And that's when you buy cheap hardware and start your own password recovery business. Or continue mining for the inevitable market ressurection.

In other news two of my 7970 mining cards are dead and the third might be. Had a power surge that finally took them out, I think. They've already more than paid themselves off. I hate to say it but I only gamed on the one set for all of 4 hours total.

How long did you have them for? I'd love to snap up a cheap 280x or 290x, but I've heard that mining is tough on cards. You may have only gamed 4 hours, but I know it would become my main machine for gaming.

should had invested on a power conditioner.

im already seeing used 290x around $490.

Since Cyber Monday. It was a hard four months for them. They're still under warranty, only thing I'm really worried about is them not having replacement cards in stock. If / when I get replacement cards they'll be going to a better setup.

Mining's pretty terrible on cards, even if you have stock clocks / undervolt / keep temps down. Running them 24/7 at 100% load is different than running them under 100% for a couple hours every day (i.e. gaming). Shortens the lifespan considerably.

I did. It wasn't enough apparently. The house's wiring is sketchier than most people's s-chassis. When you turn on the bathroom light the tv in the living room flickers. Etc.

Need a AVR not just a conditioner. Just some capacitors can't keep that draw up. Need a battery to hold you through the dips.

I think the price dump is going to happen when the next great mining card comes out.

Expect cheap cards soon. Mining is about 1/5th-1/10th as profitable as it was. Also scrypt ASICs exist now (gridseed) which are borderline more cost appropriate than a GPU. They might be already, I haven't checked their prices lately.

I'll look into better power setups.

Prices are definetly coming down. Saw an msi R9 290X ref card for $380 on eBay.

quad xfire @ttacks 4k



http://www.digitalstormonline.com/un...t-4k-idnum228/

so tempted to build a quad.

Those temps are great considering what a beast this card is. It would be a hell of a build in terms of price and performance. I'm curious to see how the non ref cards will be.

290/X dropping price more since 970gtx is kicking its butt.
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd...5-percent.html

parallel xfire. my WC setup cant cool it under load. I'm hitting 70c.
http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/o...pseqvmavwl.jpg
switching to another case so I can fit 2 of these 80mm thick 140 triple rads
http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/o...psplvrsimv.jpg


Also recent driver 14.9 update comparison meh.
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/2749889/fs/2923259


on the otherside. recent mirco atx build devils canyon 4970k 16gb 2400 gpu r9 270 6gb. i'll get some fire strike bench for it, later.
http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/o...psnv9xrtw1.jpg
http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/o...ps7mw9babc.jpg
overall the build was slight difficult because of the msi card. i should had waited for the 970gtx.

I am an AMD guy and seeing the kind of #s the 970 is pushing out for the amount of watts produced is wow, I dont think anyone could have seen that coming.

one of the few nvidia cards I would switch over to team green for

not only that superclocked 970 are going at $340.

lol yeah the hardocp and anandtech 970 articles are eye opening

I might sell my 7970s for a 970. I need something better for development. A single 7970 is struggling with Unreal Engine 4 and the Oculus Rift.

I thought this was funny. almost similar system but, I had the higher OC.

http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/3207833/fs/2515483

Dat R9 390x Doh.

just found out newegg is selling the 8gb vapor 290x.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814202129

kind of too late with its lower pricing too... 3xx is nearing with its rumored lower power consumption and HBM , its a must have for me.

You see the newest article on the 3xx?

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd...s-surface.html

With the 970/980 AMD has to bring this in at a low price point. I am hoping they undercut the 980.

i recently built a intel/ gtx 970 system
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.n...760c6765419ac7
https://scontent-b-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/...d3&oe=5503A46C

yea, I saw that bench. I just wish they made a single card that can man-handle 4k at ultra specs.

http://www.lgblog.co.uk/wp-content/u...er-597x360.png
itching to buy it. soo bad.

dope build hype. but, your in the wrong side of town. this is the better red than dead area.
did you get the 4970k?

i went with i5 4690k . got it overclocked at 4.7ghz now. Itching to get an Ek waterblock for my gtx 970, but don't know if its worth it to watercool. I watercooled my old video cards in the past for more overclocking but the 970 already is a beast.
http://www.performance-pcs.com/ek-fc...el-acetal.html

anyone tried the omega driver vrs? my next up res is 5200x3200 (from 3240x1920) and just kills my system. what happened to 4k? lol.
i'll add a custom 4k resolution specs on CRU later. I just thought of that now.

tried in on both redux metros, everything on very high/no AA. walking around is okay shutters a bit but, when action hits. it's too laggy for me. can't tell the difference.

for nba2k15, everything on very high except the crowd (I think). when im playing on the court, its fine. but, when the cut screen shows up super lag mode. details looks a lot smoother.

that's all the games I've tried it .

some bench
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...ormance/5.html

Not yet. I've seen so many issues with these drivers. I'm holding off until AMD fixes it.

thanks to mantle. it pushed dx12 development out. hahahaha go AMD.

That is pretty legit. I'm excited to see what this technology can produce. Not mention the 390X is on the horizon. I feel like this could be AMD's year.

I dont think it will be AMDs year ever again.


Nvidia having a 75% GPU market share inching closer and closer to the same parallel AMD faces w/ Intel in the CPU market.


dont get me wrong I heart AMD cards, its all I ever have used. I am not sure my next gen will be AMD though, it is hard to argue w the watt/performance of what Maxwell is doing

I wished amd could had gone for the kill when nvdia was exposed with its memorygate. lol that, I also want to build a new rig.

more freesync monitor will be available and will be more affordable. pretty much stifle nvdia g-sync plans to help drive prices of monitors to titan levels. hah.

no

AMD did go for the kill when nvidia had its issues w/ the gtx970, there were all kinds of advertisements and promos pushed out using that issue to try to pull people over to team red.

but its a drop in the bucket, amd is farrrrrrrr away from having any kind of majority market share.


and your analysis of the monitor market based off freesynch/gsync is far from correct.

neither of those techs will ever drive up the market price of monitors, there are too many korean IPS monitors that can OC for cheap saturating the marketplace combined w the major monitor companies creating all kinds of competition.

if they did, they would had dropped the 390x bomb. amd is just basically just waiting for old gen to dry up a bit on stock.

who cares about krm 1440 ips. imagine if freesync wasn't there to cock block g-sync. they would have tried to standardized on monitors. every top end monitor will have g-sync and pay moar.