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I have it, if you dont need/want a 980ti, it's great, I would get it over an AMD

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Definitely

Just now, ripper101 said:

Only going to be on 1080p do I think a 980 will be fine 

 

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Just now, ripper101 said:

Only going to be on 1080p do I think a 980 will be fine 

which version are we talking about here? GTX 980 gaming 4G or the one with the reference blower cooler?

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He obviously received a dud, my 970 runs all those games better than that

 

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2 minutes ago, ripper101 said:

The red one with the twin frozer cooler

yeah that's a hell of card it's even faster than an r9 390x and it beat the fury and furyX in many games as well...it's a beastly video card. go for it.

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Just now, thekeemo said:

Get over it.

Brand loyalty gets you nowhere. (at most a free sticker)

Not that I'm be "loyal" to nvidia but I got a MSI r9 390x and it was terribly made (it wasn't defective) so right now I decided to come from a 750ti and try AMD and it got me a leaf blower inside my case so I not very keen on AMD cards right now..

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1 minute ago, ripper101 said:

Not that I'm be "loyal" to nvidia but I got a MSI r9 390x and it was terribly made (it wasn't defective) so right now I decided to come from a 750ti and try AMD and it got me a leaf blower inside my case so I not very keen on AMD cards right now..

You do realize that you are buying a card with a nearly identical cooler right? (Only place build quality changes)

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7 minutes ago, ripper101 said:

Exept it's a lot harder to disapate 135 more watts of heat 

Which is why and GPUs are built to withstand higher temps..

But what does have to do with build quality?

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Just now, ripper101 said:

A direct rebrand of the Hawaii gpu which to begin with is very hot 

It has been refreshed with more advanced silicon which lowers temps and allows flr high clocks. Like 4770k vs 4790k. Why build a new GPU when the one you have is very competitive? And again what does that have to do with build quality?

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3 minutes ago, thekeemo said:

It has been refreshed with more advanced silicon which lowers temps and allows flr high clocks. Like 4770k vs 4790k. Why build a new GPU when the one you have is very competitive? And again what does that have to do with build quality?

It didn't improve heat by anything haha.. I don't know why people don't admit it's a 290x gpu squeezed to death with higher core clock speed right to the edge. The cooler which is on it therefor inacting as build quality.

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Just now, ripper101 said:

It didn't improve heat by anything haha.. I don't know why people don't admit it's a 290x gpu squeezed to death with higher core clock speed right to the edge. The cooler which is on it therefor inacting as build quality.

The 290x could not achieve the same core or memory clocks.

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1 hour ago, thekeemo said:

A R9 fury will rek it for the same price but not a 390

maybe he meant a 390x which would make sense

The 980 and the R9 Fury are sorta in the same tier when you overclock the 980, so I wouldnt really say "rekt" it. Tell me if you need benchmarks/test, ill gladly provide :D!

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Just now, ivryk said:

 

The 980 and the R9 Fury are sorta in the same tier when you overclock the 980, so I wouldnt realyl say "rekt" it.

Overclocking is not guaranteed.

The R9 fury can be overclocked (though on average not as much)

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Just now, thekeemo said:

Overclocking is not guaranteed.

The R9 fury can be overclocked (though on average not as much)

It is not guaranteed yes, but most of the 980 benchmarks are reference 980s going up to 1212~1250mhz core, when you can easily get 1400~1500 on pretty much all the 980s.

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1 minute ago, ivryk said:

It is not guaranteed yes, but most of the 980 benchmarks are reference 980s going up to 1212~1250mhz core, when you can easily get 1400~1500 on pretty much all the 980s.

Not really no. http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=04G-P4-2981-KR. Look at the non SE 980s

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2 minutes ago, thekeemo said:

Not really no. http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=04G-P4-2981-KR

Dont really know what you trying to prove there? Anyways, do you know how gpu boost works? my 980 Hybrid says 1291~1393 ( EVGA spec sheets) but it boost up to 1455mhz out of the box.

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Just now, ivryk said:

Dont really know what you trying to prove there? Anyways, do you know how gpu boost works? my 980 Hybrid says 1291~1393 ( spec sheets) but it boost up to 1455mhz withotu me OC'ing.

So you get an extra 60mhz than the spec sheet with watercooling? 

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