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Quick Question for AMD/Nvidia user

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Quick Question

1. Does Nvidia Cards 780/780TI, have a feature like zero core technology? where the fan goes completely off?

2. now on my 7990 if i turn my main screen off my 3 other monitors also go off (black screen), on Nvidia the main screen can go off & other stay on. is it possible to make this work on AMD

depending on these answers i have chosen my next card side, So be careful :D

Nvidia 780/780Ti/Titan Black/?880?
AMD 290P/X
 
Tbh as Tommy pointed out, New cards are due within the next month or so, I'd wait until we have solid info on them before asking. Though it's not looking like anything exciting, gibbo has already said amds next card won't be faster then a 290 (285x?) And nvidias next offering is looking like a 780 with a smaller bus and lower power.

If the above is true and you aren't looking for any nvidia specific feature (physx, gsync etc...) I'd grab a 290p, some mental freebies with them atm too, games, ram, ssd...
 
its tough indeed Pgi,
i kinda want Nvidia for witcher 3 & to try Nvidia again.

some of the offers on AMD never settle i want to, like sniper elite 3
still waiting on my refund from Gigabyte so got some time to figure it out.

if i was to go Nvidia it would have to be a 4gb+ card so titan black...
 
Those are eol now and naturally are now like rocking horse plop.

What resolution do you game at smogsy? Going over 3gb could be a pain in either direction. If rumours are true (if!!!). Then you're either looking at a 6gb titan black for £700 a pop or a 4gb 880 but with a possibly constraining 256bit bus, I say possibly as if it is true we don't know things like rop count and other things I'm told effect performance at higher resolutions.
 
Those are on offer at a loss as gibbo wants shot of them (poor seller at rrp). If you have the cash snap the pair up asap.

None of those resolutions you listed will tax a 3gb card tbh and I think a lot of the 4k vram scare mongering is on the presumption everyone is going to play Bf4 at ultra 4xmsaa, in reality most probably won't :)
 
pgi947 said:
Those are on offer at a loss as gibbo wants shot of them (poor seller at rrp). If you have the cash snap the pair up asap.

None of those resolutions you listed will tax a 3gb card tbh and I think a lot of the 4k vram scare mongering is on the presumption everyone is going to play Bf4 at ultra 4xmsaa, in reality most probably won't :)
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But tbh titanfall and watchdogs both tax the 3gb vram when at maxed settings
 
Titanfall uses a cache system which fills vram not surpass it and watchdogs isn't even debatable, poorly coded, poorly optimised typical Ubisoft crap.
 
pgi947 said:
Titanfall uses a cache system which fills vram not surpass it and watchdogs isn't even debatable, poorly coded, poorly optimised typical Ubisoft crap.
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I got a lot of stick for boycotting Ubisoft games because they're a 'Nvidia partner'. Truth is, that has nothing to do with it. I'm just fed up of playing their broken and unsupported games.
 
LtMatt said:
I got a lot of stick for boycotting Ubisoft games because they're a 'Nvidia partner'. Truth is, that has nothing to do with it. I'm just fed up of playing their broken and unsupported games.
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Far cry 3 didn't support sli for like a year lol
 
LtMatt said:
I got a lot of stick for boycotting Ubisoft games because they're a 'Nvidia partner'. Truth is, that has nothing to do with it. I'm just fed up of playing their broken and unsupported games.
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The last game Ubi made that ran like any other was Silent Hunter III, it was Silent Hunter IV or V and there after where every game ran like a Three Legged Pregnant Hypo!

I remember myself and a mass of Naval strategist Game enthusiasts pleading and ##### at Ubi to fix their games as far back as that.

Even now SH-V on a 290 with about a thousand FPS is unplayable.

Just don't buy any of their games.

Junk!
 
smogsy said:
Quick Question

1. Does Nvidia Cards 780/780TI, have a feature like zero core technology? where the fan goes completely off?

2. now on my 7990 if i turn my main screen off my 3 other monitors also go off (black screen), on Nvidia the main screen can go off & other stay on. is it possible to make this work on AMD

depending on these answers i have chosen my next card side, So be careful :D

Nvidia 780/780Ti/Titan Black/?880?
AMD 290P/X
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Point 2 ..... I can turn off individual screens and the others remain on when not in Eyefinity mode.
 
LtMatt said:
I got a lot of stick for boycotting Ubisoft games because they're a 'Nvidia partner'. Truth is, that has nothing to do with it. I'm just fed up of playing their broken and unsupported games.
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Quite ironic, wasn't far cry 3 a gaming evolved title too? Pretty sure I got that and blood dragon through amd promos.
 
pgi947 said:
Quite ironic, wasn't far cry 3 a gaming evolved title too? Pretty sure I got that and blood dragon through amd promos.
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It certainly was and i did plenty of moaning about that game too. :)

Blood Dragon worked wonderfully well mind, didn't have any problems with that.
 
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