http://slickdeals.net/f/7992957-sap...edition-260-after-20-rebate-free-shipping?v=1
$260 is cheapest I've seen to date for this.
$260 is cheapest I've seen to date for this.
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Getting tired of deal hunting for a new card, might actually buy this. My current Tri-X has been good to me.
Although I despise everything about Hawaii.
edit: DOES NOT work with student discount because it's a gift deal (Dirt Rally).
I was going to get this card to replace my GTX 580, It was this or a 970gtx. I did research and almost decided on that it wasn't worth to spend an extra $50 for a 970 and then I remember something while I was looking at post, benchmarks and info. I had forgotten that AMD stopped putting ramdac inside most of their cards so this would not work with my Sony FW900, There's some adapters with ramdac chipset but most of those barely break 125mhz, nowhere near the 400mhz that comes in video cards.
So it brings me to few choices.
a) Buy this and over-stretch budget to prob get a monitor just to use it, but not necessarily what I want,
b) Gtx 970
c) Wait for pascal and get that when it's time to overhaul my pc completely.
I like Nvidia stuff but I was going to try AMD for the first time. The cost to acquire was $50 cheaper than the 970gtx on sale, I looked at benchmarks and it traded blows with the Gtx970. Nvidia did not compete price wise to this deal.The whole monitor thing might deter me from getting this thou.
If you have a cold room get a AMD they tend to work like heaters
I had to buy a wall cooler for my kids room as his card would heat up that room in the summer like a hair dryer on high room is in a bad spot light hits it all day but that card wouldn't let the A/C cool his room down.
I have no chip loyalty I buy whatever I feel is best at the time I really like my GTX 970 not even running it on a new board just upgraded my older system for another year or two of life and its runs everything great and much cooler.
I don't think AMD cards are bad but they are hot running.
If you're cool with tinkering then buy AMD but just be aware you will almost certainly have to tinker.Is AMD really that distinct for someone who always used Nvidia? I assemble and program all of my computers so I know my way around a pc, and looked around the forums and saw the things that ppl complained about. Example gta v both nvidia ppl and amd ppl had some sort of stuttering issued with some cards/system combos, and some ppl got shut downs or performance issues on the 290x and it was due to improper PSU and or even that low power setting not getting along with over-clocked factory cards and then chocking the card volt wise once the game switched to 2d clocks.
It just seemed like Nvidia to me could not compete price wise, except my position that I am at, where it seems like I am forced to spend more either way or wait.
This has held up surprisingly well. Farcry 4 has forced it thou, and GTA while I can run a lot of things in respectable settings my view distance is not the best and the textures are limited to normal. I can push 40-50fps but sometimes it doesn't feel butter smooth. I wonder if I should just suck it up and wait for pascal.
If you're cool with tinkering then buy AMD but just be aware you will almost certainly have to tinker.
AMD doesn't do certain things that Nvidia does. AMD has certain problems that Nvidia doesn't. Driver quirks, missing features, third party tools required, etc.
It's called culture shock.
Some quick examples:
No adaptive sync / FXAA (and more?) in CCC, you can use these with RadeonPro and a few others.
VSR only works with certain resolutions & cards, you can unlock more via registry edits.
"GeForce Experience" is replaced by the Raptr app which is all over the place.
Tessellation tweaks required via CCC.
If you're cool with tinkering then buy AMD but just be aware you will almost certainly have to tinker.
AMD doesn't do certain things that Nvidia does. AMD has certain problems that Nvidia doesn't. Driver quirks, missing features, third party tools required, etc.
It's called culture shock.
Well now I know why you have so many problems with graphics in your games