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Yes they fucking did, hell they were driving that thing. The Pentium 4 was a giant pile of shit, the only reason we aren't running 8 ghz p4s right now is AMD.

clock blocking and player hating, they better stay away from my mom.

Glad you called him out on that. It was a ridiculous statement.

I will be very interested in this type of drive going forward, if for no other reason than pushing the consumer market ahead.

Meh, when the desire hits me I want to game then not reinstall and wait for the game to update. The steam backup only seems to backup the core game data and they still have to update, sometimes those are gigs worth of data.

I like to have my entire steam library available for guests and old school lan gaming. My internet is too slow to DL games as needed unfortunately.

The current drive is a caviar black 2tb, it's been clicking and taking longer and longer to load things. I have been nursing it along but finally think I need to go ahead and clone it and just wait for it to die. Speed of loading and games is really the only concern for the drive, I thought...

I still have mine, rocking a hedgehog dual with two deltas, wish I had a mobo, this thread made me want to build a glide rig.

I had pretty much the same set up and it would chug on D3 when the enemies got thick @ 1080p. But it wasn't horrible, and lived with it for about 6 months.

Antec PSUs have never let me down.

It's just the newest APU, not an actual fx proc like on desktops

I don't know if it counts, but the only component I have consistently had failure issues with over the years has been SATA cables.

pretty significant one

the crossfire route isn't a bad idea at all. 270x xfired isn't bad performance, and should be cheap.

There hasn't been a compelling reason for me to spend over 150 bucks on a CPU for a long long time. Kind of wish I did something more cpu intensive, I almost feel like a normal user.

fantastic game, too bad they ruined the series with the second one. I don't ever understand when devs do that shit. Why dick around with a winning formula for the sequel?

As someone who generally couldn't care less what my computer parts look like, holy shit that is an ugly card. Ugly to the point it would impact my buying the damn thing.

I could be completely wrong, but I don't think they will turbo when using the ddr2 controller, I never had a ddr2 machine turbo. I am not even sure the older phenoms 2s even had turbo

Both of the intel machines run a discrete Nvidia gpu, I looked for where it said it was using the intel graphics but I didn't see it, I did skim though. Also seems the games were dx9 that favored the Nvidia part, and/or reliant on cpu horsepower.

I remember the arctic cooling kit coming with vrm sinks, I just used different thermal tape and it worked pretty damn well. I guess they changed the kit, I bought it within a month of the card coming out. I actually seem to remember it not "officially" supporting the 290 when I did it. Seems...

10-15 percent faster depending on game and resolution.

high end cards don't generally have vga outputs performance wise you aren't going to get much better than the 290x either wait a while till the new cards come out, if you can live without a vidcard for a while then sell now and wait it out.

I have no idea why but I miss dip switches on mobos. Bring back dip switches!

you are still looking at something around 15 percent increase in performance on the low end when factoring in the ipc improvements and the clock speed. There is nothing to say you can't hit 30 percent or higher if you are willing to eat a couple more watts in power usage. and factoring in...

I would think an hdmi to dvi adaptor paired with a vga to dvi adaptor would be the easiest way to do it.

I think I would be pissed off at NV if I was an Nvidia fan, AMD brings out Mantle and all of the sudden Nvidia can write a driver that offers performance gains like a mofo. Why did they wait till Mantle? Seems AMD did NV card owners a favor, but won't ever get any kudos for pushing the...

your power supply is going to dictate your possible upgrade. I would go with a radeon r7 265 if your powersupply can handle it. If you are going to upgrade, get the very best card you possibly can, don't try to save a couple bucks, spend to your absolute budget limits as far as your...

I fully expected that response from you. It's like talking to a green colored wall.

"While Huddy didn't say how closely OpenGL Next might mirror Mantle, he repeated the contention that Mantle shaped DirectX 12's development. We expressed some doubts about that contention when we addressed it earlier this year, but Huddy was adamant. Development on DirectX 12's new features may...

Works fine, att just restricts which data plans you can tether on.

never going to happen

the people that went balls out and got in early made a ton of cash, easily recouped the hardware costs and were making profits pretty damn fast. The late to the party people that went balls out didn't do as well. Anyways that goes balls out now is probably not making a smart decision.

whiny more than loud, if that makes sense. The hyper 212s are dirt cheap and offer awesome performance for the price. Hmm I know I bought a few for 15 bucks that were refurbed from coolermaster, looking at prices it looks like 30 bucks. May not be worth it in your case. If I was back home I...

The L3 doesn't seem to matter as much as you would think, the difference in clock speed would most likely more than make up for it. Either choice is good one, imo. Article about l3 on phenoms, should apply: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/athlon-l3-cache,2416.html

Video card arrived just fine, thank man.

based on your improved performance, it would seem to me those 2224's for 30 bucks linked in the second post would turn that into a decent little rig. Assuming they are compatible. The ddr2 ram thing isn't that big a deal, I did some testing with ddr2 versus ddr3, granted not with opterons...

Well doing some reading and it appears they are going to be pairing x86 cores with ARM cores, so it's not ridiculous to think Keller is going to be tweaking the x86 cores. I am going to cross my fingers.

Meh it wasn't likely they would knock the gorilla out in the first round like they did in the netburst days, but they did. Intel has since adopted a number of their innovations. Don't fool yourself, Intel has the money to throw at foundries, that isn't innovation. Everyone should be pulling...

I really wish they would just update the 990 chipset. Pile on the features and make the platform desirable. They seem to be focusing solely on APUs. Don't get me wrong the 990 is a decent chipset, but it's basically an updated 790. I love AMD, just wish they would throw some weight at socket...

Yes, we must all root for the 800 pound gorilla to win the fight. How dare we pull for the little guy.