EPTPrices don't seem to be doing anything wild, the cheapest original 7970s staying at $440-450 with some rebates out there.
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MisterFred
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Prices don't seem to be doing anything wild, the cheapest original 7970s staying at $440-450 with some rebates out there. | ||
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Myrmidon
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Medrea
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Which capstone? And 7970 vanilla comes with game keys through steam, think I can sell those? Also my monitor is still 1680 * 1050. I bet your all facepalming so hard right now. | ||
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Myrmidon
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There are always grey-market means to sell game keys, right? If the monitor is decent enough like a Samsung 2233RZ, I think that can be easily excused. Otherwise, you've brought it upon yourself. | ||
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Medrea
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750W makes sense in retrospect. Vanilla 7970 seems more appealing considering that the GE is right along the same power/performance line as an overclocked 7970. I might get a Samsung 23A750D or something to go with it. The money from D3 is not stopping and, unlike my job money, is completely unaccounted for, not even by taxes! | ||
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EDIT: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison 680 about 110 mh/s 7970 up to 800 mh/s (More commonly around 650) So nVidia can't mine their way into a profit margin even (or a small one maybe), which is a big fail. I expected more from nVidia honestly especially since this last generation has way more CUDA cores. Hell the 580 was better. | ||
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Rachnar
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or does it suck too? gotta go get mine in 15 mn ^^' | ||
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Medrea
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Would be ok in the winter. I don't pay to heat my apartment anymore. | ||
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Shauni
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On June 26 2012 17:01 Womwomwom wrote: Is there really a reason to bother with the HD7970 with the GTX670 and GTX680 in existence? For raw gaming, I don't see very much reason to bother with AMD's high end cards to be quite honest. Don't see how the 670 680 beats 7970 in gaming. 7970 runs away pretty far clock by clock, is by far superior at high resolutions, which is the only case you'll need the performance, no? 680 mostly won reviewers hearts because of the marketing gimmick of auto overclocking (which you couldn't turn off to make reviews fair...). Also, if you buy that expensive of a card, you'll probably want it to last longer than a gtx560ti for instance, which it barely will. In a few years many people will have 4k displays and the likes, I can see the 670680 being an even larger bottleneck there than today. Also, as far as I remember, Nvidia cards are far superior at folding. Don't see why mining would be more significant than folding, but preference I guess... | ||
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Medrea
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Also resolutions are going nowhere fast. As polygon counts are rising, and a new console generation has not emerged, and TV's are not improving very fast either, so 4,000+p monitors are not really coming. Maybe for tablets. I bought a 5830 and a 5770 about a year ago, they've made well over double what they are worth. Not even gonna talk about the 5850's and 5870's. | ||
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Womwomwom
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On June 26 2012 19:25 Shauni wrote: Don't see how the 670 680 beats 7970 in gaming. 7970 runs away pretty far clock by clock, is by far superior at high resolutions, which is the only case you'll need the performance, no? 680 mostly won reviewers hearts because of the marketing gimmick of auto overclocking (which you couldn't turn off to make reviews fair...). Also, if you buy that expensive of a card, you'll probably want it to last longer than a gtx560ti for instance, which it barely will. In a few years many people will have 4k displays and the likes, I can see the 670680 being an even larger bottleneck there than today. Also, as far as I remember, Nvidia cards are far superior at folding. Don't see why mining would be more significant than folding, but preference I guess... 120hz gaming at 1920x1080 resolutions is the obvious reason you'd pick a GTX680 or go SLI. Or 3D gaming with active glasses. Also where are you getting the idea that we're going to be using 4K displays anytime soon? Well it could theoretically happen soon but it'll happen whenever Apple says so. Also what's wrong with technology that makes our lives easier? What exactly is wrong with "auto-overclocking"? Its not a gimmick if it works. Its like complaining X game benchmark is unfair because its biased towards a specific brand's GPU. The end result is one cards runs a lot worse than another card in a specific game and there is nothing you can do about it. | ||
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Medrea
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THAT is a problem and a plague in the PC industry. Auto overclocking? Not so much. Also 3D gaming is retarded. And you dont need a 680 to get benefits from 120hz monitor anyway. | ||
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