The PC Thread - Tips, Benchmarks, Specs, Laptops, Custom Desktops, Pre-Builds and more.

[Liquid]

Did you just jack my KingCPU business model

KingCPU? PM me

 

[Liquid]

damn brehs, Amazon already refunded an order and I just shipped it back yesterday...I might never mess with newegg ever again after this. The package was in transit for less than 3 hours and I already had my money back

I woke up this morning like

 

[winb83]

the R9 290 is 3% weaker than the R9 290X at $400. If i can sell this GTX 670 for a decent price i'm likely gonna buy a 290 and throw it in my 3750k build that way one will have a GTX 780 and the other the R9 290 and if a game is optimized for either brand i can play it well.

 

[daze23]

Tom's found that the retail 290x they bought performed much worse than the one they were sent

that's quite a silicone lottery

edit: that's true for two retail 290x's they bought

However, the two retail Radeon R9 290X boards in our lab are both slower than the 290 tested today. They average lower clock rates over time, pushing frame rates down.Clearly there’s something wrong when the derivative card straight from AMD ends up on top of the just-purchased flagships. So who’s to say that retail 290s won’t follow suit, and when we start buying those cards, they prove to underperform GeForce GTX 780? We can only speculate at this point, though anecdotal evidence gleaned from our experience with R9 290X is suggestive.

 

[kash10003]

that is quite a drop from the press specs

 

[Fatboi1]

Windows 8.1 Never managed to fix that dreaded blank screen with cursor so now i'm back with the roc.

 

[Paradime]

Tom's found that the retail 290x they bought performed much worse than the one they were sent

that's quite a silicone lottery

edit: that's true for two retail 290x's they bought

Was it not for mid-range gpu buyers?

 

[kash10003]

goddamn, this humble bundle killin it

humblebundle.com (money to charity)
Pay What You Want (at least $1) and receive :
Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year [steampowered.com] RRP $19.99 (PC only)
FEAR 2 Project Origin [steampowered.com] RRP $14.99 (PC only)
FEAR 3 [steampowered.com] RRP $19.99 (PC only)
Lord of the Rings: War in the North [steampowered.com] RRP $19.99 (PC only)

Beat The Average and also receive:
Batman: Arkham City Game of the Year [steampowered.com] RRP $29.99 (PC only)
Scribblenauts Unlimited [steampowered.com] RRP $19.99 (PC only)

 

[Bboystyle]

man its killing me just staring at my new beastly parts but cant do shyt with it until my PC case comes

I pulled out the motherboard and that shyt is about the size of my current mini tower pc...HURRY UP AND GET HERE WEDNESDAY , I CANT TAKE IT!!!

 

[winb83]

goddamn, this humble bundle killin it

humblebundle.com (money to charity)
Pay What You Want (at least $1) and receive :
Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year [steampowered.com] RRP $19.99 (PC only)
FEAR 2 Project Origin [steampowered.com] RRP $14.99 (PC only)
FEAR 3 [steampowered.com] RRP $19.99 (PC only)
Lord of the Rings: War in the North [steampowered.com] RRP $19.99 (PC only)

Beat The Average and also receive:
Batman: Arkham City Game of the Year [steampowered.com] RRP $29.99 (PC only)
Scribblenauts Unlimited [steampowered.com] RRP $19.99 (PC only)

Just bought this for $5

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

man its killing me just staring at my new beastly parts but cant do shyt with it until my PC case comes

I pulled out the motherboard and that shyt is about the size of my current mini tower pc...HURRY UP AND GET HERE WEDNESDAY , I CANT TAKE IT!!!

what hardware are you working with?

 

[Bboystyle]

what hardware are you working with?

Cooler Master Hyper N520

WD Green 2TB Hard Drive

Asus AMD 990FX Sabertooth R2.0 motherboard

Patriot Viper 16GB Memory (1600Mhz)

FX-9370 CPU

Sapphire Radeon VAPOR-X R9 270X GPU

80+ Gold Certified Thermaltake 750W EVO_BLUE 2.0 PSU

AZZA Solano 1000 Full Tower Gaming Case w/Blue LED

ASUS VN247H-P 24 LED Full HD monitor


the monitor and PC case due in for tomorrow

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Cooler Master Hyper N520

WD Green 2TB Hard Drive

Asus AMD 990FX Sabertooth R2.0 motherboard

Patriot Viper 16GB Memory (1600Mhz)

FX-9370 CPU

Sapphire Radeon VAPOR-X R9 270X GPU

80+ Gold Certified Thermaltake 750W EVO_BLUE 2.0 PSU

AZZA Solano 1000 Full Tower Gaming Case w/Blue LED

ASUS VN247H-P 24 LED Full HD monitor


the monitor and PC case due in for tomorrow

you gonna need some ram.

 

[daze23]

you gonna need some ram.

he has 16gb, and can always download more

 

[Ciggavelli]

I got problems breh. Every time I install Battlefield 4 it substantially increases my boot times. I isolated it to Battlefield 4 (I didn't install punkbuster the 3rd time I tried) and for some reason that game is fukking my shyt up. msconfig says nothing else is starting up when I boot, but something must be. Anybody else have this problem with Battlefield 4? I wanna play this game, if only to see the graphics, but I don't wanna fukk up my computer to do it. Suggestions?