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OMG I love my new Nivdia 680

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RetrogamerX said:
I made this topic because after many, many times of having gpu duds, I was amazed when I got a GPU that worked so well in fact I was takin back a little. The word fanboy is a little childish. I remember those days with Sega and Nintendo back in the 16bit days. Any ways It's ok guys I only posted this topic with pure happiness because hey!!! I have a working GPU....and the fact that it happens to be nVidia doesn't matter. I was just so over the moon when every game I threw at it just played amazing well.

So no need for fight over who's better.

Hot damn I have a smooth ass GPU and very happy to shout it out loud!!:D
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Good man plus nice PC btw :).
 
If you have an AMD graphics card with a dual core CPU system you may
experience severe hitching and low frame rates. This has been
identified as a driver problem. We are actively working with AMD on
a solution to this problem.
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This does kind of explain my poor experience with i3 and my HD 7950.
 
The nVidia vs ATi thing is brilliant as the competition keeps both companies on their toes and benefits ALL of us.
 
psychodil said:
I think that quote was years old mate.
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Where??

I had a poor experience with a HD 7950 with framerates dropping to 20 fps or less at times and I use dual core ATM.

This explains why my experience was better with nVidia.

Whats your point?
 
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J.D said:
hahahaha It has been recently but it's making me miserable. Sending back the monitor, keeping the motherboard and CPU although I feel I could go back to my I7 920 @ 4.2Ghz HT with one card no problem at all. Then I'd lose Sata 3 etc so will keep them. 680s will be up on the MM soon too and going back to AMD. I'm just kicking myself that I spent £2000 for BF3 in 3D which although it's cool, well that's all it was, cool. I could bathe in a bath full of Evian to get cool for pennies so erm common sense kicked in and as I had a 6950>70, a 7970 will be fine for me, especially at 1080p.

I never even got to kill you on your server earlier :( (MonkeyLuvver). Too busy restarting failing hearts of fallen comrades :D.
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Ah that was you? I didn't realise i just thought it was some bloke who knew me but i had no idea who he was. :p

To be honest i was too busy kicking ass and taking tags to pay much attention to the chat. :D

You should definitely come and join us on TS mate. Battlefield 3 with banter and voice comms is sooo much better.

Pop on over to the link in my sig. :)
 
psychodil said:
Rroff's quote was quoting problems he experienced years ago when he was a beta tester, unless I've got the wrong end of the stick. I don't think those problems are current.
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The quotes were but I have more recent and older experience, those specific problems may not be current but they are systemic.

EDIT: That dual core thing I quoted was specific to one game its not applicable to dual core and AMD graphic cards (or any other graphics card) in a wider sense.
 
SkodaMart said:
Where??

I had a poor experience with a HD 7950 with framerates dropping to 20 fps or less at times and I use dual core ATM.

This explains why my experience was better with nVidia.

Whats your point?
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Running a dual core cpu with any brand is already putting you at a disadvantage especially in games that are designed to use more than 2 cores. I can't see why nvidia or amd would be any different on a dual core unless nvidia cards need less cpu speed to run better. There's never enough articles testing out this but there have been a few over the years.
 
I bought the i3 as a 'stop gap'

I picked up a B Grade MSi P67A-GD65 for £45 and wanted a cheap CPU to update the BIOS to Ivy.

I have now decided to stick with Sandy and i'm on the lookout for an i7.

The i3 is actually an amazing CPU, the only place it performs poorly is HD video editing 50 @ 50fps :eek:

Hence wanting the i7.
 
SkodaMart said:
I bought the i3 as a 'stop gap'

I picked up a B Grade MSi P67A-GD65 for £45 and wanted a cheap CPU to update the BIOS to Ivy.

I have now decided to stick with Sandy and i'm on the lookout for an i7.

The i3 is actually an amazing CPU, the only place it performs poorly is HD video editing 50 @ 50fps :eek:

Hence wanting the i7.
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Yea Sandy bridge will be fine. My I7 920 @ 4.0ghz is still all you really need for driving single cards. Best cpu by far that i ever bought and should see me through for awhile yet.
 
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tommybhoy said:
You went past my level with your opening line:



Don't try and paint a picture otherwise, I didn't demand anything of yourself, I politely pointed out the fact that AMD users don't wade in with the usual dodgy comments in general and that you could point out threads that proved otherwise.

Easiest thing in the world to drop comments in and walk away, but that's what you usually do in threads like this.
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Ok you have got my interest, demand was maybe a strong word. What I was addressing though is that you asked me to back up what you are saying when in fact to put your point across you should show me.

It is easy to try and get someone else to try and justify your point. If you disagree fine but you show me, not ask me to validate your point.

I did enjoy your little dig of what i usually do, the good old end statement put down. Well done.
 
Out of respect of the request of bickering, I will be brief, you missed what the comment you have issue with was all about:
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Please point out the threads where users kick it all off by stating Nvidia's drivers are ****.
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Nobody needs to look,there is hardly any snide in comparison.

:)

There is not a lot of difference between them, they all do the same thing more or less, retro is delighted and that is the main thing and it should have stayed that way.

At the end of the day, some have a blatant disregard for peoples choice of hardware(that some scrimp and save for), that's what I have issue with.
 
tommybhoy said:
Out of respect of the request of bickering, I will be brief, you missed what the comment you have issue with was all about:


Nobody needs to look,there is hardly any snide in comparison.

:)

There is not a lot of difference between them, they all do the same thing more or less, retro is delighted and that is the main thing and it should have stayed that way.

At the end of the day, some have a blatant disregard for peoples choice of hardware(that some scrimp and save for), that's what I have issue with.
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Ok mate fair point :)
 
tommybhoy said:
At the end of the day, some have a blatant disregard for peoples choice of hardware(that some scrimp and save for), that's what I have issue with.
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The only issue I have is when people try to pass off AMD as having the same level of support as nVidia (dunno why people get so hung up on the driver aspect as most of my posts are pointed at the wider aspect of support that drivers are just one part of).

Tho I've never regarded myself as particularly an expert in the field I'm beginning to think I over-estimate the level of technology awareness of the average poster here and much of what I say is actually going clean over peoples' heads as a result they just think I'm dirtying AMD's name and not seeing the wider scope of what I'm posting about.
 
Recently (Since AMD price drop) nvidia are doing allot of damage control (Lots of threads popping up all over net) to counter AMD because nvidia refuse to drop prices.
 
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