[nonseq]

waldojim, on 29 April 2012 - 02:19 PM, said:

coastie65, on 29 April 2012 - 01:28 PM, said:

waldojim, on 29 April 2012 - 12:57 PM, said:

Hey Coastie: seeing as you are bound and determined to waste money on a needless upgrade I think you should go for this card instead:
GTX 690

I had just come back here after running across that thing. http://news.softpedi...ed-266971.shtml As far as the upgrade goes, nothing is set in stone. If I go for the 680, I do want to get the maximum I can get out of it without being bottlenecked in some way. Arrrrggghhh, I just checked your link, $1000 ?. No thanks. I passed on the Mars II, although the $1500 price tag was doable. Damn, the only GTX 680 I can find is a Galaxy over at TigerDirect.

After spending $700 on a mainboard and cpu, what is another $1000 on a video card?

At these prices, coastie must be building a Mac.

[coastie65]

waldojim, on 29 April 2012 - 02:45 PM, said:

It is a little harder to justify two of them, when one is not only so stinking powerful, but also $1,000. Shoot I would have a terrible time justifying one to the wife... and would quite likely fail.

Besides the fact that the GTX 690 has two GPU's, so is the equivalent of running two cards.

[waldojim]

nonseq, on 29 April 2012 - 03:04 PM, said:

waldojim, on 29 April 2012 - 02:19 PM, said:

coastie65, on 29 April 2012 - 01:28 PM, said:

waldojim, on 29 April 2012 - 12:57 PM, said:

Hey Coastie: seeing as you are bound and determined to waste money on a needless upgrade I think you should go for this card instead:
GTX 690

I had just come back here after running across that thing. http://news.softpedi...ed-266971.shtml As far as the upgrade goes, nothing is set in stone. If I go for the 680, I do want to get the maximum I can get out of it without being bottlenecked in some way. Arrrrggghhh, I just checked your link, $1000 ?. No thanks. I passed on the Mars II, although the $1500 price tag was doable. Damn, the only GTX 680 I can find is a Galaxy over at TigerDirect.

After spending $700 on a mainboard and cpu, what is another $1000 on a video card?

At these prices, coastie must be building a Mac.

Sure would think so... but getting the best parts costs more money. Seems to be true anywhere doesn't it?

[waldojim]

coastie65, on 29 April 2012 - 03:05 PM, said:

waldojim, on 29 April 2012 - 02:45 PM, said:

It is a little harder to justify two of them, when one is not only so stinking powerful, but also $1,000. Shoot I would have a terrible time justifying one to the wife... and would quite likely fail.

Besides the fact that the GTX 690 has two GPU's, so is the equivalent of running two cards.

With the way the 690 is setup, it could actually prove to be more powerful.

[coastie65]

nonseq, on 29 April 2012 - 03:04 PM, said:

waldojim, on 29 April 2012 - 02:19 PM, said:

coastie65, on 29 April 2012 - 01:28 PM, said:

waldojim, on 29 April 2012 - 12:57 PM, said:

Hey Coastie: seeing as you are bound and determined to waste money on a needless upgrade I think you should go for this card instead:
GTX 690

I had just come back here after running across that thing. http://news.softpedi...ed-266971.shtml As far as the upgrade goes, nothing is set in stone. If I go for the 680, I do want to get the maximum I can get out of it without being bottlenecked in some way. Arrrrggghhh, I just checked your link, $1000 ?. No thanks. I passed on the Mars II, although the $1500 price tag was doable. Damn, the only GTX 680 I can find is a Galaxy over at TigerDirect.

After spending $700 on a mainboard and cpu, what is another $1000 on a video card?

At these prices, coastie must be building a Mac.

So it would seem.

[coastie65]

waldojim, on 29 April 2012 - 03:26 PM, said:

nonseq, on 29 April 2012 - 03:04 PM, said:

waldojim, on 29 April 2012 - 02:19 PM, said:

coastie65, on 29 April 2012 - 01:28 PM, said:

waldojim, on 29 April 2012 - 12:57 PM, said:

Hey Coastie: seeing as you are bound and determined to waste money on a needless upgrade I think you should go for this card instead:
GTX 690

I had just come back here after running across that thing. http://news.softpedi...ed-266971.shtml As far as the upgrade goes, nothing is set in stone. If I go for the 680, I do want to get the maximum I can get out of it without being bottlenecked in some way. Arrrrggghhh, I just checked your link, $1000 ?. No thanks. I passed on the Mars II, although the $1500 price tag was doable. Damn, the only GTX 680 I can find is a Galaxy over at TigerDirect.

After spending $700 on a mainboard and cpu, what is another $1000 on a video card?

At these prices, coastie must be building a Mac.

Sure would think so... but getting the best parts costs more money. Seems to be true anywhere doesn't it?

Actually, I have an HP Dv9260nr sitting here waiting for me to get motivated and change out the MOBO at the moment ( I have the MOBO ).

[coastie65]

waldojim, on 29 April 2012 - 03:27 PM, said:

coastie65, on 29 April 2012 - 03:05 PM, said:

waldojim, on 29 April 2012 - 02:45 PM, said:

It is a little harder to justify two of them, when one is not only so stinking powerful, but also $1,000. Shoot I would have a terrible time justifying one to the wife... and would quite likely fail.

Besides the fact that the GTX 690 has two GPU's, so is the equivalent of running two cards.

With the way the 690 is setup, it could actually prove to be more powerful.

From what I've seen so far, it just may well be. I guess considering that it has two GPU's onboard, it may be worth the price. The clocks are lower than the 680, but from what I've seen, doesn't appear to be an issue. If yu have good airflow through the case than Heat shouldn't be a problem either.

[waldojim]

coastie65, on 29 April 2012 - 05:00 PM, said:

waldojim, on 29 April 2012 - 03:27 PM, said:

coastie65, on 29 April 2012 - 03:05 PM, said:

waldojim, on 29 April 2012 - 02:45 PM, said:

It is a little harder to justify two of them, when one is not only so stinking powerful, but also $1,000. Shoot I would have a terrible time justifying one to the wife... and would quite likely fail.

Besides the fact that the GTX 690 has two GPU's, so is the equivalent of running two cards.

With the way the 690 is setup, it could actually prove to be more powerful.

From what I've seen so far, it just may well be. I guess considering that it has two GPU's onboard, it may be worth the price. The clocks are lower than the 680, but from what I've seen, doesn't appear to be an issue. If yu have good airflow through the case than Heat shouldn't be a problem either.

Well, rumor has it, that the power limiter is actually set higher on the 690 than the 680's(combined). So while a tad slower base clock, they should potentially be able to run a tad faster OC'd - for whatever the additional 15 watts is worth...

This shines a whole new light on that platform though. Running 2x 680's in SLI, and an overclocked CPU, and don't even break 500 watts from the wall... makes me wonder why anyone would even mess with an 850watt PSU!

[LiveBrianD]

coastie65, on 29 April 2012 - 04:50 PM, said:

Actually, I have an HP Dv9260nr sitting here waiting for me to get motivated and change out the MOBO at the moment ( I have the MOBO ).

Come on, you built a desktop, so how hard can this be? Just note where you removed screws from, be careful, be careful, and also be careful.

[coastie65]

LiveBrianD, on 29 April 2012 - 06:26 PM, said:

coastie65, on 29 April 2012 - 04:50 PM, said:

Actually, I have an HP Dv9260nr sitting here waiting for me to get motivated and change out the MOBO at the moment ( I have the MOBO ).

Come on, you built a desktop, so how hard can this be? Just note where you removed screws from, be careful, be careful, and also be careful.

I've been into that thing once. Wasn't fun and sooooo many screws.

[coastie65]

TigerDirect sold out of those 3770k CPUs @ $319.99. I guess Newegg has plenty @ $359.99 though.

This post has been edited by coastie65: 30 April 2012 - 12:10 PM

[waldojim]

coastie65, on 30 April 2012 - 12:10 PM, said:

TigerDirect sold out of those 3770k CPUs @ $319.99. I guess Newegg has plenty @ $359.99 though.

Micro Center also has them on sale, but you have to buy in store.

[LiveBrianD]

coastie65, on 30 April 2012 - 04:40 AM, said:

I've been into that thing once. Wasn't fun and sooooo many screws.

Yep. AND a lot of them are different. Desktops seem to easy to deal with in comparison (well, they are), even the SFF ones (which I call a PITA when operating on - my fingers aren't particularly small ). On the other hand, it was much easier to install a ram module in my x120e than install one in a SFF Dell I diagnosed for someone.

This post has been edited by LiveBrianD: 30 April 2012 - 02:48 PM

[coastie65]

waldojim, on 30 April 2012 - 02:29 PM, said:

coastie65, on 30 April 2012 - 12:10 PM, said:

TigerDirect sold out of those 3770k CPUs @ $319.99. I guess Newegg has plenty @ $359.99 though.

Micro Center also has them on sale, but you have to buy in store.

No Micro Center in this neck of the woods. Just BestBuy and hhgregg.

[coastie65]

LiveBrianD, on 30 April 2012 - 02:47 PM, said:

coastie65, on 30 April 2012 - 04:40 AM, said:

I've been into that thing once. Wasn't fun and sooooo many screws.

Yep. AND a lot of them are different. Desktops seem to easy to deal with in comparison (well, they are), even the SFF ones (which I call a PITA when operating on - my fingers aren't particularly small ). On the other hand, it was much easier to install a ram module in my x120e than install one in a SFF Dell I diagnosed for someone.

I'm not worried about tight spaces as I have the tools to deal with that.

[LiveBrianD]

coastie65, on 30 April 2012 - 05:15 PM, said:

I'm not worried about tight spaces as I have the tools to deal with that.

When I dealt with that SFF machine, I kept bumping into things, and it was hard to pull out the ram. I have a Shuttle mini-cube that's equally a PITA to work with. (sometimes, I am glad that my desktop is big in comparison) Of course, you can always go all office space on it if you like.

[coastie65]

I was looking at this card: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814130779 They haven't had any of those 680's in stock period ( wonder where the reviews are coming from ? ). The i7 3770 is over priced and sold out. TigerDirect has it for $319.99 after a $20 mail in Rebate. They had it at $319.99 with an instant $40 coupon over the weekend, but sold out or so they said. I checked with ebay on the Video card and they were marked up over $100. Need to find a way to shut those jackasses down. I am tired of them buying up all the stuff then throwing it out on ebay at inflated prices, and don't give me that crap about free enterprise. I just laid into one seller.

This post has been edited by coastie65: 02 May 2012 - 03:28 AM

[LiveBrianD]

lol... for instance, you can buy the hp 2511x for $230 here http://www.buydig.co...1X&tab=descript or for $530 here: http://www.ebay.com/...8#ht_4636wt_905 Not bad, that's only about 130% more and well over the $300 MSRP. (I've been thinking about getting that, but since amazon just jacked up their price a bunch yesterday, I think I'll wait a little while.)

[coastie65]

LiveBrianD, on 01 May 2012 - 04:49 PM, said:

lol... for instance, you can buy the hp 2511x for $230 here http://www.buydig.co...1X&tab=descript or for $530 here: http://www.ebay.com/...8#ht_4636wt_905 Not bad, that's only about 130% more and well over the $300 MSRP. (I've been thinking about getting that, but since amazon just jacked up their price a bunch yesterday, I think I'll wait a little while.)

Yep. Does get somewhat maddening at times. I remember when the PS3 first launched ( Nov. '06 ). Didn't take them long to sell out out and for those things to hit ebay at a greatly inflated price.

[Rommel]

Interseting that I just noticed this thread.

I've been feeling temptations to migrate to an intel CPU and was looking into the Ivy series.
Looking into the latest z77 chip set and this board is awesome.

http://www.asus.com/.../P8Z77V_DELUXE/

It can reduce wattage, it appears with sacraficing power, to help keep things cool.
Add more boost to your graphic cards ability.
Use a technology to speed up SSD/platter drive interface, if I'm seeing that correctly.

Some other kick butt features.

How new are these?

I haven't scoped boards out for quite some time?