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Poll: WOULD YOU BUY AN 8GB 290X @ £599

Would you buy one?

  • YES

    Votes: 19 6.7%

  • NO

    Votes: 266 93.3%
  • Total voters
    285
I'd like to see it, as it would be handy at 4k. Below 4k it would be a waste though. If the price came down a little bit more as well...
 
I voted "No" purely from using a 4K monitor and knowing what is what and sure you need more than 4GB to run 4K in a couple of games at full ultra but you will also need 4 top cards to get close to playable frames in those games and I honestly can't see the difference from 8XMSAA to FXAA and using FXAA gives much better frames and uses far less VRAM (well under 3GB).
 
Gibbo said:
Hi there

Simple question really, who would buy an overclocked 8GB 290X at £599 inc. VAT?

Obviously a pair or three of these is perfect for 4k resolution setups, but if they become available would you buy one?
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Would love to see a toxic but price seems too high for the extra ram
 
One the following caveats....

1 - It came with a waterblock and connectors / barbs
2 - I actually had the spare cash to buy it (sell my 280x and 7970 inc w/b to fund it)
3 - Mrs S never ever ever finds out about it :D:D:D
 
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The increase in price wouldn't be that much if it was say on a 290x lightning, but i wouldn't pay the price for one of those either.

Graphics card prices are shamefull these days...
 
4737Joker said:
Graphics card prices are shamefull these days...
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Graphics card prices haven't really changed in a long time.

I remember paying £329 for a X800 Pro on launch. XT PE's were £400+ if I remember rightly, and that was going on 10 years ago!

I paid over £300 for a 8800GTS on launch back in '07.

The only real 'blip' in GPU pricing was the ATi 4XXX series, which were ridiculously cheap compared to previous gens.
 
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Prices must have dropped sharp on those 8800's as i bought my 8800GTS for £197 in october 07.

The top end card pricing is shamefull in my opinion, paying ~30% more for say a 290x over a 290p for a 5% performance increase (launch prices).
 
Is 8gb meant for 8k?...

I love ram as much as the next guy but 4k can be run on 3gb cards perfectly well (4gb can help but its not necessary) hopefully the next series will be a decent leap from nvidia and amd and that is when we will see really decent numbers in 4k res.
 
HeX said:
Graphics card prices haven't really changed in a long time.

I remember paying £329 for a X800 Pro on launch. XT PE's were £400+ if I remember rightly, and that was going on 10 years ago!

I paid over £300 for a 8800GTS on launch back in '07.

The only real 'blip' in GPU pricing was the ATi 4XXX series, which were ridiculously cheap compared to previous gens.
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Pricing may not have changed much yes, but performance increase per gen (in the same price range) has dropped down to pitiful average of 5-10% from the 50-80% jump moving from one gen to the next back then :D For example, GTX670 replaced by GTX770 aka glorified higher clocked GTX680, along with bunch of GK104 rebadging; AMD did the same with the HD78xx...but there was one exception for bang for bucks- the 290 replaced 7970 price bracket but offered 30%+ performance increase. But still...despite it was only 1 gen gap, in terms of time there's nearly a two years gap between the two gens of cards.
 
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