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300 series are graphics cards not cpus. There will undoubtedly be a 300 series card that is similar in price to the 970. The question is will it perform better, which we won't know for sure until we have more info. AMD has been really closed-lipped about it so not much to say. If anything, even if you buy a 970 the price might drop due to the 300 series release. You probably want to get an intel processor, the 4790k is very popular but if you're on a budget the 4690k will work fine.

From experience, a single good 970 is more than enough for 1080p 60 fps in most everything. When prices go down on 4k monitors, 4k content becomes even more common, and the price of a second 970 goes down you could buy a second one to sli for likely pretty decent 4k. That said, unless you really need it now, I would wait until amd announces the 300 series details because those could be better, especially at crossfire + 4k later on. Rumor mill increasing points towards about a month from now.

Personally I use a ssd for os and small files, with a hdd for mass storage. Just redirecting steam/origin installs and browser downloads to the hdd is super super easy, and no way I could fill a 250gb ssd without installing games on it.

Seems to be the key driving factor here. If you actually want to out do your clearly incredibly spoiled friends, out do them while spending far less through being computer savvy instead of how much money your parents can give you. How much money your parents have doesn't make you special, being smart makes you special.

Aside from the part where they won't actually do what they agree to, and all their other bs. Five years to get 25/3 is not acceptable. I totally understand that, if they actually did it, it would take years to actually reach 100% 25/3. But the main thing is that 25/3 is what we need now, 5 years from now we will need higher down, likely much higher upload. Basically California is saying we want you to be 5 years behind minimum everywhere, which if you are literally talking almost 100% coverage, is reasonable. But they should be expected to have much greater than 25/3 for 80% of people. They will just use this as an excuse to not upgrade like they should be in high density areas they are the monopoly in. Or even more likely, upgrade well beyond 25/3 to save upgrade costs in the long run, but only provide customers 25/3 unless they pay tons of money. Then later when the requirements go up, unlock the faster speeds.

It isn't necessarily just about which is "more powerful" though. Haven't played the game since the beta so I don't know, but from other mmos availability matters just as much as potential power. In other words, if its a pain in the butt to make the potions that are more powerful than bought ones, just their existence doesn't make the bought ones ok. I do look forward to being able to try it out again. But I don't have high hopes for it being fun to play based on all the reviews of the gameplay, regardless of if the b2p model is implemented well or not.

They do have an obligation to their customers though. It doesn't matter how the gpu was designed, the problem was not communicating with customers correct info on what they were purchasing.

It seems to me like everyone is placing blame only on nvidia, when the AIBs had to have known just as well before release. At the very least they they do QA on their products and would have wondered why the last .5gb is slow. Especially for ones that did a custom pcb. So seems to me like there were a lot more people in the know about the vram then just nvidia engineers. Reference board vs Gigabyte board I'm not an expert on graphics cards so am I right or wrong in assuming this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gLJL4BHgl0 "small exposure"