Amosarthus

I think AMD shot themselves in the foot with the R9 Rebrand Series. I mean, if you're going for a GTX 970-ish card you'd be looking at a GTX 970 because its superior in every way except for VRAM. Think about it. Would you buy a card which has about the same performance but consumes twice the amount of power? No! Except if you already own a pretty baller power supply and don't give two shits about power consumption. AMD's only selling cards will be the Fiji cards. But the flagship doesn't outperform the similarly priced GTX 980Ti (except maybe 4K and DX12 yeah, yeah, I know).
 
Maybe the Fury (non Pro) might be the only selling card since it's $100 less and probably beats the GTX 980, but still. They can't really expect to get any customers with their new cards. For the price/performance guys the card on the table will be the GTX 970. And for absolute performance junkies? GTX980 Ti hands down. I know it's bad for us customers but it's pretty much AMD's fault. They wasted time and resources on useless APUs which no one in their right mind would buy (they market it for gamers for gosh's sake). They've pretty much lost the CPU market, as far as I can tell. And in the past 6 months of them not putting up any new cards to go head-to-head with Maxwell? They've pretty much lost the GPU market as well. All of my friends (even AMD fanboys) bought GTX 970s because the Red Team delivered nothing. And when you wanna game, you ain't gonna wait 6 darned months for AMD to release a new lineup.

Would I buy Fury X or 980Ti?
 
Very good question. Now, we can't assume any feature of either card is identical, because that would be unrealistic, but if drivers, price and performance were VERY similar, I'd still prefer the 980Ti. I'm a big fan of Nvidia's control panel (and I'm more experienced with it), as long as AMD does not provide a clearly better experience. I also like the complementary software better. Geforce Experience, for example, is still superior to gaming evolved in my opinion. I would NEVER let market share be a factor in my decision. Why should I have to give up on certain features I want/I am used to to "help out" a company? Every consumer should base their decisions on their own experience, not to accommodate a company.
 
If everything's equal, I'd prefer Nvidia, based on previous experiences, but I wouldn't stay with them if the AMD equivalent is just better in general. I regularly have someone come to me to ask to pick components for a build. I've recommended a lot of AMD cards in those builds, because they just used to provide a better value at lower price points.
 
Don't get me started on Apple though. Their story just shows how brainwashed people can get by fancy marketing words like "retina". I can't remember how many times I've told an iPhone user that their "retina" screen is actually lower resolution than other flagship phones. (mostly with the iPhone 5, which wasn't even HD). Obviously you won't catch tech savvy people with stuff like this, but many people seem to like the buzz words. Steve Jobs wasn't an innovator, he was good at acting. I own an iPod Touch 3G. Fantastic device, no doubt, but just not worth the price premium.

I am not going to pretend you didn't make some valid points.
 
But I still stick by what I said and that is fine, difference of opinion. I think its awful that people justify the new pricing with saying things like "If you're sitting there saying "Why would I buy a 390x instead of a 290x" my response is "Why haven't you already bought a 290 /290x?" So the 290x was great and I should of bought that? if so what does the 390X offer then? As for the fury not being able to be cut down, I am aware that it cannot be cut down due to the new HBM. That is my point.
 
Moving forward with AMD they have created a beast of a card, that is high end and worthy of a high end price tag. 100%. That said they made choices to go after certain technologies that would result in them not being able to distribute their new chip through their user base from high to lower end, limiting it to high end users only. The lower end users are still left high and dry. As you said they should of bought a 290X... but that hardly justifies AMD bending over possibly new AMD fans. I am not debating the performance of the the 390X, its good... What I am saying is they reached that level with almost drivers alone, very little was done to the card. How is that fine? A 290X user has to have less performance because a 390X needs to be justified at that price? They are essentially charging people for better drivers. And what happens to that performance in 12 months are they still going to work hard on drivers then or are they going to be the same quaility of the 290X, its performance gain could shrink drastically. And if it remains the same good quality how do they justify that to the 200 series users?
 
I can afford a fury, and it did interest me but I am not going to support a company that 1 leaves it lower end fanbase behind and 2 thinks it fine charging more for drivers because that is exactly what they are doing in a bid to be seen as performance company instead of a budget company. Nvidia is not perfect either I switched and their last 3 driver releases have sucked ass TDR problems left right and center people are getting crashes using chrome... CHROME, the 3.5 fiasco sucked... but at the moment I think Nvidia is the lesser of two evils and I felt safest going with them over team red, which sucked because the 7970, my last card was the best card I ever owned... AMD is not the savoir or good guy that people make them out to be. Both companies need a serious readjusting of their values pronto.

Fanboys are bad for markets in general.

AMD needs to learn what efficiency is.
They keep making their steam powered locomotives bigger and bigger in hopes with competing with the bullet train.

Yet I really don't think they should put a blower cooler on a 290x with extra vram (I refuse to call it a 390x it doesn't deserves to be addressed as a new product)

I've tried Razer switches before, and amazingly enough they feel really similar to Cherry switches. One of the biggest issues people have with Kailh switches is their lack of consistency. An entire keyboard with the Kailh switches could potentially all feel different, whereas for Cherry there is more consistency in the feel of the switches throughout the whole board.
I personally do not recommend Razer keyboards, and it isn't only because of their Razer switches. But if you feel that it is the only option you have and the only one you like, then by all means go for it. If you like the feel of the orange switches (I'm assuming you've tested them out already) and that you'll be happy with your purchase, I'd say buy it  
Another thing, it seems Razer is distributed in a lot of countries worldwide, and their products are listed within the options of many mechanical keyboard buyers. I'm guessing with that you will be able to contact Razer customer service easier compared to other mechanical keyboard companies? That is if something does go wrong with a BWU Hopefully it doesn't!

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