• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

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So I've got my eye on a GTX 980 as something to buy come Cyber Monday. Now this is currently one of the biggest and baddest graphics card out there. My only question is should I do anything else to upgrade? I've got the power supply to run it. The tower has plenty of breathing room for temp control. But is there anything else I should take into consideration?
 
What mobo chipset and CPU combo are you running Marcus? You may want to consider liquid cooling in the form of a CLC too for that Maxwell beast.
 
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I'm not sure why this went nowhere, but I received the Holiday 2014 issue of Maximum PC today and the GTX 980/970 GPUs are front and center on the magazine cover. I also found this information on their website I thought was relevant to your interests Marcus. It looks like the Asus and the EVGA cards are a dream come true for those who care about frame rates when playing games and the price is right to boot. Hopefully this helps a little more than my last post.
 
One of the best bang for the buck upgrades I've made in recent years is a running all of my software and Windows on a solid state drive. It's wickedly fast. Boot times and game loads are a snap, mere seconds. I have several large hard drives for the rest of my documents and video, which are slower but more more economical for storage.

I haven't had a need to upgrade my CPU or GPU in awhile. I've lost much of my interest in PC gaming and my current rig with an overclocked i7 950 and gtx 280 is more than enough for any of my normal usage. Back in the day, it was all about trying to squeeze a tenth of a frame per second more out of Flight Simulator, but I haven't even touched the game now in a couple years. The only thing I'm looking forward to game wise is GTA V, which has been delayed almost a year now for release on the PC platform.
 
I can't even comprehend not having an SSD these days. Now that prices are reasonable it's an absolute must have. Keep the OS on the SSD and use the platter drives for storage. Good point Skip.
 
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