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Originally Posted by shizawn
(Post 12364821)
There are people who do this kind of thing, and there'll be someone out there trying to beat that record.
This isn't a review, just someone boasting a record. Don't really understand why it bothers you. Besides, if you have to cool it the way they did, it's not much of a boast either. If you feel the need to show me how much it can do under stress, show me with normal cooling solutions that don't require the end user to leave the PC case open and hook up a constant stream of liquid nitrogen to it. Then I'd have a better assessment of what it can really do. It'd be like attaching a rocket to a Prius and boasting about how the car doesn't fall apart going 500 mph. |
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People have fun doing it, just like some folks have fun doing all that tinkering with cars :shrug:
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Originally Posted by fumanstan
(Post 12364863)
People have fun doing it, just like some folks have fun doing all that tinkering with cars :shrug:
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Tinkering with cars generally gives you real life results, I'm curious what the real life results are for this.
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Originally Posted by RichC2
(Post 12364919)
Tinkering with cars generally gives you real life results, I'm curious what the real life results are for this.
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Word.
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Let’s stop calling ourselves the “PC Master Race”
http://www.pcgamer.com/lets-stop-cal...c-master-race/ |
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Originally Posted by Music
(Post 12365126)
Let’s stop calling ourselves the “PC Master Race”
http://www.pcgamer.com/lets-stop-cal...c-master-race/ |
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Originally Posted by Music
(Post 12365126)
Let’s stop calling ourselves the “PC Master Race”
http://www.pcgamer.com/lets-stop-cal...c-master-race/ Also, I laughed at this comment: Tom Parkinson • 2 minutes ago As a white supremacist and Nazi sympathiser I applaud the effort to tell people what they can and can't find funny, letting us racists claim our phrase back from these jokers. |
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A lot of testers go for breaking records because it gets them free equipment from the PC companies for doing so with their gear. Much cheaper than upgrading your expensive rig every six months. It also helps you get tech straight from the manufacturer before it hits the street.
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http://www.cosmosgaming.com/wp-conte...1402331313.png
Early Access started today. Anyone else trying it out? Login server is hosed tonight, haven't gotten in once to play. |
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Originally Posted by covenant
(Post 12365603)
http://www.cosmosgaming.com/wp-conte...1402331313.png
Early Access started today. Anyone else trying it out? Login server is hosed tonight, haven't gotten in once to play. |
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http://steamleft.com/
This is fun :) Noodles It would take you... 1058 continuous hours 44 days,2 hours,30 minutes of gameplay to complete your Steam library IN THIS TIME YOU COULD... Beat "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" (N64) 36 times |
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Music
It would take you... 8128 continuous hours 338 days,16 hours,52 minutes of gameplay to complete your Steam library IN THIS TIME YOU COULD... Recite Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech 28,690 times Watch the entire Star Wars series 611 time(s) Watch the entire series of Friends 93 times Fly around the world 203 times Download 38 1080p movies...on a 56K modem |
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Can someone explain the controversy about the GTX970? Something about how it slows WAY down if you use more than 3.5gb?
Is this way over blown? I'm looking at getting one of these cards but I'm not sure what to make of all this. |
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IF you Google, I am sure you will find more detailed info, but I think I read that it can't actually access the full 4GB of memory so when you go passes the 3.5GB the performance drops dramatically.
This is not an issue with the GTX980 |
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Originally Posted by Dan
(Post 12394936)
Can someone explain the controversy about the GTX970? Something about how it slows WAY down if you use more than 3.5gb?
http://www.pcgamer.com/why-nvidias-g...han-35gb-vram/ It's not that the card overall slows down, but the last 500MB are accessed at a significantly slower speed than the initial 3.5GB. It sounds like when a game breaks the 3.5GB, there's an observed "framerate stutter" when it occurs, but it doesn't sound like it's sustained. Also, video explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPlCIUh_Tp0 |
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I always love Anandtech's technical explanation - http://www.anandtech.com/show/8935/g...ory-allocation
At the end of the day, despite mis-represented specs the 970 is still a helluva value for PC gaming and the revelation about the memory utilization really doesn't change things. |
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Thought you all might be interested in this - Kickstarter for Underworld Ascendant:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ref=nav_search It's the successor to the Ultima Underworld games and is organized by the original development team. The goal is $600,000. It's at just over $450,000 with 17 days left. I played the hell out of both Underworld games back in the day and did not hesitate to back this. |
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http://kotaku.com/the-sad-story-behi...ack-1688358811
This is kind of a bummer, the attempt to re-release No One Lives Forever that failed. |
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That's too bad. I really liked the NOLF series. Heck, I even liked Contract J.A.C.K.
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Hmm... Maybe I will reinstall and play NOLF 2
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Looks like Valve is getting in on the VR craze with HTC.
http://gizmodo.com/htc-vive-this-is-...8756062/+Fahey Just the other day we heard that Valve is getting ready to put out its SteamVR headset. HTC is making it, it's called the HTC Vive and it'll be out—for real—by the end of the year. Game on, Oculus. Unlike other virtual reality headsets, which have surfaced as early prototypes with a developer version off on the horizon, the HTC Vive is virtually done. Yes, there is still a developer kit on the way (this spring) but HTC and Valve are swearing up and down that the real one will come out before year's end. What's more, Valve and HTC seem to have figured out the controller problem: The HTC Vive comes with a motion tracking system that can cover an entire room, along with a pair of wireless "VR controllers," that HTC claims are simple and intuitive, without much more in the way of details. From the way HTC describes them, they might be gloves? It's hard to tell. The end result, though, is that the HTC Vive and SteamVR are intended to be a far more holodeck-y experience than the Rift, which Oculus has stressed on multiple occasions is a sit-down device, at least in the first generation. HTC and Valve want you to get up and walk around; it's intended to be part of the experience. Though from what we've seen it looks like, the headset itself isn't wireless, which is a bit of a constraint. |
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Good on them for announcing when this thing will be released. Now let me see for how much. From what I've read so far comparing the Vive and Rift, I wouldn't be surprised if the Vive comes out significantly more expensive.
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