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Pretty sure the 4870x2 was cheaper than two 1GB 4870's.
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[PCWORLD] AMD provides a sneak peek at its Radeon HD 7990
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Pretty sure the 4870x2 was cheaper than two 1GB 4870's.
I paid around £390 for mine, or was it £335...can't remember.
I think with vat and delivery it about £390, so iirc, that was a little cheaper than two 4870's?
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Because
it
is
a
Multi-GPU
Solution.
For people who care not, it's not an issue. But MANY people do not like or want a SLI/CF/Multi-GPu configuration because it is not worth the hassle. This is WHY people will not buy it over Titan. It's been said so many times already.
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I paid around £390 for mine, or was it £335...can't remember.
I think with vat and delivery it about £390, so iirc, that was a little cheaper than two 4870's?
I paid 350 for mine.
gotta get me one of these ''Arse II'' cards. Sounds immense.
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Yeah I read the Ass Arse II is the ****.
Fair play and you kind of contradict yourself in the post after mine but let's not go there
YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK HD 7990 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £719.99
Total : £731.39 (includes shipping : £9.50).
That is the price for a 7990 that OcUK have for sale (and a stonking card/good price). It is when you compare the 7990 (not a fair comparison but hey ho) to the Titan and you can see that Titan isn't so badly priced. A single card solution is always the better option for simple things like noise/power/support/heat, so for this, I can see why people would buy either a 690/7990/Titan. You can't dismiss those issues and I know my leg gets toasty warm after a few hours of gaming.
The 7990 has an average performance increase of 19% over a single Titan. The Titan has 6GB of VRAM (and I know you love a bit of VRAM) and you can add a further 3 Titans, where you can only add 1 more 7990. You know as well as I do that 19% translates into very few frames per second.
Now after CF/SLI, it does get a little bit meh with scaling and you need some serious overclocks on a high end CPU to stop the bottleneck.
This is me looking outside the box from a complete neutral POV and money not being an object.
There's no contradiction when I stated that pricing gripes are different to what people want to pay.
If you have a gripe on the flak Nvidia's getting regarding pricing, send a mail off to Nvidia instead of pulling me up on it when I mention what you can get for more or less half the price.
Iv'e said time and time again to enjoy what you have bud as you need all you can get on your res, but most here aren't running what your running, the majority are@1080p with a little more moving up to 1440p.
The 7990 isn't worth the price to me either, if you took notice of my post to matt.
The point of the post to matt was to point out what can be had for less cash outlay that he maybe didn't think of, he might not want the hassle of changing, but he might not have realised either.
Titan/690/7990 are not worth the cash outlay/premium on a personal level as it brings less to the table for me.
They are all overpriced for me bringing with it the limitation of nothing to use if one of my 7950's needs sent back(outwith a single Titan).
£450 v's £900:
(please don't take it as a personal put down, I can't help it if you have the fastest gpu@OcUK
)I realise that's benchmarks, but it's an indication of power, in most gaming bm's here, my 7950's are there or there abouts in my games that I play and I'm not going to throw hundreds extra for scant few fps here or there.
I bet you there's a few here that will be thankful for the insight if they don't have any issue with dual gpu's.
It's a pity though as it's taken as slight from others.
Easy Tiger!!!
Don't make this thread personal to you like Weehamish did in every thread. You need to step out of owning either and look from a complete neutral POV like I have and see the benfits of of everything. We are old hands with CF/SLI and for people like LtMatt who can only run a single card, the 7990/Titan is ideal. It all depends on how deep the pockets are to what can be bought/justified.
Don't make this thread personal to you like Weehamish did in every thread. You need to step out of owning either and look from a complete neutral POV like I have and see the benfits of of everything. We are old hands with CF/SLI and for people like LtMatt who can only run a single card, the 7990/Titan is ideal. It all depends on how deep the pockets are to what can be bought/justified.
It would be tough for me to part with my msi 7970 oc. It would be like giving away one of your children. However this 7990 would be an ideal card for me with my system. But it depends on the pricing and how much id get for my golden clocking 7970.
Tommys advice about the 7950's was good but im a 7970 man through and through. Whatever that means. So its either stick with this till 8970 or a 79990 depending on the price. If its as Locky hopes at £499 then i will hope to get it.
Tommys advice about the 7950's was good but im a 7970 man through and through. Whatever that means.
So its either stick with this till 8970 or a 79990 depending on the price. If its as Locky hopes at £499 then i will hope to get it.Or you could just get a new motherboard so you aren't handicapped in future. Decent Z77 board with 8x/8x will set you back £100-120 which is pretty decent. Socket 1155 is obviously being phased out now but unless you're upgrading your CPU it would give you an option for the future.
I could but again ive become quite attached to my motherboard as well. 
Things work really well for me at the moment in terms of over clocking, performance etc. I get attached to my parts (and my private parts if im honest ) so i don't tend to change things around that often. (excluding my Accelero fiddling of course but that's different. 
) I'm also very familiar with my parts asnd how they work in terms of voltages required etc.
I expect this card will come out with the new drivers in June (or was it July? I forget) and will no doubt bring more performance with it. I'm predicting 10% minimum.
Things work really well for me at the moment in terms of over clocking, performance etc. I get attached to my parts (and my private parts if im honest ) so i don't tend to change things around that often. (excluding my Accelero fiddling of course but that's different. ) I'm also very familiar with my parts asnd how they work in terms of voltages required etc.I expect this card will come out with the new drivers in June (or was it July? I forget) and will no doubt bring more performance with it. I'm predicting 10% minimum.
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I know it's multi-gpu solution but there will be a fix in the upcoming drivers for any kind of stuttering/latency issues. Also it may have a built in fix like the 690 that doesn't suffer from microstuttering.
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Love you guys.
I'm more of a puppy greg, but there's really no need to put me in the same bracket as weehamish.
Am I meant to walk away when I'm portrayed as griping on pricing???
I have only responded in regards to direct quoting of my posts and simply pointing out/offering advice on what can be had if you spend wisely it's up to each individual who wants to or not.
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a whole nother 72 generations before an upgrade? you must really love that 7970
I have only responded in regards to direct quoting of my posts and simply pointing out/offering advice on what can be had if you spend wisely it's up to each individual who wants to or not.
I like the way that your advice always comes tinged with statements based entirely on your own point of view, totally ignoring the wants or needs of anyone else as being irrelevant to the conversation
Negative. Microstuttering is only a tiny part of the problem anyway.
SLI/CF will always be plagued with compatibility, scaling and game release problems for the foreseeable future.
Multi GPU is and will always present some risk.
Until Multi-GPU is not plagued with any issues and is on par with Single GPU solutions I will likely NEVER touch Multi-GPu platforms. It's not worth the hassle.
Some people buy PCs to tinker and find the sweet-spot. I have always had multi-gpu setups since the NV 7950.
If you want simple gaming, buy a console lol