Best Bang for Buck! Nvidia or AMD now..

win8.1 · 30 Sep 2014 at 16:19

Rusty0611 said:
Nope just a guess.

We will see.

Wizzfizz · 30 Sep 2014 at 16:19

YOLO...

Gregster · 30 Sep 2014 at 16:20

Wizzfizz said:
YOLO...

In computer terms, I couldn't agree more and in terms of getting drunk, I couldn't agree more and in terms of buying cars, I couldn't agree more.

Wizzfizz · 30 Sep 2014 at 16:21

Ok, well on that note i'm going to preorder another MSI 970 :eek:

Ayahuasca · 30 Sep 2014 at 16:22

Gregster · 30 Sep 2014 at 16:23

Wizzfizz said:
Ok, well on that note i'm going to preorder another MSI 970

Rusty0611 · 30 Sep 2014 at 16:27

That neck movement is mesmerising

win8.1 said:
We will see.

Not really because waiting to see is irrelevant. I'm not questioning if you're right or not just stating it's a guess.

win8.1 · 30 Sep 2014 at 16:42

Gregster said:
The problem I see with your theory is you will never buy, as there is always something around the corner. I bought a pair of Titans on release day and if I had waited 6 months, I could have save money and got the 780 and then if I waited another 4 months, I could have grabbed a 780Ti or 290X and if I waited another 3 months, I could have grabbed the Titan Black and if I waited another 4 months, I could have grabbed the 980....

Lol no. You usually wait until you get a sizable increase in performance on your last card unless you have money to burn. In your case you would be better waiting until Titan 2 as you don't mind paying £800+ although I would say the 780 equivalent of Titan 2 won't be far behind as it's been a year since Amd launched the 290.

win8.1 · 30 Sep 2014 at 16:46

Rusty0611 said:
Not really because waiting to see is irrelevant. I'm not questioning if you're right or not just stating it's a guess.

And I am stating it's a educated guess based on a few things even when you don't agree it is.

Rusty0611 · 30 Sep 2014 at 17:12

win8.1 said:
And I am stating it's a educated guess based on a few things even when you don't agree it is.

No it's still just a guess.

win8.1 · 30 Sep 2014 at 17:26

Rusty0611 said:
No it's still just a guess.

Nobody said it wasn't but I still think a educated guess based on Amd's track record and them not releasing the 390 with just a little performance increase over the 290 one year later and knowing full fat Maxwell is coming is better than guessing without that knowledge even if you don't.

Rusty0611 · 30 Sep 2014 at 17:28

An educated guess implies some form of education (edit: of the subject matter) though...

Either way you've already had some posts to yoinked from this thread for rubbish so let's keep it on track yeah? I'm not going to change my mind on the quality of your guess no matter how many times you repeat your belief it's educated.

win8.1 · 30 Sep 2014 at 17:38

Rusty0611 said:
An educated guess implies some form of education (edit: of the subject matter) though...

I'm not going to change my mind on the quality of your guess no matter how many times you repeat your belief it's educated.

Not asking you to as you can't see that a person can make a educated guess by what has happened frequently in the past when Amd launch each new high end gen.

Gregster · 30 Sep 2014 at 17:42

I think you are looking too much at what you would do bud and not considering what the OP has asked. I think he has some good info, so maybe better to leave it there.

Rusty0611 · 30 Sep 2014 at 17:44

win8.1 said:
Not asking you to as you can't see that a person can make a educated guess by what has happened frequently in the past when Amd launch each new high end gen.

No I can see it you just aren't fulfilling the criteria of what an educated guess is.

Gregster said:
I think you are looking too much at what you would do bud and not considering what the OP has asked. I think he has some good info, so maybe better to leave it there.

Agreed.

Kaapstad · 30 Sep 2014 at 17:47

OP

GTX 970

Nice upgrade.

win8.1 · 30 Sep 2014 at 17:59

Rusty0611 said:
No I can see it you just aren't fulfilling the criteria of what an educated guess is.

In your opinion but my educated guess is the reality of what has happened many times in past high gen launches of Amd especially 1+ year on from each new gen. Guess without any knowledge of what has happened in the past and that is just a guess.

Jono8 · 30 Sep 2014 at 18:03

Reedweaver said:
Best Bang for Buck! Nvidia or AMD now..

Well at the high end, the 970's price point sort of makes the 290 and 290x redundant.

Rusty0611 · 30 Sep 2014 at 18:06

win8.1 said:
In your opinion but my educated guess is the reality of what has happened many times in past high gen launches of Amd especially 1+ year on from each new gen. Guess without any knowledge of what has happened in the past and that is just a guess.

Oh for goodness sake give it a rest. You're just repeating yourself.

As Gregster says:

Gregster said:
so maybe better to leave it there.

win8.1 · 30 Sep 2014 at 18:08

Gregster said:
I think you are looking too much at what you would do bud and not considering what the OP has asked. I think he has some good info, so maybe better to leave it there.

As far as I know OP asked Amd or Nvidia and can wait up to 3 months. He will probably go 970 as he is upgrading from a older card so will be happy anyway but if he can wait 3 months or a little longer he will get at least 30%-50% more performance on top of that for the same money.