knowing me i'll probably buy one anyway and regret it when bills come knocking
That's a relief, I thought it was only me with that illness
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Next-Gen NVIDIA and AMD GPUs Delayed to Q4 2013
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That's a relief, I thought it was only me with that illness
Im tempted but I need to see the specs and reviews first. Temps and SLI scaling are going to be important, also the real performance needs to be at least 30% better than a GTX 680 so that the Titan won't get trumped as soon as the GTX 7 series hits the shelves.
Temps are going to be really important, we don't want a modern day GTX 480 ie ones fine, twos company and threes an extremely hot crowd.
Not interested in the slightest in Titan at the moment, because We don't know anything about it.
Maybe when there is some hard facts, like a release date, price and specs, then I might think about it.
I have a 680 at the moment.
You would be happy paying £700 for a 30% improvement? I don't know what the final price will be or what the performance will be, but if it's only 30% then it is definitely not worth the money.
I would be disappointed if the 7 series isn't at least 30% faster than the 680.
For me to pay £700 it would have to be at least 50% faster than the 680. It also would have to highly overclockable and no voltage locks either.
It will be very unlikely that the performance of the 7 series will be anywhere near 30% better than the 6 series - we are not dealing with a die shrink here.
True, but We are deaing with a very tough transition to 28nm that both Nvidia and AMD had troubles with. Neither company got the expected boosts in performance this round that a die shrink normally brings.
That's why I am expecting and hoping for a bigger performance jump than normal for the next round of cards from both companies. I think there is a lot of performance still to be got from both Kepler and GCN.
But, I really don't know, it's just my opinion.
And I wouldn't expect the 7 series to be £700 either but with Nvidia, don't count that out
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Perfect - my next upgrade is due Dec 2013!
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Well, just went 680 SLI and not sure where Titan will sit with regard to matching that - no way I will even consider an upgrade until the next wave of GPUs...
Well gaming at 60hz is not exactly smooth these days and i still would never touch crossfire/sli for the same reasons so i would very much need/use a titan with 690 performance to start playing games at 120fps.
Thats where the target playable fps should have been until LCD's came along and destroyed image quality and smoothness.Crysis 3 and even BF3 could very much use titan for 120fps.With the XE conversion it came out at £550 for $899 which is not bad but we are never going to get a titan for £550 when they can withhold and milk you for 680 SLI at £700.
IMHO they should fix thier crappy bloated drivers first as thier dpc latency is poor and murdering the DXAPI everytime i run lateoncymon its number one NVdisp and the DX api as the slowest in the system by sometimes over 4x as slow as other drivers!
Thats where the target playable fps should have been until LCD's came along and destroyed image quality and smoothness.Crysis 3 and even BF3 could very much use titan for 120fps.With the XE conversion it came out at £550 for $899 which is not bad but we are never going to get a titan for £550 when they can withhold and milk you for 680 SLI at £700.
IMHO they should fix thier crappy bloated drivers first as thier dpc latency is poor and murdering the DXAPI everytime i run lateoncymon its number one NVdisp and the DX api as the slowest in the system by sometimes over 4x as slow as other drivers!
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My first PC is an Apple II.
Then a 386->486->(my computing dark age)->Pentium II -> Centrino/Core 2 Duo (laptops) -> Sandy Bridge
During my PC dark age, I lived through the Pentium generation with a 486. I played Quake on it. FPS was really SPF for me. On the other hand, I was forced to do more useful/interesting things than just gaming.
Then a 386->486->(my computing dark age)->Pentium II -> Centrino/Core 2 Duo (laptops) -> Sandy Bridge
During my PC dark age, I lived through the Pentium generation with a 486. I played Quake on it. FPS was really SPF for me. On the other hand, I was forced to do more useful/interesting things than just gaming.
This isn't good news for me unfortunately. I was holding out on getting a 7950/7970 as I have a 6950 and waiting for a 8950 (or equivalent). However this may change my mind considering how cheap the 7950s are getting right now. Or then again I could wait until the 8XXX series is released and pick up a 7970 for cheap when prices fall and people start flogging them to upgrade.
Or you could buy a 7950 now, and then pair that up with another, when the prices drop for some crossfire. If you don't have any issues with crossfire that is.
My PSU isn't high enough wattage to support 7950 crossfire and although that would be a good option I think I'd prefer going for a single card for compatibility reasons.
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i am running 2 x 6950 2gigs in crossfire mode and they can still handle anything i throw at them on max detail, going to stay put until the next gen of cards 
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[TW]Fox;23685532 said:
The GTX 580 came out in October 2010 and held the crown for nVidia untill February 2012 for nVidia... and still today it gives GeForce GTX 660 and 660Ti's a good run for their money.
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