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I also heard that SanDisk was bought by WD and Micron.


Nice article. I can draw the following conclusions.
- Witcher 3 is GPU bound, and you need more than a 750Ti to run it at atleast high settings(and any modern processor for BF4).
- You need a Haswell based i3 atleast, if you are looking for 60 plus framerates. The article seems to be targeting for 30+ though.
- Older quad core CPU's are too slow now, so you can't hold their quad cores against modern Pentiums or i3's.
 


Isnt that because the game is NVIDIA biased?
 
But the difference between the 7870 and the 550ti is HUGE. The 7870 is 3 times better than the 550ti, so if they expect them to be roughly the same, then an r9 390x would be about the same as a gtx950. There is no chance that will ever be the case.

If it REALLY does favor Nvidia THAT much, get ready for Bethesda to be the most hates game company of all time right up there with EA.
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127783 looks like a decent deal. For those not determined to play with UltraMaxOhWOW settings, the GTX750Ti is looking like a real bang/buck winner now, especially for how little power it needs.
I've got one, that has been hobbled by Scrooge, but I'm going to uncork it and try to incorporate it into some of my testing. Based on http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/is-a-high-end-cpu-a-real-need-for-a-gaming-computer/ I think someone with an i3+GTX750Ti would absolutely not be suffering.

 
So, I took a stroll to Linus Tech Tips forum to see how things are going. Man oh man do those people hate Corsair CX. It is a poor quality power supply, but they literally act like it's a threat to society. The hate is real. Those people on that forum are going to get pitchforks and storm Corsair headquarters. You know how we on Tomshardware don't like Corsair CX and recommend against buying it? These people do that X10.

They literally take the Corsair CX power supply and virtually mount an MG-42 and spray it with an entire clip.
 
If yours is a power friendly system, actually the CX is not that bad.
It's not a gaming PC PSU, but it's fine for a basic i3+750Ti kind of build.

My CX430 has a 6+2 pin connector, so I could probably run a 960 off of it. It has 32A on the +12V rail, so it could run in theory with a ~70W CPU.
 
Meanwhile I was there and saw someone boasting how he can run a R9 290 on his EVGA 400b. He posted saying that he was going to overclock his 290 and have a fire extinguisher on hand...this was the same guy who I tried helping out when he had a FX 6300 and was going to overclock on one of those piss poor 760g boards. I see he now has an i3 in his build.

 


Yup, the guy's a deliberate idiot. I thought about reporting him, but the mods are plenty busy already. That guy isn't even worth a minute of their time.



Ya man. It's sad. The poor OP seems to have deserted his own thread.
 


I got my old 7870 to power on with a Seasonic 430W, but then again it is a Seasonic PSU. A huge upgrade from an EVGA 400B. :lol:

Not that I'm saying I would recommend it, I had the 7870 as a place holder until I got my 960 for the Raven, I just powered the PC on to get a disc out of the drive. I'd be seriously surprised if I could get it to display a picture with such a low wattage PSU like that.
 
Lol, you would be more than fine. the CX430 is by far the best of the CX units and is perfectly safe for builds like an i3 and a gtx950 or even a locked i5 and a gtx950.

People way overestimate how much power they need. Go look at some EVGA Hadron builds. You'll see people running overclocked i5s/i7s and gtx980/r9 390s on the stock 500w PSU without any issue at all. A good quality PSU will easily support it's full 12v rail wattage with no issue at all.
 
I could have mined BTC with my HD7970 on that Seasonic PSU; with the card overclocked to 1130MHz, the rig pulled 312W-321W from its UPS, and that's with the GPU pegged at 100% usage.
Rigs use a LOT less power than people think; high estimates are often used to attempt to account for the liar-labeled crap still being sold (e.g. Coolermaster, Thermaltake; not to mention PSU-shaped objects like Apevia, Diablotek, Logisys, and Linkworld).
 
You mean paint cannot fix, don't you?

Do I get a test bench if I take a sturdy piece of plywood clamped to some supports and drill holes where standoffs are required to go? Or are there any other angles to that? I wouldn't think a testbench requires much. One can even buy 5.25" panels for front ports.
 


I don't know why he keeps bringing up me talking about metal oxide varistors. What the OP said was, "Could this have anything to do with the wall?" And I described how a surge cannot even get through a PSU from the wall since in transient filtering the MOV protects from surges. I knew this had nothing to do with the voltage actually delivered to the components, but I was just explaining to the OP how that couldn't happen in the first place (side information basically).

Yeah I agree with you, no use wasting time. He's a troll.
 
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