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The Power PC Thread [f*ck off consoles]



McGherkin

Macca fan boiiiii
ClioSport Club Member
www.lfs.net

It's less of a game and more of a simulator. A bloody accurate one actually.

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McGherkin

Macca fan boiiiii
ClioSport Club Member
Lol, they concentrated on the actual physics rather than making it look pretty. There are plenty of arcade games out there if you want pretty graphics.
 
  SJM'd197'dBTM'd 182
You! ;) if you get rid then give me a shout, I'll take it off your hands. What discount so I get with my cliosport membership?

Well its not my name ;) so you got the wrong person.
No discounts!!!!
Will see how much I use it and will let you know.
 
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Worst picture in the world, R9 290 Installed! :)]

Kinda funny, apart from PSU/Hdds, everything is now new lol.


And annoyingly for those that notice - yes that's a white PCI-E cable, my old 7970 Lightning required 2x 8-pin, this one requires 1x 6pin and 1x 8pin, so only spare one I had was a white one from my previous coloured build.
 
How is the R9 290 coping?

Also someone give me a decent game to play. I'm soo bored lol

Highest I've seen is 56C under load, BF4 is now fantastically smooth - I get roughly 100minimum fps, was at Low at first and got 200 in most places! I need to buy a DisplayPort->MiniDisplayPort to get my third monitor working though.

Clocked at 1100/5500 currently.

For the sake of £100 and ~5% performance increase (the 290 is actually performing BETTER than the 290X in latest drivers not out yet), I didn't see the point.


Comparing water temps from my 7970 Lightning OC'd to my 290X, watertemps under load have gone up 3C from 36C to 39C, doesn't seem to have affected anything else much, so it's definitely a hotter card, but still adequate cooling.

I have better pics which I'll post shortly, really nice card imo for the price - I can sell my 7970 Lightning for £190 posted (if anyone wants it let me know), so all in all a fairly cheap and worthwhile upgrade.

More images here, and comparison of size to 7970 Lightning:

http://imgur.com/uEERswx,DGTjl6t,39sl0ys,P0Sz9km
 
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  FF 182
Just bagged a wc kit off ebay for £100 posted, pretty good deal. Comes with XSPC D5 pump/dual bay res - XSPC Raystorm cpu block and XSPC EX240 radiator. From OCUK the kit would cost nigh on £250!

Just need some fittings, tube and fans.

Really tempted to sell my gtx760 and get a 290.
 
Just bagged a wc kit off ebay for £100 posted, pretty good deal. Comes with XSPC D5 pump/dual bay res - XSPC Raystorm cpu block and XSPC EX240 radiator. From OCUK the kit would cost nigh on £250!

Just need some fittings, tube and fans.

Really tempted to sell my gtx760 and get a 290.

That's a nice price, second hand I presume?

Sounds good!

Get some de-ionised water from Halfords and flush it completely, but what a bargain! D5 alone is like £80 new!
 
  FF 182
Yeah mate, 2nd hand. Wasnt gonna bother, but thought ahh wtf, just threw in a cheeky offer £40 below his asking as it was ending within 30 mins and he accepted :)

I got about 5l of di water so will be getting a good flush out!

Time to get wet again, been a year or 2 on air now :(
 
Yeah mate, 2nd hand. Wasnt gonna bother, but thought ahh wtf, just threw in a cheeky offer £40 below his asking as it was ending within 30 mins and he accepted :)

I got about 5l of di water so will be getting a good flush out!

Time to get wet again, been a year or 2 on air now :(

It's entirely worth it :p

Tempted to buy some more fans, I've got a full dust filter kit which is magnetic to my case, but if I had 3 more fans on my 360 for push/pull, I'd need to add some magnets for it to work as the fans would be outside the case frame (but still not visible due to a facia).

Anyone know the sizing of holes that the case fans have for screws? If I can get magnets the same size then problem solved!
 
  FF 182
Anyone know the sizing of holes that the case fans have for screws? If I can get magnets the same size then problem solved!

I dont nah, but what about some magnetic tape around the fan frame? I used some when i modded my silverstone ft02 case to fit the filters magnetically to the bottom underside of case, due to fitting a 3x180mm radiator :)

I bought this and trimmed it to the same width of the filters frame: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SELF-ADHE...UK_Crafts_Other_Crafts_EH&hash=item5af6fd353a worked a treat :)
 
  Nissan 350z
Also someone give me a decent game to play. I'm soo bored lol

I dunno, its a good month so far for releases in my opinion.

Battlefield 4. Out now.
X Rebirth next Friday, 15th
Assassin's creed 4 the Friday afterwards, 22nd

Those are the only upcoming games I'm looking forward to at the moment. :)
 
  MK4 Anni & MK5 Edt30
Haha nah mate, Pudge's hook doesn't go very far really. Probably half of the screen or something like that? Clockwerk's is massive though, however it pulls Clockwerk to the enemy instead of the other way round.
 
Fitting some more GT's to my front 360 rad today (5 in total on the 360 rad and 2 on the 240 rad), so thought I'd just take a quick look and see how the dust filters are getting that I got 3 weeks ago.

http://imgur.com/O3aBeNB

Holy s**t, best move I made was getting the dust filter set, its completely clean inside still too :D
 
  Evo 5 RS
Got 3 matey. :)

Super Clocked ones. Only 3GB is slightly disappointing but I think we'll see some 4.5/6GB ones soon. Might keep hold all of the Titans for a wee while :) I reckon we'll be seeing them fairly sort after now with next gen picking up.
 

SharkyUK

ClioSport Club Member
Awesome mate - those three bad boys should see you good for the next 2 months... :p

Once I get the Trophy paid for and Christmas out the way, I might contact you and see what you're selling...
 
  Evo 5 RS
I've sold one already mate but will probably keep the other two for awhile till I know what I'm doing :).

3 Titans / 780Tis is a huge bottleneck on the CPU. Think someone worked out you'd need an ivy/haswell equivalent hex core at 7Ghz to remove it!
 
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=25270258

It's a good job I had some fans to fit today otherwise I wouldn't have noticed.

Annoyed is not even the word - I posted out my old 7970 today as I've just sold it, so I'll be on the 4770k GPU until next Thursday at the minimum. FML.


I've sold one already mate but will probably keep the other two for awhile till I know what I'm doing :).

3 Titans / 780Tis is a huge bottleneck on the CPU. Think someone worked out you'd need an ivy/haswell equivalent hex core at 7Ghz to remove it!

LOL! You'd need a slave to constantly add liquid nitrogen, if 7Ghz is even possible (very much doubt it)
 
  MK4 Anni & MK5 Edt30
Scone, I must ask a serious question. Why on earth have you bought 3 780Ti's when you already have 3 Titans? :)
 
  MK4 Anni & MK5 Edt30
Eh? His CPU is bottlenecking the Titan's as it is, 780Ti's are peforming better than Titan's so it's just going to bottleneck even more.
 
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