Recent content by xoleras

You don't have to give a reason. You can just say "I changed my mind". And that's that. Or you can say nothing. I want to return it and that's that. Take the issue with BB's return policy with BB, because there is no ethical or moral issue if their return policy allows a return for any reason...

This isn't a moral or ethical issue. If the OP had to lie in order to return his product, I would agree - this is a common practice among some overclockers who essentially lie when they can't reach the OC they're hoping for. They'll call the product "defective", box it up and return it to an...

So, so, SO wrong. Go look up when phase 3 of their frame pacing hit. I don't think phase 3 was even implemented was it? Let me help you out buddy: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7729/amd-catalyst-141-beta-drivers-now-available-mantle-frame-pacing-more The 2nd phase of frame pacing hit happened...

Fanbois arrive. That same thought just ran through my head, interesting. Funnily enough, this very website and Brent J. was very vocal about AMD's software issues with the Tahiti when it launched with NUMEROUS bugs in eyefinity. Microstutter never solved for 4 years (including cayman and...

Well, their return policy allows it. Not satisfied? Return it. Take it up with Best Buy. I'd agree to a certain extent when people return electronics just because it doesn't overclock as well as they'd like, which I think is stupid, but in this case. I dunno. Their return policy lets you return...

He has a 45 day no hassle return policy, that allows him to return the card if he doesn't like it. I'd say he's okay. Worse come to worse, he could simply return it at the end of the period if for some reason new cards don't come out. But i'm pretty sure new cards are coming out soon.

If you install the driver properly, no, no differences. I did have problems with flash acceleration on AMD's side, but that was more than a year ago and i'm sure would be fixed by now. Aside from that..........2d performance is literally like the GPU barely lifting a finger, it requires no...

Yeah, you can. You have 90 days from the day you bought your current GPU to apply for step up. IIRC EVGA offered step ups on the 680 and 780 on day one of release in limited qtys, but they both had wait periods due to limited quantities. They with-hold a certain number of GPUs specifically for...

Apparently to match their mobile GTX 900M series for ultrabooks (releasing later this year? For broadwell core-M? Shrug..). They wanted all Maxwell cards for mobile dGPUs and desktop dGPUs to fall under the same 900 family or something something. Since there's a GTX 800m series already, they...

GTX one?

This is not the best way to do it. You need to use your intel control panel and adjust the color saturation settings. If you're using motherboard drivers for your intel iGPU and do not have a context sensitive menu for the intel graphics properties, try using the reference drivers from intel's...

I would have to say that a 6970 to a 770 or a 280X is a big jump in performance. I used a 6970 and while it was decent for the time several years ago, there were some pitfalls to the cayman architecture. Remember, DX11 was an achilles' heel to both the Evergreen and Cayman; both of those cards...

Yeah, the only way 4GB isnt' enough is if you use stupidly high surround resolutions (i'm talking triple 4k or triple 1600p, and 4GB should still be enough even then) and/or using SSAA/downsampling settings so absurdly high that it cuts your performance by 80%. Given how pathetic the next gen...

Digital output has no variance, it isn't possible. When analog (IE VGA) output was the norm .. In the early days this meant that some cards had blurrier 2D images than others. Variance is definitely possible with analog / VGA output. In fact, I remember many people bought the Matrox Millenium...

Honestly, it kinda pisses me off when a few of my friends talk about how they pirate games. On the other hand, I understand. I was a starving student at one time as well, so I get it. That doesn't make it right, and that's most confusing thing about kids these days. They think they have a...