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[Bodzilla]

we've been telling you to do that from the start lol.

oh well glad to see you've dropped the fanboyism

[Cortexian]

Nvidia is still better if you're planning on using CUDA, GPU Acceleration, PhysX, or 3D. I don't use CUDA as much anymore but we'll see what the GTX 600 and HD 7000 series look like.

[Zeph]

Well, looks like TD has them "back in stock" but it says they will ship 7-21 days from the order getting placed since it's handled through a third party. Hope it won't take too long and they won't sell out overnight before I can get to the bank and deposit my grant.


this is going to suck, btw, if it takes too long because the mobo I got doesn't have a vga adapter.

[Cortexian]

Tell them that. TD is usually decent about customer service.

Maybe call Memory Express, they show the Asus GTX 590 as "backordered" on this page. They may be able to get you one quicker. I'd call them up and ask them to call their suppliers to see whats up on that front.

[Zeph]

Ordered everything. Luckily, I got an evga GTX 590 from TD, but it could take a month to get here? Bought a cheap 550ti off newegg to get me started and serve as a backup should anything happen to the 590. Case that I ordered through free snail should arrive sometime today and next day shipping should put everything here friday at the latest. I only have one class thursday, so I may just skip it and put the thing together then. Sucks that the 550 put me about 100 bucks over my planned budget, but I can deal with that.

[Cortexian]

You should of just grabbed a GTX 210 or something. Or used your existing GPU temporarily if you have one. Will the 550ti even provide much of a dedicated PhysX card capability once you get the GTX 590?

[Zeph]

not sure and don't really care at this point. Took 6 hours fighting with Visa to get the payment authorized.

Cheapest thing they really had that could still provide basic function in either a game or 3ds Max was the 550. Would have just bought a 15 dollar adaptor to let me see the screen, but I'd at least like to use the thing should the 590 take a full month to get here.

[Cortexian]

Yeah, that works I guess. Might as well leave the 550 in the system after the 590 arrives so you can dedicate it to PhysX.

[Zeph]

Don't know of any PhysX titles I'd be interested in playing. Had a good long chat with those guys back in March at Raleigh though when East Coast Conference was going on.

[Cortexian]

Yeah but if you still have the 550 after you get the 590, why not? You could run 6 monitors (albeit only 3 in Nvidia Surround mode) as well.

Also, you got the EVGA GTX 590 right? When it comes in, please talk to me and I'll give you my referral code for the EVGA affiliate program for when you register it. It earns me 2 EVGA Bucks that I can redeem in their store eventually, as well as an entry to win a "huge" prize that month.