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Offline DaddyAce

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Balck Friday, etc Sales deals
« on: November 25, 2016, 10:45:41 AM »
My son's site is listing what he and his crew think are good deals, might be helpful to speed up your shopping, if you're so inclined:  logicalincrements.com

Costco.com has a great deal (I hope, since I have one coming) on a 32" 1440p HP monitor for $300:  http://www.costco.com/HP-Omen-32-32%22-QHD-Monitor.product.100312359.html

Happy upgrading!   :salute

Offline EskimoJoe

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Re: Balck Friday, etc Sales deals
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2016, 12:19:41 AM »
Thanks! I didn't pick anything up, but I did look. I hope he does the same for Cyber Monday
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Re: Balck Friday, etc Sales deals
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2016, 07:57:45 AM »
I plan on finding one monday, I bought one last year but the viewing angle is terrible.
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Offline DaddyAce

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Re: Balck Friday, etc Sales deals
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2016, 09:04:59 PM »
I just heard from my son, they are planning to post their "best of Cyber Monday" deals too.  Happy deal hunting!

Offline DaddyAce

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Re: Balck Friday, etc Sales deals
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2016, 09:37:33 AM »
"Best of Cyber Monday"  deals are now up at logicalincrements.com

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Re: Balck Friday, etc Sales deals
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2016, 08:53:06 PM »
My son's site is listing what he and his crew think are good deals, might be helpful to speed up your shopping, if you're so inclined:  logicalincrements.com

Costco.com has a great deal (I hope, since I have one coming) on a 32" 1440p HP monitor for $300:  http://www.costco.com/HP-Omen-32-32%22-QHD-Monitor.product.100312359.html

Happy upgrading!   :salute

How's that new monitor working out, DaddyAce?

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Re: Balck Friday, etc Sales deals
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2016, 12:16:51 AM »
SHort answer, I'm loving my new monitor!  Much better color, contrast, brightness, and it's huge compared to my old 22" Chimei.  So, a huge improvement.  The 1440p is more workload on GTX 1060, but I still get predominantly 75 fps, noticed it dip as low as into the 30's on rare occasion like when hoards were upping all at once in FSO this evening.  But that's with the graphics turned up to max setings, except  environ. mapping set to 1.  i'm happy with it.

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Re: Balck Friday, etc Sales deals
« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2016, 03:20:46 AM »
Thanks for telling us. I've been wondering how the 1060 would do with my 2560 x 1600. Your comment makes me believe the workload wouldn't be an issue.  :salute
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Re: Balck Friday, etc Sales deals
« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2016, 12:40:07 PM »
Thanks for telling us. I've been wondering how the 1060 would do with my 2560 x 1600. Your comment makes me believe the workload wouldn't be an issue.  :salute

You're welcome Bizman.  My take is the 3 GB GTX 1060 hits the sweet spot for max performance for the money, similar to the i3 6100 for cpus.  Which is great of course as long as you're getting what you want out of them.  I'm a tad bit disappointed that the 1060 doesn't max fps all the time, but I remain overall happy with my choice.

Most of the time my fps is maxed out at max graphics setting running the DX11 version of AH.  I get better performance with AH3 DX11 over the DX9 version, and it seems I've stopped getting the occasional petite-freezes since the last update.  On some maps and in high density player situations, the frame rates take a hit, but so far have never noticed a hit to an unplayable slowness, and it sees quite easy to adjust the graphics setting down a bit to accommodate the GPU load.  I've only resorted to turning down environment mapping so far, and frankly can't say I see a difference in eye candy.  My impression so far is that the 1060 is be fine for 1440p.  My i3 CPU by the way seems to keep up with the load, and the 1060 seems to be my fps-limiting hardware below 75 fps.  My guess is that if in the future I venture into VR, I may want to upgrade to a 1070 or more, but would try my existing hardware first.  If I decide to upgrade, my son who lives here locally would love to have my 1060.

So bottom line, so far I'm happy with the 1060 for 1440p.