PC Gaming, General & Off Topic Chat

Kiith

Fifa 15 is actually pretty good, at least in co-op. Haven't played PES in a few years though.

Shiminay

I'm no soccer fan, but FIFA has been consistently brilliant for a "couch game" for someone with my filthy casual status of play for the last number of years. I've never done the online, no interest whatsoever cause I'd get blapped all the time.

john the one

Shim, whats the Comeonbanus and dark and deviant forums that i don't have access to?? Secret clubs that we have to hack to get in to?

wotzgoingon

john the one wrote: »

Shim, whats the Comeonbanus and dark and deviant forums that i don't have access to?? Secret clubs that we have to hack to get in to?

I had no idea what you were on about at first and then I seen it. I'd say if you were a subscriber you would have access and mods probably do as well.

Star Lord

john the one wrote: »

Shim, whats the Comeonbanus and dark and deviant forums that i don't have access to?? Secret clubs that we have to hack to get in to?

He could tell you, but then he'd have to ban you...

john the one

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I had no idea what you were on about at first and then I seen it. I'd say if you were a subscriber you would have access and mods probably do as well.

I like the sound of dark and deviant. Like something out of the TV show The Following with Kevin Bacon tracking down a cult of serial killers.

john the one

Star Lord wrote: »

He could tell you, but then he'd have to ban you...

You can take my boards, but you'll never take my freeedom!

Shiminay

They're off-shoots of the Nonya forum which is a sub of the Business forum...

degrassinoel

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I had no idea what you were on about at first and then I seen it. I'd say if you were a subscriber you would have access and mods probably do as well.

Nope, mods don't get automatic access to all of those forums - afaik you have to request it, same as everyone else

it's just the subscriber stuff we get access to like first class lounge etc..

.. and mod powars, like chromed titanium exoskeletons, x-ray vision, the ability to set pants on fire when people lie, i've never gotten that last one to work properly, and x-ray vision is disgusting tbh

AlmightyCushion

degrassinoel wrote: »

x-ray vision is disgusting tbh

It is useful though, I saved my friend €100 on an A&E bill with it.

nesf

john the one wrote: »

Shim, whats the Comeonbanus

You haven't heard about the Knights of Comeonbanus? Sir hasn't studied early boards.ie history enough then!

wotzgoingon

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=53979

I don't know if that poster was taking the piss or what in that thread I posted a link to.

edit: I just read the thread and it is actually come on ban us.

I had to read that thread to figure that out, that's how dumb I am.

degrassinoel

i must have a dirty mind then

nesf

wotzgoingon wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=53979

I don't know if that poster was taking the piss or what in that thread I posted a link to.

edit: I just read the thread and it is actually come on ban us.

I had to read that thread to figure that out, that's how dumb I am.

The joke was old and worn out years before almost everyone replying to you joined. Really not something to worry about not getting.

john the one

Kept reading it as come on anus

Star Lord

john the one wrote: »

Kept reading it as come on anus

AlmightyCushion

AMD to release new GPUs and APUs this quarter. Let's hope they're good. It'd be nice to see nVidia and Intel under some pressure.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9237/amd-announces-6th-generation-aseries-apu-branding-carrizo-due-this-quarter

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9235/amd-to-launch-new-desktop-gpu-this-quarter-q215-with-hbm

Mr Blobby

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

AMD to release new GPUs and APUs this quarter. Let's hope they're good. It'd be nice to see nVidia and Intel under some pressure.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9237/amd-announces-6th-generation-aseries-apu-branding-carrizo-due-this-quarter

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9235/amd-to-launch-new-desktop-gpu-this-quarter-q215-with-hbm

I hope they come out soon..

I've money ready to buy a 970 but don't want to buy incase they drop in price or if AMD's new line end up blowing it out the water.

AlmightyCushion

Mr Blobby wrote: »

I hope they come out soon..

I've money ready to buy a 970 but don't want to buy incase they drop in price or if AMD's new line end up blowing it out the water.

Well the should be out this month or next. General availability could take a while longer and there may be supply constraints early on pushing up the prices. Hopefully not and it's a quick launch with lots of supply.

wotzgoingon

Damn just bought a R9 290.

Kiith

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Damn just bought a R9 290.

While it might drop in price a bit, you still have a fantastic card that will last a few years.

If anyone wants a few games of FIFA online let me know, I've no friends online who play on the PC!

Skerries

official specs for the R9 360, 370 and 380

http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/oem#

Gbear

Skerries wrote: »

official specs for the R9 360, 370 and 380

http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/oem#

Well they look incredibly ****.

Kiith

These are the OEM cards, which won't be the same spec as the full releases (or so reddit tells me).

Gbear

Even so, it suggest that they're releasing 1 new chip?

Seems like a poor showing.

Why not just continue with the 200 series until they can develop HBM versions?

Hopefully this will just be a very short generation, with a complete range of HBM cards coming out next year some time.

Your AMD options will be a €700ish card and then nothing all the way down to about €200.

john the one

AMD Website really lacks imagination, it's like looking at a text book.

wotzgoingon

john the one wrote: »

AMD Website really lacks imagination, it's like looking at a text book.

I'd say they were going for the showing information rather than bright graphics like some of the vendors do on their websites.

john the one

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I'd say they were going for the showing information rather than bright graphics like some of the vendors do on their websites.

I actually think it would benefit from some images rather than a wall of text. I didn't even read it as its an eye sore.

They must not have a marketing team. Or software development team for that matter

CastorTroy

So with these cards being announced, do you think we can expect price drops on others? Or is that wishful thinking?

Mr Blobby

CastorTroy wrote: »

So with these cards being announced, do you think we can expect price drops on others? Or is that wishful thinking?

Thats what i'm hoping for.
But i don't want to wait too long.

I'm honestly starting to feel like the price wouldn't drop significantly enough for me to wait to buy a 970.

...Especially when I can get The Witcher 3 & Batman for free.

Taylor365

CastorTroy wrote: »

So with these cards being announced, do you think we can expect price drops on others? Or is that wishful thinking?

The 2nd hand market will take a nose as a lot more r9 290(x)s will come on the market.

Right now a r9 290 can be bought for 170-200 (reference and HOT).

By July/Aug, i reckon you'll get a decent cooler version for about that. Some sapphire tri-x cards have been scooped up for 200!

I'm interested in what the retail 380x will look like performance and price wise. (Probably rehashed 290x with added features). Will either pick one of them up or a 290/x

Skerries

http://i.imgur.com/5YL9gPm.mp4

jumbobreakfast

Skerries wrote: »

http://i.imgur.com/5YL9gPm.mp4

I can throw out my bed at last!

Turtwig

Ok, serious question where can I buy that chair? How much will I need to budget for? Honestly, that's more appealing to me than most other luxury things I can think of.:o

jumbobreakfast

I think I found it:
http://www.mwelab.com/index.php/en/products

Not on their product page but showed up in google search:
http://www.mwelab.com/index.php/en/products/emperor-200 (yikes)

These ones are more well known:
https://www.obutto.eu/

If you are on a budget then there is this classic:
http://i.imgur.com/MBmUaMv.jpg

Mr Blobby

Turned on DayZ today and noticed i was getting a weird black lines across my screen.

They started popping up after about 30+mins of playing. They would change depending on the direction i was looking. Had the same thing in Mount and Blade and Rome 2.

Any idea what it is?

Pic - Screen pic 1.jpg
Screen pic 2.jpg

DARK-KNIGHT

Mr Blobby wrote: »

Turned on DayZ today and noticed i was getting a weird black lines across my screen.

They started popping up after about 30+mins of playing. They would change depending on the direction i was looking. Had the same thing in Mount and Blade and Rome 2.

Any idea what it is?

Pic - Screen pic 1.jpg
Screen pic 2.jpg

Did the kids walk into the room before those lines appeared??

wotzgoingon

Mr Blobby wrote: »

Turned on DayZ today and noticed i was getting a weird black lines across my screen.

They started popping up after about 30+mins of playing. They would change depending on the direction i was looking. Had the same thing in Mount and Blade and Rome 2.

Any idea what it is?

Pic - Screen pic 1.jpg
Screen pic 2.jpg

Could be a graphics card problem. Do you have access to a spare graphics card to test?

kearneybobs

Mr Blobby wrote: »

Turned on DayZ today and noticed i was getting a weird black lines across my screen.

They started popping up after about 30+mins of playing. They would change depending on the direction i was looking. Had the same thing in Mount and Blade and Rome 2.

Any idea what it is?

Pic - Screen pic 1.jpg
Screen pic 2.jpg

Any idea what temps your card is getting up to? Could be overheating causing some artifacting.

Kiith

That's not an image i ever like seeing. It was the first sign of gpu failure on two of my cards back in the day.

Mr Blobby

kearneybobs wrote: »

Any idea what temps your card is getting up to? Could be overheating causing some artifacting.

Well i'm running a 2gb 6970. Normally hitting about 60-75.

Kiith wrote: »

That's not an image i ever like seeing. It was the first sign of gpu failure on two of my cards back in the day.

I'm planning on picking up a 970 in the next few weeks so its not the end of the world if it is. I was more worried that it might be CPU based.

Mr Blobby

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Could be a graphics card problem. Do you have access to a spare graphics card to test?

Unfortunately i don't.

Mr Blobby

Weirdly it'd go back to normal when i hit f12 and take a screenshot... Then pop back a few seconds later.

TheDoc

Like you, I'm also in the "want to buy 970" camp. Don't see the price dropping anytime soon, I held out all before Christmas and new year for the supposed "Sales" and nothing was reduced.

Maybe this distortion in Dayz is the universe telling you to buy that 970

I've a R9 270x myself, and was going to go for the 970, although I see the Price of the R9 290 looks to be down around €180-200 in places which is substantially cheaper.

EoinHef

TheDoc wrote: »

Like you, I'm also in the "want to buy 970" camp. Don't see the price dropping anytime soon, I held out all before Christmas and new year for the supposed "Sales" and nothing was reduced.

Maybe this distortion in Dayz is the universe telling you to buy that 970

I've a R9 270x myself, and was going to go for the 970, although I see the Price of the R9 290 looks to be down around €180-200 in places which is substantially cheaper.

Have you get a link for the 290's at that price? Lot closer to €300 last i checked. Id pick one up for that price though

TetraxShard

I've had my new system about a week now. It's great to be home playing on a proper PC after having to deal with laptops for years because of college.

i7 4790K
GTX 970
8GB RAM (will go to 16 around Christmas I think)
240GB SSD + 1TB HDD
24-inch ASUS screen
Logitech G402 /w SteelSeries QCK Mass (still miss my MX518 though, died last year after 10 years service) and SteelSeries Apex (was meant to be RAW, Amazon shipped the one with all the fancy colours and told me to keep it when I told them, you can't beat that).

The brilliant folks at PC Building & Upgrading were a massive help.

I also got my free copies of Witcher III and Arkham Knight from the Nvidia offer today, so other than hopefully getting GTAV and whatever looks tempting (spoiler: EVERYTHING, I've got a problem) in the Steam Summer Sale I'm set for the next while. I've built up a stupidly big library across Steam, Origin, Battle.net (still playing the Hearthstone!) and GOG, time to put it to work. Playing a bit of everything at the moment, but mostly Shadow of Mordor and Heroes of the Storm.

TetraxShard

TetraxShard wrote: »

I've had my new system about a week now. It's great to be home playing on a proper PC after having to deal with laptops for years because of college.

i7 4790K
GTX 970
8GB RAM (will go to 16 around Christmas I think)
240GB SSD + 1TB HDD
24-inch ASUS screen
Logitech G402 /w SteelSeries QCK Mass (still miss my MX518 though, died last year after 10 years service) and SteelSeries Apex (was meant to be RAW, Amazon shipped the one with all the fancy colours and told me to keep it when I told them, you can't beat that).

The brilliant folks at PC Building & Upgrading were a massive help.

I also got my free copies of Witcher III and Arkham Knight from the Nvidia offer today, so other than hopefully getting GTAV and whatever looks tempting (spoiler: EVERYTHING, I've got a problem) in the Steam Summer Sale I'm set for the next while. I've built up a stupidly big library across Steam, Origin, Battle.net (still playing the Hearthstone!) and GOG, time to put it to work. Playing a bit of everything at the moment, but mostly Shadow of Mordor and Heroes of the Storm.

Are you me? I pretty much put together the same build last week!

Taylor365

EoinHef wrote: »

Have you get a link for the 290's at that price? Lot closer to €300 last i checked. Id pick one up for that price though

The 2nd hand market is at that price anyway.

EoinHef

Taylor365 wrote: »

The 2nd hand market is at that price anyway.

Havent seen any at that price second hand either,thats why id definitely buy one at that price. Might pick up a reference model near that price point but as bad as the cooler is on the reference its really not worth it imo

A 290 with a decent cooler is a good buy sub €300 atm,at €200 it would be an absolute bargain