does very well in H1Z1, CSGO, BF4.

Overall, wish I made this move A LOT sooner.

I ended up getting the Blue Snowball mic too btw, it's great too for the $60 price tag, wasn't spending that much on a Yeti just to voice chat.

Yeah, battle royale, nightly usually at least a few matches.

And yeah they've been phenomenal with it, how every early access should be.

Maybe, but I did read a day or so ago that GP100 has been taped out, and supposedly it'll be the GTX 970 of Pascal, or first-gen flagship Pascal, and it's rumored nvidia will just be doing a top-down release. The taped out GP100 also uses HBM2 rather than DDR5. So the steam machines could just end up using another modded Maxwell. That's what Alienware did with their Alpha machine, basically a 750 Ti modified to use even less power. Wouldn't be surprised if they're modified 960s this time around.

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Also, AMD confirmed pricing for their rebrands: LINK



Much better than the $499 for the 390x that was rumored a little while ago.

Maybe to run two of them. Even the Fury's TDP is only 300w. With the 2 8-pin ports, it can draw as much as 375W. I much prefer performance over power efficiency anyway.

I just don't want to have to buy a new psu soon.

Well, 290X and a 970 trade blows currently. They're about even in performance. The 390X is essentially going to be an overclocked 290X with 8GB of vram. Two 970s will unquestionably be better than a single 390x. In crossfire, I imagine the 390Xes will be better, and the 390s in crossfire might be better than SLI 970s at higher resolutions (4K). Crossfire 390s could trade blows with a single Titan X.

I just want a 980

I'm just sitting here waiting for September and Skylake to roll out. i5 6600K will be preordered.

I've had a CPU/mobo upgrade on the backburner for a while. 4770K is doing perfectly well, and my other hardware priorities are expensive. Next upgrade for me absolutely has to be a monitor. Thinking about 60Hz 4K g-sync, but all it'll do is make me want to upgrade my GPUs.

I think I'll upgrade to Cannonlake in 2016-ish, which will coincide with one of my kids no longer being in daycare. DDR4 should actually be considerably faster than DDR3 by then.