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Cheerio 980Ti
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I think my little 980 Ti will do ok against your 7970.
I know you're just winding me up cos that's not what I meant
But if your 980ti is still rocking 50fps maxing out new games in 3 years time (which it won't) then fair play to you.
I know you're just winding me up cos that's not what I meant
But if your 980ti is still rocking 50fps maxing out new games in 3 years time (which it won't) then fair play to you.
The HD7970 is still a good card and I may even get another one in the future.
As to what a 980 Ti can do in the future, no one knows.
I can not even get an overclocked watercooled Pascal Titan to do 50fps in some games now !!!!
exactly this had my SLI 980 Ti's since late June 2015 and they cost me £499 brand new from OcUK
i have them underwater and they absolutely destroy everything at 1440p maxed out at 100fps+ and only 60-70% gpu usage in all games
defiantly one of the best GPUs to come out before pricing went silly
will only upgrade when i move to 4k 120Hz
Just noticed they're advertising 980TI's again but only one card.
EVGA Hybrid for £450 if anyone is still looking for one.....
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/evga...s-graphics-card-06g-p4-1996-kr-gx-283-ea.html
EVGA Hybrid for £450 if anyone is still looking for one.....
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/evga...s-graphics-card-06g-p4-1996-kr-gx-283-ea.html
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Using 2 x 980ti MSI for 1440p 165hertz and system runs sweet, I won't be changing my cards for quite some time.
I loved the HD 7850 when I had them, I even crossfired them and got them overclocked to be beating stock HD 7950's and when scaled they would beat out a R9 290 just slightly. The biggest hit for those was the fact it only have 2GB of VRAM and even back playing BF3 @1440p I struggled with the limited VRAM. Thing is thinking about it my GTX 1070 is about as hot as one of those old cards and when you think about how much better the 1070 is it just shows how far we have come in just 4 years, we think it's became slightly stagnant but maybe not.
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The two best cards I've ever had are the Radeon 9600 pro and the Before 8800GT. Both of them offered near top performance whilst being wallet friendly. Can't sat the same for 980TI.
Yeah the 8800GT was a steal. I think I sold my Nvidia 216 a week before the 8800GT hit for £165 and then bought a 8800GT for £119 which was much faster.
We will never see days like that again.
9700 pro and 8800GT were two of the best cards.
As for cards that made a big difference,
the 4xxx cards from AMD, they brought AMD back into the game and caught everyone, including NVidia by surprise.
The first Titan. The rebranding of the top of the line Nvidia cards from x80 to Titan was a master stroke. Most people would never accepted an x80 card been priced that high. But a rename and calling it an ultra high end solved that problem. The marketing worked and the Titan sold really well.
As for cards that made a big difference,
the 4xxx cards from AMD, they brought AMD back into the game and caught everyone, including NVidia by surprise.
The first Titan. The rebranding of the top of the line Nvidia cards from x80 to Titan was a master stroke. Most people would never accepted an x80 card been priced that high. But a rename and calling it an ultra high end solved that problem. The marketing worked and the Titan sold really well.
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I had a 8800GS then I went to a GTX 480. Despite being a power hog the 480 was years ahead of the time, perfect for 1080p. Slowly gimped by Nvidia I'm sure by driver updates.
Now after years of talking about 4K, we still don't have a single card that isn't lackluster in this field. Even the Titan X Pascal is short of where it needs to be to guarantee any kind of future value.
In terms of value for money, everything since the 5xx series cards have been a bit of a failure IMO.
Now after years of talking about 4K, we still don't have a single card that isn't lackluster in this field. Even the Titan X Pascal is short of where it needs to be to guarantee any kind of future value.
In terms of value for money, everything since the 5xx series cards have been a bit of a failure IMO.
What was it about the mid range 8800s that made them so good? I've seen a lot of people say they were their favorite cards so im guessing they were pretty special. I went for the 8800ultras and they were a bit of a let down especially considering the price i payed on release, probably didnt help that they overclocked pretty poorly even with the EKFC blocks i had on them and ofc the poor SLI scaling in some games.
8800GT - the Ultras always seemed too expensive at the time, then they released the GTs with most of the performance at a much lower price point.
Mine was used in a backup PC for years until it started failing, then EVGA replaced it with a 480 which sold for £80, not a bad return for something like 5 years of use.
Mine was used in a backup PC for years until it started failing, then EVGA replaced it with a 480 which sold for £80, not a bad return for something like 5 years of use.
From memory when the 8800GT came out it offered about 85 to 90% of the performance of the more expensive cards, cost only £119 and destroyed the previous gens top cards which were selling for over £300 up to 8800GT launch. Like I said I sold my 2nd tier previous gen card for £165 two days before the 8800GT launched as i had a feeling that it was going to be a giant killer. It was. it was faster than the $400 8800GTS and almost matched the previous years 8800GTX which cost $600. It was also cooler, quieter, only single slot and one power connector from memory.
The equivalent today would be Nvidia releasing the 1080GTX for £119. Imagine how popular that would be?
Or for Nvidia to release next year a 1150 for around £100 which matches a current 1080 in perfromance.
Neither will ever happen again sadly which is why the 8800GT has a special place in peoples hearts along with the other giant killer the 4850.
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I was really pleased with the upgrade from HD2900XT to HD4870. The performance jump was amazing, i was always a little disappointed with the HD2900XT with the noise it produced.