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Mistgun_Zero:
^I saw the swiftech earlier and it looks pretty cool. How do they hold up to corsair/cooler master and other top AIO liquid kits.
I really doubt they are gonna give DX12 to anyone other than Win8.1+ users.
Ah, finally. Another year or two 2 TB SSD's will be out and finally a more reliable storage solution than HDD. (hopefully~~).
Slysoft:
The cooler master glacier 240L is the same thing as the H220. Swiftech worked with cooler master to develop it specifically for the united states since their h220/320 line was banned from sale in the US due to patent issues. I personally have an h320 so I can say if the new one is similar then it will be very good.
Honemi:
Swiftech was bullied out of the US market by Asetek's (OEM for most AIO, IIRC) patent trolling. Swiftech ain't too large of a company, so they didn't try to defend themselves. Cooler Master was a bigger company (and released a copy of the H220 in collaboration with Swiftech), so Asetek didn't try to pull that shit.
Anyway, Swiftech's AIO cooling got a lot of good marks. Cooler Master version was slightly cheaper but still very functional.
Some reviews: AnandTech, Xbit Labs, HiTech Legion, and Martin's review going into a lot of detail. OC3D did find the cooler more disappointing.
In general, the Swiftech H220 was found to provide similar or better cooling while also being more quiet than its competitors at the same temps. You could do better with like the Kraken X60, but the noise would be noticeably higher. Besides that, the Swiftech H220 provided an option for expandability, so if you got an inch for overclocking (or just bought an 290X), you could use the Swiftech with a GPU waterblock.
I hope Asetek's patent trolling didn't discourage them from the US market completely. Since they removed the offending piece, this should be fine, and their "patent pending" statement have me hoping that means Asetek can't pull the same shit twice. I just hate it when large corporations use the court system as bludgeon against people smaller, less wealthy than them (see Oprah Winfrey v. Monsanto).
xShadow:
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^I saw the swiftech earlier and it looks pretty cool. How do they hold up to corsair/cooler master and other top AIO liquid kits.
I really doubt they are gonna give DX12 to anyone other than Win8.1+ users.
Ah, finally. Another year or two 2 TB SSD's will be out and finally a more reliable storage solution than HDD. (hopefully~~).
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I'm not sure what you're implying here. I think they've been "more reliable" for a while, considering that the SSD stress tests on even the TLC drives show them withstanding abuse that would take people 10-30 years worth of writing. Most HDD's are warrantied for 5 years at most.
Anyway I'm somewhat interested in the PG278Q, which looks to finally have some more info. Per an H member the pricing looks to be at about 1000$ AUS. Despite being a TN panel, it looks to have full 8 bit support. As in, no FRC bs, it's a full 8 bit panel. Viewing angles still suffer, but the TFTCentral review looks good. I wish they would go into more detail about everything else (namely how good its colors really are) , but it's an interesting choice if you have the money. 1440p is actually reasonable to drive even with today's technology (unlike 4k), and offers a huge step up from 1080p.
So if you don't mind being locked in to Nvidia cards, it's a decent option for a relatively futureproof gaming monitor. Of course, I somewhat do mind being locked into Nvidia. They've really pissed me off with their Shadowplay bullshit. They keep saying they're going to fix the SLI issues that have been plaguing Shadowplay for WELL OVER A YEAR NOW. Still have not fucking touched that shit. God dammit, it's pissing me off because I really liked the feature. Along with some driver issues, I'm pretty peeved with Nvidia. To be fair, AMD's counterpart to Shadowplay doesn't even work on crossfire at all... but at the same time why did Nvidia just decide to fucking break it and then not fix it. Ugh."
Tiffanys:
I think he was just referring to a reliable affordable solution for mass storage.
Personally I'd love to see SSD prices go way down and sizes on them to go way up. I mean even with the 1TB SSD that I have they could easily strap another on top of it and make it 2TB with how small it is. Hell, probably even 3 of them together, and then there's a lot of extra room on the front and sides anyways so they could easily bring it up to like 6TB within the size dimensions of HDD trays. The thing of it is... it'd just be completely unaffordable since 1TB is like $600.
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