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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Rroff said:
You are in a minority - I like a GPU to look reasonably good - even though I won't be looking at it much - though I do usually use windowed cases with the case beside my desk in plain view.
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Of 50-80mil discrete gpus sold a year, like a few 10's of thousands are sold to people who care what they look like. Those who care what their cards look like are in an insanely ridiculously extreme minority.

Never have and never will care what my cards look like.


Also on the RX480 heatsink it looks like it's an open finned top to me like back in the good old days. That 1080 heatsink if you whip the shroud off you can't ghetto mod a fan to blow down into it for silent awesome cooling. It stopped at the 4890 back in the day. TO me the fins of hte RX480 cooler look open at the top. So get a reference card, whip the shroud off add a 120mm fan for silent yet awesome cooling, woo.
 
meldarthx said:
Dude Nvidia does not care - we're talking about company that willing dumped faulty chips on the market to around the tune of 30+ million dollars - which ended up costing the industry; their partners several billion dollars - some estimate 30 billion dollars......this was bumpgate. Do you think they've changed? No - look at 970 memory - we don't care we lied to you; we're not apologizing as its a new feature.........

Seriously Nvidia really is shady as it gets when it comes to business practices. This is coming from personal experience as I've had to work with them; each time - left even more bitter taste in my mouth; (also dealing with several hundred laptops all failing at the same time with nvidia chips cost company I was tens of thousands of dollars and IT manager's job)

Nvidia does make some great hardware - but their business practices....no god no....they don't care who they hurt or **** off; can see that in the mobile industry; console; etc...
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This well documented, serially-repeated behaviour can ultimate only have one source, and it's that guy who some think looks good in expensive leather.
The remarkable thing about the solder-defect bumpgate is that it got so little coverage in the tech so-called-press. The tech media really lets their readers/viewers down.

Some of the defenders of bumpgate really are perfectly okay with hardware purchases being in effect a subscription fee. The other thing is that whenever it does come up, some people are very quick to point out Xbox360 ring death and similar, quickly forgetting that that was Microsoft's doing and that Microsoft did actually repair most of that damage (Nvidia only paid a pittance after a lawsuit). That's the kind of behaviour one would expect from a shareholder or member of a cult, not from unbiased consumers.
 
AMD Radeon RX 480 supports DVI

Some people were worried that RX 480 may not support DVI. Well the good news is that AMD confirmed DVI support for Polaris 10. The DVI port was simply not installed on reference model, but proper connections are available on the circuit board. So it’s totally up to add-in-board partners to decide if they want to offer DVI-capable RX cards.
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Good news for all those still on DVI :)
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Good news for all those still on DVI :)
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it supports it in hardware and even has the pinouts on the reference PCB. AMD have obviously omitted it from the reference model for cost and airflow considerations. Although some AIB's may add it back to non ref/blower models, kind of like how that 8+6 pin apparent MSI RX480 with the lightening cooler on it has a dvi port.
 
sprite- said:
Am i the only one who doesn't care what a GPU looks like or what materials it's constructed of providing the performance is good?

I've never understood why people don't like or won't buy some cards if it's "ugly"

I see my graphics cards three times.... When i'm installing it... When i'm cleaning my PC for dust... When i'm uninstalling it... Even if you've got a windowed case, it's only the side of it that gets shown... Seriously, it could have a picture of a **** on it and be made out of bamboo, providing when it's reviewed by respected sites they tell me it's fast, durable and they recommend it as a buy then that's it.
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Totally agree mate :)
 
LoadsaMoney said:
I can't see what the ref looks like making a difference though tbh, as everyone will no doubt go for the custom ones.
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I'm probably gonna go for an 8GB reference card, so long as they can hit 1350Mhz or so with reasonable temps and noise. An extra 150Mhz would be nice, but an extra 5-10% performance for 25% more or so in cost just doesn't seem worth it to me.

I can really only justify upgrading over my 970 anyways because the price is so low, so the more I spend, the more the already 'not big' upgrade becomes less and less attractive.
 
WYNIR0 said:
Really itching to see the reviews and benchmarks to see if it's worth replacing one of my 390s or if I'm better off with a 470 to replace the 6950 in my bedroom pc.
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:p

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This looks like an ideal upgrade from my r9 280. Was set on a 1070 but they're about £100 more than I'm wanting to pay, plus I'm still 1080p so don't really need that perf yet. Then I can skip 1440p and go for 4k next year when this Vega stuff arrives.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Well you wouldn't put one of these in yer PC would you :p

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True story - many years back I had to recover a system in sort of an emergency at the weekend and had no spare PSUs to hand - all I could find on the high street were those q-tecs - think it was that exact same model - the system never ran properly again afterwards :|
 
LoadsaMoney said:
I just said it looks cheap and nasty, thats my opinion. :)

I guess all those saying that clown 1080 was gash are trolling as well. :(
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Difference being the clown 1080 does compared to the proper reference cooler. The 480 just looks like a fury x with a fan on it, and to be fair the fury x was a good looking card.
 
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