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for those interested the evga 1070 acx 3.0 sc cards are in stock right now: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487248
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I went ahead and flashed my 4GB RX480 to 8GB and the higher clock speed. It's the XFX card I got from jet.com for the people that got that deal. Before: ![]() After: ![]()
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Rusty posted:I went ahead and flashed my 4GB RX480 to 8GB and the higher clock speed. It's the XFX card I got from jet.com for the people that got that deal. Amazing
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what an amazing company amd is to let you access all that free performance! Alternatively, what a dumb company
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No poo poo, why not just delay the 4GB card until sources of smaller capacity memory chips were available? I'm guessing this might have something to do with the rumors that the board partners are mad at AMD about low margins on RX 480 reference cards.
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PBCrunch posted:No poo poo, why not just delay the 4GB card until sources of smaller capacity memory chips were available? AMD clearly wanted to market the card at 199.99 even if they only planned to offer a minuscule amount of hardware available at that price. At 240 it's still a good price/performance card, but not the radical game changer many hoped.
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FaustianQ posted:Although I am a professional terrible decision maker, a QX6800 hasn't been a good CPU for a solid 7 years, better to get a cheaper Harpertown Xeon if you're still interested in LGA775 as a platform as those at least trade punches with Nehalem and have respectable performance. Qx6800 will bring $80 on eBay all day. Qx9000 series bring $120+
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Rusty posted:I went ahead and flashed my 4GB RX480 to 8GB and the higher clock speed. It's the XFX card I got from jet.com for the people that got that deal. And I'm still here trying to flash my 9500 into a 9700pro
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I still say that once the current stock of reference 4 GB cards is up, there won't be another production run for retail and that the 4GB's existence was merely to drive the narrative of "launching at $199," and "VR for the masses" 4 GB boxes being reflashed and restickered 8GB cards follows that, it doesn't make sense to make branding for boxes for a product that will be nonexistent in another month. Might also explain the AIB angst, what with being told to sell perfectly good 8GB reference boards for $40 cheaper. SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Jul 8, 2016 |
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Don Lapre posted:Qx6800 will bring $80 on eBay all day. Qx9000 series bring $120+ I suppose there is no shortage of people who would buy such outdated hardware, there is still apparently a market for Pentium Ds and I keep forgetting that most users are still running on fairly old hardware (only now with the move away from DDR3 will this change any amount), just that for 80$ you could easily get a hold of something that performs noticeably better and isn't horribly outdated. Also buying a QX9000 for $120 and up seems pretty dumb when an X5470 will outperform them all at a cheaper price point, and for ~30$ more you can get an i5-6400 and a modern set of features.
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The other frustrating thing about the 480 launch is that, while Nvidia did, you know, MARKETING and released information ahead of time to drum up hype... AMD was mute. Just mute. Look at the 1060: information both about performance (however skewed it might be) and, more importantly, AIB partners and their poo poo ready to go on launch day. AMD with the 480 is just an NDA and silence. gently caress. Just give us info.
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FaustianQ posted:I suppose there is no shortage of people who would buy such outdated hardware, there is still apparently a market for Pentium Ds and I keep forgetting that most users are still running on fairly old hardware (only now with the move away from DDR3 will this change any amount), just that for 80$ you could easily get a hold of something that performs noticeably better and isn't horribly outdated. If you think that's nuts, the qx9770 regularly brings $250. Enough for a used i7
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I had a friend successfully sell GTX 970s for $250.... today. Apparently there's always dumb buyers. I have no idea why.
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Gonkish posted:The other frustrating thing about the 480 launch is that, while Nvidia did, you know, MARKETING and released information ahead of time to drum up hype... AMD was mute. Just mute. Look at the 1060: information both about performance (however skewed it might be) and, more importantly, AIB partners and their poo poo ready to go on launch day. AMD with the 480 is just an NDA and silence. gently caress. Just give us info. That, and the driver situation was probably a complete loving mess until just before launch day. Even on launch day, the card basically didn't work with GTA V.
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Twerk from Home posted:I had a friend successfully sell GTX 970s for $250.... today. Apparently there's always dumb buyers. I have no idea why.
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NDA until launch day reeked of lovely game releasesJosh Lyman posted:How/where? Most people don't follow gpu news
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Don Lapre posted:If you think that's nuts, the qx9770 regularly brings $250. Enough for a used i7 I should get into the habit of plundering old Q2D systems them, holy poo poo.
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I wonder if they're all 8gb cards lol.
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:I wonder if they're all 8gb cards lol. Would imagine the component price difference is negligible so they're probably all 8GB cards.
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Josh Lyman posted:How/where? Craigslist, get hustling.
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Prescription Combs posted:Would imagine the component price difference is negligible so they're probably all 8GB cards. drat, so odds are pretty good of winning the 4GB 480 lottery?
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Gonkish posted:The other frustrating thing about the 480 launch is that, while Nvidia did, you know, MARKETING and released information ahead of time to drum up hype... AMD was mute. Just mute. Look at the 1060: information both about performance (however skewed it might be) and, more importantly, AIB partners and their poo poo ready to go on launch day. AMD with the 480 is just an NDA and silence. gently caress. Just give us info. Hey now, Roy tweeted some stuff about DX12
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Also absent the 4GB/8GB switcheroo, is the $239 RX480 even worth it if nvidia's eventually raining the parade with a $250 card? RX480 $199 seems like the actual deal then, assuming the OEMs feel like continuing to make that.
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MrBond posted:Also absent the 4GB/8GB switcheroo, is the $239 RX480 even worth it if nvidia's eventually raining the parade with a $250 card? RX480 $199 seems like the actual deal then, assuming the OEMs feel like continuing to make that. Probably not BUT, thats assuming there will be no AIB's that clock well for the 480 (although t hat presents another pricing issue), and thats assuming there will be 1060's at $250
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470's likely to be the real price/performance sweet spot of the generation (just put me out of my misery now).
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repiv posted:PCGH got good results from the Arctic Mono Plus ($35). Dropped their card from 84c @ 2250rpm to 67c @ 900rpm. That's exactly what I was thinking of doing, but doesn't that Mono Plus turn it into like a 3-slot sized card?
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repiv posted:PCGH got good results from the Arctic Mono Plus ($35). Dropped their card from 84c @ 2250rpm to 67c @ 900rpm. That's pretty neat, we knew amd blowers sucks, and AIB designs would fix everything.
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Twerk from Home posted:Why did sites drop Crysis: Warhead out of their review cycles? It's one of my favorite shooters of all time still, and it looks like as of the 9xx series we still weren't past 60fps average at 2560x1440 in Crysis 1: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8568/the-geforce-gtx-970-review-feat-evga/9 Isn't that a game from 2009 or something, just how badly was it optimized. Or maybe it scales really well? Especially at the time, it doesn't matter how much stuff you cram into your game to make it theoretically impressive if no one can realistically run it at those settings.
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I didn't see it in here, but AnandTech checked out the new driver fix and the driver looks fine. Minimal performance hit.
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PBCrunch posted:No poo poo, why not just delay the 4GB card until sources of smaller capacity memory chips were available? Why do that when you can sell a "4GB card" for the price of your 8GB card and find your profit by selling an unlocked 8GB card for even more than that? This feels like a real early to mid 90s Apple move, like back when they used to have the same components in models at different price points so they crippled the bus speeds to make a performance jump worth paying for.
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Don Lapre posted:If you think that's nuts, the qx9770 regularly brings $250. Enough for a used i7 For some unfathomable reason, people are suckers grossly overpaying for top tier old hardware, because new platforms clearly dont exist and changing a motherboard is just so goddamn hard. The best was used Athlon 64 X2 939s that costed more than than a new C2D + mobo + 2GB DDR3 back in 2007.
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Palladium posted:For some unfathomable reason, people are suckers grossly overpaying for top tier old hardware, because new platforms clearly dont exist and changing a motherboard is just so goddamn hard. I was hoping to upgrade my laptop with a used midrange Sandy Bridge quad, but those still cost as much as $200 ![]()
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/10477/amd-posts-radeon-1671-drivers-fixes-power-consumption-issues The 480 was drawing up to 300W? The highest I ever clocked my 980Ti was for 360w from the wall for the entire system.
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NewFatMike posted:I didn't see it in here, but AnandTech checked out the new driver fix and the driver looks fine. Minimal performance hit. Makes me wonder why they even bothered setting the stock volts so high. The performance difference is virtually nil while power went down around 10-20W. VulgarandStupid posted:The 480 was drawing up to 300W?
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VulgarandStupid posted:http://www.anandtech.com/show/10477/amd-posts-radeon-1671-drivers-fixes-power-consumption-issues Peaks aren't the same as average draw... 750Ti draw peaks at 140W, but has zero issues without having extra power, because average is under 60W or so. e: oh it was full system, meh ... Also, my 980Ti will draw 420W according to afterburner when properly overclocked, and that's just the GPU chip, so huh ![]()
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Well I flashed my GPU's BIOS so that I can set it at 0% fan speed and this changes everything I know about noise level, cooling, etc. when shopping for graphics cards.
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mobby_6kl posted:I was hoping to upgrade my laptop with a used midrange Sandy Bridge quad, but those still cost as much as $200 You think that is bad? Try $260+ a used 3770K and $100+ for used Z77 boards. If you had those, people are literally begging you to upgrade to a 6700K platform with actual warranty for a pittance.
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Palladium posted:You think that is bad? Try $260+ a used 3770K and $100+ for used Z77 boards. If you had those, people are literally begging you to upgrade to a 6700K platform with actual warranty for a pittance. ![]()
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Actually speaking of platform/processor upgrades, I'm currently trying to get a Q9450/HD 6950 to run Overwatch and getting awful frames on medium settings (25-45fps). Which is part is being the worst bottleneck, as chucking the entire system isn't an option.
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# ? Jun 11, 2024 09:01 |
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Palladium posted:You think that is bad? Try $260+ a used 3770K and $100+ for used Z77 boards. If you had those, people are literally begging you to upgrade to a 6700K platform with actual warranty for a pittance. gently caress me I have these sitting on my desk gathering dust. 260 for a 3770k is barely any depreciation at all!
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