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    Wccftech is reporting mantle can be ported to dx12

    Good, I hope it's true and that Mantle support mushrooms. If Direct3D 12 is made available only for versions of Windows beyond Windows 7, then I'm going to use Mantle/OpenGL instead. I also will boycott all Unreal Engine 4 games until Epic unwraps its lips from NV's dick and gets with the...
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    NVIDIA: "AMD's developer relations efforts are thinly spread"

    If Direct3D 12 requires anything past Windows 7 (like Windows 8/8.1/9), I would rather buy more AMD GPUs and use Mantle/OpenGL whenever possible. I don't like MSFT withholding their latest DX versions from older Windows versions in order to try to coerce customers into upgrading to software I...
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    ASUS R9 290X DirectCU II OC

    Does anyone know of any ASUS R9 290 non-X reviews that talk about VRM temperatures? I haven't seen a single one yet that actually talks about VRM temps.
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    Asus horror story after 14 years w no RMA's

    Does anyone have an opinion on EVGA vs ZOTAC support?
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    When Are They Worth It?

    You can't really say it's $130 off because of all the OTHER stuff you could buy with that $130 instead.
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    r9 290 eyefinity with passive dp-dvi

    Do you have a link for the notorious Eyefinity screen tearing issue? I know it exists but want to know more about it
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    Asus horror story after 14 years w no RMA's

    Oh yeah I remember now, ASUS doesn't support ECC on their workstation boards if you use anything other than Xeons, at least not until recently, and I literally had to show them the Intel spec sheets saying some Pentiums and i3s do support it. They said they'd update the BIOS but never did...
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    Asus horror story after 14 years w no RMA's

    "So the funny thing is, every thing is great with asus until something goes wrong and you need to RMA..." Um, I think that means that not everything is great with asus then! Sorry to hear your tale of woe, their laptop RMA process was a breeze so I guess a separate department handles video cards.
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    Miners! Causing R290 R290X to be Overpriced

    If true then it's even less profitable for miners who do that, as they will have a lot fewer coins around if coin prices surge up. Like people who sold as they went in 2013 to cover power bills had to sell a LOT of coins for cheap until November. It's funny but only on video card forums is...
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    Miners! Causing R290 R290X to be Overpriced

    Mining is only low risk if you were going to buy the card for other reason (like gaming) in the first place. But if you are buying a card specifically to mine with, it's not low risk except in the very early stages and only if you can sell your gear for what you paid for it. For instance...
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    AMD Demonstrates "FreeSync", Free G-Sync Alternative at CES 2014

    GSYNC is not going to go to zero cost because it goes from FPGA to ASIC. The module also requires RAM which is far from free. Furthermore, since when has NVIDIA ever decided to charge LESS for something simply because their cost of production went down? They will charge as much as possible until...
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    Miners! Causing R290 R290X to be Overpriced

    LTC difficulty projected to rise about 13% in a few hours as of the time of this post. Difficulty rose ~60% in the last 30 days. http://bitcoinwisdom.com/litecoin/difficulty As AMD continues to crank out video cards and Scrypt ASIC chips are put into finished products and shipped out, you can...
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    Trouble with Eyefinity

    Buy an adapter from this list: http://support.amd.com/en-us/recommended/eyefinity-adapters Or buy one that specifically says it's ACTIVE. Lots of cheap adapters are not active and will not work.
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    2x XFX DD R9 280x, bad idea?

    Top, but YMMV depending on your case and airflow and ambient temps of course
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    2x XFX DD R9 280x, bad idea?

    If you have no space apart you will get a total throttle-fest even at 100% fan speed each and dual high-flow side fans. I know from personal experience unfortunately (Corsair 300R case), with three high-powered fans on exhaust and sides; and two powerful intake fans too. And I *do* have a slot...
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