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NVIDIA’s Interest in GeForce Founders Edition Graphics Cards Continues To Grow–Will Be Competing Wit
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To be fair, compared to the AMD reference designs of late, they are high quality, AMD reference designs are woefully inadequate.
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Probably going to do what they did with their 1070/80s, and what AMD do, only allow their reference cards out first, before allowing their AIBs custom cooled to follow, sometime later.
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In terms of the cooler i can agree. But the boards themselves have always had beefier power delivery circuits beyond the need of the card. And the PCB's have generally been rock solid.
The only major issues that i can remember was to do with the elpidia memory problem and the 290 series.
Agreed. I waited 3 months after launch for Evga to release their AIB.
To be fair AMD are not going around saying that their reference aka founders edition are built with only high quality components making it a premium product. Lets be honest when AMD said overclockers dream they got crap for that. Same thing here with nVidia saying high quality components on their reference cards.
I didnt not expect one. Its meant to be a pascal refresh.
No way would Nvidia not release a card for a year.
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Can't see EVGA shifting to AMD, as they'll hardly sell any cards, their profits would plummet, and i can't see Nvidia letting them do both 
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It is not good getting the Titans direct from NVidia.
Rather go to EVGA so watercooling is not a problem.
The reality may turn out different to the goal, but the aim was high quality reference card that existed for the life of the product without changes. Plus, i wouldn't call the FE low quality either.
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But it's not replacing the AMD reference card, It's replacing the Nvidia one, I'd be willing to bet money that the last gen's reference is no worse than the Founders when you get down to it.
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Can't see EVGA shifting to AMD, as they'll hardly sell any cards, their profits would plummet, and i can't see Nvidia letting them do both
If Nvidia keep cutting AIBs out of the top range flagship cards and Vega is a good competitive card.....anything could happen. AMD will never bring out a card that changes the world overnight and gives them the majority market share. It will be done slowly over a good few years and AMD will hopefully catch the monkey and get at least equal market share once more.
They gained 10% back in the last 12 months...and that's without any high-end cards. Also they only need another 20% and they are on level pegging. As I said slowly slowly catchee monkey.
Exactly.
I had an original Voodoo and 2x Voodoo 2 and finally ended with a voodoo 3. Great cards in their day.
Nope certainly not low quality but certainly not high quality. Lets be honest just the cooler is much better than what AMD reference coolers are like. Don't think anyone is saying they are low quality but the way nVidia made out them to be something special (high quality components) and turns out they are just the same reference cards is just meh. Least they have more angles on them now
3DFX made a lot more mistakes than just that one. Nvidia getting a bigger slice of the pie now isn't really a bad move unless Nvidia screws it up and can't handle it. But otherwise the partners have no power at all, they entirely depend on Nvidia not wanting to take over all the logistics of dealing with it all themselves, because supposedly it's a better ROI for them to parcel it out to them.
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I find the aftermarket cooled cards a bit naff to be honest, including thinking about some of the recent problems EVGA have had an I think MSI. I'd rather have air cooled FE cards or water cool them
Some of the aftermarket cards are also way too overpriced IMO
Some of the aftermarket cards are also way too overpriced IMO
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You an get TXP's elsewhere, you just need to pay at least double the price for one but they do come free with a PC wrapped around them.
EDIT:Sorry for second post - was meant to be an edit of previous post - duh
EDIT:Sorry for second post - was meant to be an edit of previous post - duh
Completely agree with you. Find an FE trying to beat any AIB cooled one.
Especially since the Pascal cards start throttling from 22C.
Unfortunately doubt it, except NV becomes so greedy that drives them away.
And if EVGA start producing AMD cards, so will Zotac.
But until the day comes out and EVGA sells AMD cards, I will stick with Sapphire and Powercolor.
QUOTE=KentMan;30444563]Infact i think i know more people with Freesync screens now than G-Sync ones.[/QUOTE]
And wait for HDMI 2.1 hitting the TV market to see how many Freesync capable displays will be out there.
NV will have to start supporting open standards adaptive sync or just become a closed club of overpriced products.
here it is, adding to the rest....Need more salt.
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