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Staying with my GTX 970, as at its current price, its not exactly the best choice. (the 960's price that is-and it would be going with my Xeon rig if I could even get the damn thing to post).

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Neato.

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Linus is a noob. Sorry, not noob, I mean he is sorta a tacky ass dork. He really has no style, and is goofy as hell, and cares nothing about the important things like, RELIABILITY, PRODUCT SUPPORT, OVERCLOCKING ABILITY (Always much easier on Intel and Nvidia Products) , Consistency, Availability, Engineering, Design, QA, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera... nevermind I take that back, he really is a noob. Sorry man. You NEVER mention any of this stuff that is really important. Sorry to call you out but there it is. Ban me bro, I am just calling it like I see it.

All you talk about is peak performance numbers that are not even consistent. AMD products are so hit and miss. All over the book. I overclock and support for 12-36 months a lot of freaking CPU's and GPU's, and AMD's are crapola all over the place. Nvidia's are all within a very close spec. Intel is even better. AMD is a crap shoot and even then, 1/5 GPU's doesn't even freaking work.

AMD is a joke.

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In what industry in the world is it okay for these types of numbers???

AMD IS A JOKE. Wake the hell up sheeple, and stop drinking the peasant-ade.

 

 
 
You missed the point, I was talking about how GPU power is not there for 4K (nevermind the 12K I want to be playing Star Citizen in) to even push 100-120FPS let alone the 140-150FPS that is mandatory for me to feel "good" about spending $4000+ on GPU's, and $1000+ on CPU. Yeah, I'm spoiled because I can afford to be but that is besides the point here.

 

How can we trust those graphs is the first question?

 

I am I assume you are a Nvidia fanboy, because you call AMD stuff. Be happy that AMD exists otherwise you would be paying twice the price for grapichs cards.

I am no fanboy but I would still buy nvidia as I have it now because I like their software more, But I think Linus have right about the 40 dollar thing.

 

I don't really believe your statment about such high failure rate, since many ppl have R9 290s etc and are happy with them.

 

Your Link is mostly likly a Fanboy site, Nvidia stuffed up that sites ass with money to put graphs like that probably, or some fanboy just was bored...

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Reserved.

 

Still getting a Gtx970...

Hope you didn't do that now after the Nvidia news about the cards.

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Hope you didn't do that now after the Nvidia news about the cards.

I'll still be getting a 970, a 960 looks nice but it's not a big enough jump from my r9 270.

Hopefully nvidia will give us an update on the cards soon

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I'll still be getting a 970, a 960 looks nice but it's not a big enough jump from my r9 270.

Hopefully nvidia will give us an update on the cards soon

http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-Responds-GTX-970-35GB-Memory-Issue here is the nvidia response about this issue.... looks like false advertisment

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http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-Responds-GTX-970-35GB-Memory-Issue here is the nvidia response about this issue.... looks like false advertisment

Read this please: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/297381-nvidia-responds-to-gtx-970-35gb-memory-issue/?p=4038378

 

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That makes it sound like there isn't an issue apart from software failing to recognise more that 3.5gb

I believe that the memory controller is working as intended and not a bug. (I wonder if this actually true? Because if so, Nvidia is going to cop a lot of flack) When designing a large GPU, there will invariably by compromises made. From all indications NVIDIA decided to save time, die size, and power by simplifying the memory controller and crossbar setup. These things have a direct impact on time to market and power efficiency.  NVIDIA probably figured that a couple percentage of performance lost was outweighed by the added complexity, power consumption, and engineering resources that it would have taken to gain those few percentage points back.

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That makes it sound like there isn't an issue apart from software failing to recognise more that 3.5gb

I believe that the memory controller is working as intended and not a bug. (I wonder if this actually true? Because if so, Nvidia is going to cop a lot of flack) When designing a large GPU, there will invariably by compromises made. From all indications NVIDIA decided to save time, die size, and power by simplifying the memory controller and crossbar setup. These things have a direct impact on time to market and power efficiency. NVIDIA probably figured that a couple percentage of performance lost was outweighed by the added complexity, power consumption, and engineering resources that it would have taken to gain those few percentage points back.

Exactly it's working as intended anyway Nvidia missed a marketing ploy here:

"Comes with 4gb total vram(3.5gb vram with a reserved .5gb vram for those times you need more)"

I probably would've been sold by it

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