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What if I bing it instead
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Macs are currently noncompetitive in some categories: obviously their desktops have always been overpriced, but I also think Mac ultrabooks are currently a bad buy. I no longer am willing to buy a laptop without a retina display, so the Macbook Air 13" is out, and the “new” 12" Macbook is a cruel joke. I recently got a Dell XPS 13 instead of a new Mac laptop, and I think that was the right decision. I can finally play most Steam games on my laptop, and the build quality and screen is way better than my old Core 2 Duo Macbook Air, although the battery life is disappointing. I’m also excited that the new Windows Ubuntu environment will make it a superior dev machine than Macs with their mediocre BSD tools.
I think Mac ultrabooks will probably go back to the best in the market on the next serious refresh, but Apple has been taking their sweet time to deliver it.
to be fair, I’d have vehemently disagreed with that as recently as two weeks ago purely on the basis of homebrew vs. what-in-the-hell-package-manager-were-you-going-to-run-with-one-of-windows’-existing-bash-shell-kludge-wrappers. but dell’s hardware is particularly competitive with apple’s right now, yeah.
like I said earlier in this thread (or elsewhere) the 13" air was a fantastic value when it shipped because it happened to coincide with the first good OSX release in years + haswell was a big boost, but that was because it had an aging display, and I agree that while it was worth it in late 2013 it probably isn’t now.
I’m not really sure what the point of the new macbook is other than to demonstrate that apple’s arm chips can beat x86 in benchmarks 
even if it wasn’t hamstrung by having one or two fewer ports than is reasonable, the core m / former y series CPUs are suuuper TDP constrained, which is especially bad for gaming because using the GPU basically throttles the CPU down to well below the stock speed (as opposed to the “boost” speed it can run at normally). I have one (haswell, predating core m, in a dell). I don’t regret it but it can be a bummer.
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we ran almost nothing but skylake variation lots through my module this week
I assume this is because you’re all out there buying skylakes hand over fist
I was waiting for that tock BUT NO LONGER
How do I feel about the 1080?
If it drops the 970 to $200 then great. That boost to stereoscopic rendering is irritating though; that’s an unexpected lateral advantage.
TWO HUNDRED FRAMES PER SECOND
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For serious gamers on a budget, the 1060 looks promising and my launch in the fall. It will boost our performance with cores, tflops AND FinFET nanometers. Asynchronous compute will naturally be enhanced. No word on whether it will be blessed by the founders.
yeah I’m more interested to see the 1060 and the Titan from this generation than I am in these
so. since my PS4 seems to be playing well w/ my new SSD, the 250 EVO is ready to be used as my new test-drive-platter for the next round of linux x AMD installation adventures™.
Have been hanging on to LTS gnome 14.04 for a while now and instead of trying to defuse the AMD-driver mess bomb installation that went awry last time/when I put in this gfx-card, I’m going to aim trying that mesa-driver like @felix suggested around post #80ish. Just have to decide whether I’m using debian or gnome 16.04 LTS as a starting point, but am ready to experience crushing defeat since hey, AMD.
will report back when i finally pull the trigger!
is a 750 Ti (currently $110) going to be good enough for AA games (think like successors to Grimrock 2 and Pillars of Eternity) and building stuff in Unreal Engine for the next 2-3 years, or do i really need to drop another hundred for something like the R9 380
note: i’ve avoided amd like plague in the past because i don’t want to feel trapped on windows, and i dunno if this has changed at all
also: i have a 1440p monitor
i got three and a half years out of the gts 450, which i spent $140 on, but i dunno if i can pull that trick twice, given that that was during the era of late ps3 graphics stagnation and i can barely pull 30 fps at minimum settings for some stuff now
750 ti has been the only video card worth buying south of a 970 for a couple years now, but the thing is, you should buy a PS4 before you buy a GPU, and for the past few years (and foreseeable future?) everything on PC that doesn’t come to PS4 runs fine on Intel Ivy++. so you should make sure you actually want a GPU (and not a mammoth one) first.
there’ll probably be a new low-end Nvidia card pretty soon, too.
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i think you missed
which i’m pretty sure i can’t do on the PS4!
(i know that the performance needed for 3d development can vary so widely that it’s sort of meaningless to talk about, but i don’t think my six year old card isn’t going to cut it)
i’m not especially happy about moving up to a card that’s already two years old but i’m not aware of a better option. are there any hardware compatibility issues i should worry about when i move up? do newer cards require different slots or motherboard architectures or anything like that?
nope
and yeah sorry I missed the dev part
ok, cool. sorry if it sounded like i was giving you shit there.
i hope i don’t regret not getting a 970… 2.5x the performance for 3x the price sounds like a good deal but i can’t tell if i’d make any use of it. i doubt this is a “$100 shoes that last a year, versus $1000 shoes that last ten years” situation
plus a 970 would be a third of what’s left in my bank account right now, so, uh
Don’t buy a GPU now
Wait a couple of months for the Pascal/Polaris hype to wash over everyone, then hit the aftermarket for deals
i’ve been hearing people saying to wait for too long, i think. there will never not be something new and better seemingly just on the horizon
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I know that’s true, that people are constantly saying to wait, but the 1080 launches at the end of the week, and the 1070 within a month, with the Radeon 4xx cards being unveiled a week from now. The people who want to push high FPS at 1440p or want playable 4K on a single card are going to start dumping their old hardware and jump on these cards.