atomicoldman

Whoa, hold on now. Timmy Quivy would never glorify alcohol consumption.

I'll grab the first Dead Space if you still have it to give?

I've never in my life felt compelled to watch everything the guys put out. I just stick to shows and videos for games I like and ignore everything else. I'm also at a point now where I think I'm just not going to watch Quick Looks anymore too. And that's fine. GB still puts out a lot and I honestly have a hard time keeping current with the stuff I do like.

Every October I load up on spooky games, but this year I'm keeping it completely retro.

I've so far finished: Resident Evil Director's Cut (Chris), and an S-ending run in Clock Tower for the SNES.

I'm going to be playing:

• Resident Evil Director's Cut (Jill)
• Resident Evil 2
• Addam's Family (Genesis)
• Parasite Eve 2

Probably won't finish Addam's Family though. That game is just a bastard.

In the recent GBE mailbag, Dan said the podcast is returning "soon." If I had to bet, probably next week?

Your other question though, my personal preference is they just do Kai and the DBZ movies and that's it. Dragon Ball is really good but I think they might find the amount of filler in it and the glacial pace some arcs move to be mind numbing. I just think Super sucks so I have no real interest in listening to anyone talk about it but, hey, that's just me.

I use GPU-Z, but never looked into anything as far as the program telling you what is making use of the 3D clocks. I should look into that! I did go through a long process of making sure background processes were shut off, one-by-one, to see if any particular thing was responsible, but I may have missed something assuming it was too vital to shut off or I don't know what. If you do recall what it was for you, do let me know.

I'm just glad it's not me. For a while I thought my card was busted, and while it's still not a great thing to deal with, at least it's not uncommon.

So basically, crank my front fan all the way up and it should actually reduce dust accumulation?

I'm an idiot and though I would just be sucking more in. :V

Fans also don't kick on in mine until it hits 60C. And to be fair, there would hardly be a temperature change when I would start playing a game. The fans would kick in and keep the card resting between 60-70C depending on the game.

I really did try everything to fix it. Removed all traces of the drivers, did a clean install, made sure I had it set to adaptive power, etc, etc. Nothing I did would keep it operating normally for very long and it would just slip back into the habit of not downclocking after playing games. Sometimes it would just shoot up like it was in use when it isn't, just while idling on the desktop with nothing running. I doubt it was some kind of mining virus because it wasn't being thrown into 100% power. I still don't know what causes that issue with my card and if anyone can illuminate me I'd love to get to the bottom of it, but for now I use software that lets me set a memory threshold and downclock when it's not being met. Everything runs fine now, 8% power draw while farting around on the internet, 11% with my tablet in, temps at 38/45C respectively during the Summer months in a room where the sun really beats down. Seems about as it should be. But I have to run that client or it jumps up again.

This is part of why I just want a new card, hoping that it will resolve some of those issues and that I'll be able to worry less about any funkiness. Looking around in the past, I noticed that others had similar downclocking issues with 980s so I'm assuming it's something with that card specifically. If the 1000s are better about that, I may just get one as prices drop, but it's a shame the 2000s are going to cost an arm and a leg.

That's food for thought then. Still unsure if I want to do water cooling because my fear of it breaking and destroying absolutely everything is eternal. On the flip side, if I think about it rationally, I bet dust taking down a system is much more likely, and the amount of dust generation in this room is starting to get absurd.

Anyway, not to stray too far from the subject, I'm looking forward to actual reviewers getting their hands on these cards. I want to see how much of a step up they actually are, especially if they're charing so much money for them.

@sanity: A far as water cooling a card goes, I know people do that but my understanding was that it's always an excessive step. When I was looking into what water cooling to use the advice I came across often was to not concern yourself with GPU cooling and rely on the card's fan and just focus on using a water cooler on the processor.

I don't know how well the founders cards do with cooling. I have an EVGA GTX980 FTW Edition and that card has some issues in that regard. Granted I live in a hot climate and the PC is against the wall which is a factor, but the card maintains a resting temp that seems higher to me than what it should be. Factor in that it has a downclocking issue where it won't drop down after playing a game. Wound up using third party software to remedy that, because otherwise it was sitting at 60C like I was playing something even while idle. Now it's forced to downclock and idles near 38C. I'm hoping the 2000 series is better about cooling across the board, and downclocking, and I'm not sure how the 1000 series handles that.

@sanity: I mostly want to go with water cooling to lower dust intake. I know there's still intake of course, but a reduction would be nice on top of the better cooling temperatures. Still up in the air on that. PSU I've had for 6 years, it's on warranty for 10 so I also don't think there's a need to replace it, but I'm heavily considering it since I'd rather not push it and have a power failure that takes components with it. But maybe I'm just being paranoid about that, I don't know.

GPU though, I have a 980. It's fine. A 1000 card would be better and there's a real chance that if the 2000 cards don't drop in value by tax season I'll just go with a 1000 card. Those prices are murder, and I really can't justify it right now.