4D-Boxing wrote on Jun 16, 2015, 18:40:

Drayth wrote on Jun 16, 2015, 18:14:

Redmask wrote on Jun 16, 2015, 17:46:
The other option is an Acer XB270Hu which I own but wouldn't recommend, I had to RMA it 3 times to get a decent panel, Acer QA is fucking ballsack.

Word on the streets is the vendors are now selling the May batch of the XB270HU and those are far more free of flaws (say that three times fast). I got an April one with zero issues (still feel like I got lucky). The initial March ones were a huge panel lottery.

They print the month it was manufactured on the box.

Edit - and yes, the monitor is goddam amazing. Even the anti-glare coating is great.

Thanks for the info. This is why this is the only board/site i've ever really joined.

Was going for the Acer despite their track record with other hardware but, I may go for the Asus after reading this. A good Acer is better than the Asus option but, it seems to be a dice roll right now.

NewMaxx wrote on Jun 16, 2015, 18:45:
Bit of insider rumors from my old contacts in the industry for those interested, Samsung has been looking at scooping up AMD for quite some time now. It's mostly to boost their Exynos portfolio in the mobile arena but they would be shaving a lot of the CPU and GPU staff, who would go to Intel and NVIDIA mostly. The discrete GPU part would disappear completely as it currently exists. Samsung is also very interested in HBM (in the mobile space, they back Wide I/O and Wide I/O 2). They are also interested in gaming from a variety of viewpoints, including their TVs and mobile controllers. Samsung is simply waiting for the best time to pick them up; best value, fewest competitors, essentially.

This launch, as expected, has been pretty awful. On the one side they have re-brands that either have too much memory or, in the very least, cost too much and/or use too much power. The new HBM cards, while interesting, might have only 4GB. For those defending all of this, please consider: too much memory (8GB) on the one hand, then a focus on memory efficiency for the 4GB HBM. Those are contradictory moves on top of what amounts to rebrands that bring no lower prices. They're just phoning it in until they get bought out, and that's not even discussing the non-existent CPU side of the company. I'm not biased; I build computers for people regularly and my last 3 have a 280, a 290X, and a GTX 960 (but no AMD CPUs).

"NVIDIA does the same thing." Read the market, look at price histories. You see Intel refreshing the same chips at the same prices over and over again and they hold them there while out-selling the competition. NVIDIA has been doing the same thing for a while now. That speaks of market dominance and it's simply insurmountable in the current economy. AMD's graphics division is most valuable in its research department, their knowledge of memory and memory controllers is unparalleled and that's very attractive in the mobile and console spaces. They are pushing HBM for that reason as even if they fail they will be a good buyout prospect.

NamecaF wrote on Jun 9, 2015, 22:55:
Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are just loons. Like AI will somehow automatically be inherently evil? Look at what we're dealing with...

http://videosift.com/video/Go-home-robots-youre-drunk

theyarecomingforyou wrote on May 18, 2015, 14:22:
Looks terrible.

Fletch wrote on May 15, 2015, 06:15:
Umbra looks awesome.

Sempai wrote on May 13, 2015, 22:03:
It's not just Ubisoft, it's everyone these days, including the oh so coveted CD Projekt RED.

This kind of bullshit should have legal ramifications for being blatant false advertisement, but it's simply business as usual in our hobby..

http://goo.gl/eakt7y

jdreyer wrote on May 10, 2015, 17:01:
Anyone playing Toxikk? My plan is to wait until it's finished, but I'm wondering how it's coming along.