Geforce Titan rumours.

Gregster · 27 Feb 2013 at 10:35

Rusty0611 said:
Peterborough is on the way (almost).

You could have stopped by and I would have return fired those spuds back at you. Tonester is also nearby although he lives in a farmer town.

OCPete · 27 Feb 2013 at 10:36

Sweet. Tech P0rn! :cool:

WANT!

When i can find one for £750 i'm going to crumble!

Boomstick777 · 27 Feb 2013 at 10:40

MOOGLEYS said:
All the talk of low yields is PR trash talk. Nvidia have been producing this GPU for quite a while. 18,000 of them power the Titan supercomputer and there is talk of another being built. Any yield problems would have been long gone. Nvidia held on to Titan awaiting a hole in the market before letting it loose. AMD winning contracts on both consoles and being tied up with both is the perfect time for Nvidia.

^^ This, it's an excuse to justify inflated launch prices, Nvidia and the retailers putting it out at shocking prices (I've ordered one aswell :rolleyes:

)

There may be truth in that there isn't enough Titan's right now, so supply and demand does dictate a certain level of price hike, but £900 - £1000 = joke..

In a little while there will be more Titan's available than are being sold and prices should tumble. I just want it now so willing to pay the extra lol. I think the 8970 from AMD will have similar performance @ around £450 UK @ launch, but won't launch until like 6 months from now..

MOOGLEYS · 27 Feb 2013 at 10:41

My Gigabyte has arrived as well. Will find out later if it was worth £829.

mothermachine · 27 Feb 2013 at 10:45

REQUEST TO THOSE WHO HAVE A TITAN:

If anyone who now has a Titan in their possession has a copy of 3ds max installed along with VRay, Octane or IRay (if you have 3ds max you have Iray by default), please, please consider doing some benchmarks comparing GPU-enhanced renders to 580/680 etc. and see if you can fill the 6GB VRAM buffer with proxies etc to test this card's real capabilities! Please remember to put them all in CUDA mode, not OpenCL as it's currently broken on the Titans apparently.

I and many others would be very grateful!

Thanks!

LtMatt · 27 Feb 2013 at 10:47

Some early user benchmarks would be good if titan owners have time.

MOOGLEYS · 27 Feb 2013 at 10:55

Early review - The card is heavy yet feels very high quality... I think I will admire it on the desk for a couple of hours before installing...

Besty · 27 Feb 2013 at 10:59

Well, the new Titan owners have kicked me down a fair few places in the Firestrike world rankings.

I am now firmly out of the top 10 in both single and dual-cards.

Ahh, the price of vanity.

MOOGLEYS · 27 Feb 2013 at 11:01

I'm out of the Titan game now. I felt it in my hands but it was not to be. Just sold it to the gas man

Nice little profit I could not turn down....

Boomstick777 · 27 Feb 2013 at 11:03

MOOGLEYS said:
I'm out of the Titan game now. I felt it in my hands but it was not to be. Just sold it to the gas man Nice little profit I could not turn down....

Sold it to the gas man? How did that convo get started? Lol, did he just randomly have £1000 in his pocket?

mothermachine · 27 Feb 2013 at 11:06

MOOGLEYS said:
Early review - The card is heavy yet feels very high quality... I think I will admire it on the desk for a couple of hours before installing...

NEGATIVE, SOLDIER! Get that thing installed and get benching!!

Besty · 27 Feb 2013 at 11:06

Boomstick777 said:
Sold it to the gas man? How did that convo get started? Lol, did he just randomly have £1000 in his pocket?

Translation:

Moogleys installed it into his system but realised it would only overclock by 10MHZ and so decided to RMA it

MOOGLEYS · 27 Feb 2013 at 11:08

Boomstick777 said:
Sold it to the gas man? How did that convo get started? Lol, did he just randomly have £1000 in his pocket?

He was doing my yearly inspection

I had it on the desk and he said "Is that a Titan, I was thinking of getting one of them" I jokingly said "you can have this one if the price is right." He made me an offer I said "Ok" and he transferred me the money there and then. My boiler is safe and I have some extra cash I was not expecting..

Today so far has gone quite well

Boomstick777 · 27 Feb 2013 at 11:09

MOOGLEYS said:
He was doing my yearly inspection I had it on the desk and he said "Is that a Titan, I was thinking of getting one of them" I jokingly said "you can have this one if the price is right." He made me an offer I said "Ok" and he transferred me the money there and then. My boiler is safe and I have some extra cash I was not expecting..

Today so far has gone quite well

Lol, if you made a profit, well done. Are you gonna order another now you saved some money on that one?

mothermachine · 27 Feb 2013 at 11:10

MOOGLEYS said:
He was doing my yearly inspection I had it on the desk and he said "Is that a Titan, I was thinking of getting one of them" I jokingly said "you can have this one if the price is right." He made me an offer I said "Ok" and he transferred me the money there and then. My boiler is safe and I have some extra cash I was not expecting..

Today so far has gone quite well

Nicely done

Arthur Hucksake · 27 Feb 2013 at 11:12

And this is the moment I bow out.

If nVidia have done it once, they will certainly keep this practice up if these things sell. (Which they seem to be)

Roll on PS4.

Never in a million years would I drop that much cash on a graphics card that will be second fiddle in under a years time.

It is sheer insanity.

Boomstick777 · 27 Feb 2013 at 11:14

This is how I worked out the Titan purchase, honestly it's not that bad really * £4 a week..

Say I wanna keep my Titan for 3 years..

Titan = £830
Sale of GTX 670 4Gb = £250
£580 difference.
Titan last 3 years = 36 months
580 / 36 = 16.1
£16.1 per month.
16.1 / 4 = 4

£4 per week.

That is if I keep the card and never sell it, if I sell the card at end of 3 years it will cost even less, maybe £2 a week

. Not bad for high end gaming..

mothermachine · 27 Feb 2013 at 11:15

Arthur Hucksake said:
And this is the moment I bow out.

If nVidia have done it once, they will certainly keep this practice up if these things sell. (Which they seem to be)

Roll on PS4.

Never in a million years would I drop that much cash on a graphics card that will be second fiddle in under a years time.

It is sheer insanity.

blaaaaah blaaaaaah enough already! so bloody bored with these posts! It's not a good purchase for you personally. So why post? It's a great buy for some people, me potentially included, for CUDA use. Damnit I'm so bored with these whingy negative jealousy posts....

MOOGLEYS · 27 Feb 2013 at 11:16

Boomstick777 said:
Lol, if you made a profit, well done. Are you gonna order another now you saved some money on that one?

I was never going to keep it for long just maybe a bit longer than half hour. I had a build planned in a couple of weeks I was going to use it in.

I'm not buying at the current prices, I chucked in a DGX soundcard I had lying around as well to sweeten the deal and accepted £900.

Boomstick777 · 27 Feb 2013 at 11:19

mothermachine said:
blaaaaah blaaaaaah enough already! so bloody bored with these posts! It's not a good purchase for you personally. So why post? It's a great buy for some people, me potentially included, for CUDA use. Damnit I'm so bored with these whingy negative jealousy posts....

Agreed, also the Titan will be more powerful than the PS4 from the getgo so not sure what that poster meant, you could buy a Titan today and will probably last the entire lifespan of the PS4

. Not to mention games on PC are cheaper in some case free, over the course of it's lifetime the PS4 will drain far more money.. Each game £45 a pop...

You don't even need to spend Titan money to beat consoles lol..