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Geforce Titan rumours.

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
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Sorry,but those prices were not typical of most retailers though,so trying to make the HD7970 look a £500 card,is really trying to be revisionist.

Plenty of cards were around £440 to £460 at many retailers. Early at launch they could be had for around £410 IIRC.

The more expensive cards did not sell well,and remember the criticism then??

Did many of us thought it was expensive for the price,yep. But then again many of us thought the GTX580 was expensive too compared to other cards like the GTX570 and HD6950.

So,the question has to be asked,why were you not complaining why the GTX580 3GB was that price, and why the GTX580 1.5GB was still priced the same as the HD7950 3GB?? Also consider that the GTX580 cards which could do surround gaming also were well above £400,ie,the Galaxy one.

Its funny how people make excuses for Nvidia charging high prices for older cards,and want AMD to undercharge for new ones.

So,perhaps you should whinge at Nvidia for not starting a price war when the HD7900 series launched,especially since 40NM costs were lower anyway. They paid for completed chips with Fermi,unlike now.

In the end,making excuses for Nvidia pricing,is why Geforce Titan costs £800+ it seems and is not nearer to £500 to £600.
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I'm tellin' ya dude if you don't get out the jelly and ice cream and go around patting backs you're going to get it in the neck.
 
I had a look on another site. The GTX580 was not a massive improvement over the GTX480 too and yet at launch was £400 to £430.

I saw little complaining then??

AMD is doomed to be a budget card maker even if they have the fastest cards out.
 
He's being pedantic / sarcastic ^^^^ :p

On a side note, what do you think the chances are of the GTX 7## and Radeon 8### threads not getting this excitable?
 
humbug said:
He's being pedantic / sarcastic ^^^^ :p

On a side note, what do you think the chances are of the GTX 7## and Radeon 8### threads not getting this excitable?
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About the same as Arekgreenman getting funding for any of his "Successful Business Ventures" :p
 
HAha... ^^^

Armageus said:
Lol really hope you are being sarcastic....

All it is is a refresh rate change....
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What are they talking about anyway?

My monitor (LG IPS226) can only do 60Hz, are they claiming that by running Titan i can increase that refresh-rate?
 
Jas1222 said:
How does that work? If my monitors locked at 60Hz, it can't display anything higher due to the hardware.
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All it might be is a vsync option that vsyncs at 80 FPS instead of the same as the monitor. It can't turn a 60hz monitor into an 80hz one.

It really isn't that hard to do, just a few INI hacks.
 
humbug said:
My monitor (LG IPS226) can only do 60Hz, are they claiming that by running Titan i can increase that refresh-rate?
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from what i understand, your monitor can only do 60hz because the driver is recognizing it as a 60hz device

the new driver for the titan can adjust the monitors framerate apparantly

i imagine it like cpus: they ship at a stock speed but some can be sped up with overclocking :)
 
ALXAndy said:
All it might be is a vsync option that vsyncs at 80 FPS instead of the same as the monitor. It can't turn a 60hz monitor into an 80hz one.

It really isn't that hard to do, just a few INI hacks.
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Yes, you can. Monitors can be overclocked to run past their factory settings just like CPUs/GPUs. Doing so obviously isn't great but having the option is also great :)
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
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Sorry,but those prices were not typical of most retailers though,so trying to make the HD7970 look a £500 card,is really trying to be revisionist.

Plenty of cards were around £440 to £460 at many retailers. Early at launch they could be had for around £410 IIRC.

The more expensive cards did not sell well,and remember the criticism then??

Did many of us thought it was expensive for the price,yep. But then again many of us thought the GTX580 was expensive too compared to other cards like the GTX570 and HD6950.

So,the question has to be asked,why were you not complaining why the GTX580 3GB was that price, and why the GTX580 1.5GB was still priced the same as the HD7950 3GB?? Also consider that the GTX580 cards which could do surround gaming also were well above £400,ie,the Galaxy one.

Its funny how people make excuses for Nvidia charging high prices for older cards,and want AMD to undercharge for new ones.

So,perhaps you should complain at Nvidia for not starting a price war when the HD7900 series launched,especially since 40NM costs were lower anyway. They paid for completed chips with Fermi,unlike now,so they really could have made AMD sweat even then.

In the end,making excuses for Nvidia pricing,is why Geforce Titan costs £800+ it seems and is not nearer to £500 to £600.
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I only use here as an example as we are not allowed to mention competitors and as I have bought every computer part except 2 waterblocks from OcUK since 2008, I felt it was relevant.

I am putting it in perspective to justify my purchase and it isn't personal or digging at AMD.

AMD have the 7950 for the guys who want top performance for 1080P and CF for multi screen gaming but what about Tri-Fire and Tri-SLI? Do they scale well?

This is why I am getting Titans. I know 2 will cope nicely because SLI/CF is supported nicely but tri isn't... If it was, I would be all over 3*4GB 680's but you know as well as me that support for tri is abysmal.

As I am a 3 screen 3D gamer, you tell me what I should do to get the best results? Come to think of it, let anyone advise me what to do to get the best results because I can't see anything out that will manage with this setup except Titans.
 
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