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What to do with my GPU; Titan, 690, 670/680 sli or wait...

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spoffle said:
Anyone who really knows their GPU history knows that nVidia are the ones who have the bad track record when it comes to drivers.
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I'm not going on history or on what's published on sites on the web, I'm going on personal experience including problems experienced on work PC's, albeit going back a few years now in the case of work PC's.

It's natural to form opinions based on ones own experiences
 
DarrenM343 said:
I'm not going on history or on what's published on sites on the web, I'm going on personal experience including problems experienced on work PC's, albeit going back a few years now in the case of work PC's.

It's natural to form opinions based on ones own experiences
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I get that, but it works both ways. There's plenty of people who would say the same about nVidia's drivers. There's people on both sides. Me? I can't remember the last driver issue I had that wasn't my own fault (ie, driver recovery due to overclocking) with AMD or nVidia.

I just find it odd that people have this strange opinion of AMD drivers, when the reality is that nVidia's have had the worst issues. It doesn't even matter so much, it's one of those things that has become a truth because uninformed people have repeated it so much.
 
spoffle said:
I get that, but it works both ways. There's plenty of people who would say the same about nVidia's drivers. There's people on both sides. Me? I can't remember the last driver issue I had that wasn't my own fault (ie, driver recovery due to overclocking) with AMD or nVidia.

I just find it odd that people have this strange opinion of AMD drivers, when the reality is that nVidia's have had the worst issues. It doesn't even matter so much, it's one of those things that has become a truth because uninformed people have repeated it so much.
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You just have to learn to ignore it. That's what i do. ;)
 
spoffle said:
Don't you think it's funny that the guy I responded to, comeback with a mature reasoned response, and the person I didn't quote, acts out and has a tantrum again? :p
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I don't want to get involved. :)

You get used to reading about 'AMD issue this' and 'AMD issue that'. Never have any serious issues with an AMD driver since i had a 9200SE 256MB, but maybe I'm just exceptionally lucky. ;)
 
andybird123 said:
you say that, but I was recently convinced to give AMD another try and have had nothing but problems with my laptop and spare machine, so my spare will be getting a 670 from my main machine and my laptop will be a paperweight till I can be bothered to swap that out (or AMD finally release working Enduro / Cryengine 3 drivers)
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While im sorry that you are having issues, my experience so fare with my crossfired sapphire 7950 has been a blast. The issues with drivers so many are yelling and screaming about has not been plaguing me at all. Sure minor issues like idle clock not being correct in some versions but as i said minor.

I could say my experience with nvidia has been unfortunate. Their drivers has been hell at times and splendid at others. Would i say their drivers suck? no. Why?. Because they generally work for most people. The same thing goes with AMDs catalyst. On some specific systems they are gonna crap out but on most they work.

Currently playing Crysis 3 on Very High and having no issues except for a very rare stutter like once a level.

If i had to recommend a gfx i would say 7950 from the amd camp or the 670 from nvidia. Anything above doesnt seem to be worth it from a price/performance view unless your name is the almighty gregster and farts gold(yes i darn envy you *looks at gregster*)
 
Phixsator said:
While im sorry that you are having issues, my experience so fare with my crossfired sapphire 7950 has been a blast. The issues with drivers so many are yelling and screaming about has not been plaguing me at all. Sure minor issues like idle clock not being correct in some versions but as i said minor.

I could say my experience with nvidia has been unfortunate. Their drivers has been hell at times and splendid at others. Would i say their drivers suck? no. Why?. Because they generally work for most people. The same thing goes with AMDs catalyst. On some specific systems they are gonna crap out but on most they work.

Currently playing Crysis 3 on Very High and having no issues except for a very rare stutter like once a level.

If i had to recommend a gfx i would say 7950 from the amd camp or the 670 from nvidia. Anything above doesnt seem to be worth it from a price/performance view unless your name is the almighty gregster and farts gold(yes i darn envy you *looks at gregster*)
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Good post and nice to see the thread get back to decent discussion. Not sure i want to smell said farts though. ;)
 
Phixsator said:
While im sorry that you are having issues, my experience so fare with my crossfired sapphire 7950 has been a blast. The issues with drivers so many are yelling and screaming about has not been plaguing me at all. Sure minor issues like idle clock not being correct in some versions but as i said minor.

I could say my experience with nvidia has been unfortunate. Their drivers has been hell at times and splendid at others. Would i say their drivers suck? no. Why?. Because they generally work for most people. The same thing goes with AMDs catalyst. On some specific systems they are gonna crap out but on most they work.

Currently playing Crysis 3 on Very High and having no issues except for a very rare stutter like once a level.

If i had to recommend a gfx i would say 7950 from the amd camp or the 670 from nvidia. Anything above doesnt seem to be worth it from a price/performance view unless your name is the almighty gregster and farts gold(yes i darn envy you *looks at gregster*)
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If only you knew the begging I had to do with the wife to get them bud, you would pity me :D The one thing you can be sure of though is I work and have done all my adult life. Nothing has ever been given to me and anything I have has been paid for with hard earned cash.

We all deserve a treat or two now and then :)
 
Phixsator said:
While im sorry that you are having issues, my experience so fare with my crossfired sapphire 7950 has been a blast. The issues with drivers so many are yelling and screaming about has not been plaguing me at all. Sure minor issues like idle clock not being correct in some versions but as i said minor.

I could say my experience with nvidia has been unfortunate. Their drivers has been hell at times and splendid at others. Would i say their drivers suck? no. Why?. Because they generally work for most people. The same thing goes with AMDs catalyst. On some specific systems they are gonna crap out but on most they work.

Currently playing Crysis 3 on Very High and having no issues except for a very rare stutter like once a level.

If i had to recommend a gfx i would say 7950 from the amd camp or the 670 from nvidia. Anything above doesnt seem to be worth it from a price/performance view unless your name is the almighty gregster and farts gold(yes i darn envy you *looks at gregster*)
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It just makes me laugh when someone starts a thread favouring one brand and people all feel the need to jump in and defend the opposing brand... If someone posts up a thread favouring AMD I don't bother to post... I am also a bit miffed at having been duped in to buying 2 AMD cards myself only to discover that the "amd drivers are made of kittens and rainbows" brigade were massively misleading me

But at least I have 3 titan's coming on Friday to help cheer me up...
 
andybird123 said:
It just makes me laugh when someone starts a thread favouring one brand and people all feel the need to jump in and defend the opposing brand... If someone posts up a thread favouring AMD I don't bother to post... I am also a bit miffed at having been duped in to buying 2 AMD cards myself only to discover that the "amd drivers are made of kittens and rainbows" brigade were massively misleading me

But at least I have 3 titan's coming on Friday to help cheer me up...
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I don't think he jumped in at all Andy. I think he posted his personal experience and i think he posted it well. He didn't feel the need to slate Nvidia just because he had a bad experience with them when he knows that most do not. The same can and should be said for you, AMD and the issues you had with their drivers, which btw i bet was down to PEBKAC though im sure you will deny it. ;)

Enjoy your titans. :)
 
LtMatt said:
I don't think he jumped in at all Andy. I think he posted his personal experience and i think he posted it well. He didn't feel the need to slate Nvidia just because he had a bad experience with them when he knows that most do not. The same can and should be said for you, AMD and the issues you had with their drivers, which btw i bet was down to PEBKAC though im sure you will deny it. ;)

Enjoy your titans. :)
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He was replying to something i said right at the start of the thread (in response to someone that did jump in on the defensive when the op had already stated no to AMD)

and yes i'm sure that a first install of drivers on a clean install of windows not working totally makes it my fault, and on 2 seperate machines and mirroring the experience of dozens of other people playing the same game, trolling much matt?
 
andybird123 said:
and yes i'm sure that a first install of drivers on a clean install of windows not working totally makes it my fault, and on 2 seperate machines and mirroring the experience of dozens of other people playing the same game, trolling much matt?
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What was the issue you were having?
 
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