mrau wrote:

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

Not specifically for that Radeon card, but you may want to look at why (top line) Quadros and FirePros are given such huge RAM (24GB, 32GB... and the number will soon extend dramatically with Radeon Pro's "SSG").

I think that Radeon also has support for OpenCL, so you can use it for a physics-based renderer, for example, with very high resolution output and/or very large geometry. Real-time editing or processing of video at 4K/8K and higher may also be one of the potential application of aforementioned Radeon Pro SSG. Other purposes involving GPGPU with very large datasets will also benefit from more memory of course.

Come to think of it, for some people it might be more beneficial to have much more (and faster) RAM accessible to the GPU rather than the CPU these days.

Not strictly "bought" but replaced my GTX570 which is on its way out with a Sapphire AMD 7770 Gz Edition. Not an upgrade as such but was given to me as a frebbie! I've been using the Intel Onboard graphics on my i5 2500+ rig for sometime now - It's an improvement 🤣

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mrau wrote:

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

Not specifically for that Radeon card, but you may want to look at why (top line) Quadros and FirePros are given such huge RAM (24GB, 32GB... and the number will soon extend dramatically with Radeon Pro's "SSG").

I think that Radeon also has support for OpenCL, so you can use it for a physics-based renderer, for example, with very high resolution output and/or very large geometry. Real-time editing or processing of video at 4K/8K and higher may also be one of the potential application of aforementioned Radeon Pro SSG. Other purposes involving GPGPU with very large datasets will also benefit from more memory of course.

Come to think of it, for some people it might be more beneficial to have much more (and faster) RAM accessible to the GPU rather than the CPU these days.

Along this discussion, take a little look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W-5qpLyBpA Where he discusses the practical uses (outside of games) for 8GB cards.

so according to this guy, a high res video will scroll fast because he has 8 gb ram, of which some 0,6 gb is used? srsly?

there are 4 gb cards in the price range i'm aiming at, but most have very low memory bandwidth and that's a killer usually, even though i use 3d stuff rather seldom and only dated stuff

there was a hint on some gpu product in the past, that stuff from system memory could be swapped to unused gpu memory - is there such a thing that really works?

Well, the GPU RAM usage in that video went up to around 1200-1300MB when he started applying overlays to the video. Now think about the fact that those all were pretty low resolution still images, what do you think would happen if he used overlay video clips or more video effects?

Offloading things to GPU's is a thing that many video and image editing programs are doing nowadays, and of course you can record for example gameplay videos using the power of the GPU, and that will also use up the VRAM.

3D rendering also eats up as much VRAM as you can throw at it. For games the VRAM usage is going up all the time, especially when resolutions increase, textures get larger, shaders get more complex etc.

ok, but thats still a narrow group of users;
as for live recording with gpu power - is ati now more or less usable? with my 6670 it wouldnt give any proper results, even when it did, it was slow and quality bad

Live recording should be just fine starting from Radeon 7700, they use VCE, Video Coding Engine, which does the encoding on discrete hardware. seehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Coding_Engine and http://developer.amd.com/community/blog/2014/ … ing-engine-vce/

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?

Better textures. The top-tier texture setting in doom requires 5gb minimum. That is today, it's not going to go down once 4k becomes more mainstream.

foey wrote:

Not strictly "bought" but replaced my GTX570 which is on its way out with a Sapphire AMD 7770 Gz Edition. Not an upgrade as such but was given to me as a frebbie! I've been using the Intel Onboard graphics on my i5 2500+ rig for sometime now - It's an improvement 🤣

I have bought two of those exact cards for friends of mine in the past. They do really good in stuff like Far Cry 3, newer stuff not so much but as long as you play in low resolutions and/or low to medium settings they still seem to do well.

Got one of my single-PCB GTX 295s in.

Not really modern but not quite retro yet. Got a project these will be going into in the next few months.

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Got one of my single-PCB GTX 295s in.

Not really modern but not quite retro yet. Got a project these will be going into in the next few months.

That card would go well with my replacement MSI P45 Platinum. Orc overload.

kithylin wrote:

Like this block, I need the metal backplate for it that's ordered from a different company and will arrive wednesday. This water block by the way really is solid copper inside, block alone weighs 440 grams on the scale, and with the mounting hardware it comes to 580 grams. I'm -NOT- putting that sideways on a motherboard without a backplate, too much weight.

I finally pulled the trigger and purchased the HEATKILLER® IV PRO as well. This thing is heavy indeed. Which backplate did you go for? Why not the one from Watercool? And why do you prefer soft tubing versus hard tubing? Because in my opinion hard tubing looks much prettier and cheaper too.

Bought a couple shady power supplies for $20 each from a friend. An Apevia 700watt and a raidmax scorpio 535watt that is aupposedly 80 plus bronze. Kind of hesitant to trust these

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kithylin wrote:

Like this block, I need the metal backplate for it that's ordered from a different company and will arrive wednesday. This water block by the way really is solid copper inside, block alone weighs 440 grams on the scale, and with the mounting hardware it comes to 580 grams. I'm -NOT- putting that sideways on a motherboard without a backplate, too much weight.

I finally pulled the trigger and purchased the HEATKILLER® IV PRO as well. This thing is heavy indeed. Which backplate did you go for? Why not the one from Watercool? And why do you prefer soft tubing versus hard tubing? Because in my opinion hard tubing looks much prettier and cheaper too.

Because rigid acrylic tubing requires expensive set of tools to work with. A whole set of cutting tools and melting tools. And you have to heat it up, melt it, bend it, let it cool.. and there's no bending it back if you get it wrong.. etc, etc, etc. It's all just a mess. Flexible tubing you just do it once and it's easy to push and move around, and the tubing is reusable indefinitely (just ship off the smooshed bits on the ends, re-use). I went with the official Heatkiller backplate of course, just PPCS didn't have it in stock at the time and had to order it from https://modmymods.com/ The chrome / nickel plated Heatkiller IV Pro block gets like -3c cooler than the copper one fyi, in multiple different tests on different websites, so I went with that one.

It's happening.

Waiting on this baby to get shipped.

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It's happening.

Waiting on this baby to get shipped.

Looks like Intel skulltrail? I hope you got it cheap... those things use a ton of power and run rather hot.

It's weird seeing a desktop motherboard in a server chassis too. Totally "custom" job there.

I would think almost 99% that it's not the original motherboard for that chassis.

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WUT?