AMD.I know has microstutter, worse drivers, on the notebook side is an absolute non-starter as just getting drivers that work on a given CPU/GPU combo is a disaster (why Alienware wisely IMO ditched AMD options from their new notebooks). I've sworn by Nvidia's drivers since 1 month after the TNT 1's launch (had issues the first 3 weeks, but they got them nailed down after that, and have had basically zero issues with Nvidia in the 15 years since then). That was all like 10 years ago though.ĭitto question about AMD's GPUs, if I went that Vybe route. I should ask too if there's any weirdness with AMD CPU based systems today? My last experience was an Athlon 64 system I built which was DOA, and before that an original Athlon system from Falcon, which was NEVER stable even after a year of constant BIOS updates from Asus.I eventually tossed the board and CPU and bought a Pentium 3 equivalent which ran fine, but after those experiences I'm not blown away by AMD nor by Falcon NW, as frankly they should have done something about that situation. (I've been very happy with years of Dell monitors so far, so figure that saves me some research time.) Looks like dell currently sells at least 2 different Ultrasharp 1080p monitors, so I guess I'd get the more expensive one lol. Oh, and any thoughts on a monitor? I'm thinking one of Dell's 24" Ultrasharp monitors with a soundbar. I'd assume an 860 watt PSU will work for a single Titain, but not sure about dual cards.Īnyway.just wondered what you guys thought! Maingear's Vybe and F131 both seem to max out at an 860 corsair PSU, so that's what I'd get. (my understanding is it shouldn't be wasteful from a power standpoint to oversize the PSU.maybe at worst it would be a little less efficient at the actual level of power my system is drawing, but otherwise it just wouldn't be drawing extra power). Falcon uses Silverstone I think, and I was thinking I'd go for a 1000 watt supply from them (I figure it's not that expensive anyway, and easier than swapping it out later, even though I'd probably be getting a single 780 from them). (F131 seems like swapping hard drives would be tricky.guess they're on the opposite side of the case from the video cards?, and the Vybe seems to only take a single drive.)Īlso wondering how big of a power supply do you need for say a dual Titan system? I'm probably not ever going to do anything that crazy, but I'd hypothetically like to be able to upgrade to any 2 video cards I wanted to in the future. If I got an F131 or Falcon's Talon special done with air cooling I'd get a single Geforce GTX 780 probably. Would do the 280x over the 290 as the 290 is apparently LOUUUUD, and I'd prefer any system I get to not be too crazy. Not sure how AMD's driver situation is right now, nor whether crossfire actually works with no stuttering, but it's cheap. If I got that Vybe I'd be getting AMD's 4GHz 8-core, and either 1 or 2 R9 280x's. I know the Bulldozer derivatives aren't as good but I'm sure it would still be fine, and I wouldn't mind supporting AMD. Maingear has this 'vybe' system for fairly cheap, for some reason Intel is only liquid cooling, but on the 4GHz or below AMD version it lists air cooling. Maingear has a few that seem to be able to be configured with air cooling. I want air cooled, not liquid, and a lot of these only list liquid cooling now, but both Falcon and Origin have said they'll build me a system with air cooling. I'm familiar if not blown away by Falcon Northwest, not so familiar with the other brands like Maingear, Origin, CyberpowerPC (which vs the others is more of just a parts assembler), etc. I've had notebooks for 5 years now but am thinking of going back to desktops, and no, I don't want to build one even though I used to.
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