Master Binky

It's so close to a titan, but yet $350 cheaper! I was hoping that it would be a bit faster then a 680 thou. It's it looks between 15-35% faster? I wonder if they will scale better then 2x titans or 2x 680s? And even thou I've been on the red team for so long, I gotta say the green team has the best looking reference cards.

Sounds about right, the 770 was just a really really lazy firmware updated 680.

http://semiaccurate....ple-bios-flash/

Wow, I knew Cell differed greatly from x86, but I didn't think PowerPC was all that different. But if that's the case, then like the PS4, that simply makes sense from a technical standpoint. Sony at least has Gaikai to make up for it...so guess that's another point for PS4. Ouch.

PS4 has an x86 CPU this time, so the PS4 and Xbox One are opposite of their code portability for this generation. O_o So ridiculous. I tend to agree with a few things they go through semiaccurate.com on Microsoft not caring about gaming for the Xbox One, as seen by their current handling of the Xbox dashboard and how their promoting the Xbox One, gaming just isn't the mouth watering revenue stream compared to everything else they can put in it.

Oh, and I don't have good suggestions for programs since I learned autocad in school and am stuck with it at work as well so I never ventured from it much.

I've usually just used google when I don't have a physical reference book. The important part is doing tutorials that keep your interest and hopefully accomplish similar things in different ways. Don't worry too much about it, it isn't like learning guitar or programming where you will be paying for not doing things the a correct way from the start. 

Try to go through the commands in a program's help, whether online or in program. You don't have to learn them all, but seeing it once or twice and getting an idea of how they structure their commands and the typical verbage they use helps alot when you get stuck and need a keyword to feed google.

This is just my opinion but if you're going without a book, here is what I suggest based on the car/car rim example that was thrown out.

Start with tutorials for simple 2D parts. Do them from different sites/places/writers even if it's over the same basic objects you can skim through them eventually to see if there's anything new to learn. I say this because there's a few ways to do the same simple things so getting exposed to them and figuring out what your preferences are is important, as well as knowing the alternatives(or that they even exist).

I personally think 3D isn't so bad if you know what your representing with 2D drawings, so it's easy to step up from that with some basic 3D tutorials, and the profeciency with the program you get learning the 2D stuff still carries over.

Keep in mind I started with Autocad 8 and so I am still more keyboard oriented for almost all of my commands in CAD so my concept of a good start may be a bit outdated, although I still think people digging through icons and menus are slow when I watch it