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Yea...I was using 12.4 for like forever, until I bought Guild Wars 2 which then I updated to 12.8.
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7950 vs 660 ti
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AMD changed the way they released their drivers around that time, which as we've seen produced superb results in terms of performance and fps gains.
Its a shame they weren't using those drivers but hey what can you do. would have been nice to compare current day performance though.
I wouldn't be too happy with those prices. This is a lower mid-range card. The kind that would be quite a bit under £150 in previous generations.
I agree totally Matt. Maybe one of you AMD owners should do a bench for a few games. I would love to see some crossfire results and see how they compare to SLI.
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I get what you are saying. It took nearly 9 months for the 7850 and 7870 to price drop to the launch price of the 6850 and 6870 respectively...7850 and 7870 should have been dropped to at least £130 and £160 by now...(comparing to 6850 dropped to £120 and 6870 dropped to £150 back then).
Don't forget that done the numbers different on the 6 series
Thats quite a bit cheaper than the 660ti any idea how it performs?
As long as it beats the gtx 570 I would say that's an ok price.
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That is not a factor as all, as the labeling method for 6000 series and 7000 series are the same, except that the pricing for the 7000 series is hugely inflated.
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Do you bang on as much when you fill up the car in comparison to yesteryears pricing?
Your worse than the missus.
Right now you can get a 7850 IceQ X and 3 free games=£150-£68, all the way to the 7970 with free game=£300-£30.
Seriously don't know how some folk are still banging on about pricing, yes launch prices were dreadful, pricing alongside Nvidias equivalent price points, but your not buying yesterday, your buying now.
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No offense, but I'm not an individual who's masochistic that take pleasure in enjoy the ridiculous inflation in price with just moving one gen and moaning "Hit me! Hit me with another £50 price rise please"Do you bang on as much when you fill up the car in comparison to yesteryears pricing?
Your worse than the missus.
Right now you can get a 7850 IceQ X and 3 free games=£150-£68, all the way to the 7970 with free game=£300-£30.
Seriously don't know how some folk are still banging on about pricing, yes launch prices were dreadful, pricing alongside Nvidias equivalent price points, but your not buying yesterday, your buying now.
As for petrol price, I think we all know that us UK folks are getting screwed over on the tax, rather than the petrol itself...But yea you are right I forgotten to take the free games into account...but I honestly don't know how you work out those free games to equal £68...Sleep Dogs worth £30 (and pretty sure it worth less on the market with the cards giving them away for free), Dirt worth may be £10 on resell value, and Nexus worth £3 (think Steam had it on sale for £2.75).
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£15 to £20 for the Steam codes last time I checked on the famous auction site.
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Yea I knew I over-estimated. Was just saying £30 based on retail price, not to sureon the MM or auction site pricing.
Actualy most proper reviewers do retest with new drivers.
Nvidia drivers also improve over time, just not as much as AMD's have.
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So in resale terms £68 is a gross over estimation Tommy
Everyone assuming they are for resale?
Just bought the His 7950 package, never had any of the titles in it apart from a Nexuis key that I'm not going to use.
I have just received £80 worth of games-gratis.
Yes guys, we all now the worth, but since OcUK's selling base probably doesn't quite depend on member sales, I thought you all would have realised I'm talking about your 'average joe' in regards to street price for the games.
Most 'average joe's' just search the net to find the specific cards they are looking for and when they come across the price/bundle then check the likes of steam to see how much the games cost then it's £68 worth of titles in the package.
Everyone assuming they are for resale?
Just bought the His 7950 package, never had any of the titles in it apart from a Nexuis key that I'm not going to use.
I have just received £80 worth of games-gratis.
Yes guys, we all now the worth, but since OcUK's selling base probably doesn't quite depend on member sales, I thought you all would have realised I'm talking about your 'average joe' in regards to street price for the games.
Most 'average joe's' just search the net to find the specific cards they are looking for and when they come across the price/bundle then check the likes of steam to see how much the games cost then it's £68 worth of titles in the package.
They're only worth as much as they're being sold for
They don't mate. Unless there's an ad-hoc review *most* reviewers use the original review of the card if that card is being used as a comparison point on a newer cards initial review.
As I said, it's a large time/money sink to re-review something when the only difference is new drivers.
Not saying it doesn't happen or anything like that - it just isn't the 'norm' due to the above mentioned point. This is why user benchmarks are decent tools when we're months into a cards life like we are now with most of AMD's/nVidia's top end cards.
I bought my new MOBO and GPU at the same time, as a result i got 2 Nexuiz Games.
I still have one sitting here, have not activated the Key, don't know what to do with it.
[Edit] then why is it the reviews i look at always use updated driver every time they have a new review. Its the first thing i look at, using old drivers sends my cursor immediately to the rex x.
I still have one sitting here, have not activated the Key, don't know what to do with it.
[Edit] then why is it the reviews i look at always use updated driver every time they have a new review. Its the first thing i look at, using old drivers sends my cursor immediately to the rex x.
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