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I've got QFR boards in red, blue, brown and black, and tend to rotate between red, brown and blue depending on my mood -- black is unusably heavy for my taste. If pressed though, I'd have to say red is my favorite. Blues can be fun, but are a bit too heavy. Browns are nice, but don't quite have...

Another nod to the 8800GT. Bought it on release for $200 IIRC, lasted 3+ years.... what a beast it was.

If you're so confident BTC will fall by the wayside, why not profit from it? Short some futures and tell us how it goes: https://icbit.se/

Surprised no one has mentioned the Lenovo Mini. I've used/abused mine for years; it's reliable, has excellent range, and is inexpensive. http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Multimedia-Remote-Keyboard-Non-backlit/dp/B00BV9N3M6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387669184&sr=8-1&keywords=lenovo+mini+keyboard

Hmmm, wouldn't be so bad with a black pcb; the blue just looks terrible. Then again, I don't remember the last time I even glanced at my existing GPU with aesthetic considerations in mind...

Firefox, hands-down. I'm too dependent on Firebug to use anything else.

Hopefully sooner rather than later... anything to bring normalcy back to GPU pricing is welcomed.

Pretty much this. Can't fathom a cogent justification for the $200+ premium over SLI 760 2Gb's.

Perhaps not an appreciable difference, but all else being equal, I believe a 670 is 5-10% faster than a 760.

Would be a great card at the ~$400 price point. $630? LOL

Insightful first post.....thanks for your contribution :rolleyes:

What led you to assume the cause was lack of vram? There seems to be lots of anecdotal accounts about vram holding people back from running game X at mega resolution with max AA/supersampling etc., yet a lack of hard evidence to support the claim that vram is the bottleneck in most cases. I...

Anyone who got the email yesterday with no code, search your inbox. Mine was originally sent out Sept. 4th.

Black Friday / cyber monday have become more of a marketing ploy than anything else; don't expect any amazing deals.

Titan aside, the price needs to drop to the $550 range before any 'shitting' can take place.

Agreed, price is irrelevant! I'm grabbing another Ferrari for my car collection this afternoon.

Excellent review as usual! Pretty disappointing for the price point. Considering 290's can already be found in the $380 range, it's hard to make a case for buying a 290x/780/780ti. Let the price wars commence!

Definitely feels like a good time to wait for the waters to settle a bit. With how competitive the 290 performance is to both the 780 and the 290X, and prices where they currently stand, it seems probable that further 'adjustments' will be made.

It does seem strange that there's such a small performance gap between the 290 and 290x. Unless I'm overlooking something, it makes zero sense to spend the extra $150+ on the 290x. Just having a hard time understanding AMD's pricing rationale... (not that I'm complaining)

Good lord people, read the OP. He's not suggesting that he would return the card at that price, but rather sell it NIB (probably get $500+ for it), use the proceeds to buy a 290, and pocket the difference. Unless there's a specific reason you need to stick w/ nvidia (hackintosh, CUDA...

What kind of rez would you have to push to utilize anything close to 6GB vram? Multiple 4k monitors perhaps?

I'd go for another GTX 670 for SLI; that'd be a great setup at 1080p.You should be able to pick up a used one for ~$200 or so.

Looks like a great card, hopefully it will drive down prices across the board. The real X factor here is how these will perform with proper cooling, as the reference cooler seems to be woefully inadequate. Can't wait to see performance under water...

Early results show ~10% at 1080p, with a quickly narrowing margin as resolution increases. The only conceivable situation where it might make sense to jump from a 780 is for 4k gaming. That is, unless the 290X turns out to be beastly under water...

Diablo 3 was a disaster. Guild Wars 2 had potential, but was ultimately disappointing. Starcraft II is the only game that gets a nod from me.

Vanilla/TBC WoW begs to differ....

I'm very happy w/ the results from my Spyder4Pro coupled with ColorEyes Display Pro (just used the demo version). Haven't tried any of the less expensive calibration meters to evaluate whether the price differential is worth it.

Agreed, stock blue/green push is horrendous. The ACD profile makes it slightly less horrendous :p I think many people are so used to seeing overly cool/blue-hued "whites" in TV's, monitors, etc. that they have no concept of what neutral whites/greys actually look like. Perhaps ignorance is...

Not sure why someone began recommending the ACD profile, but it yields an unbearable blue/green cast on newer revision Shimians (albeit, slightly better than default), IMHO. If it looks good to you, go for it, but just know that the white point is not even close to neutral.

Not in the US anyhow, we have a free trade agreement w/ Korea.

Complete FUD, why even post this garbage? Just calibrated my Shimian w/ a Spyder4Pro. Gamma/white point/grey scale have dialed-in nicely. I'll be comparing side-by-side w/ an ACD this weekend hopefully, curious how things will stack up.

This profile is somewhat helpful in remedying the pronounced blue hue, but color temp still seems a bit cool on my Shimian. Debating picking up a calibration device to dial things in a bit further...

I've seen several sellers offering 'pixel perfect' monitors, including the verbiage "no dead or stuck pixels" in their listings. Wouldn't eBay buyer protection kick in if the item arrives with a single dead or stuck pixel, thus satisfying the "item not as described" scenario?

Pretty sure he meant local to Korea ;)

OCN and 120hz forums. It's been suggested that eye fatigue is a result of low PWM frequency of the backlight with the Korean monitors (backlight flickering, essentially).

Looking for a good all-around, budget-conscious monitor for coding/graphic design/gaming use, and trying to weight the pros/cons of the Apple Cinema Display 27" vs. one of the Korean 27" displays. I've been looking at the different Korean models for months, but recently got a line on a used ACD...

This one's easy, Panasonic 60ST50. Compares favorably w/ last year's VT30.

Anyone know how the input lag on the ACD compares to the Korean monitors w/o OSD? Debating picking up a used ACD from a friend for graphic work/coding + some first person shooter gaming, just curious about the tradeoff.

Rumor has it the manufacturers raised praises slightly, not sure if true. Any thoughts?

Been lurking this thread for weeks, but haven't come across any specific information regarding brightness/light output settings. I work on my computer 12+ hours a day and tend to prefer keeping the brightness/contrast settings down to limit light output, thereby reducing eye strain and...