AMD teasing new product, is it Radeon or FirePro?

Jono8 · 23 Sep 2014 at 20:02

MOOGLEYS said:
I spent £60 on a chinese last night, Still hungry now though such a waste....

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18610119

Why do you bother? Why not throw it in the bin. It's only £21 anyway.

TheRealDeal · 23 Sep 2014 at 20:03

Lobovski said:
I managed to get a sapphire tri x r290 for £225 delivered new a few weeks ago and was initially a bit gutted when the 9 series came out a week later ..but looking at the benchmarks and my finances i think it was still a good/the right deal for me...will do me 18 month to 2 year and my temps seem fairly good although it possibly doesn't feel such an amazing deal as it did last week ..hey ho!

If you got free games with it you can also deduct the cost of them to make it feel like a better deal.

GoogalyMoogaly · 23 Sep 2014 at 20:08

Lobovski said:
I managed to get a sapphire tri x r290 for £225 delivered new a few weeks ago and was initially a bit gutted when the 9 series came out a week later ..but looking at the benchmarks and my finances i think it was still a good/the right deal for me...will do me 18 month to 2 year and my temps seem fairly good although it possibly doesn't feel such an amazing deal as it did last week ..hey ho!

Better than getting one of those rubbish PCS+ cards!

Disclaimer: I'm sure that the PCS+ cards are actually very nice but I recently chose between them and went for the Tri-X (on LtMatt's advice/suggestion) so just trying to convince myself I did the right thing :-)

MOOGLEYS · 23 Sep 2014 at 20:11

Jono8 said:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18610119

Why do you bother? Why not throw it in the bin. It's only £21 anyway.

I sell to benefit others rather than unneeded financial gain to myself...

MOOGLEYS · 23 Sep 2014 at 20:12

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Better than getting one of those rubbish PCS+ cards!

Disclaimer: I'm sure that the PCS+ cards are actually very nice but I recently chose between them and went for the Tri-X (on LtMatt's advice/suggestion) so just trying to convince myself I did the right thing

The 290 is still a good card and more than capable of running anything at 1440p.

It also has a decent size bus unlike them ***** 970's.....

Jono8 · 23 Sep 2014 at 20:25

MOOGLEYS said:
I sell to benefit others rather than unneeded financial gain to myself...

lol

old gamer · 23 Sep 2014 at 20:34

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Better than getting one of those rubbish PCS+ cards!

Disclaimer: I'm sure that the PCS+ cards are actually very nice but I recently chose between them and went for the Tri-X (on LtMatt's advice/suggestion) so just trying to convince myself I did the right thing

I have the pcs+ and your right its rubbish, the fans are so quite i can hardly hear them and it doesnt get hot enough to warm my room, rubish absolute rubbish

Mal X · 23 Sep 2014 at 20:42

old gamer said:
I have the pcs+ and your right its rubbish, the fans are so quite i can hardly hear them and it doesnt get hot enough to warm my room, rubish absolute rubbish

you're deffo an AMD fanboy then ............... ha ha

old gamer · 23 Sep 2014 at 20:51

Mal X said:
you're deffo an AMD fanboy then ............... ha ha

Danm it ive been rumbled lol

~Mike~ · 24 Sep 2014 at 11:00

Looking at the tweets here I wouldn't get your hopes up to much.

ubersonic · 24 Sep 2014 at 11:15

Jono8 said:
I am not arguing that this is sensible. I was just wondering why £50 was being dismissed like it didn't matter at all.

It isn't, if it was an AMD card that cost £50 less than the equivalent Nvidia card then it would be super important

Mal X · 24 Sep 2014 at 11:29

~Mike~ said:
Looking at the tweets here I wouldn't get your hopes up to much.

that's all they are tweets !!!!

~Mike~ · 24 Sep 2014 at 11:32

Mal X said:
that's all they are tweets !!!!

VincentHanna · 24 Sep 2014 at 11:44

The power argument is a bit flawed because if you are selling a card that you bought new, such as a 290, the amount of money you will lose since you bought it is going to be a lot more than the saving you make on your leccy bill changing to a more power efficient card.

I'd compare it to buying a car.

Say you buy a new Mercedes that does 50 mpg and then a year later you sell that and buy a BMW because it does 60mpg....it would have been more cost effective to keep the Mercedes.

Ayahuasca · 24 Sep 2014 at 11:49

VincentHanna said:
The power argument is a bit flawed because if you are selling a card that you bought new, such as a 290, the amount of money you will lose since you bought it is going to be a lot more than the saving you make on your leccy bill changing to a more power efficient card.

But you'll lose even more money if you hold onto it until eventually upgrading and depending on your next cards power requirements may lose even more.

VincentHanna · 24 Sep 2014 at 11:55

I bought a 290x with BF4 for £480

A year later it's barely worth £240.

As soon as 20nm GPU's are released these Nvidia prices will also tank.

That's how it goes for early adopters.

Xbox One is now £100 less than when it launched less than a year ago.

Final8y · 24 Sep 2014 at 11:59

Ayahuasca said:
But you'll lose even more money if you hold onto it until eventually upgrading and depending on your next cards power requirements may lose even more.

Which funny enough takes even more away from the power argument because depreciation is the great loss maker and if a person is switching fast enough to avoid that as much as possible that person would not have the card long enough to make a worth while lecy saving.

The real immediate saving may come from not having to also buy a new PSU.

Nocky24 · 24 Sep 2014 at 12:03

Ayahuasca said:
But you'll lose even more money if you hold onto it until eventually upgrading and depending on your next cards power requirements may lose even more.

You can't really win to be honest, it's the way it goes. Only occasion I've seen it work in a buyers favour recently was when the 7990 price drop coincided with the mining craze.

andybird123 · 24 Sep 2014 at 12:06

VincentHanna said:
The power argument is a bit flawed because if you are selling a card that you bought new, such as a 290, the amount of money you will lose since you bought it is going to be a lot more than the saving you make on your leccy bill changing to a more power efficient card.

I'd compare it to buying a car.

Say you buy a new Mercedes that does 50 mpg and then a year later you sell that and buy a BMW because it does 60mpg....it would have been more cost effective to keep the Mercedes.

I dont think people are actually suggesting sidegrading/selling a 290/780 gen card because of power savings, but if coming from a 6970/480 gen card and upgrading anyway, then power/heat/noise are all considerations for an upgrade

You arent selling the mercedes to buy the BMW, you are buying a new car anyway and have a choice between the Mercedes and the BMW, which do you choose, Mercedes have just dropped prices on their one year old, but BMW have just released a slightly faster car that also gets much better fuel economy

Jono8 · 24 Sep 2014 at 12:12

andybird123 said:
I dont think people are actually suggesting sidegrading/selling a 290/780 gen card because of power savings, but if coming from a 6970/480 gen card and upgrading anyway, then power/heat/noise are all considerations for an upgrade

You arent selling the mercedes to buy the BMW, you are buying a new car anyway and have a choice between the Mercedes and the BMW, which do you choose, Mercedes have just dropped prices on their one year old, but BMW have just released a slightly faster car that also gets much better fuel economy

Exactly.