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Yeah, but I'm feeling if it ever comes out, it'll be more like end of the year. I wouldn't mind waiting that long, but I have no assurance that the 6gb will even exist. And beside the 4 vs 6 gb deal, I'm also really miffed because kepler, when it was first released, was awful for gpu compute...

I'm not talking about games, I'm talking about rendering scenes I modeled with millions of polygons and many large textures with a raytracer like cycles or octane which has to load an entire scene into the vram. Using Blender, which is like max or maya if you've heard of those. The scenes are...

4GB is for rendering of 3D scenes with blender's cycles and / or octane render. I would need as much vram as possible. I'm so pissed at nvidia for prohibiting the 6GB 780. I'm not going to get a damn $1000 titan just for 2gb more ram. The worst part is it's not clear if they're ever going to...

Gigabyte 770 4gb $450 EVGA 770 4gb $510 Seems like an obvious choice; the gigabyte has 5 stars on both amazon and newegg. I've been around long enough to know evga has the best reputation; I have three video cards, a mobo, and a psu from them. But in reality is there any reason to believe the...

k240 ought to be much nicer. It's in a higher price group imo (around 100, $72 right now on amazon though) and has a wider frequency response, but they're rated about the same. It's semi-open though, where the m30 is closed. That means it should seem to have a wider sound stage and enhance sound...

If the other guy's ram doesn't suit you I've got a spare G.skill 3x2GB 1600 1.5-1.6V w/ the aluminum heat spreaders. It came in a triple channel kit but you can just use two of them. I don't know if I'd be willing to let it go, though, since it sells so cheap. You know you can get it on newegg...

I OC'ed my phenom 970 to 4 GHz with a couple of G.Skill sticks spec'd at 1.5-1.6V 1600 9-9-9-24-2T but running at 1066 9-9-9-24-2T 1.5V for the sake of stability. I swapped out my G.Skills with Kingstons of the same exact specs (changed from 2 to 4GB sticks) and same settings, and all of a...

I saw that thread, the only responses you got were 'yes,' 'gpuz said so,' and the future-phobic 'herf derf new DX's don't introduce much so you shouldn't want them,' so i went looking for word from a more reputable source (I trust gpuz/techpowerup, but I wanted to see if nvidia had anything to...

I found this http://www./whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-301.42-whql-drivers-released/ which says this under bug fixes: So the 600 series should definitely have DX 11.1 support, right? And there was that slide on HardOCP of AMD saying 11.1 will come with a catalyst update, so it should be...

That's what I was going to say. Normally you get OpenCL drivers for all your non-cpu devices (really only gpus afaik). They don't make OpenCL drivers for the cpu, so it sounds like it's talking about an intel iGPU. Did you/can you disable the iGPU in the motherboard? You're using the 7950 as the...

AFAIK, you have to have all PCIe 3 parts to use PCIe 3 bandwidth, including the CPU, motherboard's pci slots, and GPU. My question is, if I had a mobo with several PCIe 3 slots, and I used a PCIe 2 GPU, would it force all of the PCIe slots to use vers. 2, or just the one slot? Does it depend on...

Well then my only question is on the reliability of the CX series... I feel like corsair introduced that line as their low-quality budget brand, and it seems to have higher failure rates than the other series (at least according to the newegg reviews). Looky Here. The Seasonic sounds more...

I'm making a server that's going to stay up 24/7. It's going to have a Phenom II x4 955 BE (125W) at stock speed, and up to 5 7200 RPM hard drives (Samsung Spinpoint 1TB, tom's says 8 Watts max). The processor may be upgraded to bulldozer later on as well, though that won't take more power...

I bought a GA-78LMT-S2P even though the memory support list is dismal (only three 4gb sticks supported, none of which is actually sold!). I tried putting in a Gskill ripjaws 4gb stick, and it booted up and ran just fine, but all the tests I ran (prime95, OCCT, superpi, memtest86...) stopped and...

This has probably been posted already, but here's a roadmap that I found a few months ago In addition to sandy bridge they're working on haswell and larrabee.

Well my friend's looking to build a high end computer soon, but I'm considering telling him to wait for the next series of cards because it'll last into the era of directx 11 and perhaps a bit beyond. If the cards come out within a few months, I think it'll probably be worth the wait. And, I've...

I apologize in advance if this thread is out of line or if it's already up, but I didn't find it. Is there any official release date on the next generation of video cards/the directx 11 supporting cards? I think they're the GTX 300 and radeon HD 5000 series. I've heard that they should be out by...

I have a gtx 275 and I was able to connect my computer to both my 21" 1080p monitor and my 1080p 52" TV with only one slight problem. I could play a game on one and use a browser on another, or even two games at once. I didn't even use the nvidia control panel or any other software, I just...

I'd say stick with 6 Gb. I recently built an i7 pc with 6 Gb of G.skill memory. It was all recognized, but when I ran a prime95 test and an AVG virus scan and tried playing farcry 2 all at once, the computer didn't use more than 3.75 Gb, so I doubt more than 6 is necessary. The only reason...

Yeah, unfortunately the money tree in my backyard died, so I'm sticking to $200 or less =P I found the SAMSUNG 2233SW. Should be better, and Samsung claims to have a zero tolerence dead pixel policy but only for some models, I'll have to check.

I was considering getting the Asus VH226H, but I found several reviews saying the contrast was less than preferable and blacks were awful, especially for games and movies. Would the Acer X223Wbd be better? Can anyone give me suggestions for a monitor that is about 22" and has a resolution of at...

Sorry for being nitpicky, can you just tell me one thing then, can I underclock the corsair to cas latency 9 like the g.skill, and have it run at a lower voltage?

nvm

But the... OCZ... and cas... and price... grumble. Ok, I can get G.skill if it's a lower voltage/more reliable. But since it's $100, it's now between G.skill 1600 CAS 9 1.5-1.6V and Corsair 1600 CAS 8 1.65V. And the corsair has xms and should be recognized at 1600 cas 8 immediately.

Ty for the coupon code. Ok 6gb it is. Does anyone have a link to a particularly good i7 overclocking guide? How can I tell what memory clocks I will need for a certain cpu clock?

I think I want to stick with OCZ ($20 cheaper, pretty good quality, claims a lower latency), unless the G.skill is truly better. What's the benefit of running at a lower voltage? How helpful would a jump from 6gb to 12gb be? For gaming? For multimedia like photoshop? More random stuff: I'm...

Alright, thanks. So flashing the BIOS won't reset any hardware or delete information? I was thinking that memory because it's a bit cheaper, and it has a lower CAS latency. I could just get the 1600 then. Corsair CAS 8 $105 Corsair CAS 7 $125 OCZ CAS 7 $80-100 (bad rebate?) OCZ CAS 8 $86 XMP...

Hmm. I kinda wanted to try 4 GHz, though I doubt I could get it with 1: a $40 cooler and 2: absolutely no experience in overclocking. 3.8 GHz is probably more than enough anyway. The dark knight is pretty good though, from what I've heard. Random question: Should I look up the newest version...

Changing memory to a slightly lower speed: Original:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145236 Corsair 1600 cas 8 $105 New: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227365 OCZ 1600 cas 8 $80 ($100 w/o rebate, rebate is weird apparently) or...

Awesome, saved $3! Thanks. Do you happen to know Amazon's return policy for monitors? I think I'll get it from there because we have gift certificate type things. From what I'm seeing they seem to be really good about returns.

I was going to suggest an i7 upgrade perhaps, but if you want to you'd have to jump in soon. They're discontinuing the lower i7's (920, 940, but keeping 965,975) for the new processors. Then again, you should probably just wait for the new processors. They're similar but way cheaper. Lynnfield...

That's IDE, I would prefer a sata. Also, good news: the monitor is out of stock too! Waiting to buy stuff is so much fun. I'm not buying lightscribe CD's so Samsung. Doesn't really matter anyway.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151188 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827140034 Samsung's more popular, HP has lightscribe. Which?

Oh goody Ok links should be working now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103289 $59 processor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227269 x2 = $72 8gb memory http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188036 $90 motherboard...

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Memory: Newegg doesn't have any DDR2 memory in 6 or 12gb packs, so just buy 2 or 3 sets of 4gb memory. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227420 Great deal but they're thick so it might get too tight. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227199 These...

I suggest going newegg surfing, as they have a nicely organized site, and you can limit it to your specifications. Not all mobo's will hold 12gb, depends on the mobo and the channels. If it's $500 for the whole computer, you'll definitely want that first processor, or an AMD alternative (blegh...

http://hardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1349433 Generally quad cores are best for multimedia, so the more cores the better. If it's just photoshop though, a cheap dual core should be more than enough. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115206...

Hmm. I'm looking at the z cinema ($80ish w/ shipping) and the z2300 ($107 + shipping), so the z cinema is $40+ cheaper. As I've heard, the z cinema is better than the 2300 esp. in midtones and very little to no distortion, but it has very weak base and it slows down games because of its hd...