The last poster wins

[billyro]

Who wants to do my assignment for me? :laugh:

^{(Because I'm just about ready to shoot it!)}

This smiley > :wallbash:< doesn't even begin to show my attitude towards this one.

Edited April 9, 2014 by billyro

[Flipout6]

No thanks XD I'll pass on that one.

[Thor.]

Hello fellow Canadian, haven't seen you before, i thought i was the only one....

 

Borderlands 2 looks really good on the vita

 

Edited April 9, 2014 by Thor.

[Vindekarr]

 

Lol, a full paragraph of awesomeness!

 

 

This sort of technology is why I love cars. A plastic box for shopping is as boring to me as it is to you, but when you really unleash the technology the results are nothing short of spectacular. For me the excitement comes from pushing metallurgy, construction methods, thermodynamics and other sciences to their absolute breaking point. It's when you can get twice the power of a Dodge Viper, from an engine the size of an ITX PC case.

Edited April 9, 2014 by Vindekarr

[Thor.]

Well with the newest drivers from Nvidia i can tell you i had a insane fps increase, tested with Metro and Witcher 2 maxed out with Ubersampling enabled, and i notices a massive change.

 

With Metro 2033 i hit a maximum fps of 230fps from last time benched was 90fps, and last light 101fps, Witcher 2 stable 75fps depending where you are, in itself is a benchmark.

 

There is nay sayers out there, but i have a different story.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7926/nvidia-releases-33750-beta-driver-offers-significant-performance-improvements

Oh i forgot to mention i had fraps running so the fps could of been higher.

 

Witcher 2 hit a maximum 149fps, proof incoming.

 

http://oi61.tinypic.com/eqw67k.jpg

http://wccftech.com/nvidias-directx-11-driver-better-mantle-api-benchmark/

Edited April 9, 2014 by Thor.

[Werne]

it looks lie the r295x is doomed to microstuttering, sense its stuck in crossfire mode.

 

And amd did admit there was a problem.

 

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/177668-turbo-trouble-amds-dual-graphics-is-bugged-introduces-game-breaking-frame-stutter

Do you even read what you post? Dual-graphics is APU + GPU, not GPU + GPU. It's a crossfire between an integrated graphics core on APUs and a dedicated graphics card. It has absolutely nothing to do with crossfire between two graphics cards. Do you just read the titles and assume the article is about something, or do you actually read the whole article?

 

AMD solved micro-stutter on the dual-GPU flagship and their entire R7/R9 lineup. And speaking of R9 295X2, that thing practically obliterates everything nVidia throws at it at 4K...

 

http://media.bestofmicro.com/5/V/430483/original/arma-3-fr-4k.png

http://media.bestofmicro.com/5/C/430464/original/bf4-fr-4k.png

http://media.bestofmicro.com/5/H/430469/original/grid-2-fr-4k.png

http://media.bestofmicro.com/5/P/430477/original/thief-fr-4k.png

http://media.bestofmicro.com/5/S/430480/original/tomb-raider-fr-4k.png

Still lacks in lower resolutions where nVidia SLI beats it by a small margin but hell, it bests nVidia's finest by roughly 15% performance-wise at 4K and in multi-monitor configurations, uses less power than any of the cards in those benchmarks, stays cooler than any of those as well despite being clocked higher than regular 290X cores, and costs pretty much the same as two GTX 780 Ti reference cards. A big bonus for guys like me too - high-binned GPUs, those ought to overclock like mad. :D

 

It's a win for AMD, they now hold the absolute top performance on enthusiast-class, and the prices of R9 series has been dropping like crazy since the mining craze stopped. You can now get a used R9 290s for $300, sometimes even cheaper, used ones are under $500 even in Croatia. :smile:

 

 

 

In other news, had some time today while watching over Mini Me so I modded my graphics card's BIOS, raised the TDP limit from 88 to 99W which effectively stopped my graphics driver from committing seppuku every time the card crosses 88W. Also modified the VRAM frequency limitations for more memory OC headroom. That got me from my maximum stable overclock of 1065MHz on the core and 1250MHz on the memory to 1085MHz on the core and 1550MHz on the memory without breaking the TDP.

 

That's an 8.5% overclock on the GPU and 38% overclock on VRAM, enough to boost my Unigine Valley score from 23.6FPS and 988 points to 26.6FPS and 1114 points. :dance:

[billyro]

http://garfield.com/uploads/strips/2012-09-07.jpg

 

The mysteries of life...

[Werne]

Damn, I haven't seen a Garfield comic in years. Used to read those when I was a kid, I still have a whole bunch of those in excellent condition in the garage.

[billyro]

Yeah, I've been reading them for hours today. It's good to read (and laugh at) them again. :)

[Werne]

You got me nostalgic so I actually went out and bought a Garfield comic book on the kiosk, I prefer my comics on paper. :smile:

 

 

 

By the way guys, seems like AMD included some Raptr "Gaming Evolved" program with their driver, popped up after I updated my beta driver. Looks like a pretty good program to me, registered on the Raptr site, got some reward points when playing FO3 and I can buy stuff like games with those points. There's plenty of ways to get those points but they all suck, playing games is the only good way. There's even contests, one is to win a Sapphire R9 270X and others are for getting a few free games. All in all, it's an interesting concept.

 

The games there don't interest me one bit though, I'll save up on the points and maybe get something once there's a better selection of stuff.

Edited April 9, 2014 by Werne