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So no 580 in stcok and over £300 for a 570 well done Nvidia
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Just a reminder.
He gave you a way out & explained your possible reasons which i thought was valid & your saying no to them.
It does not matter that i paid £4500 for my gfx cards & monitors alone, if i could have gotten them for half that i would have so it not about what you could afford to pay but about what you would have liked to pay.
So we are back to square one.
If you are not justifying your purchase why make a comment at all about, I feel better. You'd merely say 'Happy that my cards are still up there with these new ones, at least I don't have to spend again', feeling better indicates you were not convinced when you bought them and had doubts.
Well Rroff, I will leave you to your own devices since you seem to contradict yourself from one post to the next, and it doesn't really help have a constructive conversation within a thread.
So, I am happy that you feel better. Oh and remember next time you are off on holiday to Italy, and a volcano erupts in Iceland you can 'feel better' that you didn't go there, even though it was never a consideration.
I've not contradicted myself at all you simply don't understand my purchasing habits I don't feel the need for the latest and greatest but I do feel a certain satisfaction when the hardware I've bought isn't humiliated by the latest and greatest.
You can't even compare it to holiday destinations.
You can't even compare it to holiday destinations.
And you then go on to say it's not purchase justification.
I don't think anything else need to be said.
His point is that you should feel good about the holiday that your going on in the first place & that it should not need a disaster elsewhere to make you feel good about.
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And you then go on to say it's not purchase justification.
I don't think anything else need to be said.
Actually thats just me not explaining things very well... I spent just over £300 on a setup that not only exceed the performance of then current and newer single card setups that cost quite a bit more, it also holds up well against 2 of those cards costing more than twice as much and if another new setup comes out that is also similiar priced or more money than I spent while still offering similiar or worse performance for the money relative to my setup then I will be even more happy that my setup hasn't been rendered utterly obsolete by newer more expensive offerings, I'm not sure whats so hard to understand. It doesn't matter if I would have bought that setup or not.
Your telling me if you looked at 2 holiday destinations - even if you dismissed one out of hand due to some prejudice or other, that you wouldn't feel a bit happier that you went to the other one upon hearing the one you didn't go to had a major disaster?
I know I find it hilarious that me being happy about getting a bit of mileage out of my GTX470 SLI setup seems to bother some people so badly. I mean I'm still gonna be laughing if the 6970 came out at £300 and was 40% faster than the GTX580 as I've been enjoying that for the last few months already.
Well, I am glad that you made the right choice, and are happy that the performance you are experiencing is beyond what you could have expected, I guess Nvidia making the the 5x0 cards badly worked out well for you, along with EOL pricing that you got on the 470's.
I raise a glass in hope that ATi make their 69X0 cards equally poor to keep that smile on your face
Oh and thanks for finally making it make some sense.
I raise a glass in hope that ATi make their 69X0 cards equally poor to keep that smile on your face
Oh and thanks for finally making it make some sense.
You still don't get it.
The point is that you would not be happy with the one you did go on if a major disaster didn't happen at the other place because you're to busy wondering if the other would have been better it took a major disaster to happen before you were happy with your choice even though you will never go to that other place due to prejudice .
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No, that's obscene!
I'd feel sorry for people trapped in a disaster (not specifically talking iceland anymore myself).
Oh and jigger, did you watch good will hunting recently?
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I don't disagree that price to performance wise the 48xx was much better, and 5850 is...well, was the best until GTX460 came along, but don't you think it is still little early to claim the 6950/6970 is would be better price to performance than the GTX570/GTX580, by basing pricing on previous gen cards' launch prices? For example, the 6850 and the 6870 is hardly cheaper than the GTX460 1GB and the GTX470? Granted Nvidia has slashed pricethe GTX460/GTX470 to compete with the 6850/6870, but if AMD do launch the 6950/6970 at lower price than GTX570/GTX580, and their performance do match them, may be Nvidia would price slash to match again?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not doubting the "likelyness" of AMD/ATI offering better price to performance ratio for their new cards that's coming, but all I'm saying is that we still don't know for sure what the exact price that the 6950/6970 are gonna be launched at, nor does their actual performance until we see some benchmarks. What was true about the price to performance ratio for the 48xx, 5850 card might not necessarily true for the 6950/6970, as AMD/ATI can change their pricing strategy for all we know.
So basically we really should wait for the physical launch of the 6950/6970, if we really want to compare them with the GTX570/GTX580 fairly.
On a seperate note...no offense Final8y, but if you would never buy Nvidia with all things equal for both side, I don't see how you are in the position to criticize Rroff for never buying ATI
May be Rroff didn't get himself across the right way regarding buying mention his SLI GTX470 and relating it to the launch of the new cards, but I think what he really means is that he's glad that the money he spent on the graphics was not wasted and would be good enough to last him for a long while, pretty much in the same way like people who bought Q6600 and still happy with it to today because it would do everything they require, and not really feeling missing out too much with the launch of newer techs etc
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Am I the only one who understood what Rroff was saying by the first post?
Seriously, there's nothing wrong with being reassured of your expensive machines potential longevity...
Seriously, there's nothing wrong with being reassured of your expensive machines potential longevity...