There is not the harvest to be made from the new process. It seems expensive and not that great compared to previous ones even though this is technically a two stage jump, but we can see why the 20nm stuff failed miserably.
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There is not the harvest to be made from the new process. It seems expensive and not that great compared to previous ones even though this is technically a two stage jump, but we can see why the 20nm stuff failed miserably.
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Hexus confirmed Nvidia will only be selling the 1060, check Nvida's UK shop out, 1080/1070 FE price match their MSRP.
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I'm starting to think that the whole "FE" deal is an idea that Nvidia came up with when they realised they don't have enough model numbers to use after they have decided to try to hike up the pricing for every single of their card, so they got same card occupying two pricing spaces, widening the price bracket of each of their cards 
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Why am I not surprised the 1060 don't support SLI. Nvidia want people to spend the cash on the higher end. Why would they let you buy two 1060s and get better performance than the highest GPU for less.
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I have no idea who Hexus is or what you mean by 'Nvidia will only be selling the 1060'.
Except you wouldn't in most cases.
Not saying it's good for them to deny SLI capabilities for the 1060, but by today's standards, it's not a good value at all and comes with more headaches than advantages.
that is probably part of the equation. But you can also see that NV are approaching SLI very differently right now and its not really clear if this is positive or negative. Nvidia officially have dropped support for 3 and 4 way SLI with Pascal, which seems on the face of it that they don't believe in the driver resources required to maintain the status quo. However, they did release a new SLI bridge that genuinely seems to give big performance increases in some games (and nothing in others), and in general the 1080s seem to scale better than the Maxwell cards.
SLI and crossfire support is much more patchy now because many modern rendering techniques are just not compatible with mutli-gpu configurations. With DX12 support is going to get even more variable form utterly non-existent to very smooth with decent scaling - sadly mostly the former.
At the end of the day, who would honestly want SLI 160 or xfire 480s instead of just buying a more powerful single card solution. Just not logial to buy 2x1060 vs a factory clocked 1070.
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Hexus is a tech review site, very popular. And only nvidia will be selling the founders edition 1060 through their website. Is that easier to comprehend....
I dont know what people are expecting. PC gaming is on the rise big-time along with everything associated with it. You get £180 keyboards and £300 "gaming chairs" and £49 AAA games. As long as pc gaming popularity keep increasing so will prices.
The only thing anyone can do is vote with your wallet, simple.
The only thing anyone can do is vote with your wallet, simple.
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proper luxury gaming chairs are 400+, motherboards 400-500, etc etc. There's no point complaining about prices, everyone buys whatever they can afford.
Oo shiny, there's a mouse pad for £250!
Exactly we have lost a lot of money on 1080/1070 from initial pre orders so on 1060 no chances will be taken. So we shall be very careful with our launch pricing, we shall aim to be competitive and same pricing level as rest of market, certainly not below.
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man, stop it, seriously, you sound like you have a business yourself ...
Seems like hassle, more heat in the case, and more expensive.
$600 for two 1060 FE cards, or $449 for one 1070 FE, or $599 for one 1080. Why SLI two 1060s!
Nvidia is making sure people don't waste money
I'll be getting one GTX 1060 unless an RX 480 custom card can manage to deal with a modest overclock without running at 90 degrees/100% fan like my R9 290. I'm just about ready for a nice cool and quiet GPU.
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Seems like hassle, more heat in the case, and more expensive.
$600 for two 1060 FE cards, or $449 for one 1070 FE, or $599 for one 1080. Why SLI two 1060s!
Nvidia is making sure people don't waste money
I'll be getting one GTX 1060 unless an RX 480 custom card can manage to deal with a modest overclock without running at 90 degrees/100% fan like my R9 290. I'm just about ready for a nice cool and quiet GPU.
What people usually do is buy one now and for a cheap performance boost buy another down the line. Nvidia have taken this option away. If people in this bracket want an upgrade they will have to buy a more expensive card or buy again when the next gen arrives.
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Seems like the 1070 is till the card to buy, decent step up in performance from my 970 and while still too expensive it's not 1080 expensive!
I shall however wait till i can get one for sub £350
I shall however wait till i can get one for sub £350
lol you are going to wait for quite a long time
, it has no competition why would Nvidia drop the price ? maybe when the 490 release is closing in, but i dont see it happening before that.Not sure, spec wise it looks a little weak to do that with so few cores, 6gbps mem and 192 bus. I reckon it will probably be about on a par though.
True and one reason some may go with RX480 but really looking at all the reviews so far doing X-Fire benchmarks the micro-stuttering and average frame-rates vary too much so spoil the gaming enjoyment.