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AVeryLargeRadish posted:Nah, better to wait until 68" 8k 240Hz OLED displays are $50 and you can drive three of them with a single $120 card. Yes these products are Veblen goods in part and it does make sense to wait rather than consistently paying early adopter premiums.
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I see people trading up to the more expensive EVGA 1080 FE instead of the cheaper and better EVGA 1080 SC ACX 3.0 because "it was the more expensive one" and I'm like  (£578 ($845) for SC ACX 3.0 vs £635 ($928) for the FE)
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Ak Gara posted:I see people trading up to the more expensive EVGA 1080 FE instead of the cheaper and better EVGA 1080 SC ACX 3.0 because "it was the more expensive one" and I'm like 
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Ak Gara posted:I see people trading up to the more expensive EVGA 1080 FE instead of the cheaper and better EVGA 1080 SC ACX 3.0 because "it was the more expensive one" and I'm like Go back in time 48 hours and this thread is all 'well obviously the AiB boards will be more expensive than the FE boards, the RRP is a lie nobody will pay more for a worse card'. Never underestimate good marketing.
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Huh, weird, EVGA is back to only allowing "notify me" on the 1080 WTF, but does have my pre-order listed in their system. I wonder, well, wtf that means.
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Mikojan posted:Just caved in and ordered my 1080 FTW. Mid june can't come fast enough.. I'm using a 660 GTX as well and still up in the air on going all in on a 1080 or holding off for a 1070 so I look forward to your trip report.
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:anyone who buys a founder's edition to actually keep it and not trade it in for something better/actually need a blower cooler in the slim chance nobody else makes one/ebay scalp like a scumbag Here's what will happen, and this is how they  win. Some people won't know what they are buying for sure. The others who do know exactly what they are getting into think "well I will just return it when faster cheaper cards come out" , "I will use the EVGA step up!", etc. And some people will do exactly those things... but most won't. A lot have been waiting for a serious upgrade from 600 series or 7000 series AMD or older. The performance boost will be stunning, its not as loud as they thought, and the latest nvidia patch fixed the fan curve so it never throttles and even when when it did its not like they notice at 1080p anyway. They are used to the performance and they are happy with it. Sure, if they waited for aftermarkets they could thumb their nose at the dummy FE buyers, but they didn't and now they dont care. Some others still eagerly await for step up availability and then take a look at the details and realize... "wait, I'm paying $30 in shipping for, lets face it, probably a cheaper card anyway... and im happy with the performance I've got as it is... ive got to take it out and put it in a box then wait forever and poo poo? But games are so loving good now I don't want to stop...".A lot of FE cards will stick around to a collective "gently caress it". It's like a really advanced form of mail in rebate 
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:these are truly dark days I guess there's worse. I mean, you really are buying the "first" edition of a GPU, they state up front that it costs $100 more than it should and absolutely nothing else. Aftermarkets are clearly coming like, very soon. I guess there's worse, is the best I can say. lol
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froody guy posted:And I'm a bit itchy (wouldn' say mad) for the pricing. As said just above, I had a G1 980 for 569€ at launch. Now I'd have to spend at least 200€ more for the 1080. I don't see why I shouldn't be at least a little itchy. As regards the 1070, too. They'll cost 500€ instead of 350€. A mid range gpu at 500€? Are you loving kidding me?
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mikemelbrooks posted:Show me where you HAVE to buy a 1080? There are a lot of people who would love to have a 980. If you can't post about it on every tech site/thread you know, is there really a point in buying the latest and greatest?
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mikemelbrooks posted:Show me where you HAVE to buy a 1080? There are a lot of people who would love to have a 980. If you're not first, you're last.
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froody guy posted:Which is exactly what I said Because what you are saying literally makes no sense
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Just bought a 3440x1440 monitor and turns out that a 970 just isn't good enough to run most games on anything but ultra low settings. I assume that the Strix or FTW versions of the 1080 are the way to go for performance and cooling reasons? They need to ramp up production because I want to buy one of these things asap.
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Fauxtool posted:whats ultra low? is it very low or a low version of ultra but still higher than high? yes
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Is having a dedicated PhysX card still a thing? Would it make any sense for me to keep my 970 to use as a PhysX card alongside a 1080 or 1070?
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Variable_H posted:Is having a dedicated PhysX card still a thing? Would it make any sense for me to keep my 970 to use as a PhysX card alongside a 1080 or 1070? No. No.
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Fauxtool posted:whats ultra low? is it very low or a low version of ultra but still higher than high? Meaning the highest possible lowest low.
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Variable_H posted:Is having a dedicated PhysX card still a thing? Would it make any sense for me to keep my 970 to use as a PhysX card alongside a 1080 or 1070? I've been thinking the same thing, but there just aren't enough games out there that make use of PhysX to make it worth the cost of keeping the card. Which sucks because in theory it is an amazing idea.
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Variable_H posted:Is having a dedicated PhysX card still a thing? Would it make any sense for me to keep my 970 to use as a PhysX card alongside a 1080 or 1070? No, it's not - although dx12 multi-adapter is the new version of that idea, so it might come back
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MAKE WAY NEW STARS posted:I have the money but I only kind of want it because I only rebuilt my desktop like a month and a half ago so it all has that new hardware smell on it still, what do I do hello friend, my one-time free advice to you is to do what is called, in the business, a cost-benefit analysis. basically you list weighted pros and cons of purchasing something and use your best judgement to decide if it's worth your money. it doesn't necessarily have to be a quantitative analysis with concrete benefits; you can just put "it would make me happy" and it's up to you to decide how much that's worth to you. a lot of people i know are tight-fisted with their money, trying to save up to some vague future payoff, but sometimes they lose sight of the joy of having cool stuff and fun experiences in the present. please don't take this advice as "spend money frivolously" but more as it's okay to spend some money to make your life more enjoyable. i hope this helps you make your decision!!
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Hamelekim posted:Meaning the highest possible lowest low. what are you playing that kills your 970 so hard? I had that card with that resolution and had totally playable frames on witcher3 ultra.
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Fauxtool posted:what are you playing that kills your 970 so hard? I had that card with that resolution and had totally playable frames on witcher3 ultra. Hitman. I can play Elite Dangerous just fine, but Hitman slows right down.
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Hitman is really weird with its performance. I can run it on High on my 760 at a perfectly fine frame rate except for one or two settings I have to turn down otherwise its a slideshow.
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Some French site posted their 1070 review a bit early: http://www.clubic.com/carte-graphique/carte-graphique-nvidia/article-807190-1-test-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-pascal-gamers.html TLDR: Slightly faster than Titan X across the board, except in The Division where it falls way behind for some reason. Full-system power draw is similar to the GTX960, and their sample overclocked to 2075mhz despite another power phase being cut.
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I guess I'll get a 1070.Variable_H posted:Is having a dedicated PhysX card still a thing? It was never a great idea.
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Boris Galerkin posted:The nvidia driver installation asks me if I wanna install the physx drivers/software. Do I say yes or no? Yes? No harm
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Boris Galerkin posted:The nvidia driver installation asks me if I wanna install the physx drivers/software. Do I say yes or no? Yes
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repiv posted:Some French site posted their 1070 review a bit early: http://www.clubic.com/carte-graphique/carte-graphique-nvidia/article-807190-1-test-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-pascal-gamers.html Yeah looks like an extremely power efficient 980ti for 400 bucks, right on the mark. Unless they dig up some crippling weakness in previews of the custom OC versions over the next 2 weeks..  Boris Galerkin posted:The nvidia driver installation asks me if I wanna install the physx drivers/software. Do I say yes or no? You'll end up with about a dozen versions of it anyway thanks to Steam installers, might aswell get the latest batch straight from the source. The real fun are 'legacy' PhysX games from around 2009 who need their own little driver that may or may not gently caress everything up. sauer kraut fucked around with this message at 03:30 on May 29, 2016 |
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Now that the 1070 and 1080 are out, can someone confirm that they output 10-bit over displayport? There were some material in the promotional content and announcement live stream but the sites only mention "HDMI Deep Color", nothing about displayport.
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sauer kraut posted:Yeah looks like an extremely power efficient 980ti for 400 bucks, right on the mark. Probably will have some dumb thing where it doesn't scale well to 2560x1440/3440x1440 compared to the 980ti because the memory bus is slower or something. Still very tempted to upgrade from a 970 to a 1070.
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