The PC Snobbery Thread

**CorruptedDragon** · 10-24-2011 10:15 AM

So my mobo and hyper 212 + have arrived. Unforunately the rest doesn't come until Wednesday! So maddening! lol. I knew I should have paid the extra $15 for 2nd day !

**Favelle** · 10-24-2011 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by CorruptedDragon

So my mobo and hyper 212 + have arrived. Unforunately the rest doesn't come until Wednesday! So maddening! lol. I knew I should have paid the extra $15 for 2nd day !

Noooooooooooooooooooooo....!

**CorruptedDragon** · 10-24-2011 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by Favelle

Noooooooooooooooooooooo....!

Yes, the mobo is just sitting here mocking me while the cooler laughs because there is no CPU for it to cool yet

That and the fact that I have gotten 3 emails from Amazon already reminding me that I can begin pre-loading my BF3 pre-order.......

**Badger3920** · 10-24-2011 12:39 PM

Lol that sucks, but I know the feeling. I had like $1200 worth of parts show up on a Friday - and my case wasn't coming until monday

**Blinx123** · 10-24-2011 03:11 PM

Now is definitely the right time for me to re-install everything.

Applied the new driver today but it somehow crashed into a TDR and the PhysX driver is screwed up every way imaginable now.

Currently backing up all my files.

Though I'm not all too interested in computing anymore.
Too much other stuff to do. Like finding another job, so I can pay the insurance fees for another year, completing the last steps towards a driver's license or finding a new GF.

Darn do I hate winter season. It's when I stop thinking rationally and start thinking about nothing else but women and money. Well. Mostly women.

**Badger3920** · 10-25-2011 01:41 AM

This game is goddamn awesome. After the first half hour or so, things calmed down and joining games became easy.

This rig, built with BF3 in mind, had no issues at all settings cranked to ultra on Caspian Border. Temps stayed very reasonable, although the gpu's temps definitely rose toward the 60 degree mark.

Simply fucking awesome - I can't wait to get this PC hooked up to my home theater in May. That experience is going to wake the neighbors.

You DEFINITELY don't need dual gtx 580s to run this game on ultra. For now a GTX 570 / Radeon 6970 and up should work. I'd bet you can even go a tier lower and get playable framerates on ultra or near ultra settings - but I didn't run fraps so I can't tell you how much overhead I had or didn't have.

Edit: sorry that imageshack sucks so much and shrinks pictures. Temp on the 2500k got up to 54 at its highest (i dont have a 2nd fan on it, and i need to reapply far less TIM than I originally used, but that's for this weekend). GTX 570 got up to 61. Both idle in the low 30's

**Favelle** · 10-25-2011 03:03 AM

Nice work mate! I'm going to try and get some FRAPS caps tonight. I find myself dying a lot because I'm walking around looking at shit, ha ha!

**Favelle** · 10-25-2011 03:19 AM

Badger, also make sure to set your audio settings to "War Tapes".

**Blinx123** · 10-25-2011 06:49 AM

So I re-installed everything today, but still get the occassional hiccup (insufficient USB power-up during POST, GTX 560 TI failing to allocate resources).

Flashing to a newer UEFI today.

**Tnecniv** · 10-25-2011 09:40 AM

Dudes,

Spoiler:

add me: vincentric

Can't wait to start playing some bf3. Got the new whql nvidia driver installed (tested on a bunch of games, no problems), will finally overclock my 570 later today (simply via the nvidia control panel, will post my oc results) and have no social life for the next week or two.

Edit: Had to re upload image and added spoiler tags.

**cuco33** · 10-25-2011 10:14 AM

Looks like I'm holding off for a bit on my PC build. My PC guru friend resurrected my old rig!! Setting it up for the lady to use as her main PC and I'll be reinstalling some of my older racing sims for the time being.

**Tnecniv** · 10-25-2011 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by Badger3920

Edit: sorry that imageshack sucks so much and shrinks pictures. Temp on the 2500k got up to 54 at its highest (i dont have a 2nd fan on it, and i need to reapply far less TIM than I originally used, but that's for this weekend). GTX 570 got up to 61. Both idle in the low 30's

Quick fyi, if you don't want the image to get shrunk just click the image resize bar and choose do not resize before uploading.

**Blinx123** · 10-25-2011 11:43 AM

NVIDIA to release a revised GTX 560 TI

NVIDIA preparing revised GTX 560 Ti, with 448 CUDA cores

Published on Tuesday, 25 October 2011 14:35 Written by Jacob Hugosson

It looks like the 28nm GPUs may take a while, which means we are stuck with AMD's and NVIDIA's selection at 40nm, namely HD 6000 and GT 500. The high-end GPUs will take another six months, so NVIDIA is planning to release slightly polished GTX 560 Ti.

GTX 560 Ti goes up against HD 6870 and HD 6950 in performance, while the next product from NVIDIA is GTX 570 that raise the bar another notch, putting it slightly above HD 6970 in performance. This has been the situation for a very long time, since neither NVIDIA nor AMD have made any price adjustment. With the performance difference there is also a price gap around $100, something NVIDIA intends to fix says VR-Zone.

NVIDIA has plans to launch a whole new GTX 560 Ti, that will be called GTX 560 Ti but not quite being that. The current GTX 560 Ti is based on GF114 with 384 CUDA cores, while the new one will use GF110. GF110 comes with 512 CUDA cores with all clusters active as in GTX 580 and GTX 590, while GTX 570 has 1 CUDA cluster with 32 cores closed. The new GTX 560 Ti has two of these clusters turned off, for a total of 448 CUDA cores.

The idea with this new card is to fill the void NVIDIA has in the lineup, and with a $100 gap the void is quite big. The new GTX 560 Ti will end up in between GTX 560 Ti and GTX 570 in price, and most likely performance. The card is expected to have a reference design that is identical to GTX 570 in look and size.

It is closer related to GTX 570 than GTX 560 Tiand we really hope NVIDIA comes up with another name than rebranding it as GTX 560 Ti. GTX 565 feels more natural or perhaps GTX 570XT (XT is bad when used by NVIDIA, contrary to AMD naming).

One theory is that NVIDIA wants to stop the manufacturing at TSMC: GF119, GF118, GF116 and GF114 and prepare for the coming 28nm circuits. It would mean that the current GTX 560 Ti would disappear, to be replaced by the new, better and more expensive version based on GF110, but this is just speculation.

Both NVIDIA and AMD are expected to have their first cards on 28nm out in 2012, possibly late 2011. Both companies are starting from the low end and move up the ladder, so those waiting for a faster card will have to wait. There are no concrete details today, but it looks like the 28nm GPUs in the higher segment will come in Q2 2012.

There is no information on price or availability.

http://www.nordichardware.com/news/7...uda-cores.html

Good thing it's 1.280MB only. Otherwise, my pillows would have been particularly wet for the next couple of weeks.

Here's hoping they won't abandon the "old" 560 TI right away. Would like to buy a second sometime next year.

**Badger3920** · 10-25-2011 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by Tnecniv

Quick fyi, if you don't want the image to get shrunk just click the image resize bar and choose do not resize before uploading.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind

**Blinx123** · 10-25-2011 01:10 PM

Holy cow!
Just checked the EVGA forums and it seems like BF3 is really running great for most of those guys. Even a single 560 TI or 570 seem to give people a solid framerate.

No need for a wicked mega SLI with three GTX 580 Hydros, apparently.

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