For Mantle to work with Nvidia they would have to completely change their architecture. Never going to happen. AMD wasn't the one hustling for a TressFX patch for NV users, it was Crystal Dynamics. Neither company is innocent in this game.
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For Mantle to work with Nvidia they would have to completely change their architecture. Never going to happen. AMD wasn't the one hustling for a TressFX patch for NV users, it was Crystal Dynamics. Neither company is innocent in this game.
currently only the GCN cards support Mantle. it's hard to call it "open" when it doesn't even work with all AMD cards
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I think they made it clear that it will eventually work without GCN. Anyway, what is important is that all those games that use Mantle have the option to use DX. The game is not severely broken because someone chooses DX over Mantle. What they are doing with Watch Dogs is in the actual coding of the software, and it has been closed off to AMD which prevents them from optimizing properly. This is much different than something like Phys X, which can be turned off.
I don't expect this type of brand loyalty and bickering from this community. This isn't good for the community and the consumer, no matter who does it. At least offer the option to turn something off so it doesn't cripple 40% or 60% of PC gamers.
Yeah, eventually, keep eating that playing nice talk,
Check Dirt Showdown. Game is crippled in a way where 780's and Titans can barely compete with 7970s. I can care less about brands and won't go white knighting and crying cause 1 is trying to get the competitive edge over the other. It's what companies do. I'll go with whichever serves me the best for the shyt I like to play. Also, when developers focus on two separate API's you get the cluster fukk that was BF4. Most of the benefits of Mantle could have just been improved on via DX11 driver improvements like was recently displayed.
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That shyt is the worst of the DRM services...uplay sux
I had to run both Ac4 and FC3 through Steam and Uplay which was fukking retarded...To make matters worse Uplays cloud was fukking up my game saves...Save yourself the headache and grab a cracked exe breh...
forgot all about this.So, a couple of things.PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI 970A-G46 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($76.94 @ Micro Center)
Memory: Kingston HyperX 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($45.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Kingston HyperX 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($45.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card ($179.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Cooler Master HAF 912 ATX Mid Tower Case ($53.03 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: Antec 450W ATX Power Supply ($37.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($16.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $636.90
How's this rookie setup looking brehs? I'm still on the fence about the CPU. Is going up the FX-8350 worth it?Rep for any feedback.
I missed the fact that you linked two 4gb ram sticks...I have two 4GB 1866 G.Skill Sticks I can send you and I'll let them go for $55 shipped.
I can send you an MSI 970A-G43 motherboard (basically the same board) for $45 shipped if you want it...its essentially brand new with box and instructions
If you want to buy both I'll let them go for $90 shipped for my coli breh. I will accept a google wallet payment.
Save $10 by buying a white label HDD
White Label 1TB 32MB Cache 7200RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Desktop Hard Drive - w/ 1 yr warranty
There you go...$90 saved...you can apply that to a stronger GPU or get a nice SSD (I recommend an SSD)
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Also, why do you want an optical drive? I have several of them if you want one of them also. I'll let one go for $10 if you decide you want to take my offer.
I ran passmark
should I be concerned about any of these scores? I'm assuming passmark doesn't do sli (it only saw one 780ti when doing the tests). The CPU mark is about where it should be, but what about my 2d graphics mark scores and disk mark scores?. I have a 500gb Samsung Evo SSD as my main drive and a 3 tb and 4tb as my other drives. Does passmark combine all hard drives, or just look at one? If it is just looking at my main SSD, should I be concerned with those scores (they seem a little low)
should I be concerned about any of these scores? I'm assuming passmark doesn't do sli (it only saw one 780ti when doing the tests). The CPU mark is about where it should be, but what about my 2d graphics mark scores and disk mark scores?. I have a 500gb Samsung Evo SSD as my main drive and a 3 tb and 4tb as my other drives. Does passmark combine all hard drives, or just look at one? If it is just looking at my main SSD, should I be concerned with those scores (they seem a little low)
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I ran passmark
should I be concerned about any of these scores? I'm assuming passmark doesn't do sli (it only saw one 780ti when doing the tests). The CPU mark is about where it should be, but what about my 2d graphics mark scores and disk mark scores?. I have a 500gb Samsung Evo SSD as my main drive and a 3 tb and 4tb as my other drives. Does passmark combine all hard drives, or just look at one? If it is just looking at my main SSD, should I be concerned with those scores (they seem a little low)
Do you have the Pro or regular Evo? It does look a little low. Did you run Samsung Magician to see if it offers any optimization?
