Sure you get some new shiny features, but you're talking about $500+ (even more in canuckland) for those features and not a whole lot of extra horsepower for that money.
For general computer use, yeah they are fast enough. You're talking about more specialized cases. I have no issue running a...
Another 2500k owner chiming in to say "no thanks" to skylake. My money would be better spent on upgrading my 680. Then again, kinda knew this would be the point. Other than for very specialist tasks, CPUs have been 'fast enough' since the start of the core i series.
I had a Tassimo for espresso pods, but I finally made the move to an automatic espresso machine (on sale @ costco) and the resulting drinks are much better. Fresh ground beans 4tw. Not to mention around 13 cents a shot :) Will take a while to make up the price difference tho.
Uhhh if you find the game play an awful grind, why are you playing it in the first place? The game is designed so you can have fun no matter what tank/tier/unlocks you have. Sure it sucks moving from a fully researched tank (and just as important, 100% trained crew) to a higher tier that is...
I'm looking to upgrade my POS desk with one of the Galants and I'm wondering if anyone has mounted a UPS to the bottom? I have an APC Back-UPS. Be nice to clear everything but speakers, mouse & keyboard from the top. Too bad my p280 won't fit in the computer holder.
Why don't they just fork Android and make their own OS & phones with it? How the &*%&# can someone claim anti-trust against an open source operating system?
Here's a $*#& clue, how about they just hit up:
http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html
Oh right, it's easier to have your...
At 4GHZ, and that H100, I don't think it's really going to matter which cpu you buy. Comes down to, do you need hyper threading? If not, save some heat and money = get a 2500k or 3570k. And if heat and noise is that much of an issue, the 2500k.
If you have speed step enabled, most office work...
Serving coffee hot enough to cause 3rd degree burns, on the other hand, is why they were successfully sued.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants
Was playing some games this afternoon and had my rig shut down. Thought it might have been the power supply (Corsair ax750), headed into work and grabbed my older hx520 swapped a few cables and well nothing. Fans & HDs spin up, but the red CPU LED stays lit. Reseated memory, unplugged everything...
Really depends on your situation. Running a 1680x1050 display? Stick to the ~$200 solutions. Running 2560x1600, you either run a couple of those $200 cards in SLI/CF & deal with multi-gpu issues or you buy a $500 card.
Wow, talk about some bad graphing. Only people who would use that y-axis scale are people in marketing. And like I'd trust anything someone in marketing ever says ;)
You mean new midrange beats old high end at the same price as the old high end? Actually if you had found a good deal near Boxing Day, the new 78xx cards are not as good for bang for the buck as the 6950/70 cards. Really wish I had of bought one of those $300 6970s :(
If you want price/performance, the mid/high end cards aren't where to find it. Street price/performance is what people are interested in, and both the 7850 and 7870 are not giving that. Well maybe now that availability of the 69xx cards is drying up, sure. But back in Dec, you could buy 2gb 6950...
You mean the MSRP are similar, or their street prices after discounts and MIR? BIG difference. For boxing week sales, you were finding 2gb 6950's for under $200 and 560ti under $190 (or less).
So basically the best upgrade for the money today would have been to buy an unlockable 6950 18 months ago. Can I borrow a time machine? :)
Impressive power consumption on the new cards, but we're not getting a whole lot on the bang for the buck front on these 'midrange' ($350 is midrange?)...
From a 560ti for 1080p? Not sure the 7950 or a 580 would be great values for the money. How about getting a 2nd 560ti and going SLI? Errr, don't think your motherboard can do that. I'd probably wait to see what nvidia has coming out in the next month (or three??).
And why would you spend the...
At that price, I'd be more willing to either buy a pair of 6950s. Or spend the extra for a 7970. Not sure where that card fits. Be interesting to see what the reviews are like tomorrow. Can't see that anemic cooling system giving the sort of overclocks the reference 7970s are getting.
So is the EPS 8pin cable long enough to be useful in any of the larger cases? Pisses me off that the cable that came with my AX750 isn't long enough to go behind the mobo and still reach the mobo header.
I'd rather deal with a little bit of AG grain than deal with reflections with the glossy ACD. But that's just me. Never noticed the input lag on my old dell 2407 PVA panel and haven't noticed it on my new u3011. BTW for $950, you could get the u3011 here in Canada this week :)
Well part of his point is that he can do that right NOW. Not in somewhat vague amount of time down the road. Maybe Kepler will be absolutely killer, but if someone's looking at a high end GPU this week/month, the 7970 can't be beat. And I'm hoping that nvidia does have a great product. More...
I'm actually surprised at how well my single 5850 handled swtor and da:o last night at 2560x1600. But yeah, I need to shop for something with more ooomph!
You'd better be using it with dvi-1, because I can't even change inputs. And wear shades, can't change the brightness either. They are shipping out a replacement ;)
In what way? There are tons of endgame type of features that SWTOR just doesn't have. LFD, multiple specs, pvp tiers (or non CC dominated pvp for that matter), crafting is in horrible shape and finally the UI.