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Mow some lawns, sell some lemonade or pimp yourself out to make up the difference. If you're worried about $50 bucks on a $500+ card, your priorities are messed up.
Some reading material during your wait: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
It's the drop on the non reference 7970's that we need more than anything and those are up and over $600. If you're buying a couple of those you're gonna need to mow down a pimp and his lemonade stand to make up the $200+ in savings a price drop would net you
imo wait for the 4gb 680's and enjoy a better driver experience!
You know, this whole AMD drivers are the devil BS needs to stop. Especially when it comes from people who don't own a Radeon card in the first place! The truth is, the drivers are FINE.
Mow some lawns, sell some lemonade or pimp yourself out to make up the difference. If you're worried about $50 bucks on a $500+ card, your priorities are messed up.
Some reading material during your wait: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
There is absolutely no reason to drop the price of these. Yes, the 680 is faster by a few fps here and there, but they are no where to be found. Why lower prices to compete against somethign that you can't get yet? lol
Well mine was a joke because I do support team green so much. It's been a long time since I've used team red and back then they had driver issues and from what I read people are still complaining about the drivers. Each card is awesome no doubt
You know, this whole AMD drivers are the devil BS needs to stop. Especially when it comes from people who don't own a Radeon card in the first place! The truth is, the drivers are FINE.
Yeah... cuz WHQL means lots... personally i'll take ATI drivers over Nvidia's any day, at least ATI's doesn't crash constantly, sure it's great windows is recovering my desktop from a hardware error.. to bad I lost my games progress since dx9/11 won't recover with the desktop.
Mow some lawns, sell some lemonade or pimp yourself out to make up the difference. If you're worried about $50 bucks on a $500+ card, your priorities are messed up.
Some reading material during your wait: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
Just buy used. I snagged a 7970 for $430 shipped.
Yeah... cuz WHQL means lots... personally i'll take ATI drivers over Nvidia's any day, at least ATI's doesn't crash constantly, sure it's great windows is recovering my desktop from a hardware error.. to bad I lost my games progress since dx9/11 won't recover with the desktop.
Nice, I keep missing those deals in FS/FT .
I agree though. Buy used and still keep the warranty (on some OEMs).
Moral of this story, don't blame Nvidia's drivers for a problem likely caused by the hardware. Also, Keep your shit clean.
I have an old 8800GTS in my laptop that I bought a couple of years ago that's still surprisingly strong for what it is. When it crashes it's usually either due to heat or just some sort of glitch. Be glad it's just resetting the driver too, it could be blue screening and restarting your computer instead. To me that actually shows a strong driver more than a weak one.
You know, this whole AMD drivers are the devil BS needs to stop. Especially when it comes from people who don't own a Radeon card in the first place! The truth is, the drivers are FINE.
You know, this whole AMD drivers are the devil BS needs to stop. Especially when it comes from people who don't own a Radeon card in the first place! The truth is, the drivers are FINE.
Consider yourself lucky, when my old 8600m GT driver crashed (and even on newer drivers) it BSOD. Definitely wasn't a heat/dust issue either as it would do this while the GPU was sub 60C (and gaming it didn't get above 80C).
who told you that you need more than 2gb of Vram at that resolution?
benchmarks show that 2gb becomes bottleneck at 5760p with 4xaa.
Consider yourself lucky, when my old 8600m GT driver crashed (and even on newer drivers) it BSOD. Definitely wasn't a heat/dust issue either as it would do this while the GPU was sub 60C (and gaming it didn't get above 80C).
Productive afternoon. Bought 27" cinema display and GIGABYTE GV-R797OC-3GD Radeon HD 7970. My wife is gonna kill me.
Their drivers, lack of game support, and bugs with Eyefinity finally forced me into dumping them and getting a GTX 570 (and for that matter giving up Eyefinity until I either go SLI or get a GTX 680). The drivers might be fine for YOU, but that doesn't mean they are fine for everyone. Try reading a few more threads in this forum about [H]'ers having driver trouble. Last I checked it took AMD what...three months...just to get WHQL drivers for the 7900 series? nVidia had Kepler driver support on day ONE.
I've no interest in buying any AMD cards, not after what I went through. But I do have an interest in seeing a price war!
Sounds like you got a recalled chip. The G86 and G84 chips all were bad. It wasn't a matter of if, it was a matter of when.
I remember some equally poor scaling with the 5870; it was bad enough months after I purchased it that I decided I was going to shelve the CFX idea and not look into it for a while. Never really found out if AMD had fixed the scaling issues on the 5800 series before the 6000 series came out.