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#1  Edited By LightR
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@MethodManFTW said:

today seems like a good day to buy, but who knows, maybe things will get worse?

Yea of course, I just figure AMD is on the up and up. It's probably even overvalued right now with all the fanboys buying in, and I don't expect Polaris to change things around as I'm more so waiting for Zen. If anything the GPUs will free up funds for them to push into VR more heavily or other ventures. They need to diversify more like NVIDIA to be worth much.

I didn't put much in, and really want to put a little in some other companies too. Its more play money than anything.

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#2  Edited By LightR
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Hoping AMD stock dips down and I'll buy in at 4.85. I didn't think it'd drop as much as it did earlier today and I got a bit greedy and then it shot back up 0.30 $. I think it'll slowly go down the rest of the day though.

EDIT: And its plummeting again and I'm unsure ~ hovering at 87.

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#5  Edited By LightR
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@Bikouchu35:

FX 8350 but its comparing my card to other systems with the same CPU so it's not that. Doubt it's my ram since it's only 1800 (?). Maybe their database is only comparing it to the reference card then the score would make sense, and explain the clock difference I think. Otherwise I got some good silicone.

Here's the benchmark.

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/8836305

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#6  Edited By LightR
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Benchmarking my R9 290 it seems like it should have been binned as an MSI Lightning. Beat every other score on 3DMark and its not even OCd by 150 MHz.

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#7  Edited By LightR
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@Bikouchu35 said:
@LightR said:
@Bikouchu35 said:

Made it to my first e3! Crossing this off my bucket list :D

I went to my first Comic Con this year. It was pretty exciting despite it being mostly vendors.I would love to go to E3 one day; it's not incredibly crowded, as in lots of line ups, is it? What was your highlight?

Its not incredibly crowded, I think anime or comic conventions are usually much more crowded than e3 by far. However they can only cram so many gaming booths and events, so expect linnness too. I think is very much worth going once in a lifetime. Certain games like Forza only took 10 minutes, but the highlight was battlefield 1 that took an hour to wait and play altogether. They put you in a 48 player room which was sick. Also I think I caught eye with Naomi Kyle from ign, but she was walking too fast for me to get a picture with her.

Which comic con was it? I'm definitely dying to into sd comic con every year. I wonder how tight their security is for cc, I manage to walk around e3 with someone else tag :D. I've been to anime expo and wondercon just not CC yet.

Ottawa ComicCon so it was relatively new and therefore small. I think the one in Montreal is better established and is coming up in July, but I'm undecided if I want to go again so soon.

...And I'd probably wait an hour to play BF so yeah, not that bad.

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#8 LightR
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@LightR said:
@MethodManFTW said:

bought a vive. O_o

Im trying to sell my R9 290 and get an RX 480. I bought it for $200 and expect to make atleast $180 back. Then when I graduate in two years I might reassess the VR market and decide what to do then.

I might be running on an HP 4870 for about a month until nonreference cards release... :S

I;m hoping in two years VR is $250-300. PSVR looks interesting, especially since they said it'd be running on current hardware, but I want to see how far they can push that hardware in a closed ecosystem.

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@Bikouchu35 said:

Made it to my first e3! Crossing this off my bucket list :D

I went to my first Comic Con this year. It was pretty exciting despite it being mostly vendors.I would love to go to E3 one day; it's not incredibly crowded, as in lots of line ups, is it? What was your highlight?

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#10 LightR
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@MethodManFTW said:

bought a vive. O_o

Im trying to sell my R9 290 and get an RX 480. I bought it for $200 and expect to make atleast $180 back. Then when I graduate in two years I might reassess the VR market and decide what to do then.

I might be running on an HP 4870 for about a month until nonreference cards release... :S