DX11 yes. DX12 and Vulkan though it's reversed. You'd have to be using a pretty old processor for that to even be a factor though. An i3 haswell is plenty sufficient for an AMD card in that build. The only reason he'd get a 750 ti is because of the 400w power supply he chose. Otherwise he should have gone 270/760, though the 760 wasn't futureproof.

Writing this from Xeon machine... AMD is not really that much behind Intel. They went in wrong direction with Dozer because they did not expect single-thread lock to still be a problem in 2013 (where Intel targeted it almost exclusively with DMI bus), and their latest chipset is pretty close on tech to Intel's QPI - where Intel integrated PCI-e since Sandybridge - which combined, gave the known advantage in typical single-thread (render-thread) games.

Bits that drive hardware are same, are open and reside in Kernel.
Proprietary driver has only user-space module closed and has technology AMD can't release, and is also designed to support near release-date hardware.
Open driver has user-space module opened and usually catches up with adequate support for 1-2 year old hardware.
In terms of performance, closed is a bit faster.

I'll second Apple and MSI. MSI to a lesser degree.

I'll also say nvidia because I dislike it when things like Batman Arkham night happen.

a bunch of clothing companies.

Samick. ok maybe not Samick.

Did I say Apple?

Apple!

All the shite Microsoft is doing now was borrowed from Apple.
Apple is the source of evil.

Exactly. I don't buy their stuff for this or that reason, but they get a major brofist salute from me for fighting this court order.

For my own list...

Um, can't think of any except Dodge. God, what shit vehicles. Okay, sure, they're modern-day decent because most brands are making 'decent' stuff, but their products are still generally shit. Er, that's not computer hardware. Oops.

Oh, and Google. Because Google. Gotta consider an alternative to Apple and Android for my next smartphone.

Logitech may go on my shitlist in the future if I get another mouse with a left-click button that dies within a year. One more chance, Logitech, one more chance. Build a better button switch or I'm gone.

Actually, the Fed case only strengthened my distaste for Apple. I don't for a moment believe that their stance has anything to do with protecting privacy rights, but has everything to do with protecting iPhone sales.

You're probably right, but for me the motive is secondary. The fact that they're resisting it now in court is enough. Still, they'll most likely cave in the end. Even now there's most likely talks going on over a compromise on how long and how defiant the Feds' requests will be challenged. Like everything else in politics... it's about 10% manifested fact and about 90% kabuki theater.

Agreed.

Oh hell, what was I on last night? (I don't remember) Good to know at least someone reads my posts!

I believe it was the AMD Duron or whatever the cheapest POS they made back in the Win 98 days. Might have thought of Celeron because that was the Intel competition--in any case I avoided AMD for 5 years until someone told me there were different classes of AMD processors. This was all before I learned so much more about computer hardware. It was a family computer bought at a camera store that probably assembled them there.

Thanks for picking up on that!

I avoid the cult of apple as it has been put.
The self wanking movies put out over jobs portraying him as this heroic visionary while being a complete tosser; the unorginal ideas (basically everything apple has IP over is simply two other peoples ideas they mashed together or have simply stole then patented [magnetic connected cabling as an example is Chinese; was on their kettles well before apple patented it]).
The closed market reminds me of everything bad windows tries to do with taking control of a device away from the end user.
The iTunes monopoly that's effectively wiped out consumer choice in the mp3 industry (you know what's great? An mp3 player that has a 'AA' battery; you know why? fuck charging via cable, swap out and forget [no proprietary soon be dead lithium that may as well be a tethered brick]).

The only good thing I can say about apple is that by creating the ipad with a super dense PPI (retina display) and having the monopoly, it forced a range of industries into an ultra high definition arms race that most likely was also responsible for the slowly failing 3D tv's (as companies tried to put up competing technology to keep justifying building tv's with 8x the screen real estate but only a quarter of the resolution) that has renewed interest in immersive technologies.

Having gained such a monopoly in the first place is reprehensible.

Might want to fix that.

Whoops; nice catch.I hate gates too and obviously I have more to do with Microsoft than apple as to getting the names mixed.

M705. Not sure what it is about the buttons on that model, but I'm on my fourth one in about 3 years. That includes the one used on our "kitchen PC", which doesn't really see much use. Odd. Maybe I'm just having a string of rotten luck with the model.

I trust you refer to the frame-rate wobble - which I did myself experience for the first time ever on a purported PC title with Mass Effect 3, on GTX 980.

Given that games prior or later just work - minus DAI on release that was super buggy - I would suggest directing your ire at publisher / developer.

I read Batman Arkham was quite as bad as Dragon Age Inquisition upon release, if not worse.

But please - to say that either developer did not know which video card and other technology was at the market is to assume idiocy over business savvy!

Batman Arkham developer surely knew Nvidia would be that other video card provider - and did not react, and made a terrible release,

I'd rather take a critical look at the Batman Aarkham pulsihser / developer. Am I being naïve here?