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Tykey said:
What are likely to be the cheaper 9070 xt brands?
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The most likely MSRP cards should be the base tier aftermarket cards. I'll list them below, not all of them will be available on OCUK if you check out their 9070xt page:
Asrock Challenger
Asus Prime (Asus Dual?)
Gigabyte Gaming?
Powercolour Reaper
Sapphire Pulse
XFX Swift?

No guarantees on the above being MSRP, a few I'm not sure as not every AIB will have an MSRP model. Asus usually do a simple 'Dual' as a cheaper card and Gigabyte's cheapest looks to be an overclocked model, which usually cost more {probably not MSRP then). XFX have changed branding so idk about the Swift.

I just saw that for 7800XT, the AIBs seem to range to ~£100-150 more. If the Red Devil is only £100-150 more than MSRP, that won't be too bad. But looking at how Nvidia AIBs are demanding up to 50-70% more... I have no hopes that the non-MSRP AIB cards will be within £100 of MSRP. The pre-scalped era has already begun. I expect MSRP cards to be the first to sell out, sadly and not be back in stock for that price again, a la ARC B580...
 
I know with the 7900 series the Nitro+ was good bit better then Pulse but the 9070XT Pulse is looking like a right chonky boi so I'd imagine it wouldn't be that bad of a card this time round
 
mahius said:
I just saw that for 7800XT, the AIBs seem to range to ~£100-150 more. If the Red Devil is only £100-150 more than MSRP, that won't be too bad. But looking at how Nvidia AIBs are demanding up to 50-70% more... I have no hopes that the non-MSRP AIB cards will be within £100 of MSRP. The pre-scalped era has already begun. I expect MSRP cards to be the first to sell out, sadly and not be back in stock for that price again, a la ARC B580...
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But that was the point I was making earlier, there were rumours Nvidia is charging their AIB's so much for the chip, that it leaves little or no margin to build a MSRP card, isn't that one of the reasons EVGA stopped making Nvidia cards? Does AMD rinse their AIB's in the same way? If not, then more chance of them hitting MSRP and still making their margin.
 
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Thanks chaps, it will be a sapphire or powercolor or XFX or ASRock for me if I can get 1 from OC, in that order.
 
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mahius said:
The most likely MSRP cards should be the base tier aftermarket cards. I'll list them below, not all of them will be available on OCUK if you check out their 9070xt page:
Asrock Challenger
Asus Prime (Asus Dual?)
Gigabyte Gaming?
Powercolour Reaper
Sapphire Pulse
XFX Swift?
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The Asrock Challenger only seems to be an non-XT card. The Steel Legend which comes in dark and white model is the "base" XT model, though i've only found the white model, no idea if it would be MSRP.

I'd love a Nitro+/Taichi but if they're £100-£150 than a Pulse (if i'm lucky enough to get one at MSRP) then no ta.

NB. I'm currently running an Asrock card, built like a tank, and from memory OCUK deal with the warranty on behalf of Asrock (or at least they did when I bought mine).

Edit - Asrock don't seem to be doing a "Phantom Gaming" for the 9070/XT, which is their mid-level card. TBH, I quite like the look of the Steel Legend, even in white (Asrock cards tend to look better in the flesh than in pictures).
 
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Correct me if I’m wrong gang but I seem to remember ocuk falling out with xfx due to RMA nightmare’s. That’s why there are no xfx cards in these parts.
 
melmac said:
What are you talking about?? AMD didn't develop the display port.

VESA came up with Display port and the 8800GT was the first GPU to use one.
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According to Wikipedia the Nvidia 9600GT from February 2008 was the first Nvidia GPU with DP, however after a quick google it appears to be inaccurate as a Sparkle 8800GT with a DP port came out 1 month earlier in January 2008.

The first AMD GPU with DP came later in 2008, so on this basis it would seem Nvidia was first. However AMD showed off a demo card with DP back in August 2007 https://www.bit-tech.net/news/tech/amd_demos_first_gpu_with_native_displayport/1/

And the first monitor with DP was the Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP, launched in August 2008.

So really its a bit murky and difficult to prove who was first. Display Port was invented by VESA in May 2006 and the first consumer Nvidia and AMD GPU's with Display Port launched in 2008, so lets just say AMD and Nvidia had display port at the same time
 
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mahius said:
The most likely MSRP cards should be the base tier aftermarket cards. I'll list them below, not all of them will be available on OCUK if you check out their 9070xt page:
Asrock Challenger
Asus Prime (Asus Dual?)
Gigabyte Gaming?
Powercolour Reaper
Sapphire Pulse
XFX Swift?
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The Pulse and Pure cards look to be the same for the 9070 other than colour, Pulse=black and Pure =white.
 
I think it would be much better if AMD release large amount of base models at MSRP on their own website and also Nvidia, its getting tiring every time something gets release we have to pay 20%-30% above MSRP
 
Firegod said:
Just a bit of fun. Posted to remind certain people things go wrong in NVIDIA dricers too. :) I think there was some discussion in this thread a few pages ago... Or could perhaps many pages ago now. Lol.
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I think most threads in this sub-forum, if they go long enough end up with a driver discussion! :D
I have to admit, generally I don't update drivers every release, mostly just if I have issues or need support for a certain game. What do other do, do you upgrade every time there's a new driver?
Also I guess if it's a new GPU I'd get new drivers, as I'd imagine you'd be in for a poor experience otherwise.

AMDPower said:
I think it would be much better if AMD release large amount of base models at MSRP on their own website and also Nvidia, its getting tiring every time something gets release we have to pay 20%-30% above MSRP
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I was thinking about the "reference" cards AMD had in their presentation that a lot of people like, were they 2 or 3 slot cards as the small number of pictures I've seen of them they didn't look as chunky as the ones we're seeing from AIBs. Maybe that's why they're not releasing them, maybe the design isn't actually great for keeping the cards cool?
 
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