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    Kitty Jail 2: You Can (not) Escape

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    It was kind of slimy how Nvidia conveniently forgot to mention that two of the RAM chips had to share a controller, resulting in awful performance if you needed that last 0.5 GB... apparently it was buried in the spec sheets but nobody noticed it. 

    It's still a good card regardless, the issue rarely comes up.  Most people never even notice.

    And yeah, really consoles are irrelevant, and have been for the past few years.  The only compelling reason to purchase one is for the exclusives, a PC can do everything else a console can, but better and usually cheaper.

    Kitty Jail 2: You Can (not) Escape

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    Looking around, it sort of bounces back and forth depending on the game being played and who's reviewing it. Even when it does win though, the Fury never wins by all that much. I have to agree, it's a little underwhelming. I do have to wonder what a new set of drivers and DX12 will do for it, but it probably won't be enough to make a substantial difference.

    Regardless, I'm sincerely hoping that AMD can become the overall better option though, and quickly. (Relatively speaking.) If they end up exiting the GPU market, Nvidia will have no real competition unless Intel goes off the rails and decides to make discrete chips.

    I know I probably don't have to tell you this, but monopolies are really bad.

    ​As you know Intel has been doing a lot of work on Integrated GPUs, as I understand it they could simply scale their chips up.  So it wouldn't be totally unreasonable to expect them to step into the discreet market.

    Also, apparently a lot of reviewers were using an old driver.  The new one helps the Fury a fair bit.  It's pretty consistently giving the 980ti a run for its money at 4K, if AMD can get the CPU overhead of their driver down they could win at lower resolutions as well.  Additionally there is the general expectation that the Fury will simply be a air-cooled Fury X (Same performance, just with less overclock headroom) so considering its $550 price tag, would certainly be a 980ti killer- slightly less performance for a lot less money.  If that is indeed the case though AMD really botched the launch, the air-cooled version for $100 less should have come out first.  Or at least had the water-cooled version voltage-unlocked for the reviewers so they could see if the overclocking is worth the $100 water cooler.

    I do expect drivers to make a substantial difference.  AMD has a history of fine tuning its cards via the drivers after launch.  Many of their cards move up a level compared to Nvidia over their support lifespan.

    So overall a poor launch, (This generation's version of the 290X flamethrower stock cooler incident.) but the card has potential.  I'm cautiously optomistic.

    Kitty Jail 2: You Can (not) Escape

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    It seems like the Fury X didn't quite pan out how AMD was hoping.  They released benchmarks showing it soundly beating the GTX 980ti, but when reviewers made their own generally the two cards only tied at 4K and the Fury X lost at lower resolutions.  Of course that's reasonable, Nvidia's 900-series drivers are mature while AMD's Fury-series are brand new, but that doesn't explain AMD's pre-release benchmarks.  They had to have known the hype would crash.  And, at least at this time, both cards are $650 and the 980ti offers slightly more performance, so it's clear which is the better buy.

     

    Kitty Jail 2: You Can (not) Escape

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    Ok new plan how about a 390?  Or maybe this one?  Which brand would you recommend?

    :siren: EDIT :siren: I'm going with the Gigabyte.  It's cheaper and comes with a backplate.

    Sapphire's card is once again too long.  Other than that, and the fact that a 750W PSU is reccomended (I have just 600W), it's perfect.  Oh well, maybe for my next computer.

    Kitty Jail 2: You Can (not) Escape

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    Oh that is a pretty little thang. My brother has one in his new machine and he's actually annoyed at how detailed the ultra-high settings in GTA V are. Too distracting.

    ​Well they did just announce the R7/R9 300 series at E3. Give it some time and the price may come down a bit.

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    I'd have to agree with Neowulf and say you should wait.

    ​AMD's new cards are coming out *really* quickly. EG: a lot of them, (the R9 and R7s, particularly), come out :siren: literally tomorrow. :siren:

    Apparently the R9 390 will be ~$329, and the R9 390X will be ~$429

    If they don't fit, you could just go with the redonkulously tiny-looking R9 Nano, which is supposed to be better than the 290 anyways.

    Regardless, like Neowulf already mentioned, it'll push prices down for last-gen cards.

    Sooo... yeah. I'd wait.

    ​This is my waiting. :P 

    I waited till now to see if any of AMD's new offerings were competitive with their old ones, but they aren't really.  The 290X is a way better value than the 390(x) as you might expect considering it's old card price vs new card price.  I'm not sure double the vRAM and a higher base clock is worth shelling out an extra hundred bucks for the 390X over the 290X.  I can't wait a few months for the prices to come down, since I've promised my current 280X to my cousin.  He's on a tight budget and it's the only way he'll be able to get a PC as good as the one he's planning on.

    Hmm.  On the other hand, I did just get a load of graduation money, so either way it'll be basically free.  And, you know, 8GB and a higher base clock isn't too bad, as well as presumably better support further into the future...

    I doubt 2XX series prices are going to go down further, if anything they're going to go up since they'll stop making them and supplies will run out.

    At any rate I can wait till tomorrow when the cards (along with the reviews and benchmarks) come out.

    Oh, and I have an ATX Mid case.  There's a little over 11 inches of clearance for the graphics card, which is plenty.  It's just that the Sapphire 290X was a little over 12 inches long since it had 3 fans.

    Kitty Jail 2: You Can (not) Escape

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    1%, 2%, and whole milk all pretty much taste the same to me.

    I can't stand skim milk, though. Just tastes like milk that's been watered down to me.

    ​Same here.  I'll drink whatever as long as it isn't Skim.

    So, my computer is now prompting me to reserve a free update to windows 10. I'm not going to do it on my desktop with W7, but I might on my laptop with W8, since I hate that OS.
     Any thoughts/warnings about this? Why are Windows doing this? Are you lot going to update?

    ​I'm definitely going to upgrade.  DirectX 12 is going to be awesome.

    Kitty Jail 2: You Can (not) Escape

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    ​Couldn't I try to get a new card (a really good one) and better RAM, plug it into my current machine and see if it works out? (PSU load taken into account, ofc).

    Then, when the time comes or if it produces too much heat, I could get "the rest" of a new computer.

    ​Sure.  If it was me I'd feel better about just getting a whole new computer all at once, clean slate and all that, but there's no reason why you couldn't just try a new graphics card.

    I seem to having a similar, if not the same problem as Kocken is having.

    It's a very weird delay. The notification system is on-time, but the thread itself seems to pull up an old page, and THEN chooses to update. Very weird.

    ​I think the forum software doesn't like to show a brand new page with too few posts on it, so it waits until there's enough comments to make a new one..  It's cleaner I guess but it's terrible for actually carrying out a conversation.

    Kitty Jail 2: You Can (not) Escape

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    ​*Looks up comparisons between my Radeon HD 6800 Series thingamajig and your card*

    Shit. Seem like I'm due for an update. BUT. Is there any point in faffing about with crossfire or should I just replace my card altogether? Also, how do I check for compatibility or bottleneck issues? How do I know whether or not it would be cheaper just to replace the whole computer when you take heating issues into account?

    Meeh, too much work, maybe I'll give GTA V a pass, for a while at least.

    (did get a well paying summer job though, so maybe now would be a good time to invest before I go off to study and waste all my money on Koskenkorva and rent. Decisions, decisions...)

    ​A single more powerful card is always better than two weaker ones, especially since Video RAM doesn't stack.  6800 isn't very specific, but they all do have only 1 GB of RAM which is pretty tight.

    I don't know when you got your card, or the rest of your computer, but if it was around the time the 6000s came out then your PC is pushing 5 years old now, so at this point I'd say get a whole new one if you can afford it.

    Kitty Jail 2: You Can (not) Escape

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    isn't that pretty much Civilization and democracy? come to think of it, isn't that the basis of any 4X (or 2X i guess if you take out economic and cultural stuffs) 

    ​Yes.  But on a forum not a video game.

    (Edit:)  Although I think it's more like worldbuilding than a video game.

    Kitty Jail 2: You Can (not) Escape

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    I've discovered www.reddit.com/r/worldpowers.  Basically it's a roleplay/discussion thing where you take control of a real country and run it.  You can do stuff like develop infrastructure and wage war.  I was thinking a simpler version, perhaps where you would invent your own country, would make for a fun forum game.  Any thoughts or interest?

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