You should have bought that 7950 for £199 + four games when you had the chance, hell you should have even got two of them, sold the games and had titan beating performance for about £320.
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Is a 770 a worthwhile upgrade for the money?
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You should have bought that 7950 for £199 + four games when you had the chance, hell you should have even got two of them, sold the games and had titan beating performance for about £320.
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670 is no where near that price. I think you mean the 680?
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Gibbo has some discounted 670's going for £250
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IvanDobsky, is there any particular reason for why you prefer nVidia cards?
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The amd cards just always feel a bit flimsy with poor quality coolers. Also found the drivers a bit flaky last time I owned one.
Is it really fair judge a whole range of cards based on a cooler you once had that you didn't like?
Just to point out, software from AMD and nVidia can be and is flaky at times, it's not a think that's exclusive to AMD.
You have quite a bit of choice when it comes to graphics card and many AMD and nVidia cards share the same coolers, for example Gigabytes Windforce range of cards, or MSI's Twin Frozrs.
Just to point out, software from AMD and nVidia can be and is flaky at times, it's not a think that's exclusive to AMD.
You have quite a bit of choice when it comes to graphics card and many AMD and nVidia cards share the same coolers, for example Gigabytes Windforce range of cards, or MSI's Twin Frozrs.
I'm going to put the cat amongst the pigeons here and probably take some flak for this but i believe AMD's drivers in terms or performance and stability are on the way up and if recent feedback here and elsewhere is anything to by Nvidia drivers seem to be heading in the opposite direction. Infact AMD drivers have been superb for some time now in my opinion. I've only just got crossfire, but so far I've had zero problems with that either from a stability point of view.
LOL, that's exactly what i thought. I fear i may have stoked things up a bit, but im speaking from the (AMD shaped) heart.
LOL, that's exactly what i thought. I fear i may have stoked things up a bit, but im speaking from the (AMD shaped) heart.
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Perhaps that is true for reference coolers, but there is no difference in quality between the equivalent aftermarket cooler used on AMD and Nvidia cards (Eg. the lightning cooler on the 7970 is the same as the one on the 680). The current drivers seem fine to me, never had a problem with them myself.
His thoughts are fair enough based on personal experience, but it's that good old thing where people base their thoughts on a whole company's line of products on a bad experience they had with one or a few items.
His point about the cooler is also fair enough, AMD's reference coolers often have been crap, but the flip side of this is that non-reference coolers and designs are typically out very quickly.
I've said this loads of times really, but I've barely had any driver issues with AMD or nVidia cards I've used, and when I have I know they're my own fault, flashing the cards with a dodgy BIOS, or dodgy overclocks and whatever.
AMD have been putting a lot of effort in lately with their software side of things and that can only ever be a good thing.
Realistically though, if anyone has a track record of flaky software it is decidedly nVidia, there's just too many documented cases of nVidia drivers doing things they really shouldn't, like for the second time they rebranded a set of cards, they released a driver that fried some graphics cards. Call me cynical but that's happened one too many times to call it a coincidence.
Though I do understand and appreciate that they may be extreme situations, and in a typical fashion the vast majority of people are going to get on fine with either set of drivers.
soon as the gigabyte ones comes down to that price i'll get one. prefer giga as i can RMA if need be to the same country. every little helps.
but still think the margins between cards are too much when they are the same spec some are over 80 pounds difference...crazyness
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At £330 is the 770 a worthwhile upgrade over my 480? I do prefer nvidia cards but I feel nvidia has been extracting the urine regarding price / performance lately
No, assuming you are gaming @ 1080p or below or aren't using 3d.Lets be realistic, for 95%+ of games that upgrade will have you going from 70fps to around 120, something you won't even notice considering the 480 will still murder pretty much everything thrown at it.I have a 570 and have played mostly everything released in the last few years and the only game I even noticed performance which I didn't find great was Hitman Absolution, which sucked anyway.
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if you've got the cash why not
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Try and live in the now not the past. As what you buy and experience now is usually different to the past. I have been using amd for a long time now due to value and the drivers have always been fine. The problem with my experience is i usually only played one or two games for years at a time so may have skipped all these problems people talk about. Amd drivers around here at least seem to be going rather well and the 7***'s cards overall seem to be decent quality.
If it's nvidia you are after i would say get a gtx670 as they usually overclock well and clock for clock will only be 5% slower than a gtx680/770.
If it's nvidia you are after i would say get a gtx670 as they usually overclock well and clock for clock will only be 5% slower than a gtx680/770.
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Nvidia drivers are not so good and have bugs for some. Mostly it seems BF3 and the occasional game on the occasional older card. Certainly not the high standard I have been used to.
That being said, both still have issues but I am not going there. Speaking as a Green fan, Nvidia need to up their game.
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Nice upgrade from a GTX 480. Do yourself a favor and go for the 4GB version, only an extra £30 odd quid but gives you double the vram should you need it for future games, especially if you're going to keep your card for a couple of years..
The 480 itself is a great example of card that still has the horsepower but the 1.5GB just isn't quite enough now. In the future the same will be true of 2GB.. a 4GB 770 would be nice card for the money..
The 480 itself is a great example of card that still has the horsepower but the 1.5GB just isn't quite enough now. In the future the same will be true of 2GB.. a 4GB 770 would be nice card for the money..