Evga is having a killer sale

[kuramakitsune]

http://www.evga.com/articles/01029/evga-17th-anniversary-sale/

980ti is down to $400
the 980ti evga hybrid cooler is $429
the clasified 980ti acx 2.0 is $389
Gtx970 down to $229

[NinjaJc01]

It really is a madness sale, huh. I think this must be the only time a retail has made honest claims.

[kuramakitsune]

2 minutes ago, NinjaJc01 said:

It really is a madness sale, huh. I think this must be the only time a retail has made honest claims.

a 980ti hybrid for 429?

thats pretty cool if you ask me

cheap 970 almost at 199

[NinjaJc01]

2 minutes ago, kuramakitsune said:

a 980ti hybrid for 429?

thats pretty cool if you ask me

I never said it wasn't. If I were in the US, I'd have spent $429 by now.

[kuramakitsune]

3 minutes ago, NinjaJc01 said:

I never said it wasn't. If I were in the US, I'd have spent $429 by now.

never said, you never said lol

 

i think evga is just ahead of the curve.

they are liquidating their older stock before anyone else

i think they smell fear that no one will buy a  lower end nvidia pretty fast

[App4that]

Damn, that's tempting...

[kuramakitsune]

3 minutes ago, App4that said:

Damn, that's tempting...

almost 200 to sli my 970.....

 

or wait and grab a 1080ti whenever it rears its ugly head....

 

i think even a 1080 will beat 970 sli handily tho..

 

upgrading my gpu is sorta a chore cos of the waterblocks...

so i really wanna just go Big.

[App4that]

1 minute ago, kuramakitsune said:

almost 200 to sli my 970.....

 

or wait and grab a 1080ti whenever it rears its ugly head....

 

i think even a 1080 will beat 970 sli handily tho..

I have a 980ti Hybrid, in SLI I'd beat a 1080ti. Way too tempting.

[kuramakitsune]

2 minutes ago, App4that said:

I have a 980ti Hybrid, in SLI I'd beat a 1080ti. Way too tempting.

for 430 usd a hybrid is pretty nutz

thing used to be what $800?

[totjup5]

6 minutes ago, App4that said:

I have a 980ti Hybrid, in SLI I'd beat a 1080ti. Way too tempting.

At least until Nvidia starts to nerf the 900 series in driver support sadly...

[kuramakitsune]

3 minutes ago, totjup5 said:

At least until Nvidia starts to nerf the 900 series in driver support sadly...

my buddie had an old 8800gtx back in the day,

and we both swear up and down, 

nvidia pushed a driver update when the card "got too old"

that disabled the fan above 80%

 

tldr the card melted in a spectacular fashion 

 

 

on MY cards, the 670,

i REGULARLY used the trans-coding functions

for gpu acceleration

 

random update later,

oh we removed that feature .... 

[App4that]

2 minutes ago, totjup5 said:

At least until Nvidia starts to nerf the 900 series in driver support sadly...

That is just an urban legend. Nvidia does not nerf their own cards, that would be stupid. They do drop off support but so does AMD. People think otherwise because AMD has been running the same architecture for years, they've just rebranded it. Watch what happens to Hawaii and the Furys now that Polaris is here. Nothing AMD should feel bad about, drivers cost money. 

[totjup5]

3 minutes ago, App4that said:

That is just an urban legend. Nvidia does not nerf their own cards, that would be stupid. They do drop off support but so does AMD. People think otherwise because AMD has been running the same architecture for years, they've just rebranded it. Watch what happens to Hawaii and the Furys now that Polaris is here. Nothing AMD should feel bad about, drivers cost money. 

That's why my post said nerf them in driver support not nerf them with drivers.

[kuramakitsune]

4 minutes ago, App4that said:

That is just an urban legend. Nvidia does not nerf their own cards, that would be stupid. They do drop off support but so does AMD. People think otherwise because AMD has been running the same architecture for years, they've just rebranded it. Watch what happens to Hawaii and the Furys now that Polaris is here. Nothing AMD should feel bad about, drivers cost money. 

what about my examples?

 

nvidia said

use the old outdated driver

or go buy a new gpu if you want to use gpu acceleration 

[App4that]

1 minute ago, totjup5 said:

That's why my post said nerf them in driver support not nerf them with drivers.

That's not nerfing though, learn the term. The driver would have to lower the performance of the card for it to be nerfing. My Vapor X burnt up in my rig because AMD shipped a driver after the 390 launched that stuck the fan speed at 20%. Was AMD trying to kill my 290 so that I'd get a 390? No  They made a mistake, people make those from time to time. Things get randomly disabled with drivers, once the problem is found its fixed. 

[kuramakitsune]

4 minutes ago, App4that said:

That's not nerfing though, learn the term. The driver would have to lower the performance of the card for it to be nerfing. My Vapor X burnt up in my rig because AMD shipped a driver after the 390 launched that stuck the fan speed at 20%. Was AMD trying to kill my 290 so that I'd get a 390? No  They made a mistake, people make those from time to time. Things get randomly disabled with drivers, once the problem is found its fixed. 

in the case of the 8800gtx

and most all cards thereafter

they removed the ability to manually set a 100% fan speed.

now 80% max. manual

because they say that people dont want the sound to be so loud...

 

which ended up burning the card to death.

[App4that]

3 minutes ago, kuramakitsune said:

what about my examples?

 

nvidia said

use the old outdated driver

or go buy a new gpu if you want to use gpu acceleration 

Read my post. My 290 burnt up in my rig because of a AMD driver, then had the compass broken in Fallout 4 because of a driver, which was fixed weeks before the 290 on the 390 even though they can use the same driver. If I used the 390 driver on my 290 the compass worked.

 

Drivers get effed up and features get dropped. How things work no matter who you buy from.

[App4that]

1 minute ago, kuramakitsune said:

in the case of the 8800gtx

and most all cards thereafter

they removed the ability to manually set a 100% fan speed.

because they say that people dont want the sound to be so loud...

 

which ended up burning the card to death.

So? Both companies do it. Are you going to stop gaming because you might get a bad driver? Or buy the latest card constantly out of fear? Dude. Chill. Shit happens.

[kuramakitsune]

5 minutes ago, App4that said:

Read my post. My 290 burnt up in my rig because of a AMD driver, then had the compass broken in Fallout 4 because of a driver, which was fixed weeks before the 290 on the 390 even though they can use the same driver. If I used the 390 driver on my 290 the compass worked.

 

Drivers get effed up and features get dropped. How things work no matter who you buy from.

sony dropped the other os feature from the ps3

and they just lost a class action lawsuit because of it...

 

if it is something that your system uses.

and you purchased that part because of said feature.

and they remove it.

thats messed up.

 

 

id much prefer them changing the DEFAULT fan curves

but not FORCING me to never be over 80% fan speed if thats my choice

[App4that]

2 minutes ago, kuramakitsune said:

sony dropped the other os feature from the ps3

and they just lost a class action lawsuit because of it...

 

if it is something that your system uses.

and you purchased that part because of said feature.

and they remove it.

thats messed up.

No shit it's messed up  But that's how things go. People jump back and forth because both companies do it and nothing gets fixed. But it's nothing worth worrying over since 99% is fixed with custom bios.

[kuramakitsune]

2 minutes ago, App4that said:

No shit it's messed up  But that's how things go. People jump back and forth because both companies do it and nothing gets fixed. But it's nothing worth worrying over since 99% is fixed with custom bios.

people started hacking their own firmwares

to add back in the cuda support for gpu acceleration

and even to change back their 100% fans

[App4that]

1 minute ago, kuramakitsune said:

people started hacking their own firmwares

to add back in the cuda support for gpu acceleration

and even to change back their 100% fans

Now you get it. You have to watch both Radeon and Nvidia like a hawk, why I don't use the GFE. We're PC gamers, we take responsibility for our hardware or pay the price. 

[totjup5]

14 minutes ago, App4that said:

That's not nerfing though, learn the term. The driver would have to lower the performance of the card for it to be nerfing. My Vapor X burnt up in my rig because AMD shipped a driver after the 390 launched that stuck the fan speed at 20%. Was AMD trying to kill my 290 so that I'd get a 390? No  They made a mistake, people make those from time to time. Things get randomly disabled with drivers, once the problem is found its fixed. 

Not supporting them with new drivers so that they don't perform as well in new games as they otherwise could is a form of nerfing, even if it's isn't intentional.

[App4that]

5 hours ago, totjup5 said:

Not supporting them with new drivers so that they don't perform as well in new games as they otherwise could is a form of nerfing, even if it's isn't intentional.

No, it's not  

 

When Doom came out did AMD nerf their cards by not having drivers? Or how about AMD not supporting the version of Open GL that has given Nvidia the edge in Doom? 

 

I've owned both remember. When games ran like ass and I had AMD I heard the same thing over and over again. Wait for the driver. And when the driver sucked, it was wait for the next one. Months of waiting if I was lucky to have a game perform properly. So was AMD gimping my 390? 

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

An Evga thread ends up in an AMD vs Nvidia driver debate 

 

6 hours ago, App4that said:

I have a 980ti Hybrid, in SLI I'd beat a 1080ti. Way too tempting.

 

Com'on. What are you waiting for?