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They tried to place it right before Season 8 by referencing it heavily in that season but in practice it was in production in 2015 and the writers implied the idea was on the table as far as back as 2012.

So in practice the only things dating it from WITHIN the movie without getting into Spoilers mark is as "at least after Season 3"

The people running Bronycon have announced they're retiring it along side the show and 2019 will be the grand finale event instead of continuing to host it into G5 so things will definitely quiet down.

I'm back on the forums again after a few years of hard thought and spending time on self-improvement and constructive endeavors like improving my art so I'd thought I'd post some in a brand new thread (mods forgive me if the clothed and obscured pin-ups are against the rules. I'll edit the post if they are)

So.

I'm now a proud owner of an RTX-2070 because they actually launched with some nice models like this Windforce at MSRP and I wanted something beefy to power a 1440p display

I bought a new case and my system went through quite a transformation

On 3/13/2018 at 9:38 AM, Celli said:

So I recently ordered this, great keyboard, well worth the price.

https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16823129087?_ga=2.58454498.979114129.1520951762-446941002.1520462481&_gac=1.41092886.1520462481.EAIaIQobChMIzreQiaTb2QIVlDuBCh0aPgtEEAQYASABEgJTYvD_BwE

That's a coincidence because I needed to make an emergency keyboard run after an incident and took it as a sign to pull the trigger on a more budget end Mechanical 

23 hours ago, Vulon Bii said:

There was an 800M series, based on the Kepler architecture, and was only used for laptops.

It used to be that Nvidia would introduce a new architecture, and then refine it for a new series, going all the way back to Tesla 8 series. Maxwell was the only desktop GPUs that was only used for a single generation. Pascal looks to be the same way.

The jump to Pascal from Maxwell wasn't too far off the jump from Kepler 700 series to Maxwell. A 970 is roughly equal to a 780Ti, like how a 1070 is roughly equal to a 980Ti.

Not all of the 700 line were Keplar, The GTX-750/750ti and GTX-745 (which seems to be an OEM only card) were both Maxwell.

Got my GPU overclocked and stable. I'm doing good on temps to with a max of 65 degrees under torture test in Furmark.

1 hour ago, Azure Envy said:

Unless AMD responds with something more interesting than Vega, not much they need to do...

Oh, and of course stealing what thunder they had left by dropping the 1070 Ti in response to the 56.

I think the fact they can't seem to keep up the supply chain running and the shifty shit they did with the MSRP fixing hurt AMD bad with Vega.

Not to mention the fact they still only have blower-style reference cards on the market and only went high-end with the cheapest card having a $400 MSRP.

4 minutes ago, Celli said:

So 1200 then?

I know they avoided 800 because of the old 8000 series cards but it would actually be sound sound if they continued and used a skipped number to indicate like an incremental upgrade and a single count up for designate an actual new generation of cards.

Like they did with 700-to-900 being a small boost and then the jump to the 1000 series being a new generation with a massive performance leap.  

12 minutes ago, Celli said:

I think the next line will be the 1100 series.

According to the Nvidia sub-reddit the next generation of cards might be another 700-to-900 series situation with tweaks over performance increases since they're targeting improving non-gaming features like stuff for media encoding and other productively uses.

16 minutes ago, Celli said:

I get close to 200 frames in Doom and no lower than really about 120-140 with unlocked framerate and vulkan enabled.

Not sure my max because I have no reason to turn Vsync off.

I'd imagine maybe 100-140 since I have so much GPU overhead with the 60FPS lock.

Just now, Azure Envy said:

Nice to see that GPU pricing is leveling off and actually in stock. Last time I checked, miners were still having a field day on everything between a 1050 and a Titan/Ti.

Think I'll hold off until the 2080 or whatever they decide to call it. This space heater 980Ti should keep me warm through the winter months.

Yeah, I nabbed a 6GB model for $300 with rush shipping off Newegg and that was because I paid a bit of a premium for a decent double-fan cooler. There was single-fan cards for far cheaper and a Zotac on flash sale right now so you can get them for not much about the $260 MSRP.

5 hours ago, Celli said:

@Shoboni Good choice. I have a 1070 personally, but 1060 is also good. I'm planning on getting a 1440p monitor next year myself.

I thought about a 1070, but then I decided I couldn't really justify the $125+ price premium for 40% more performance when I'm targeting 1080p and the 1060 is already such a beast at that resolution. 

I'm happy so far though, I'm getting 50FPS minimums in the problematic areas in Fallout 4 with only the concessions below ultra of tweaking the dynamic shadow distance in the .ini file and turning Godrays to low. Which is impressive with how much of a trainwreck the optimization in that game is.

Rise of the Tomb Raider runs beautiful with frame dips only in a couple weird spots at the Very High preset with the one setting that defaults to normal with it turned to high.

Doom and it's awesome optimization are a locked 60FPS at only 70% GPU usage with Ultra and the Nightmare options on the two settings that go that far enabled, of course.

I ascended from Maxwell to Pascal and damn is it a huge upgrade.

We have four in the show already and confirmation with Twilight that powerful enough unicorns with the right guidance can ascend, so I don't see the issue with well written and used Alicorns that make sense.

5 minutes ago, Jonny Music said:

If any of you here are looking to get a great <$20-ish gaming mouse, I'd suggest you check this out  :
 

 

I have a wireless one from the company in a similar design and I really like it. The side buttons are great.

24 minutes ago, K.Rool Addict said:

Yo, I need some assistance: https://mlpforums.com/topic/166243-razer-vs-alienware/

^Needs to be a laptop one of those three: Razer Blade 2017 refresh UHD, Alienware 15 r3 2016, or Razer Blade Pro 2017

 

I've heard some bad things about Alienware so I'd choose the Razor, myself.

I mostly game on the PC now, here's my Steam profile

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Shoboni/

I recently upgraded by PSU and went Intel, so I'm rocking a i5-6600k OC'd to 4.2Ghz. It works beautiful got Gamecube emulation and even stabilized my performance in some games that are more CPU hungry.

Next big upgrade I have my eye on is a new case, new MOBO (this one was defective to where a SATA port fell off with barely any any accidental stress while adjusting wires but I couldn't RMA because I was using it for school) and either a 1070 or 1080 depending on what prices do with the release of the 1080ti. Also new fans and stuff because I'm going purple lighting and dubbing the new build that transitions into NICOLE.

Also finished the new Doom recently (working on clean-up duty 100%ing the maps now) and loved it

Been getting back into traditional art (using a lot of Primsacolor Pencils since I first found some cheap on clearance and got hooked enough to shell out like $50 on a proper set plus hard lead fineliners) 

Everything is SFW, but a warning my blog and DA DOES have some mildly NSFW stuff since I do figure drawing and artistic nudes

I don't have the final picture uploaded anywhere yet, so here it is:

I was only joking about the Titan. I would not recommend a $1200 graphics card unless someone wanted to max out every game at 4K and have the graphics card not even sweat.

Doesn't the 1070 perform similar to a Maxwell Titian, or at least pretty close.

Got some goodies (finally switched to SSD and did fresh install, my old boot HDD is now a dedicated game drive)

With the new cooler I managed to do some overclocking (still getting good CPU temps maxing out at 56 degrees during torture test, to)

I max out everything, running at 1440p, so demanding enough to need at least a 980 (where a 970 begins to struggle), but Fallout 4 is not very well optimized.

I mean, that's kind of the issue.

Not a lot of games aren't really well optimized for higher resolutions yet , especially huge open world games on a fairly old engine (it's an updated version of the Skyrim engine, which itself is based on the even older Gamebryo engine used for Fallout 3.

My setup right now (mouse not pictures but it's just a semi-cheap wireless logitech)

For me it's the lack of actual, ongoing storylines.

Season 3 seemed to be getting there by having the box and the episodes where the mane-six all earned their keys to it peppered in leading up to it being opened in the finale, but they seemed to have backtracked and not done anymore actual story arcs.