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Disappointing if this is going to be another 780ti->980ti level upgrade. Apparently the days are gone when a new generation means a 50% bump or more.

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Hey guys, I have an HTPC/fileserver combo running Windows Server 2012 R2 and it needs a new sound card. Lots of cards seem to have hit or miss Windows Server driver support so I'm wondering if anyone has a recommendation. Must haves: - Optical SPDIF out - Dolby Digital Live encoding - Work...

False. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/9-004

I was hoping this improves watch dogs performance (since it mentions an updated SLI profile) but there seems to be a regression instead... the game now stutters every 1-2 seconds which makes it completely unplayable. Ugh... rolling back to 337.88.

Titans are priced like this because fully functional GK110 cores can fetch $2000 a pop inside Tesla cards. nV probably wouldn't have released 780Ti/Titans at all if AMD didn't have cards that were faster than 780's.

Doesn't matter now, and when it will matter, 4GB won't be enough either, as the new consoles have 8GB of unified memory to work with. Watch dogs is just the tip of the iceberg, and it's arguably not "next gen" because it's not exclusive to ps4/xbone.

+1 750Ti now, Maxwell series in 6-12 months. PS2 and Arma3 are both CPU limited games anyway.

I'm running 2GB 680 SLI at 1600p. They've been great up to now but like everyone else said VRAM is becoming a problem. You're probably not going to max next gen games period without SLI Titans. Single 780's and 290's won't have enough horsepower, and IMHO 4GB is probably not going to be...

I'm in the same boat as you, first time my 680's choked on a game at 1600p, and 880's don't come out until at least December :(

I noticed the same problem after installing new drivers (squeal when mic is active, and background white noise all the time). Rolling back to older drivers fixed both issues for me (2.0.16: http://www.corsair.com/~/media/Corsair/download-files/drivers/audio/CorsairHeadsetSetupRelease2016.zip)

nevermind bump!

Today I found out just how important a heatsink+fan is for these monitors. I bought a replacement LVM board more than a year ago and attached a HSF to the Altera chip as a preventive measure. No problems the whole time, until... yesterday when my monitor started artifacting again... opened...

So I went to pick one up at Microcenter tonight and the sales guy said they're having tons of returns on these things and both of their display models stopped working after a few days of being left on. He also pushed the extended warranty hard so maybe it was a ploy to get me to buy that.

25-30 FPS on GTX 690 at 2560x1600. Turning Ultra mode off bumps it to 35-40 FPS. My guess is Ultra defaults to off for all cards except SLI 680's and 690's.