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I am planning to purchase this for a budget build. I am wondering if this is a good idea? Why are you guys thoughts on it?

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Not enough information available to make an informed decision on it.

 

My GTX 1080 has already been ordered anyway.

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nah, I'm gonna wait to buy a high end GPU, like a 1070 or up

not midrange or low end

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I mean, $200 for VR-ready graphics card... can't go wrong with that

 

I might wait on what NVIDIA's got for GTX 1050/1060, then decide (totally not an NVIDIA fanboy)

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There is not enough info for me. However if it is as good as it sounds, I am going to go from single 960 to dual 480 crossfire :D

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4 minutes ago, AlanAlan said:

I am planning to purchase this for a budget build. I am wondering if this is a good idea? Why are you guys thoughts on it?

Wait for benchmarks. That's all I  (and anyone, for that matter) can tell you right now.

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1 minute ago, TrigrH said:

please tell me u didn't order a founders edition card..

ACX 3.0

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Just now, TrigrH said:

the EVGA SC?

Non-SC. I'm not a fan of factory overclocks if they cost too much extra.

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It's a card that I would crossfire, but I really don't know what card I want, and I need a replacement

 

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1 minute ago, TrigrH said:

then thats a founders edition PCB

So is the SC. I paid like $619 for it as opposed to $700, and the better cooling will give me better boost clocks anyway.

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1 minute ago, Suika said:

So is the SC. I paid like $619 for it as opposed to $700, and the better cooling will give me better boost clocks anyway.

correct :) i would of gone for the FTW at $680 but $619 is a good price for that model.

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Depending on Price in Canada.... may be a good card until a high refresh rate 1440p wide screen or 4K monitor is available for a reasonable price.

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Just now, TrigrH said:

correct :) i would of gone for the FTW at $680 but $619 is a good price for that model.

I wouldn't have taken full advantage of a card like the FTW, so the ACX 3.0 card was good enough for me. Only reason I would have bought it was for the RGB LEDs, lmao.

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8 minutes ago, Suika said:

So is the SC. I paid like $619 for it as opposed to $700, and the better cooling will give me better boost clocks anyway.

Same power limit issue for OC though... but I get you :)

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17 minutes ago, AlanAlan said:

I am planning to purchase this for a budget build. I am wondering if this is a good idea? Why are you guys thoughts on it?

Provided they don't all get dropped by Indians, I think ill get one

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I'm thinking of getting one or maybe two for a cheap secondary rig for gaming as well as mining Ether.

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Waiting for Vega... I hope it does come this year. I want something more powerful than a GTX 1080 and that has HBM2. Also, I don't want an Nvidia card because of driver-nerfing and poor async performance. But at the same time, I don't know if I can keep using a 280x until next year. I might cave and buy a GTX 1080 if one goes on sale in several months, but I really want a high performance card from AMD.

 

I think that AMD is the better graphics tech developer, but with a smaller operating budget and not the aggressive market attitude as Nvidia. AMD's brought us:

 

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I will be long to upgrade in August so I will decide then. We don't have any particular performance results but so far the RX 480 looks like nice upgrade from my GTX 770 so I really like it so far. Will definitely decide after reviews however I would take more expensive RX 490 if it will be available by that time and under $350.

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11 minutes ago, GidonsClaw said:

Same power limit issue for OC though... but I get you :)

They are voltage limited. So far all 1080s have problem to go above 1.25V even under LN2 with custom soldered VRM boards. (Tops at around 2.4GHz).

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24 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

then thats a founders edition PCB

the 1080 uses less than 200W

you dont need massive power delivery like you did on a 780ti or 980ti

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