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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > GPU Megat[H]read - the cores of wrath grew heavy on the die that day
 
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May 15, 2013

SourKraut posted:

So I go to see what the prices are on a couple of 7970 Ghz Editions that I'm possibly interested in, and see that the prices of almost all of the 7970s are now $500-600 on Newegg. This Bitcoin/Litecoin nonsense needs to end.
If you're looking to buy 7970s, I'm selling both of mine(Sapphire reference models); I can't put them up for sale in SA-mart though.

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May 15, 2013

Straker posted:

not to be lovely to SourKraut (really he may as well just get a 280X though) but you can easily ebay those for $350-400 each if you have the slightest inclination :)
Yeah I've seen the eBay prices lately on them but would rather skip the fees they take.

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May 15, 2013

CactusWeasle posted:

What is the latest incarnation of the GTX 780? I looked up my local online retailer and they have 21 variations of the GTX 780 from €460- €700 (for the 780Ti). What's the best bang for the buck right now?

My last three card have been 6850 > 6870 > 7950 but it seems the racing sims I run love Nvidia cards.
Yeah I was looking at 780s after selling my 7970s and EVGA alone had like 10 variations of the GTX 780 :psyduck:. GTX 770 would probably be the best price:performance for nVidia with 4GB video ram since I'm assuming you run racing sims on multiple monitors like a lot of people I see on youtube. I opted for a GTX 780 Classified because it had a $150 discount and most likely going to get another since I personally prefer 120hz gaming (which itself was a hassle with AMD cards because I had to download multiple applications to get it working).

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May 15, 2013

Zero VGS posted:

Not wasted, because with V-Sync off I can still tell a clear difference between 30, 40, 50, and 60 FPS. The difference between 60 and 120 is like night and day as well, but from 120 to 144hz I can't pretend I can see much of a difference from there. In first person shooters or anything with fast motion, every bit does help.
Yeah In my opinion, a 120hz gaming monitor with lightboost is more beneficial than 144hz. After running the testufo.com benchmark, 120hz with lightboost forced on through a 3rd party program(Strobelight) is noticeably smoother when it comes to motion blur than 144hz on my monitor(XL2420TE).

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May 15, 2013

movax posted:

Go for it, and if it turns into a twisted parody of [H] build threads, I'm OK with that too. We could use more threads than just the megathreads floating around. :science:
Man I used to find [H] as a respectable tech site, but then it started to take a turn a year or two ago with almost every thread in the GPU forum devolving into an nvidia v. AMD fanboy cesspool, and catering the news section to appeal to an anti-Apple/console circlejerk a la Tom's Hardware. It's one of the best sites to use as an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Now I just browse it to see their SoapBox forum go full retard like it's Free Republic Jr.

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May 15, 2013

GrizzlyCow posted:

Also, TechReport has some data on that R9 290X retailer vs test sample variance issue. It looks kind of bad for AMD.
Eh I thought GPU manufacturers did this for a while, like Ferrari does with putting soft tires(higher grip) on their review cars. When I was researching the 780 Classified, it seemed as if reviewers all got the first-run cards with Samsung memory and only a small batch of release-day owners before EVGA switched to Elpida memory.

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May 15, 2013

 Don't notebook GPUs usually inflate their VRAM numbers because they can be shared with your system RAM?

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