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Geforce Titan rumours.

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I am not having a dig at your about getting Titan,however,all the complaining about the HD7900 series original pricing was a bit OTT IMHO at the time it was launched. Like I said they were expensive,but at the time it was pretty much GTX580 level pricing,and it seemed no one was complaining about high GTX580 level pricing. It was all AMD's fault,etc whilst people were obviously still spending good money on GTX580 cards. It takes two to tango.
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Agreed on the complainers of the 7970 pricing at launch and I thought it was fairly priced (and almost bought one).

As I said in a previous post, Titan price is mental. It is a great card but way over priced for what it is. The problem is, I need that power to run 3 screens, In 3DVision. 680's were close and if tri scaling was better... You know the rest.

I have been a big moaner of Nvidia with the 256 bit memory bus at triple screen resolutions and I stand by that. The 680 was gimped and probably was the 660TI but because AMD didn't deliver from the off, Nvidia could charge top dollar for a card that beat the 7970 when the 680 launched. I am not pointing fingers at anybody, but I do wish AMD had the performance of now, back then (if that makes sense).

Look at the 7970 pricing now and it is a fantastic card and the 7950 smacks anything (price per performance) if you have £230 floating about. My brain is saying "Jump on 3*7970's and 3 waterblocks but my heart is saying Titan (I expect a few are like this or similar).

You are a sensible chap and know where I am coming from (like I understand where you are coming from). It would be so easy to justify Titan if it was £500 :(

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Humbug made me chuckle in another thread earlier but I didn't respond, because I was busy, but he said "Amd hold the price per performance crown" I make him right, but I have never heard it put that way before :D (A compliment Humbug in case it gets taken the wrong way).
 
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gregster said:
Agreed on the complainers of the 7970 pricing at launch and I thought it was fairly priced (and almost bought one).

As I said in a previous post, Titan price is mental. It is a great card but way over priced for what it is. The problem is, I need that power to run 3 screens, In 3DVision. 680's were close and if tri scaling was better... You know the rest.

I have been a big moaner of Nvidia with the 256 bit memory bus at triple screen resolutions and I stand by that. The 680 was gimped and probably was the 660TI but because AMD didn't deliver from the off, Nvidia could charge top dollar for a card that beat the 7970 when the 680 launched. I am not pointing fingers at anybody, but I do wish AMD had the performance of now, back then (if that makes sense).

Look at the 7970 pricing now and it is a fantastic card and the 7950 smacks anything (price per performance) if you have £230 floating about. My brain is saying "Jump on 3*7970's and 3 waterblocks but my heart is saying Titan (I expect a few are like this or similar).

You are a sensible chap and know where I am coming from (like I understand where you are coming from). It would be so easy to justify Titan if it was £500 :(
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Yeah,you have pretty demanding requirements,as that is basically twice the number of pixels which needs to be pushed over 2D, AFAIK.

It does make think that even when 4K screens become common,whether most gamers will have to use scaling on the screens.

OTH,at least you should be top of the 3DMark thread! :D:p
 
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I think only you know the answer to that Greg.

If you NEED 3D and you NEED physx then it appears you NEED a pair of Titan's, but you also have to weigh up the flip side with the price. Who knows, the price MAY be worth it when we see some 'official' benchmarks. Lets not forget potential OC headroom too. You'll be spending the best part of £2000 on two cards, with two blocks and two backplates.

I could near guarantee the EVGA cards you NEED to buy (wouldn't take cooler removal chances on any other brand with this kind of card) will not be the basement price ones either :(

You also have to think if Titan is this fast, how fast is a GTX780 going to be? How fast is an HD8970 going to be? You may only get a year out of them before the relative performance becomes obsolete.

Lots of ifs and buts, but for me as a non-3D gamer, I'd take that £2000 spend, put £1200 on 3 x watercooled 7970's and save the other £800 for IB-E later in the year....and possibly avoid having your wife kick you out :p

Your call bud, lots of ifs and buts, just don't rush into a decision as its a big big price for a top end card.
 
pgi947 said:
Lots of ifs and buts, but for me as a non-3D gamer, I'd take that £2000 spend, put £1200 on 3 x watercooled 7970's and save the other £800 for IB-E later in the year....and possibly avoid having your wife kick you out :p

Your call bud, lots of ifs and buts, just don't rush into a decision as its a big big price for a top end card.
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I've been having second thoughts on buying one of these. For the same price i would get myself onto X79 with money to spare for haribo.
The amount of gaming i actually do my little HD4K is more than enough, buying one of these cards for a person like me (120hz, 1080p) its throwing away good money.

Has a UK price actually been released yet? Or still guess work.
 
pgi947 said:
I think only you know the answer to that Greg.

If you NEED 3D and you NEED physx then it appears you NEED a pair of Titan's, but you also have to weigh up the flip side with the price. Who knows, the price MAY be worth it when we see some 'official' benchmarks. Lets not forget potential OC headroom too. You'll be spending the best part of £2000 on two cards, with two blocks and two backplates.

I could near guarantee the EVGA cards you NEED to buy (wouldn't take cooler removal chances on any other brand with this kind of card) will not be the basement price ones either :(

You also have to think if Titan is this fast, how fast is a GTX780 going to be? How fast is an HD8970 going to be? You may only get a year out of them before the relative performance becomes obsolete.

Lots of ifs and buts, but for me as a non-3D gamer, I'd take that £2000 spend, put £1200 on 3 x watercooled 7970's and save the other £800 for IB-E later in the year....and possibly avoid having your wife kick you out :p

Your call bud, lots of ifs and buts, just don't rush into a decision as its a big big price for a top end card.
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Agreed with all of it mate. If I am honest, I made a boo boo gambling with my 680's and flogging them early. Not my first or last mistake though but sense wise, I should have held out. I got a good price for them but that is besides the point.

Looking forward, two Titans will cost me ~£450 each, so when I look at it like that, it doesn't hurt so much.
 
Gregster would crossfire 7970 be enough for you?

I'm selling my 660ti and going 7970 :). there so cheap and powerful I think the upgrade is only going to cost me £50
 
Gibbo mentioned £830 - £900, presumably £830 for the basement cards (palit, zotac etc...) and £900 for the top line (giga, EVGA etc...)
 
pgi947 said:
Gibbo mentioned £830 - £900, presumably £830 for the basement cards (palit, zotac etc...) and £900 for the top line (giga, EVGA etc...)
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I believe we will only see EVGA/Gigabyte and Asus to begin with (not 100% on Gigabyte). Galaxy are included but I believe they are Americans brand.

imginy said:
Gregster would crossfire 7970 be enough for you?

I'm selling my 660ti and going 7970 :). there so cheap and powerful I think the upgrade is only going to cost me £50
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I lose 3D if I go AMD, as my monitors have built in 3DVision 2 bud. It was 3D that got me back into gaming and I would hate to lose it but anything is possible.
 
That's about inline with what we thought.
Without sifting through all the new posts, any idea what these clock like? I remember seeing 1100mhz core somewhere.

If the cards can make that kind of clock 1 card for Greg might actually be enough :D
 
Tonester0011 said:
That's about inline with what we thought.
Without sifting through all the new posts, any idea what these clock like? I remember seeing 1100mhz core somewhere.

If the cards can make that kind of clock 1 card for Greg might actually be enough :D
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1100Mhz+ under air cooling... I expect higher clocks under water. DSR is fantastic :D
 
V3teran said:
I reckon it will retail at £899.
The same as the 690 at release.
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Guess i was right about the price then:p (post 749)

First impressions 1150mhz on air is kinda meh to me as all 690's can hit that without a voltmod.

My 690 goes to 1215 after using kgb tweak fully stable in all games/benchies etc.

Using water would push it up even further but even i think the 690 is not much of a great card to put under water (locked voltage) so im waiting for the next big thing which isnt Titan.

Also reviewers cards are generally cherry picked and oc better than one that you may recieve.

Personally ill wait for Hilberts OC on the Titans before i make my final Judgement.

No matter how good they are still not worth it for me coming from a 690.

However it will be interesting to see how much people can push these under custom water.
 
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