Soldato
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Any prices? £330-350 and I'm interested.
It isnt going to be any cheaper than a ref 64 is it, definitely not half the price lol
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Any prices? £330-350 and I'm interested.
Nvidia have a long history of resting on their laurels. All of Nvidia's best products have followed a strong showing from their competitors.TBH better performance was available nearly 18 months ago. 1080 is old hat now and I'm looking forward to Volta.
Unfortunately I suspect Nvidia won't release it anytime soon given how lacklustre Vega has been.
You can get a nice RX580 for thatAny prices? £330-350 and I'm interested.
You can get a nice RX580 for that![]()
It's disgusting and I'm in a quandary about what to do with my current PC, it's an Ivy Bridge i5 with a GTX 970 but the 970 is in bad shape. I just bought a 1440p monitor and now I want something more powerful to play with.Painful isn't it.
It's disgusting and I'm in a quandary about what to do with my current PC, it's an Ivy Bridge i5 with a GTX 970 but the 970 is in bad shape. I just bought a 1440p monitor and now I want something more powerful to play with.
I've half a mind to strip it all down and sell it for parts and buy an XB1X
It's disgusting and I'm in a quandary about what to do with my current PC, it's an Ivy Bridge i5 with a GTX 970 but the 970 is in bad shape. I just bought a 1440p monitor and now I want something more powerful to play with.
I've half a mind to strip it all down and sell it for parts and buy an XB1X
not quite. Pascal came after more AMD mediocrity.Nvidia have a long history of resting on their laurels. All of Nvidia's best products have followed a strong showing from their competitors.
Unless the AIB partners can work miracles with Vega and somehow drastically improve performance and power consumption (not gonna happen) then Nvidia will likely not bother producing Votla cards until their Pascal cards have hit saturation point and sales have dried up.
So do the price of the console games though! That's the main reason I love PC gaming and why I'm building my kids a gaming PC rather than a new console. I have over 400 PC games, if I had a console that number would be closer to 20. £40-50 every time for a new game? And even when they do drop a bit it still around £25 - no thanks. I suppose it depends how much time you spend gaming but I definitely get the extra cost of the PC components back via the price of games although I rarely spend more than £10 on a game, I usually wait for the game to be out for a few months or pick them up in sales. I will treat myself to maybe 4-5 brand new games a year, I usually pre-order these for around £27 from CDKeys. Whilst I do play the occasional PC game with an Xbox controller, I don't think I could go back to playing to all games with one again, nor could I go back to sitting far back from a big TV either.Already sort of going down that road myself. Not updating my PC now as prices for most components just keep going up to a point that it's getting ludicrous. Ram prices are set to see another steep rise soon, on top of already over inflated prices, this will also affect SSD's, GPU's, basically anything that uses memory chips. Trying to budget for a PC build/upgrade is a nightmare as GPU prices a lone for example are changing day by day on here!
I'll just keep my PC until it fails and just finish off what games I have left, then going forward just buy the odd game on console. At least consoles prices remain pretty stable and don't fluctuate as rapidly as PC components.
So do the price of the console games though! That's the main reason I love PC gaming and why I'm building my kids a gaming PC rather than a new console. I have over 400 PC games, if I had a console that number would be closer to 20. £40-50 every time for a new game? And even when they do drop a bit it still around £25 - no thanks. I suppose it depends how much time you spend gaming but I definitely get the extra cost of the PC components back via the price of games although I rarely spend more than £10 on a game, I usually wait for the game to be out for a few months or pick them up in sales. I will treat myself to maybe 4-5 brand new games a year, I usually pre-order these for around £27 from CDKeys. Whilst I do play the occasional PC game with an Xbox controller, I don't think I could go back to playing to all games with one again, nor could I go back to sitting far back from a big TV either.
So do the price of the console games though! That's the main reason I love PC gaming and why I'm building my kids a gaming PC rather than a new console. I have over 400 PC games, if I had a console that number would be closer to 20. £40-50 every time for a new game? And even when they do drop a bit it still around £25 - no thanks. I suppose it depends how much time you spend gaming but I definitely get the extra cost of the PC components back via the price of games although I rarely spend more than £10 on a game, I usually wait for the game to be out for a few months or pick them up in sales. I will treat myself to maybe 4-5 brand new games a year, I usually pre-order these for around £27 from CDKeys. Whilst I do play the occasional PC game with an Xbox controller, I don't think I could go back to playing to all games with one again, nor could I go back to sitting far back from a big TV either.
So do the price of the console games though! That's the main reason I love PC gaming and why I'm building my kids a gaming PC rather than a new console. I have over 400 PC games, if I had a console that number would be closer to 20. £40-50 every time for a new game? And even when they do drop a bit it still around £25 - no thanks. I suppose it depends how much time you spend gaming but I definitely get the extra cost of the PC components back via the price of games although I rarely spend more than £10 on a game, I usually wait for the game to be out for a few months or pick them up in sales. I will treat myself to maybe 4-5 brand new games a year, I usually pre-order these for around £27 from CDKeys. Whilst I do play the occasional PC game with an Xbox controller, I don't think I could go back to playing to all games with one again, nor could I go back to sitting far back from a big TV either.
Yeah it's a fair point about being able to sell games on. Do we think that those days are numbered though given that console games are increasingly being sold as downloads too?I suppose it depends on how many games you purchase, I don't have anywhere near 400 games for the PC, I think I've accumulated about 150 over 15 years or so. I generally buy one and finish it before moving onto the next.
With console games I'll buy one, complete it and trade it in against another or sell it, which pretty much makes the games around the same price as a PC game, as you can't trade PC games like console games. So for me, consoles offer far better value for money over a gaming PC, especially in todays economy.
I won't be able to totally get rid of the PC just yet though unfortunately, as a lot of the games I like are PC only (4X, grand strat, RTS etc).
There was uproar when Microsoft wanted download only for the Xbox but I think console gamers are slowly coming round on the ideaYeah it's a fair point about being able to sell games on. Do we think that those days are numbered though given that console games are increasingly being sold as downloads too?
Nvidia have a long history of resting on their laurels. All of Nvidia's best products have followed a strong showing from their competitors.
Unless the AIB partners can work miracles with Vega and somehow drastically improve performance and power consumption (not gonna happen) then Nvidia will likely not bother producing Votla cards until their Pascal cards have hit saturation point and sales have dried up.
AMD Preparing To Launch 13 Vega-11 Based Graphics Cards, GPU Passes Certification
http://wccftech.com/amd-preparing-l...raphics-cards-gpu-passes-final-certification/