nforce4max wrote:

Someone likely stole the card in transit, learned the hard way to NEVER use DHL and never trust UPS as they are likely to deliver to the wrong address.

Heh, how old are you? =) It has nothing to do with a shipping company, but with your local people working there. As I can tell you the same story about USPS.

Got my 8gb PowerColor RX480 (reference card) testing it out the temps seem fine and everything runs great!

My latest haul. From a grand total of 23€, including public transport to a nearby town and back, I obtain:
A generic ATX tower

It's obvious that I won't pay 23€ for this even if it was new, so, what's inside?

A "500w" generic power supply together with a PATA DVD, back case cooler and a 300 GB SATA HD (Maxtor, but hey, nobody's perfect 😀 ), together with the case it goes to a project of mine and was worth the 23€, but, what about the rest?

Is this a retro hair drier or a death ray from a 50's sci-fi movie? No, it's a Thermaltake cooler 🤣 , and what it cools?

A Pentium D 920 in a nice 4Core DualSata-2 motherboard from Asrock, one of these the frankenstein mobos typical from Asrock.
The lot also includes 1GB of DDR2 RAM and a Radeon X1300 video card, so all in all I think I obtain a very nice deal.

Not to nitpick, but in what way is a Pentium D modern?

shiva2004 wrote:

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Oh wow thats ugly...I want one 🤣

More info on the Thermaltake CL-P0086 Beetle cooler http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16835106057

Just bought this.. upgrading from my GTX 770 4GB .. EVGA SuperClocked card.

New card: Sapphire R9 290X Vapor-X Tri-X OC 8GB card.

Total price: $280 shipped.

kithylin wrote:

Just bought this.. upgrading from my GTX 770 4GB .. EVGA SuperClocked card.
New card: Sapphire R9 290X Vapor-X Tri-X OC 8GB card.
Total price: $280 shipped.

Wow, not cheap at all even for a new one. Unless it's an exotic graphics card or something. Why not to get one of these RX 480 instead?

oerk wrote:

Not to nitpick, but in what way is a Pentium D modern?

Obviously it's not cutting edge, but a 64bit CPU capable of running Windows 7, 8 and probably 10 is, by the usual standards of this forum, "modern" 🤣

Dreamer_of_the_past wrote:

kithylin wrote:

Just bought this.. upgrading from my GTX 770 4GB .. EVGA SuperClocked card.
New card: Sapphire R9 290X Vapor-X Tri-X OC 8GB card.
Total price: $280 shipped.

Wow, not cheap at all even for a new one.

Actually they were originally $549 for the stock R9 290X 4GB cards in 2013, and this one's aftermarket one with double ram and upgraded cooling and overclocked edition. I forget what the seller said his original purchase price was but it was about $675 I believe in 2013.

And the 290X stock cards are +9% faster than the RX 480 stock. The only other option for a high ram video card right now (8GB) is the GTX 1070 that's $450+, or the Titan X that's still $800+. So.. yeah it's actually a decent price.

I'm wanting to some day go for 4K gaming (probably need a second one of these down the line) and so the higher video ram will most likely be needed when DirectX-12 titles become more common and for 4K.

kithylin wrote:

Actually they were originally $549 for the stock R9 290X 4GB cards in 2013, and this one's aftermarket one with double ram and upgraded cooling and overclocked edition. I forget what the seller said his original purchase price was but it was about $675 I believe in 2013.

And the 290X stock cards are +9% faster than the RX 480 stock. The only other option for a high ram video card right now (8GB) is the GTX 1070 that's $450+, or the Titan X that's still $800+. So.. yeah it's actually a decent price.

Ah, I see. Not too long ago I sold a brand new R9 290 for $200, so this is why it looked kind of expensive to me.

Dreamer_of_the_past wrote:

kithylin wrote:

Actually they were originally $549 for the stock R9 290X 4GB cards in 2013, and this one's aftermarket one with double ram and upgraded cooling and overclocked edition. I forget what the seller said his original purchase price was but it was about $675 I believe in 2013.

And the 290X stock cards are +9% faster than the RX 480 stock. The only other option for a high ram video card right now (8GB) is the GTX 1070 that's $450+, or the Titan X that's still $800+. So.. yeah it's actually a decent price.

Ah, I see. Not too long ago I sold a brand new R9 290 for $200, so this is why it looked kind of expensive to me.

I finally found some info. I was wrong and looked at seller's message. It was originally $485 new in 2013. Price is fine to me.. cheapest 8GB card with "Decent" performance I can find anywhere today. +8% over the GTX 970, and a little faster than the RX 480. Works for me.

Bought a cheap 32 GB SSD from eBay. KingSpec is the brand, around $20 shipped.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

Bought a cheap 32 GB SSD from eBay. KingSpec is the brand, around $20 shipped.

If you could try and benchmark those on some sort of semi-modern system and post results that would be nice. Hdtune is free and just the overall read speed section would be nice. I'm more interested in the sustained reads across the entire capacity rather than the burst section under access times / IO speeds.

I've seen those too from Kingspec but I've always sort of thought they were "off brand cheap chinese junk" and probably didn't work well but I didn't want to chance my money on them.

Maybe I was wrong... would be nice to know either way.

shiva2004 wrote:

oerk wrote:

Not to nitpick, but in what way is a Pentium D modern?

Obviously it's not cutting edge, but a 64bit CPU capable of running Windows 7, 8 and probably 10 is, by the usual standards of this forum, "modern" 🤣

I've run Windows 10 on a P4 640, so a D920 should be able to - in X86 at least, not sure if X64 of the oldies is up to the requirements, or is it only S939/754 Athlons that have that issue.

Newegg has finally shipped my card to me. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16814131694

its been 41 days without a video card in my main system. Lets just say i'm pretty anxious to try out DOOM.

what are You going to do with 8gb ram? thats probably half as much as main memory? can it be used for apps when not needed otherwise?

mrau wrote:

what are You going to do with 8gb ram? thats probably half as much as main memory? can it be used for apps when not needed otherwise?

I can confirm that I have as much gpu ram as actual system ram. No I have no idea what I am doing! But it sure is awesome.

mrau wrote:

what are You going to do with 8gb ram? thats probably half as much as main memory? can it be used for apps when not needed otherwise?

Quite a lot of modern AAA titles are starting to use 6-7 or 8 GB of ram even at 1080p on ultra settings now. 4GB cards are getting a bit dated and likely won't be very useful for "modern games" here in the next 2-3 years.

Part of why I also bought an 8GB card myself.

dying light does not count! that's just spammed with unneeded bloat..
any use except for games?