I have followed [H] for quite a few years and found Brent and the team to be very fair. I also remember a few here kicking up a fuss when NVidia were tops but come the 12.11 drivers for AMD and the nice improvements they gave the 7 series, all of a sudden they were the good guys and to be trusted. It seems they are damned if they do and damned if they don't, which I can attest to with my Youtube channel and showing side by side comparisons. For some strange reason, people don't like seeing their favourite brand getting beaten and I must be a fanboy lol (and that has worked both ways).
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** The Official Nvidia GeForce 'Pascal' Thread - for general gossip and discussions **
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I have followed [H] for quite a few years and found Brent and the team to be very fair. I also remember a few here kicking up a fuss when NVidia were tops but come the 12.11 drivers for AMD and the nice improvements they gave the 7 series, all of a sudden they were the good guys and to be trusted. It seems they are damned if they do and damned if they don't, which I can attest to with my Youtube channel and showing side by side comparisons. For some strange reason, people don't like seeing their favourite brand getting beaten and I must be a fanboy lol (and that has worked both ways).
Well I do often at least read the conclusions. I like to hear what they think about it. It just doesn't affect my judgement or decision.
I haven't noticed any trend with this. If there were, review sites would nearly all be getting higher overclocks than most users can, and I simply haven't seen that this is the case.
No, it is when you get back to the UK, if they find at customs that you have bought something over £140 overseas (outside the EU) then you can get slapped with import duty on it.
Easiest thing to do is to just bring the card back outside of its box, if questioned just say you got it off a friend as a gift while abroad.
To be fair, getting stopped at customs for a bag check is pretty damn rare.
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And post the box back separately. No customs duty on empty boxes.
Everyone would just say everything is a gift?
Unboxed it looks like you haven't just bought it.
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The difference between 1080 to 1440 is is an increase of ~77% pixels.
From 1440 to 4K it is an increase of 125%
So as you say, the gap is the same plus an additional ~50%
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It's not about winning. Just check the amount of gtx960 cards getting a gold star when it's pants according to most other review sites. He reviews loads of 380 cards with one getting a gold but we all know the gtx960 is an over priced piece of crap in comparison yet receive's a gold more often. Here in the forums we pretty much all agree that the gtx960 is a piece of crap but they give it a gold review. Sure AMD forced them into giving a 7970 a good review as the rest of sites proved it was now superior. Anyhow like others i will read multiple reviews to see what's what.
The performance gap is huge on Tpu between the 2 and if you check Ocuk pricing the gtx960 can't stack up. Even users like Cat are saying as much.
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/R9_380X_Strix/23.html
I bought a card a year and a half ago for less than both there top counter parts that spanks both them but at least the 380x is not falling back in performance. Gold my butt lol.
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They are rare but even saying that, I travel a lot of have had dozens of bag searches over the years. I've bought laptops, dvd players, iphone, all sorts of electrical goods over the years. never, not once have I been asked to pay any tax on any of them. all in their original unopened boxes, with receipts.
The only thing they wanted my to pay tax on was the 2000 cigarettes I once brought back fro Dubai
They said, pay the duty or leave them. Safe to say I left them. but it was still a worthwhile gamble. There was no criminality or fines to face. Just a choice to pay the tax or loose the cigs.
Alas I feel I have steered this thread off course so will leave that there. By all accounts prices will be similar when all is said and done as a 970 here and over there is about the same price just now.
I think it's really worth talking about exactly how many pixels here. Because it's very relevant when talking about GPU power required.
1080p -> 1440p = +1,600,000 pixels needing to be pushed
1440p -> 2160p = +4,600,000 pixels needing to be pushed
It's a truly massive difference.
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You still have to pay the VAT man his 20% when importing goods, sometimes you get lucky, other times you don't.
The correct translation for UK prices would be:
$699 US MSRP
XE rate is 1.43, no bank will give you this and no cc company will, I purchased some parts from US today on AMEX and the rate they gave me was 1.39
So $699 / 1.39 = £503
So we have £503, now adding shipping from US with insurance, lets say a reasonable $50.
Put us at £540.00, now add your VAT = £647.00, so best case buying from US is around £600, worse case closer to £700. Then if anything goes wrong you have to ship back to the US and cover the shipping yourself. Even if you get lucky with customs and say they mess up and only charge 8-10% import duty and no VAT, still £600 region and a royal pain in the ass should it break or go wrong.
Apologies, misread and took out of context what you were replying to.
Very true. And that's why we are in a funny situation.
GPUs are released incrementally. Typically this kept up with new and modern games being released. Whereas suddenly we are demanding cards literally 4x faster than previous ones. So the cards arent keeping up.
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Shhhh, they will be reading this. Tell them £200, not a penny more.
