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** AMD BACK IN THE GAME: PRICE DROP EXCLUSIVE TO OcUK!! **

Ticonderoga said:
Does anyone know how the R9 Fury will fare against GTX 1070 / 80 with the newest drivers?
All I seem to be able to find are the old reviews
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Since there hasn't been any real significant gains in AMD driver overhead; in DX11 and older it will still be around 980 levels, DX12 or Vulkan it can stretch it legs a little further.
 
sqwerty said:
Since there hasn't been any real significant gains in AMD driver overhead; in DX11 and older it will still be around 980 levels, DX12 or Vulkan it can stretch it legs a little further.
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Hmm ok. Not that big of a upgrade from a R9 290 then.
Will just have to sit tight and keep my upgrade itch under control :p
 
dits said:
WTH??? Price drop? Aren't we supposed to on verge of economic meltdown, with £ hitting lows not seen the last ice age ;)
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GTX 1060 launches imminently. RX480 was designed and marketed to be a competitive midrange card to sell in high volume, so no big surprises here.

Most welcome tho!
 
Congratulations, awesome prices!
Was looking for a nano (or fury) so sad that I cannot buy from italy. :(

Keep up the good work Gibbo!
 
JediFragger said:
Agreed! If Mark would have gotten Overclockers.com a few years back it would be immense now :cool:

Gibbo understands, communication and CS is key :)
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Yes but the biggest thing and something I excel at is the relationships with the manufacturers.

OcUK deals with more VGA manufacturers and list more SKU's than any other worldwide competitor.

I think it is down to my whisky drinking skills in Asia, gives me huge respect when they have to send me home with a couple of girls to take care of me and make sure I do not drown when my head is down the loo on the phone to huey. ;)
 
Gibbo said:
I think it is down to my whisky drinking skills in Asia, gives me huge respect when they have to send me home with a couple of girls to take care of me and make sure I do not drown when my head is down the loo on the phone to huey. ;)
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Driving the porcelain bus haha
 
Gibbo said:
Yes but the biggest thing and something I excel at is the relationships with the manufacturers.

OcUK deals with more VGA manufacturers and list more SKU's than any other worldwide competitor.

I think it is down to my whisky drinking skills in Asia, gives me huge respect when they have to send me home with a couple of girls to take care of me and make sure I do not drown when my head is down the loo on the phone to huey. ;)
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Lol can believe that. Asian business drinking is legendarily scary!!
 
Gibbo said:
I think it is down to my whisky drinking skills in Asia, gives me huge respect when they have to send me home with a couple of girls to take care of me and make sure I do not drown when my head is down the loo on the phone to huey. ;)
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Damn you're good, excellent post :D
 
Well well well... things don't quite look so great for the 1060 now do they? Not when it's beat on price to performance, even by older AMD GPUs. The Nano at ~£300 gives me De Ja Vu, but otherwise... it's pretty good considering how well AMD does at Vulkan. I sure hope more games use it (even DX12 causes less FPS on both AMD and Nvidia). Cos these cards are the ones to get it seems.

I'll wait till the big cards come out to buy my own upgrade fomr a 970 (these cards won't improve too much for me), but I'll also wait for custom RX 480s (preferably 4GB unless 8GB ones go closer to £200) before buying one for my younger brother (and to think I was going to buy him a 960 for his brithday last year...). Hopefully AMD's replacement for the Fury and such are great, I'd love to be able to buy one of these awesomely priced FreeSync monitors to go with the GPU upgrade. G-Sync monitors... blegh.
 
Everyone keeps mentioning the Fury but surely a Nano would be a better buy? Lower TDP and it has more stream processors for only £20 more.
 
doodah said:
Everyone keeps mentioning the Fury but surely a Nano would be a better buy? Lower TDP and it has more stream processors for only £20 more.
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As i understand it, the Nano is subject to some pretty aggressive throttling. If you put a waterblock on it then it's a fantastic performer, but you're talking about spending another few hundred ££ on that.
 
doodah said:
Everyone keeps mentioning the Fury but surely a Nano would be a better buy? Lower TDP and it has more stream processors for only £20 more.
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I've owned a Nano and a Fury Pro.

The Nano is a full Fury X and will do 1050 but not without undervolting and pushing the fan speeds to ~70% and power target to +50%. So any TDP savings will be lost as soon as you try to match Fury or Fury X speeds and the Nano becomes very noisy at those fan speeds. So as long as you can keep it from throttling you will get higher than Fury performance. The Fury though will run faster out of the box because it will maintain 1070 - 1100 (with mild OC) core clock without throttling. The Nitro Fury should reach 1120-1130 at stock voltage and run very quietly as well. Remember stock Fury is 1000 so getting 1150 as an OC with voltage is a 15% OC.

My Fury with a 4K Freesnyc screen gave me a better and smoother gaming experience than my 980Ti on a non adaptive sync 4K screen. Even though it was 20%+ slower OC vs OC.
 
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badgeruk said:
Wow I got the LG 34UM88-C for £679 just over a week ago and its now £539. Just my luck ,would look at getting a fury if I got it for that price.

Edit: Scratch that was looking at the new flat screen price and not the curved. Only £80 quid less so less tears now.
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What's it like, I've been planning a move to a 21:9 sync panel for some time and have not been considering LG monitors because there first freesync panels had a really dismal working range. Plus it's hard to get info on the working range of freesync for individual monitors a lot of the time.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/lg-3...escreen-super-wide-led-monitor-mo-147-lg.html
This seems to be at a good price though considering it's 3440x1440.
 
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