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    PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

    With a suggested retail price of US$269, becoming available from Friday 29th July.
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    Re: PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

    Friday 29th July, priced at US$269.
    So anywhere from £250 at best to £290 depending on how they feel on the day.

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    Re: PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

    Quote Originally Posted by kryton666 View Post
    Friday 29th July, priced at US$269.
    So anywhere from £250 at best to £290 depending on how they feel on the day.
    Its £250 preorder at overclockers...
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    Re: PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

    looking forward to seeing a reivew

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    Re: PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

    To little far too late, i'm a lifelong AMD fanboy and haven't had a Nvidia GPU since the Geforce 2 GTS, I Had £250 cash on my desk waiting for a custom cooled RX480 since release day on the 29th June to replace my HD7950, since that time Nvidia and its partners have announced and managed to launch custom cooled GTX 1060 cards on release day.

    The reviews have been enough to convince me not wait any longer I purchased a GTX1060 on tuesday instead and it was cheaper than the rrp of custom RX480 which are not even available yet.

    I don't know what the hold up with the custom cooled cards is, but AMD have lost a customer in me and i assume many more too with these delays.

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    Re: PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

    Quote Originally Posted by bigstu View Post
    To little far too late, i'm a lifelong AMD fanboy and haven't had a Nvidia GPU since the Geforce 2 GTS, I Had £250 cash on my desk waiting for a custom cooled RX480 since release day on the 29th June to replace my HD7950, since that time Nvidia and its partners have announced and managed to launch custom cooled GTX 1060 cards on release day.

    The reviews have been enough to convince me not wait any longer I purchased a GTX1060 on tuesday instead and it was cheaper than the rrp of custom RX480 which are not even available yet.

    I don't know what the hold up with the custom cooled cards is, but AMD have lost a customer in me and i assume many more too with these delays.
    Anyone else smell troll?

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    Re: PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

    Quote Originally Posted by bigstu View Post
    To little far too late ... I Had £250 cash on my desk waiting for a custom cooled RX480 since release day ... The reviews have been enough to convince me not wait any longer ...
    So having waited 20 days, you changed your mind overnight in preference to waiting another 10 days or so for the custom RX 480 cards?

    it sure sounds like you had your heart set on an RX 480...

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    Re: PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

    I pre-ordered a nitro+ 480, I have a free-sync 4k monitor, so it makes sense over a 1060 with the games I will be playing over the next year being in DX12 (Civ 6 etc). 1070 and 1080 aren't powerful enough really for 60fps 4k (and very overpriced), so I will buy this card as a stopgap until next year!

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    Re: PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

    Quote Originally Posted by cheesemp View Post
    Its £250 preorder at overclockers...
    And here is me just had to spend £220 on boring tyres for the car, this would have been much more fun

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    Re: PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    So having waited 20 days, you changed your mind overnight in preference to waiting another 10 days or so for the custom RX 480 cards?

    it sure sounds like you had your heart set on an RX 480...
    I think that's harsh - I'm in exactly the same position as bigstu and once you've set your mind on buying something it can be hard to wait an additional 10 days! In addition we're now into CCR evaluation period, so you can buy a 1060 now and return it if you don't like it/prefer a custom 480. From his previous posts I wonder if he's still running a 7870 as well, in which case we've another thing in common!

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    Re: PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    I think that's harsh ...
    Maybe a little, but then again you're not sitting there now saying "I'm a real AMD fanboy and desperately want a custom RX 480, but I've spent my money on a GTX 1060 instead because they're available now". You're sitting there and still waiting to hear, albeit impatiently.

    From my PoV, if you've set your heart on buying something you don't buy a competing product within 48 hours of its release in the absence of comparative reviews to the thing you want to buy. It's not like the GTX 1060 was so much better than the RX 480 that it's a no-brainer - it's faster but the performance/£ metric tilts slightly in the RX 480s favour. if I'd been waiting for a custom RX 480, the GTX 1060 reviews would've persuaded me that waiting for the custom RX 480s was the right thing to do, frankly. It takes a very skewed view of the comparison between the cards to conclude that the GTX 1060 is a guaranteed better buy at this point...

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    Re: PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

    Quote Originally Posted by Nifl View Post
    Anyone else smell troll?
    Nope no trolling involved, just massive disappointment at AMD's partners lack of ability at getting cards out of the door

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    So having waited 20 days, you changed your mind overnight in preference to waiting another 10 days or so for the custom RX 480 cards?

    it sure sounds like you had your heart set on an RX 480...
    Firstly at the time of the purchase, no release dates for any custom RX480s had been announced so the now 10 days could easily have been 30 or more for all i knew.

    Secondly the reason i changed my mind over night was this reasoning, a stock GTX1060 > stockRX480.......so for my £249.99 a custom GTX1080 > custom RX480, but I will await the benchmarks to see if this holds true in 10 days time.

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    I think that's harsh - I'm in exactly the same position as bigstu and once you've set your mind on buying something it can be hard to wait an additional 10 days! In addition we're now into CCR evaluation period, so you can buy a 1060 now and return it if you don't like it/prefer a custom 480. From his previous posts I wonder if he's still running a 7870 as well, in which case we've another thing in common!
    The the 7950 has now been transplanted into my sons machine in place of the 7870 btw.

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    Re: PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

    Quote Originally Posted by bigstu View Post
    ... Firstly at the time of the purchase, no release dates for any custom RX480s had been announced so the now 10 days could easily have been 30 or more for all i knew.

    Secondly the reason i changed my mind over night was this reasoning, a stock GTX1060 > stockRX480.......so for my £249.99 a custom GTX1080 > custom RX480, but I will await the benchmarks to see if this holds true in 10 days time. ...
    I understand your reasoning, I guess, but it says to me that you weren't *that* set on an RX 480: you must've pulled the trigger pretty much as soon as the 1060 reviews landed. Which 1060 did you go for in the end?

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    Re: PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

    Quote Originally Posted by Nifl View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by bigstu View Post
    To little far too late, i'm a lifelong AMD fanboy and haven't had a Nvidia GPU since the Geforce 2 GTS, I Had £250 cash on my desk waiting for a custom cooled RX480 since release day on the 29th June to replace my HD7950, since that time Nvidia and its partners have announced and managed to launch custom cooled GTX 1060 cards on release day.

    The reviews have been enough to convince me not wait any longer I purchased a GTX1060 on tuesday instead and it was cheaper than the rrp of custom RX480 which are not even available yet.

    I don't know what the hold up with the custom cooled cards is, but AMD have lost a customer in me and i assume many more too with these delays.
    Anyone else smell troll?
    Yep, definetely

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    Re: PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    I understand your reasoning, I guess, but it says to me that you weren't *that* set on an RX 480: you must've pulled the trigger pretty much as soon as the 1060 reviews landed. Which 1060 did you go for in the end?

    Had a read through the reviews on here and other sites at 2, and collected a palit version on my way home at 4 (I pass CCL on my way home).

    Done a little tweaking today hits 2100mhz sustained on boost too, so not regreting the purchase so far.

    Quote Originally Posted by fmq203 View Post
    Yep, definetely
    That seems to be the resounding opinion so far.

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    Re: PowerColor launches the Red Devil RX 480 8GB GDDR5

    At last an RX480 that doesn't put your whole system at risk whenever you load your graphics card up.

    AMD's handling of this power draw issue has been both risky and shameful.

    As soon as the cards were discovered to be operating outside of specification they should of cut the power draw by default and then in a later driver release allow the user to select full power mode once they had agreed to a disclaimer that it puts the psu and motherboard at risk.

    Instead they've added an optional 'compatibility' mode which makes it pci-e compliant.
    It's only a matter of time before someones computer will blow up and be blamed on AMD and they'll go very red faced.

    AMD may say the risks are minimal but they are still risks as they're putting trust in the other manufacturers exceeding the specification.

    I don't think this is the first time it's happened either back when graphics cards used the 4 pin molex connector to provide more juice I lost count how many computers came into the computer shop I worked in on a saturday with burnt molex connectors.
    Thankfully it was only ever the pins / sockets that got to hot and not the wires / psu

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