anyone actually bought a 6990?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Slightly surprised you haven't seen this - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18236540

The reason why he got a free 6990 is explained.

Do you want the short version? 66 pages is rather a lot to get through.

I hadn't seen that thread! Thanks!

If you could give me the short version I would be grateful!!

 

[stulid]

Guy plays games with his chin.

buys a game that has rubbish key binding options.

starts a online petition to get a patch released, a few thousand people sign up.

patch for the game is released to allow better key binding options, in the mean time the thread is shown to many high end industry peeps, Gareth receives a free 6990 from AMD/OCUK

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Guy plays games with his chin.

buys a game that has rubbish key binding options.

starts a online petition to get a patch released, a few thousand people sign up.

patch for the game is released to allow better key binding options, in the mean time the thread is shown to many high end industry peeps, Gareth receives a free 6990 from AMD/OCUK

Thanks!!

Excellent result BTW!!

 

[cammy5477]

Lets face it, they were most likely idiots with too much money. Somebody needs to help them by taking the money off their hands

Anyone would buy 6950 x-fire instead unless they had a good reason not to.

if it came down in price by £100.....id buy it and get it under water for quite power...and im not an idiot

 

[Muel]

If I ever meet someone who's spent the price of a high-end gaming desktop on a single graphics card, I'll rob his ass.

Then I'll use the card for awesome triple monitor gaming

£600 for high-end? If you ask me that's very much low-mid-end money. My system has cost around 1k now, and I wouldn't call it high end. It's got an old 965BE C2, 4gb of RAM at 1333mhz, and a pair of 5830s.

I'd say it's around half to a third of a high-end desktop.

 

[Martini1991]

Guy plays games with his chin.

buys a game that has rubbish key binding options.

starts a online petition to get a patch released, a few thousand people sign up.

patch for the game is released to allow better key binding options, in the mean time the thread is shown to many high end industry peeps, Gareth receives a free 6990 from AMD/OCUK

Petition wasn't made by Gareth, but rather for console games by another disabled gamer, but one who games by console.

 

[Jacky60]

£600 for high-end? If you ask me that's very much low-mid-end money. My system has cost around 1k now, and I wouldn't call it high end. It's got an old 965BE C2, 4gb of RAM at 1333mhz, and a pair of 5830s.

I'd say it's around half to a third of a high-end desktop.

+1 My rig cost more like £2000 and £500 would buy my PSU, case and memory.
A high end gaming PC without a decent graphics card will still cost way more than £500