Recent content by hawk767

Considering my 780 runs 1440p with no lag on anything so far, on 1080p you'll be golden.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/370952084781 Little more than the Seagate posted yesterday. Just picked mine up. Great deal imo.

If I buy either it will probably be within a few years. I've focused most of my time on pc but I do own a PS3 and 360. Only reason I bought the ps3 recently was to go through and play some of the biggest titles plus some classics through PSN. I've owned the 360 since before my pc so I've...

Well thanks folks for the suggestions/help. I appreciate those that provided helpful and on-topic recommendations and and much more comfortable with my decision. Feel free to cut short whatever it is going on that's not related to video cards powering a 1440p monitor ;).

That's what I figured. I've never even seen mine get above 4 in most cases. I always thought of 12 - 16 to be more for novelty than anything. (I do do video rendering, 3D modeling on occasion and I know these sort of activities utilize RAM)

Thanks for the unnecessary generalization ;). I make large purchases on credit indeed and pay them off in full. No different than saving each pay check for an item, I just get it earlier and am willing to pay a degree of interest for the fact. I'm sitting on good credit with 2 paid off cards so...

I think once the monitor arrives on Wednesday and I've some time to use it with my 7950 I'll make my determination. I've never personally used a 1440p monitor so can't compare to 1080p with game quality. If the monitor blows me away even with lower in game settings I very well may wait, if not...

I did consider getting 2 290's for crossfire but I've heard of so many issues with crossfire that I decided to avoid it. I know many have success with it but with my experience with AMD drivers on single gpu's I figure I'd rather give the other competition a go before making a large investment...

I really wanted the 290 - 290x to be my next buy but with the temp and fan sounds on the reference I've opted not to give them a try. The custom cooler models will of course be better but I'm getting my 1440p monitor within the next couple days and I'm looking to upgrade now rather than later...

Ive seen a lot of love for the EVGA classified. So would it be the best choice over say the MSI Twin Frozr (highly recommended by a friend). If I can spend the little extra for the EVGA and get better OC potential I'd be very happy.

I've been contemplating the idea of going SLI with 2 780's as well. Buy one now, another later on. I'm willing to sacrifice levels of AA as I've read multiple cases of people still seeing improvement even with AA lowered in 1440p over 1080p. For me its just knowing which manufacturers...

Alright I'll be sure to do that. Appreciate the quick replies.

I've got a small 64gb Samsung SSD with windows on it that I'm looking to replace soon, along with my mobo. I've also got my original 1tb HDD that I plan to replace eventually but I use for pretty much everything besides my OS. The new SSD will hold my OS + all of my drivers so all of the...

Many people I know that have attempted crossfire setups have run into nothing but issues. While I'm sure there are plenty of people who have had success I'd rather not risk it. I feel I'd also be better off selling the 7950 now and getting what I can from it rather than CFing and waiting it...

I've been on amd cards since I build this pc 2 years ago and with my recent purchase of a 1440p monitor which will be here Wednesday I feel I should make the jump up from my 7950 to a top of the top tier card. My eyes have been on the line of 780's but I'm completely new to NVidia so I...