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Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

On or off the hype train?

  • (off) Train has derailed

    Votes: 207 39.2%

  • (on) Overcrowding, standing room only

    Votes: 100 18.9%

  • (never ever got on) Chinese escalator

    Votes: 221 41.9%
  • Total voters
    528
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ICDP said:
This is not the official MSRP, or AMD price gouging but retailers prince gouging.
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True but there's talk that and have basically given the nod for this as well. Doesn't surprise me either way of its just retailers doing it, we're well used to it at this point.

Remains to be seen if we get pumped on Monday or not, or if aio cards can be had without these bundles jacking up the price.
 
r7slayer said:
Exactly this. It's why a lot primary game on a console and don't bother with a pc. You're no way around it, to build a pc that is equally as good as a console your going to be spending more than what a console costs. And to the most point you want to aim for that 60FPS experience especially when you taste it in some games. It's why i left console gaming as my primary platform i just couldn't cope with the low frame rates. But the problem is with PC gaming it leaves you with a sour taste when you get a decent game but its not well optimised and you want more performance. Happened to me in MMO and odd games such as ark survival when it came out. My 290x just couldn't cope at 1080p and keeping near 60FPS. So felt i needed to upgrade. And that's where it starts and your then buying high end gfx cards and find that they just seem to get more expensive and games get more and more demanding. Makes a guy like my self want to go back to console gaming.
But i find keeping games at high settings looks exactly the same to me as ultra in most the games its only very rare you get that one game where you may notice the difference. Where you can lower settings get much better FPS and keep same visual IQ. Console gaming that's all taken care of but you have to cope with 30FPS.
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If you do other stuff on the PC besides gaming, the only real cost would be the GPU - and even then perhaps you'd cut some back, as you'd use that for sppeding up certain processes. The costs are quite relative from individual to individual.

Of course, that doesn't mean AMD, Intel or nVIDIA shouldn't help promoting the PC stronger through better prices. :)
 
dave2kdh said:
Just playing catch up here as I was going to get a vega but they recommended a 1000w for the water cooled gigabyte version? Ouch my psu http://www.gigabyte.us/Graphics-Card/GV-RXVEGA64X-W-8GD-B#sp
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Hi, I'm new but I did see some discussion on this back around 30 pages ago...

It seems a reasonable recommendation for the liquid cooled variant. There'll be a sizeable safety margin involved, especially as there are considerations such as the number and type of components in the rest of the build and how much upgradability is desired.

One concern with smaller capacity (e.g. around the 600W mark) PSUs is how they split their 12V rails and the max capacity on each - particularly for earlier versions of the ATX12V standard. Usually the CPU's EPS12V is on one of the 12V rails, so even if there's enough total power capacity, adding another ~200W from one of the graphics card connectors (assuming the card splits its draw 50/50 with little from the PCIe slot) may well exceed the rated capacity of that 12V rail.
 
Calin Banc said:
If you do other stuff on the PC besides gaming, the only real cost would be the GPU - and even then perhaps you'd cut some back, as you'd use that for sppeding up certain processes. The costs are quite relative from individual to individual.

Of course, that doesn't mean AMD, Intel or nVIDIA shouldn't help promoting the PC stronger through better prices. :)
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For most people the use of the PC is for internet, email, word processing. High end CPU, mobo, RAM and GPU just not needed. Your point is more valid for some minorities lie 4k video editing etc,
 
Gerard said:
Very :eek:

Though if $699 turns into £699 they can take it and lodge it into an orifice where it will get a coat of brown. :mad:
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If it translates to £699 I'll be putting another £100 and getting a hybrid 1080ti

After having a fury-x I've decided its going to be AIOs or Hybrids from now on, and you know full well the reference vega blower is going to be awful. I got caught out at the 290X launch with a reference blower, it was garbage, and I'll never buy a reference blower again from AMD or Nvidia.
 
HRL said:
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Most gamers I know all own both.
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Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal. I know a whole bunch of people who have one or the other and not both. I cant think of anyone I know who has both a gaming PC and a console.

It just makes no sense to me to spend all that money on a decent gaming PC where i prefer to play games anyway and then spend extra money on another gaming device. I dont play games on TV, or with people in the same room, and cant stand blocky/low frame rate/input lag.
 
There has to be a few people with a gaming room who just have the best of both. Overall the price of a pc and console isnt large to anyone with a good income, doesnt matter if its actually needed just nice to have isnt it :D This forum has to have people with both, I'd be amazed if theres nobody with all the gear.
My first pc, a lowly 486sx-25mhz cost thousands btw, 14" CRT think it was, even with not great prices everybody is lucky right now to have these 'supercomputers' like Raja called them, the mainstream is making hardware cheaper for home pc
AMDPower said:
the pricing should have been

RX 56 - £400
RX 64 air - £500
RX 64 Liquid £550

looks nice is good but performance is not there for £699 or even £600.
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Sterling should/could be 1.7 to the dollar if they had kept rates well above 1%. Theres nothing fantastical about that, it was true in 2014 and the performance fits these prices but it wont happen now
56- £330
64- £440
64 premium - £550
 
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andybird123 said:
Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal. I know a whole bunch of people who have one or the other and not both. I cant think of anyone I know who has both a gaming PC and a console.

It just makes no sense to me to spend all that money on a decent gaming PC where i prefer to play games anyway and then spend extra money on another gaming device. I dont play games on TV, or with people in the same room, and cant stand blocky/low frame rate/input lag.
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lol you don't want to go in my lads room then .. 4 consoles hand held things and a pc .. he can be playing dota and 2 others .. :)
 
andybird123 said:
Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal. I know a whole bunch of people who have one or the other and not both. I cant think of anyone I know who has both a gaming PC and a console.

It just makes no sense to me to spend all that money on a decent gaming PC where i prefer to play games anyway and then spend extra money on another gaming device. I dont play games on TV, or with people in the same room, and cant stand blocky/low frame rate/input lag.
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Because it makes no sense to you, you think other people don't do it? Your experience doesn't define everybody else's. Everybody I know that is interested in gaming has both a console and a PC. And a lot of people have consoles in their living room for social gaming. They can play when friends come over. PC gaming is much more solitary.
 
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