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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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beany_bot said:
Actually. 700w running for 8 hours a day at 12p a unit will cost you a noticable £240 a year.
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8 hours I lucky if I get 4 hours lol
spikerules said:
You obviously don't pay your electricity bill
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I be honest the other half deals with all the bills I pay my way through ;) who honestly counts up how much they have used on home goods? Yearly?
It's a never ending battle.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
500 watt five hundred! 1080 SLI uses about 380.

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Doom knew what was comming :D (shamelessly stolen from Reddit)
 
We should have a poll on how many people will get "holidays" in the next couple of days - I'd guess it will be into double figures.

(from the wielding of the ban-hammer by mods)
 
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spikerules said:
Exactly. I was really hoping AMD would take control with Vega.
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Same here, alas.

AMD CPU division: Yes! After years of mediocrity after our R&D budget was decimated by the boards decision to blow all the company's money on a bankrupt GPU company we have finally returned to form and started rivalling Intel once more!
AMD Board: This will be great, with our CPU and GPU divisions being competitive 2017 should be a landmark year!
AMD Shareholders: Yaaaay!
AMD GPU division: Help! our prototypes caught fire again!, we tried pouring napalm on it but things got worse, now everything's on fire. We really need a flamethrower down here ASAP
AMD CPU division: Oh god, the fires coming up the side of the building!
 
beany_bot said:
Every single release we get the same thing. folk doing the US dollars to GBP calculation, then adding VAT and saying thats the price. And every time the actual price is higher than that and folk loose their minds and throw up their hands.
Don't forget OC has to fly the cards over the Atlantic for a start.
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Yeah, it's much easier to use one dollar to one pound. It normally ends up closer to the actual price.
 
beany_bot said:
Every single release we get the same thing. folk doing the US dollars to GBP calculation, then adding VAT and saying thats the price. And every time the actual price is higher than that and folk loose their minds and throw up their hands.
Don't forget OC has to fly the cards over the Atlantic for a start.
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*lose

and no they come on boats from the factory............
 
into the uk to a place called altham. then are distributed from that warehouse to the places like ocuk ;)

presuming ocuk havent changed suppliers to much in the last year.
 
if we don't get a good price I feel Gibbo has let us down, there should be a set profit for OCUK on GPU with a small add on based on product cost as there is more risk etc, then Gibbo and other sellers should decide what is an acceptable price for the product taking into account performance and international pricing, and then he should argue AMDand vendors into the ground to get an acceptable price.

If a company cannot supply a price that is seen as reasonable, preferably based on a poll here (and yes i understand some may want miracles and low ball the poll) then id respect Gibbo telling them to GTFO.

Just because there is no ford or Nissan doesn't mean Ferrari and Lambo can go making more basic models in mass production and still charge ridiculous prices, the public are supposed to somewhat control all markets and this is hardly acceptable competition having 2 companies both gouging, if this was pharma companies the EU and USA would've fined both companies billions and funded a third company to enter the market.
 
MichaelM said:
*Assumptions based on someone that runs GPU, CPU, HDD and RAM benchmarks simultaneously with all fans at 100% and screen brightness maxed and always on. Features such as freesync, frame targets and chill will also never be used.
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More realistically, if you use your GPU for gaming say 20 hours a week on average, each additional 100 W power consumption will cost you £12.50/year at 12p/kWh. This assumes you've actually used a price comparison website to get a decent electricity tariff and are actually paying a good rate, standard tariffs will be higher than 12p/kWh.

I've looked at this before and I reckon the only time power consumption is important in a home environment is for always-on devices like servers. Heat output is a more valid concern though, IMO. All that extra power likely means more heat is kicked out, which can be painful during summer.
 
ubersonic said:
I saw that card earlier and noticed how much shorter than the reference Vega 56 it is, guess there's a lot of wasted space on the reference PCB.

I wonder if those cards would work in crossfire, given half the heatsink is off the card so airflow wouldn't be as crippled as on a normal non blower card.
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Its a shame,since the short length of the Fury X at least made it somewhat unique.

BenJames84 said:
Precisely where I ended up. I got the monitor with the features I wanted at a great price point, and it happened to be Freesync which I now want to take advantage of. Hopefully.
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I mean I think GN said AMD wanted reviewers to look at the Vega56 more,so hopefully it can salvage something from the launch for AMD.
 
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