Recent content by Jeffredo

I was doing fine with my light gaming needs @ 1440p with a GTX 1070. It recently died and fortunately I found a decent deal on an EVGA RTX 2060 for $229.99 at Newegg. Had it now for a few days and its performance is pretty much the same as the GTX 1070 it replaced, maybe a bit better. Basically...

I have an old Radeon X850 Pro that I flashed to an X850 XT (with files and instructions from here way back in the day). It has an Arctic Cooling ATI Silencer 5 on it. Ran fine last time I used it.... which was like six years ago. All this time its been sitting in a shoe box in the closet. Its...

I also have an ASUS Turbo GTX 1060 6GB that I put an Arctic Cooling Accelero III on. Its a huge monster, but runs very cool! I would sell it to you for well under your budget.

Ended up getting the RX 590. Great performance so far and I can see my i5-4690k even with a good OC is the weak link. Still, they're fairly well balanced.

1920x1200 60hz (2008 TN monitor) Well, pretty much down to flipping a coin. Either one would probably do me just fine for the next couple years.

Well, that thought did cross my mind but I figured when/if I build a new up-to-date rig in two or three years I'd want a new GPU as well.

Yep, Anvimar (Alliance). Also have Horde characters on Kul Tiras.

Yeah, I thought about that. I have enough gift cards banked in Amazon I was kind of looking forward to buying new.

I know this may seem a silly reason to toss in the consideration of the two, but the Sapphire card is so darn pretty! The blue shroud and LED fans. lol. The EVGA is kind of plain Jane. I know that its the more efficient, slightly better performing card though. World War Z does look...

Thanks. The monitor is still fine. Its quite nice for a TN image wise (glossy screen, good color) and has a 3 ms response time (no ghosting). Edit: Also, what's all this talk of AMD drivers and "Fine Wine"? I know the two cards are pretty close with the GTX 1660 a little ahead. Will the AMD...

Hey guys. Need a little advice here. I have an i5-4690k @ 4.7 Ghz I'd like to upgrade the GPU for. It should be the last one before an entirely new system in a couple years. I'm not a heavy gamer, so I think I should be able to get that much longer out of the PC before its retired. I don't...

Mines been quite stable after the latest. It did crash once in a while before the last two updates, but they've seemed to have solved that for me.

I changed the PS and used an SSD with a very fresh install of Windows 10 on it with the i7-4790k/Z87 MPower Max. It matched the i5-4690k at first (72 FPS), but after I played Fallout 4 on it (which ran perfectly on Ultra - 60 FPS everywhere) the benchmark dropped again down to 50 FPS. It seems...

I didn't think to turn hyperthreading off to test. Both PCs have DDR3 2400 with slightly different timings. I actually pulled the motherboard and CPU to put them in a better case with a better power supply. Once its all hooked up I'll retest it. Its Windows 10 installation is almost four years...

This game is hella weird. My i5-4690k @ 4.7 Ghz on an ASUS Z97 board with the GTX 1070 Ti now gets 72 FPS on the Very High preset. My i7-4790k on an MSI Z97 board with the same GPU gets 49 FPS!!!. When I run Time Spy on them the i7-4790k machine of course scores higher (about 800 points higher...