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Poll: Poll will you be buying a Titan X?

Poll will you be buying a Titan X?

  • Yes

    Votes: 26 6.2%

  • No

    Votes: 332 79.2%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 61 14.6%
  • Total voters
    419
Secret_Window said:
Looking at the reviews again I'm not convinced that this is even good enough for 4k. Maybe two in sli, yeah, but it's not really selling it to me at the moment at 2 grand.

Is this really the best we have right now? I feel like we should have single gpus hitting 60fps at 4k as the norm by now. Unless the 390x is faster, then I still feel we may have yet another year of this.:(
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Single gpu's hitting 60fps in UHD won't happen for a while yet, proper 4k is a bit of a bump above UHD so that'll need a little more grunt as well. It'll be at least 2 gpu's for some time yet.
 
bfar said:
No, but hats off to Nvidia for tapping the 'dumb ass' market.
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Protoype said:
titan x is nvidia milking the stupid!
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Please stop insulting the buyers who are purchasing these cards.

Just because you don't think its worth it, doesn't mean we have to
insult the people who do think they are worth it.

Enjoy your new graphics cards lads.
 
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To be fair, if you was a gamer and was going to keep this card for say 2 years then it would cost you just under £500 a year for gaming, if you think that is a justifiable cost to you then that is all that matters. If i was to purchase the titanx and keep the card for gaming for four years then the price/performance ratio is better justified, doubling up would double the years. There are a few games when maxed out that i reckon the titanx could not maintain a constant 60fps at 1080p 144Hz, but it will be interesting to see the user end results in real world gaming on certain games. Can the titanx max out (and i mean at maximum possible settings) ArmA 3 at 1080p 144Hz?, what about metro last light max supersampling 1080p 144Hz?, what about bf4 max supersampling 1080p 144Hz?, what about 3d too?, how does it fair in new virtual reality gear at 1080p 144Hz?.
 
drex69 said:
Please stop insulting the buyers who are purchasing these cards.

Just because you don't think its worth it, doesn't mean we have to
insult the people who do think they are worth it.

Enjoy your new graphics cards lads.
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TwsT said:
Shocker as our our forums aren't our only customers :D

That and some people won't want to discuss how they spend their money with the the GC subsection :D
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It is positively cringe worthy that on a PC hardware enthusiasts forum, comments attacking PC enthusiasts happen at all, but are then deemed acceptable behaviour... If someone was stood in the OCUK shop standing over people and saying these things as people bought the cards, how long would it take before they earned themselves an invitation to leave? :D

kedge said:
To be fair, if you was a gamer and was going to keep this card for say 2 years then it would cost you just under £500 a year for gaming, if you think that is a justifiable cost to you then that is all that matters.
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Exactly. My titans will have cost me about £2 a day, which is nothing compared with a lot of hobbies.
 
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TwsT said:
Shocker as our our forums aren't our only customers :D

That and some people won't want to discuss how they spend their money with the the GC subsection :D
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I know that but still I would have thought there would be more. If there were over a hundred after a couple of hours yesterday it must be a couple few hundred now.

That and people don't have to discuss how they spent there money on a poll.
 
I am starting to wonder a little if it’s not so much the pricing of things that’s out of sync, its people’s perception of ‘value for money’.

I play golf, watch TV, go to the gym, all things that many people do and don’t batter an eyelid at the cost.

Maybe not a great analogy but I have a friend who is a big movie buff, he see’s great value in buying DVD’s as he gets to watch it and ‘own’ it rather than relying on a streaming service.

But how much VFM does he really get? £5 on a dvd for two hours of watching? Ok so £2.5 p/h is pretty good value for money to do something you enjoy.

I buy a £800 GPU that allows me to play games as I want too, I own that GPU for a year, lets say I play for 2 hours a day 5 days a week, pretty conservative numbers for an ‘enthusiast’. £800 / 520 hours, that’s £1.5 p/h of entertainment.

I feel I get the better deal because I’m getting more out of it, he feels he’s getting a better deal because he’s not paying out a huge sum in one go.

As I said it’s not an amazing analogy as there are other factors in both hobbys, but it boils down to how I feel I’ve spent my money and how he feels he’s spent his, what neither of us do is go around telling each other that their a moron for spending his money on things we don’t feel they need to, like buying a cheaper GPU or signing up for netflix.

Because that would make us both *****.
 
kedge said:
Very true, i think it is the initial money outlay that is a hurdle for many to leap over including myself, i just can not quantify the cost.
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And that is totally acceptable. The beauty of PC gaming is that you can still participate if you buy a £150 GPU, or if you want you can spend thousands for a bit more eye candy. It is wonderfully inclusive, and people who buy £150 GPU's rarely attract insults for doing so.
 
god damn it Andy and Kedge, took me half an hour to write that while trying to hide what I was really doing from others in the office and you beat me to it. :D
 
The original Titan was too much for me to justify buying but I still wanted to own one. This one doesn't make me wish I was willing to pay that much in nearly the same way.

No thanks for me.
 
I dont believe value for money should come down to how much you are spending per day for the usage of your cards. I think that's an excuse, but that's just me. I look at value for money being its cost versus similar hardware as this really governs whether i think the cost is acceptable or not. ie, i dont care if i'm 'only' paying £1.50 a day for a gpu - if it's 30% faster and near twice the price than the VMF is non-existant. Again, my own take on it.

Its why i bought a 970 and not a 980 and it why i wont go near any titan. I certainly have no issue with people spending money on them but i wouldnt. Not even if i could afford 10 of them.
 
james.miller said:
I dont believe value for money should come down to how much you are spending per day for the usage of your cards. I think that's an excuse, but that's just me. I look at value for money being its cost versus similar hardware as this really governs whether i think the cost is acceptable or not. ie, i dont care if i'm 'only' paying £1.50 a day for a gpu - if it's 30% faster and near twice the price than the VMF is non-existant. Again, my own take on it.

Its why i bought a 970 and not a 980 and it why i wont go near any titan. I certainly have no issue with people spending money on them but i wouldnt. Not even if i could afford 10 of them.
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Yep, and I have no problems with people viewing it like that, its a perfectly reasonable chain of thought.

My issues are with the part in italics/underlined, far too many people seem to think that because they can't justify buying stuff, others shouldn't either.
 
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