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Fair review. I always know I'm going to get the truth from you, good, bad, or ugly. With that being said, I am going to stick by my pre-release decision to stick with my 1800X until next spring. I anticipate even bigger gains then.

Great article; thank you for taking the time to do the research. From the outside looking in, it seems like Nvidia's driver engineers are fantastic and manage to eek out every last bit of performance from their hardware. AMD's engineers might also do the same, but for whatever reason, whether it...

Thanks folks for the replies.

My last couple of cases have been Antec cases. My current rig is sporting a (now discontinued) Antec 1900 and my previous rig was an Antec P193. What I love about both of these cases is the aluminum panels are covered in a sound-deadening material that really makes them quiet. I also love that...

They want me to build the case myself after spending that kind of money? Not gonna happen.

Meh. It looks like the big guns won't be out until Vega.

Man I really appreciate the objectiveness of this site (and a few others, TechReport comes to mind). I won't buy a new CPU or GPU without reading reviews from both of these sites, which generally tend to confirm one another. In any case, with regards to the game, it sounds like if you're...

My LG 27UD68-W triplets came in and they're decent monitors. At first glance, they appear to have a micro-thin side bezel (maybe 2.5mm) but in all fairness there's a dark portion of the monitor's border which you don't see, so in reality there is slightly more than a 1/4 inch (maybe 6.5 mm)...

Nice review! I've used Antec Performance One P193 tower cases in the past and they're nice because they're coated with some kind of plastic layer and are very quiet, but they always have weird or poorly designed power buttons. I've been on the lookout for an equivalent in terms of quiet without...

Thank you for the info. I've had an Achieva, a Crossover, and a Catleap all fail on me over the years. After my most recent Catleap failed, I decided to buy an Acer K272HUL which wasn't that much more expensive and has given me no more trouble.

Just as a follow-up to this, the LG 27UD68-W is finally available on Best Buy for $499. I was a bit surprised that Best Buy of all places was cheaper than the Egg, but hey, it is what it is. I realize they're limited to 60Hz, but I can live with that for three years.

Thanks for the feedback folks. Perhaps waiting for Polaris/Pascal is the best move. I just hate the existing monitors I have are up to 1/2" off in height once mounted.

Thanks for your reply. I'm okay with the size of 4K on a 27. As for the refresh, I just don't know enough about the monitors that are out there to know if there's even a 4k 27" IPS monitor that has a higher refresh (I don't believe there are).

Hey folks, I got some good monitor advice the last time I came here and asked for it, so I'm hoping for the same. I currently have 3 Korean-sourced 27" WQHD monitors that I'm looking to replace with 4K monitors of the same size. I'm looking to replace my existing monitors because although I...

I know you're kidding, but now that I own a current generation green team product, I have observed that there are advantages and disadvantages to both sides (for example, 2D on my 290X seems much faster than than on my 980Tis) . But more relevant the performance difference in Heaven with all...

Very good advice.

No I'm afraid this was a PEBMAC (problem exists between monitor and chair) issue. I mistakenly assumed that if I made the center one primary it would mess up the left-middle-right order. I actually haven't even tried to run surround on the 980Tis; My 980Tis are only roughly 25 percent faster...

Thanks for your reply! No, I'm not using Surround. It's cool and all, but even a dual 980Ti isn't enough to give me the performance I prefer at 7680x1440. What you describe worked! For some reason I thought (mistakenly) if I made it my primary display, it would screw up the left-to-right...

Greetings! I run a triple 2560x1440 monitor setup with the monitors arranged horizontally across my desktop (roughly [6'1"/185cm] from far monitor edge to far monitor edge.) The monitors are set up sequentially from far left to far right, meaning dragging a window or application from one...

I needed an active dual DVI display-port adapter to run my DVI monitor at that resolution. http://www.ebay.com/itm/StarTech-com-DisplayPort-to-DVI-Dual-Link-Active-Video-Adapter-Conver-/301313863739?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4627b4b03b Anything less than a dual-link DVI only gave me the...

I'm getting between 7404 (http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/7651356) to 7488 (http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/7651470) on the combined score. The first number is with the 750Ti disabled completely and one 980Ti set as the Cuda device (non-dedicated PhysX), the second number is with 750Ti as the Cuda device...

At least with regards to CPUs, I don't think that it's lack of talent now, but I think it was 3-4 years ago. I think it's telling that, from the public information that's out there, Zen is a clean-sheet-of-paper design over its predecessors. If there was anything at all worth salvaging with...

Yeah it kinda sounds like PhysX is a dud. I guess with me being on the red team for so long and going with Nvidia for this generation, I finally was excited to see what I had been missing. It turns out, not much :-(.

it definitely wasn't a power connection issue to the sound card because the system could see the sound card just fine, and could also see all the video cards (2x980ti and 1x750ti). Also on my card at least, if you don't plug in the auxiliary power, it makes a horrible beeping sound that's about...

I agree. It's one of the big reasons I'm running 1440p. I also don't feel we've hit the sweet spot for 4K monitors yet, though I suspect there will be something available next spring. For me, that monitor sweet spot is: 27" or 31" IPS 120Hz refresh $500 I too run a triple-headed setup (3 x...

I don't know the answer to your question, but your setup looks pretty slick.

I upgraded to two TIs from 2 290xs, and I see about a 1/3 increase in performance in Heaven with all the dials turned up. (including extreme tessellation), which honestly isn't as big a jump as I would have thought. Don't get me wrong, The Witcher 3 (the only game I've been playing lately) is...

Then I'd get the 980.

How long do you expect the next purchase to last? If you buy another 980, you'll have cheaper, immediate performance. If you buy a 980Ti now, you'll have more expensive, less performance increase for your current setup but will have the opportunity to SLI that in the future.

All graphics cards are @ stock. The 980Ti pair is consistently roughly 33 percent faster than my Crossfire R9-290X: The machines aren't identical, but processors and Heaven settings are identical between the machines. The R9 pair did better than I thought they would with extreme...

Well so far you've proven to be right. I went with the Zotac ZT-90501-10P and the Gigabyte GV-N98TD5-6GD-B, which thankfully have identical specs, and as you predicted, the setup works find.

You know that actually makes sense; that's gotta be it. I played a few minutes of The Witcher 3, ultra everything with hairworks turned on in 1440p. Buttah smooth in most places though it did slow down a bit in Novigrod. Definitely a pretty big jump over my X-Fired 290x's, but that shouldn't...

Man I finally got SLI to work. For some reason, I could not get SLI working with my Xonar DX add-in sound card plugged in. Ah well back to motherboard sound I guess. Very odd incompatibility. It's unlikely it's a power supply issue; I have a 1300W continuous power supply and besides, all the...

Thanks again for the replies folks. Yeah my sig has been outdated for a while now. My Maximum Extreme MB failed a while back so I replaced it with an Asrock z87 OC formula along with a i7-4770K. My most recent graphics cards were dual 290Xs, bought the day were available for sale. With...

FYI I had this exact problem and right before I took apart my system I realized I had a power plug for my sound card plugged in incorrectly. My power supply correctly shut itself down before any damage was done. I'm not necessarily saying that this is the same here, but I was already lamenting...

Thanks for the replies folks! Off to Fry's I go.

I noticed on my 980Tis there is a spot to run a cable to connect the cards on top, but neither of the reference cards I used have that cable in the box. AMD had done away with the need for a connector for XFire (starting I believe with the R9 generation) and that connection is no longer...

Thanks for the replies folks; I appreciate it.

Thanks for the reply! Believe it or not I have one of those Ageia cards in a box somewhere; good times! I realize that the GPU does a lot more than PhysX, but I was specifically wondering about GPU accelerated Phys-x because I have a chance to pick up a used 750Ti on-the-cheap, and I wondered...

Hmmm I went with two different brands, both of the reference model. That shouldn't be a problem, should it?