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ASUS MARS BAR
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Most eloquent.
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Let's look at it this way:
Somebody has to buy them, and i'm just glad it isn't me
Somebody has to buy them, and i'm just glad it isn't me
Hell yeah I'd take them... then sell them on eBay, buy something sensible and pocket the cash, like most people are suggesting the OP does.
It's a bloody ridiculous waste of money whatever way you look at it, a single 295GTX will run pretty much anything at pretty much any settings.
When it doesn't he can use the £1700 he saved to buy a new card...
The problem is the price and how late they are to the game...
Course no ones gonna turn one down for free thats an entirely different point...
The point is - this late in the game they aren't worth more than 1/3rd what asus are charging for them.
Considering a lot of posts like this are either windups or people wanting to display their wealth to people.
If you're considering spending £2000 on graphics cards, realistically why would you need any advice any way? You're either soft with money to burn, or you're clued up with money to burn and either way the £2000 is nothing.
I think most people have realised this. It's not cool to attempt to display your wealth in such ways.
Why do you think most 'look at my new pointlessly expensive watch' threads get derailed badly with most posts complaining about the OP?
People don't like other people saying 'hey look how much money I've got to waste on things'.
It's not about jealousy, it's more irritation when people act like such amounts of money are worthless. Especially when you can get graphics cards that would perform almost identically for around 25% of the cost.
Things like expensive watches, like rolexes irritate me, thousands of pounds for what? A device that tells the time, which you could get for £60 or less that at least looks like, they don't improve upon the time telling capabilities of a normal watch.
Yet if some one gave me a rolex for free, I wouldn't complain I'd sell it and pocket the money from it. If I weren't allowed to sell it then I would decline it as I have no use for such a thing. I don't wear 'normal' watches as it is, so something like a rolex would just end up in a drawer doing nothing.
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I don't think buying 2x asus mars is flouting wealth - its only £2000 lol an ok job and being careful with your money and thats nothing... at best its flouting stupidity... now if it was 20,000 that would be a different situation coz its not so accessable to just anyone.
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that post just failed to make any point at all
he's trying to say many of us are jealous
in my view, go for it, theres always the "around the corner" argument, and if you have the cash then i cant see why not
theres always a good feeling about knowing you have the best of the best, although you may only have that feeling for a few months you'll still love it
Only 2k?
I'm sorry but you have more than an "ok" job if you can splash 2K on graphics cards.
It's relative. £2000 on computer hardware, especially graphics is expensive (and before anyone reminds me of fireGL and quadro cards, I'm talking average consumer).
It's like 30" monitors, I've got 2 24" monitors, I would have 2 30"s but at more than 2x the cost over my 24s, they're not justifiable until the price either comes down or the res goes up.
Because of how necessary it is. You can get pretty much the same performance from around £500 of computer hardware. As the rest of my post said, if you're willing to drop £2000 on GPUs, then you should know what you're getting. They've obviously done a bit of looking around and know it's the most expensive graphics set up, so why do they need to come and ask 'advice' about it?
I don't see it as flounting wealth, as see it as an uninformed choice. The performance is just not worth the price tag. I could easily save up for a MARS card, but there's no way in hell I'd get one- a GTX295 at a third of the price will compete easily, and will play any game I like maxxed out at 1920. It all comes down to being a smart consumer, and a smart consumer wouldn't get one of these cards, nevermind two.
You could say wearing a pair of shoes that 'ONLY' cost £1000 isn't flouting wealth, but it definitely is.
It's relative to the object itself. Telling people about your new car that cost £15-20,000 isn't flouting wealth as it's a common price bracket for cars.
Telling people about your £2-300,000 house isn't flouting wealth either, as it's a common price bracket for property, yet if you were going around asking for advice on buying an £80,000 car or a £1,200,000 house, people would consider that flouting of wealth in my opinion.
The situation with the house and car would be if there were comparable alternatives that weren't so different bust the car cost £20,000 and the house £300,000.
Practically the same house or car, except the car has more 10% more power and the house has an extra bathroom and dining room that's 50% larger than the cheaper house.
It's relative to the object itself. Telling people about your new car that cost £15-20,000 isn't flouting wealth as it's a common price bracket for cars.
Telling people about your £2-300,000 house isn't flouting wealth either, as it's a common price bracket for property, yet if you were going around asking for advice on buying an £80,000 car or a £1,200,000 house, people would consider that flouting of wealth in my opinion.
The situation with the house and car would be if there were comparable alternatives that weren't so different bust the car cost £20,000 and the house £300,000.
Practically the same house or car, except the car has more 10% more power and the house has an extra bathroom and dining room that's 50% larger than the cheaper house.
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To sum up this thread:
OP go for it if you want, but it's the worst possible gpu setup you could buy because:
There's a chance that it will actually be REALLY SLOW, as windows isn't programmed to use 8gb of gpu ram, and it could be a huge bottleneck.
It is awful value for money, as most people's entire computers cost less than half of that.
Although it's so expensive, it will be out of date in a few months.
It is overkill, even on a 30" screen, no game needs that much power, and when they do, they'll probably run on dx11.
Although tbh, I think that it rubs salt into the wound that you've called it a mars bar. Bot everyone regards graphics cards as sweets.
Also imho, I think DX11 has been hyped up too much, (including by me
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Go for it, but the general consensus is that you'll regret it as soon as the novelty affect wears off.
And to get back on track, either you don't need a discount as you can afford it, or if you genuinely need a discount (which I doubt, as it's a top spec rig) then the mars is the wrong card(s) for you
OP go for it if you want, but it's the worst possible gpu setup you could buy because:
There's a chance that it will actually be REALLY SLOW, as windows isn't programmed to use 8gb of gpu ram, and it could be a huge bottleneck.
It is awful value for money, as most people's entire computers cost less than half of that.
Although it's so expensive, it will be out of date in a few months.
It is overkill, even on a 30" screen, no game needs that much power, and when they do, they'll probably run on dx11.
Although tbh, I think that it rubs salt into the wound that you've called it a mars bar. Bot everyone regards graphics cards as sweets.
Also imho, I think DX11 has been hyped up too much, (including by me
)Go for it, but the general consensus is that you'll regret it as soon as the novelty affect wears off.
And to get back on track, either you don't need a discount as you can afford it, or if you genuinely need a discount (which I doubt, as it's a top spec rig) then the mars is the wrong card(s) for you
People come on here and brag about lesser hardware so whats the issue?
I can afford to spend 2.5k on dogs but i cant afford it for a couple of graphics cards, the op may consider it money well spent or simply if can afford it like i can afford the money for dogs. I do also agree with the other peeps though as the cards may bottleneck the system due to there massive demands for resource.
I can afford to spend 2.5k on dogs but i cant afford it for a couple of graphics cards, the op may consider it money well spent or simply if can afford it like i can afford the money for dogs. I do also agree with the other peeps though as the cards may bottleneck the system due to there massive demands for resource.
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Unlike your post which was a life changing experience.that post just failed to make any point at all
