You are never guaranteed a resale value on ANY product. Anyone who buys a GPU based on the resale value is having a laugh!
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970's having performance issues using 4GB Vram - Nvidia investigating
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You are never guaranteed a resale value on ANY product. Anyone who buys a GPU based on the resale value is having a laugh!
Soldato
Don't matter, if they do that it's a 3.5 GB sold as 4GB then. As the guy said - it's messy.
It will certainly knock it but sensible buyers will know that the 970 represents great value for money
Caporegime
I agree with that and it isn't good for the long haul.
Soldato
Come off it. This has hurt the resale of the 970 for sure.
Agreed. Even if only for this. If no truth to the matter fine but there is an issue which should have been made clear from the get go. Lying about it or covering the matter up doesn't appease me and probably without this hoohar I'd likely have thought a game was bugged or my card wasn't up to the game in question. It's a right old game but now we all know. Either a fix or option to change or refund should be offered regardless of its cost and price.
As a driver/firmware upgrade option I think it's an elegant solution to an otherwise messy problem.
Associate
Works the other way too, cheap 970's to pick up at some point.
Caporegime
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I wouldn't buy the 970 now (no matter the price), but I do run 4k...
I'm not saying it has not, but so what?
nVidia could launch a new product tomorrow at a price point that made the 970 a pointless endeavour, even second hand.
at 1080 it still is a very fast card. it beats the 290s. no matter what people say.
one of the problems of returning for a slower card. even with issues.
then you factor in the extra heat of 290s and power and noise.
How sad do you have to be to be an apologist for this situation?
This is as bad as it gets. They have purposely mislead everyone to the point of even putting false information in the bios.
Nvidias pr is in maximum damage limitation because they know that they have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar and people are still apologising for them.
This is as bad as it gets. They have purposely mislead everyone to the point of even putting false information in the bios.
Nvidias pr is in maximum damage limitation because they know that they have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar and people are still apologising for them.
Soldato
I didn't buy it for resale value but what I'm not happy with it being worth even less because nvidia screwed up.
Soldato
or not have done this in the first place? but then again have NVidia even learnt from bumpgate? I think not
I would have definitely opted for some of the cracking 780Ti deals that were going down instead of a 3.5Gb card since I was limited for cash.
Yet here we are. So stop whining about something that cannot be changed and actually talk about solutions which are viable? Be that refund, firmware/driver tweaks or otherwise.
Or are you just going to keep flinging mud?
For all I knew when I made my sli 970 purchase was that the 4GB on the 970s was the same as the 4GB on the 980s. Now it's come to light that they're not and do not operate the same way - nothing was stated to distinguish them. This would have affected what I proceeded to purchase and I would have almost certainly opted for 290s or lumped up the extra for 980s. The price difference between the two I simply put down to lower shader count and other specs I had available so I could make an informed decision.
Yes the 970 is still a great card, but had I known what I know now, I wouldn't have bought them. It also explains some of the recent issues I've been having with vram intensive games just recently, which I wasn't playing back when I purchased the 970s (on release) and therefore I never noticed the stuttering back then.
Caporegime
This tbh, for me personally this isnt a great time to be looking at gpu upgrades. Currently on sli 780, copes fine for my uses and res at the moment, (if a little hot). A new monitor is my first priority, (gsync 1440p). Then wait it out and play on lowered settings until new cards arrive.
Soldato
will you carry on with pointless ad hominem attacks for no reason at all?
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