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    Re: AMD takes aim at Nvidia's GTX 970 and cuts R9 290X price

    Ha how far back ?

    Let's see how many I can remember
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    Voodoo, which was my first ever graphics card.

    This looks right, although I was doing a helluva lot of drugs between the geforce2 ultra and 8800GTX, so those days are hazy...

    Oops also it wasn't a voodoo2, it was a voodoo3 3000, I can't remember if I ever had a voodoo2, or if I went from voodoo to voodoo3

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    Re: AMD takes aim at Nvidia's GTX 970 and cuts R9 290X price

    I would've taken an R9 290X over any card before this mess started. Now I would take two of them.

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    Re: AMD takes aim at Nvidia's GTX 970 and cuts R9 290X price

    Quote Originally Posted by jigger View Post
    I would've taken an R9 290X over any card before this mess started. Now I would take two of them.
    Ok, don't forget to add on a 700W+ PSU and an air conditioner to the shopping cart.
    Quote Originally Posted by Agent View Post
    ...every time Creative bring out a new card range their advertising makes it sound like they have discovered a way to insert a thousand Chuck Norris super dwarfs in your ears...

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    Re: AMD takes aim at Nvidia's GTX 970 and cuts R9 290X price

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    Ok, don't forget to add on a 700W+ PSU and an air conditioner to the shopping cart.
    I went with a pair of R9 290's and they have run fine at 1180Mhz core for over a year. I was expecting them to cook me after reading on a few forums, but yeah the heat thing is a myth and the cards are no worse than the GTX780Ti's I was considering.

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    Re: AMD takes aim at Nvidia's GTX 970 and cuts R9 290X price

    Quote Originally Posted by Tunnah View Post
    Ha how far back ?

    Let's see how many I can remember
    Dual GTX 670s (current)
    Dual GTX 460s
    Dual GTX 280s
    Dual 8800GTXs
    6800 I think
    geforce4 Ti, can't remember which one
    geforce2 ultra, I remember that one being an absolute beast.
    Rage Pro
    Voodoo2
    Voodoo, which was my first ever graphics card.

    This looks right, although I was doing a helluva lot of drugs between the geforce2 ultra and 8800GTX, so those days are hazy...

    Oops also it wasn't a voodoo2, it was a voodoo3 3000, I can't remember if I ever had a voodoo2, or if I went from voodoo to voodoo3
    Just an FYI,

    No-one will take you seriously. I'm quite new to the scene but I know the graphics market is a big, ever swinging pendulum of back and forth and for you to sit there, list your history of purchase (regardless of if Nvidia or AMD were the better choice at the time) and then chastise the company you have invested in just once, screams petty fan-boi. But it's your money so you may do with it as you please...

    Also, It should be pretty obvious, but I would recommend you don't discuss any potentially illegal activity. It doesn't make you look 'cool'

    And also fyi my GPU history;
    GTX760
    GTX650 (Best my budget could stretch to at the time, I didn't trust the second hand market)
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    Re: AMD takes aim at Nvidia's GTX 970 and cuts R9 290X price

    My money would still probably go on a Nvidia card. They are so much more efficient and cooler running being the main reason.

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    Re: AMD takes aim at Nvidia's GTX 970 and cuts R9 290X price

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by jigger View Post
    I would've taken an R9 290X over any card before this mess started. Now I would take two of them.
    Ok, don't forget to add on a 700W+ PSU and an air conditioner to the shopping cart.
    funny while reading this my my 290 is sitting at 32 deg c and pulling 29.3w ...
    while playing it never go's above 48 c .. that's in farcry 4 .. I may buy another and a 4k mon/tv see if I could get it hotter ...
    simple water loop takes out all the pain .. nice quiet hmmmm
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    Re: AMD takes aim at Nvidia's GTX 970 and cuts R9 290X price

    Quote Originally Posted by flearider View Post
    funny while reading this my my 290 is sitting at 32 deg c and pulling 29.3w ...
    while playing it never go's above 48 c .. that's in farcry 4 .. I may buy another and a 4k mon/tv see if I could get it hotter ...
    simple water loop takes out all the pain .. nice quiet hmmmm
    A nice and quiet 970 would have been cheaper than a 290 + waterblock and equally as quiet while costing less to run.....while performing better and being a lot less hassle then having to drain the system every time you want to do anything in the PC.

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    Re: AMD takes aim at Nvidia's GTX 970 and cuts R9 290X price

    Quote Originally Posted by shaithis View Post
    A nice and quiet 970 would have been cheaper than a 290 + waterblock and equally as quiet while costing less to run.....while performing better and being a lot less hassle then having to drain the system every time you want to do anything in the PC.

    I gave up on WC a while ago once components temps dropped to the point where you didn't need it any more (as long as you choose the right components!)
    Well probably not in a fair fight. Nvidia must have had a reason to fudge the GTX970, and that could only have been because the R9 290 is faster.
    Last edited by jigger; 30-01-2015 at 05:15 PM.

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    Re: AMD takes aim at Nvidia's GTX 970 and cuts R9 290X price

    Quote Originally Posted by shaithis View Post
    A nice and quiet 970 would have been cheaper than a 290 + waterblock and equally as quiet while costing less to run.....while performing better and being a lot less hassle then having to drain the system every time you want to do anything in the PC.
    What was he supposed to do in the 10 months between their launches - play on an IGP?

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    Re: AMD takes aim at Nvidia's GTX 970 and cuts R9 290X price

    Quote Originally Posted by Tunnah View Post
    Ha how far back ?

    Let's see how many I can remember
    Dual GTX 670s (current)
    Dual GTX 460s
    Dual GTX 280s
    Dual 8800GTXs
    6800 I think
    geforce4 Ti, can't remember which one
    geforce2 ultra, I remember that one being an absolute beast.
    Rage Pro
    Voodoo2
    Voodoo, which was my first ever graphics card.

    This looks right, although I was doing a helluva lot of drugs between the geforce2 ultra and 8800GTX, so those days are hazy...

    Oops also it wasn't a voodoo2, it was a voodoo3 3000, I can't remember if I ever had a voodoo2, or if I went from voodoo to voodoo3
    Dual 280's? Was that before or after Nvidia slashed the price a couple of weeks after launch?

    Dual 460's, let's have a look at the 460.



    Still buying Nvidia cards back in the day when you had to count back 11 cards to find an Nvidia card in perf/Watt tables, I see...I guess reasonable performance at decent TDP wasn't that important to you back then?

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    Re: AMD takes aim at Nvidia's GTX 970 and cuts R9 290X price

    Implying his 460 was bought when 6850 was out, which it wasn't for whole half a year lol... So yeah 460 was great, i had it and no complaints unlike all the 6000 series amd that ive seen on 2nd hand market trying to get sold. Not to mention 460 was running cool <70C on full load, again unlike 6850. Id take a card that works at 70C doing same job as cheaper card going for 85C any day.
    NVIDIA FANBOY OUT

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    Re: AMD takes aim at Nvidia's GTX 970 and cuts R9 290X price

    Tempting, will wait for the 3xx range and see what happens

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    Re: AMD takes aim at Nvidia's GTX 970 and cuts R9 290X price

    As others have pointed out, just let products speak for themselves. And it's always interesting how apparently due to AMD being an underdog seems to make it acceptable for petty PR stunts like this. Now, obviously people need to buy AMD products, be it CPUs or GPUs, in order for the company to be kept afloat, even though it would technically never go under due to aggressive anti-monopoly laws and such, but in the end we only see AMD doing this sort of embarassing tricks (like their infamous Youtube videos).

    With that said, bring Zen and 300 series and let's see if there'll be an i7 killer and HBM put to practice in order to shame the competition.

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    Re: AMD takes aim at Nvidia's GTX 970 and cuts R9 290X price

    So whats the UK pricing?

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    Re: AMD takes aim at Nvidia's GTX 970 and cuts R9 290X price

    Quote Originally Posted by Tunnah View Post
    What in the hell is going on. Tha split partitioning dynamic was well explained and covered, in fact their explanations answered some questions asked about performance quirks that couldn't be addressed until this info came out.

    At the end of the day it still trounces all over the competition, it still has 4GB RAM, and it's still nVidia, which I'll be sticking to. AMD just don't appeal to me at all, their CPUs and their GPUs both play second fiddle to a better company.

    Myabe focus on producing a GPU that performs well at a decent TDP and a reasonable temperature too.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tunnah View Post
    Ha how far back ?

    Let's see how many I can remember
    Dual GTX 670s (current)
    Dual GTX 460s
    Dual GTX 280s
    Dual 8800GTXs
    6800 I think
    geforce4 Ti, can't remember which one
    geforce2 ultra, I remember that one being an absolute beast.
    Rage Pro
    Voodoo2
    Voodoo, which was my first ever graphics card.

    This looks right, although I was doing a helluva lot of drugs between the geforce2 ultra and 8800GTX, so those days are hazy...

    Oops also it wasn't a voodoo2, it was a voodoo3 3000, I can't remember if I ever had a voodoo2, or if I went from voodoo to voodoo3
    So you still stuck with the a Geforce 4 series,even when there was the 9700 pro??

    Lets see what I have had:

    1.)Geforce Go440
    2.)Geforce MX440
    3.)Geforce Ti4200
    4.)9500 PRO
    5.)9600XT
    6.)6200
    7,)6600LE
    8.)6600GT
    9.)2x6800LE(both unlocked)
    10.)X300
    11.)7300GT
    12.)7600GT
    11.)7900GS
    12.)X1900GT
    12.)8500GT
    13.)8800GTS 512MB
    14.)HD3870
    15.)HD4830
    16.)HD5850
    17.)HD6870
    18.)HD6450
    19.)HD7850
    20.)GTX650TI Boost
    21.)GTX660

    Plus others I have forgotten about.

    I seem to have had magic cards,since apart from minor niggles,I seem to have been able to run all of my games fine at the time.

    Quote Originally Posted by aniilv View Post
    Implying his 460 was bought when 6850 was out, which it wasn't for whole half a year lol... So yeah 460 was great, i had it and no complaints unlike all the 6000 series amd that ive seen on 2nd hand market trying to get sold. Not to mention 460 was running cool <70C on full load, again unlike 6850. Id take a card that works at 70C doing same job as cheaper card going for 85C any day.
    NVIDIA FANBOY OUT






    An HD6850 1GB overclocked to nearly 1GHZ consumed no more power than a reference GTX460 running at stock clockspeeds.

    The HD6850 1GB cards were cheaper too.

    Plus the HD5850 1GB was out at the same time for near GTX460 money too and was faster.
    Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 30-01-2015 at 11:40 PM.

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