Hold off on gtx 970/980?

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Originally Posted by John P. Myers

And here we have an example of one of those 8GB R9-290X's i was talking about: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...37&SID=rewrite Useful for gaming at 1600p or above. Not so useful for crunching, unless you want to run 16 Einstein WUs concurrently :p

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You better have a butt-load of CPU threads to throw at that too!

Just a rumor, but it seems AMD's new R9 300 series might be on 20nm while Nvidia sticks with 28nm for the "big one". I do find it a bit hard to believe, but it's possible. If it does happen, AMD might appear to have Nvidia's energy efficiency for the first time ever :p

Between AMD's and Nvidia's new GPUs, it looks like we might be in for some seriously worthwhile upgrades. Comparing the R9 390X to the R9 290X and the Titan II to the Titan Black, we could be looking at 35-50% more crunching (not gaming) power from either card.

My willpower cracked yesterday and I ended up at Newegg picking up the new EVGA 970 SSC - Super-Superclocked :D

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814487088

Basically they took the Superclocked model and upgraded the cooling system (including a memory plate), added dual bios & a few other tweaks, and got a faster, cooler card for about the same price. The spec clocks are 1190/1342 boost... mine is running at 1392 out of the box :o

In my defense, my main cruncher at home was having ATI driver issues including blue screens and random restarts, so I basically HAD to buy this card :cool:

My wife's upgraded word processor:

http://i.imgur.com/wnp2ITf.jpg

Maybe this will help her get that dissertation done a little quicker :p

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Originally Posted by FourOh

My wife's upgraded word processor:

http://i.imgur.com/wnp2ITf.jpg

Maybe this will help her get that dissertation done a little quicker :p

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My wife came with a very advanced word processor, please dont update it. ~X(

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YioaHST3LO...oo_much_1_.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=xfgqP4M2XAs

Pitty on the Duke. Attachment 1951

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Originally Posted by FourOh

My wife's upgraded word processor:

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Nice :D

Here's someone's chance to get a true single-slot 750 Ti here in the states: http://www.ebay.com/itm/GALAXY-GeFor...item566f3b145e

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Originally Posted by FourOh

My wife's upgraded word processor:

http://i.imgur.com/wnp2ITf.jpg

Maybe this will help her get that dissertation done a little quicker :p

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Holy moley!! I'll say, that dissertation will be so hot she'll have to get a fan out. And a set of ear plugs for the noise...and turn off all the lights to save the juice for it, but come on, the monitor is backlit so she can type in the dark, right?! ;)

Seriously, congrats on the new cruncher. What a fine looking rig. :)