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You don't have to give a reason. You can just say "I changed my mind". And that's that. Or you can say nothing. I want to return it and that's that. Take the issue with BB's return policy with BB, because there is no ethical or moral issue if their return policy allows a return for any reason...

This isn't a moral or ethical issue. If the OP had to lie in order to return his product, I would agree - this is a common practice among some overclockers who essentially lie when they can't reach the OC they're hoping for. They'll call the product "defective", box it up and return it to an...

So, so, SO wrong. Go look up when phase 3 of their frame pacing hit. I don't think phase 3 was even implemented was it? Let me help you out buddy: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7729/amd-catalyst-141-beta-drivers-now-available-mantle-frame-pacing-more The 2nd phase of frame pacing hit happened...

Fanbois arrive. That same thought just ran through my head, interesting. Funnily enough, this very website and Brent J. was very vocal about AMD's software issues with the Tahiti when it launched with NUMEROUS bugs in eyefinity. Microstutter never solved for 4 years (including cayman and...

Well, their return policy allows it. Not satisfied? Return it. Take it up with Best Buy. I'd agree to a certain extent when people return electronics just because it doesn't overclock as well as they'd like, which I think is stupid, but in this case. I dunno. Their return policy lets you return...

He has a 45 day no hassle return policy, that allows him to return the card if he doesn't like it. I'd say he's okay. Worse come to worse, he could simply return it at the end of the period if for some reason new cards don't come out. But i'm pretty sure new cards are coming out soon.

If you install the driver properly, no, no differences. I did have problems with flash acceleration on AMD's side, but that was more than a year ago and i'm sure would be fixed by now. Aside from that..........2d performance is literally like the GPU barely lifting a finger, it requires no...

Yeah, you can. You have 90 days from the day you bought your current GPU to apply for step up. IIRC EVGA offered step ups on the 680 and 780 on day one of release in limited qtys, but they both had wait periods due to limited quantities. They with-hold a certain number of GPUs specifically for...

Apparently to match their mobile GTX 900M series for ultrabooks (releasing later this year? For broadwell core-M? Shrug..). They wanted all Maxwell cards for mobile dGPUs and desktop dGPUs to fall under the same 900 family or something something. Since there's a GTX 800m series already, they...

GTX one?

This is not the best way to do it. You need to use your intel control panel and adjust the color saturation settings. If you're using motherboard drivers for your intel iGPU and do not have a context sensitive menu for the intel graphics properties, try using the reference drivers from intel's...

I would have to say that a 6970 to a 770 or a 280X is a big jump in performance. I used a 6970 and while it was decent for the time several years ago, there were some pitfalls to the cayman architecture. Remember, DX11 was an achilles' heel to both the Evergreen and Cayman; both of those cards...

Yeah, the only way 4GB isnt' enough is if you use stupidly high surround resolutions (i'm talking triple 4k or triple 1600p, and 4GB should still be enough even then) and/or using SSAA/downsampling settings so absurdly high that it cuts your performance by 80%. Given how pathetic the next gen...

Digital output has no variance, it isn't possible. When analog (IE VGA) output was the norm .. In the early days this meant that some cards had blurrier 2D images than others. Variance is definitely possible with analog / VGA output. In fact, I remember many people bought the Matrox Millenium...

Honestly, it kinda pisses me off when a few of my friends talk about how they pirate games. On the other hand, I understand. I was a starving student at one time as well, so I get it. That doesn't make it right, and that's most confusing thing about kids these days. They think they have a...

Still don't understand your complaining, like I said, i'm sure 8GB will be available so why bother? Just curious. Go buy 8GB, jeesh.

Watch dogs treats VRAM like unified memory on the consoles. No compressed textures, nothing. The epitome of lazy developers who just don't give a crap about the PC, not to mention it doesn't look that great. Sorry BF4 and Crysis 3 look miles better than watch dogs and still play just fine on...

S3 was pretty great back in the day IMO. I remember buying a Diamond S3 virge card (can't remember the name of the card SKU though!) and the 2d performance was great. 3D performance not so great, but the only competition at the time was the rendition verite and powerVR (If I remember...

If the 880 is 200W TDP or higher it is going to be faster than the 780ti easily. The only way it could possibly be slower is if they seriously undercut on the TDP budget, 150W TDP or less. The 750ti is a 60W TDP part and performs 3 times faster than the similarly configured 65W TDP Kepler...

If the base is 4GB, then i'm sure there will be 8GB versions for the 2 people that want it

I don't know about you but I do a lot more than booting with my SSD. If you get a 256GB SSD you can throw some games on there in addition to your base applications, and the apps I use regularly benefit a great deal from SSD speeds. You do more than booting from SSD. At least I do, and I think...

Dunno. SSD is one of those things that, once you use one, you just don't go back to spindle as a primary drive. The difference is tremendous and once you're used to it, going to spindle only is such a regression. I'd use a spindle drive as a data/media storage drive but aside from that, SSD all...

I'll deviate slightly from the topic to reminisce of one of the great companies of the 90s who were bought out and are now completely different: diamond multimedia. They were the bomb in the late 90s, I loved them. Sadly they went out of business and re-acquired in name only by some other...

Okay? Buy whatever the F you want to buy, who cares? Be it AMD or NV. Buy what you like better. But on the voltage issue there are ways to OV all cards. BIOS updates, and there is a MSI afterburner hack that allows 1.3V on all kepler cards, no matter which one it is. Obviiously at 1.3V your...

You'll still be able to run them, you may have to lower AA levels or use FXAA (no VRAM required for FXAA) in some games. For Watch Dogs you'd have to lower the quality preset. Believe it or not you can run games just fine with 1.5GB, but the biggest use of VRAM is generally AA. So don't go nuts...

Trade blows? I dunno. That isn't what typically happens, NV has had the performance crown more often that not. AMD had the crown for 5 months with the 5870, but aside from that...they've pretty much had to rely on selling based on price instead of halo performance in the past 5 years. What will...

This makes me appreciate EVGA all that much more. In terms of AMD AIB's, who's the best these days? I've heard very few good things about sapphire and very many bad things. Seems like XFX might be the best one, although I don't think they're as good as EVGA.

How many pages will this thread be in 2017?

You can mod anything from being a cheesefest game into being demanding. I can bring world of warcrafts performance to its knees, especially in 25 man raids, if I enable 50 add-ons. Doesn't help that the addon programming interface for WoW is archaic and mods just kill performance in a lot of...

You could get an evga card and use step up (must apply within 90 days of purchase for the newer SKU) , or the better option may be to just wait a month.

***fine print in 3 games that you may or may not (PROBABLY WONT) like, last I checked Mantle covered about .0001% of all games. Look, Mantle is great and all but this argument is absurd. Once Mantle covers 100% of games (IE never) you might have a compelling argument, but those Mantle games...

It's official: the Mantle vs DX11/12/OGL argument will continue in this thread until 2017 Among the same 5 posters

This will all be moot anyway since the 880 will (presumably) be 4/8GB and by the leaked benchmarks it is a good deal faster than the 780ti. NV won't release a next gen slower than the last gen. It will be faster. And it'll have more memory anyway. But to answer the question: I gamed at 1600p...

You'll be fine on PCIE 2.0, yeah. Differences are negligible. I really like the newer platform of Z97 and despite what anyone may say, Haswell even at lower clocks is a definite IPC increase over SB (I had a 2600 @ 5ghz myself back in the day) but, if your budget is limited it's not worth...

Assuming game profile support, a 780ti is roughly comparable to a GTX 690. GTX 690 should be a good deal faster than 580 sli. I've seen the gigabyte windforce 780ti benched at hardwarecanucks (I think) which was actually a bit faster than the 690 with the factory OC. It's probably better to...

I'd like to see AMD/ATI continue to improve on the software side of things. However, for anyone to brush off their problems in past years is simply wrong. One need to look no further than the very reviewers at this website who dealt with eyefinity hell on 7970s and microstutter to get an answer...

A digital signal does not have variance. It's really that simple. Analog definitely *does* have variance. I used to think the same thing, yet on further inspection after using various GPUs... it was merely color saturation. Every GPU has different default color saturation settings and every GPU...

Sure it is. I believe you're an insider for nvidia and AMD, I really do. Anyways, the head guy for gigabyte accidentally leaked that they would have new cards from NV and a new cooler in September in an interview. That combined with the rumors from wccftech and videocardz all point to...

You're like Sinofliberty without the pictures. More rumors with no substance, you should throw some fake pics in.

It ended when people stopped using analog output. Which for a lot of people was right around the 2006-2008 timeframe.