jim2point0
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Why? Do you expect the 980 to actually be an improvement over those things?
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Why? Do you expect the 980 to actually be an improvement over those things?
Probably unless we're talking about compute. The main draw will be power draw and this heat and noise.
I he has Titan Blacks, he's already insane haha.
Well, my Matrox G400 was great
Dual Head baby!
I told myself the same thing for over a decade, even after moving on a long time ago to other computers. You will eventually admit to yourself that buying a Matrox card was a horrible mistake and straight up masochistic. The only thing you can say about yourself is that you are in rare company.
Matrox never die though! The chart proves it. They couldn't kill ATI and Nvidia, but they killed Creative Lab's 3d card division. I will believe this until I stop drawing breath.
No, seriously, there was nothing wrong with the G400. Competitive 3D performance, especially at 32 bits, and EMBM! And that unmatched VGA analog IQ!
Witchfinder General
punched Wheelchair Mike
If the rumored Aussie pricing holds true then the best value for price/performance over a 670 would be 2 x 970.
No, but I'd advise going for one of the aftermarket coolers as they should be extremely quiet.
ThoseDeafMutes
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How long do nonref coolers usually take to show up if they aren't there at launch?
Windforce is my scene
Windforce is my scene
Are you being serious, serious? Because I am tempted to build a system and install some games from the time to see what that card can do. I actually had 2 Matrox cards between 95 to 99(they were affordable folks so come at me bros if you want to challenge me). Both the cards I had were not good, especially OGL which was straight up terrible. There's still some Matrox fan child in me since it was my first 3d card and was a card that was there when 3d cards became a thing in the consumer market.
Matrox never die!
TC McQueen
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Probably weeks at most, if not simultaneous with the reference cards.
Kane Zakharov
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Planning to upgrade from a 7870XT, will probably get the 970 if around ~300USD and has a really good performance (good overclocking potential is a nice extra).
Okay, thanks. I'm aiming for 1080/60
for now
DarkChronic
Member
So no word on release dates for these things yet, huh? Upgrading from a GTX 570. I'm way due.
They launch, like, tomorrow I think.
Actually the rumour is availability this friday.
I heard last Friday, but they then remembered the event they planned this week.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
I'm not sure if this gif is supposed to mean you're high fiving me, or saying that I'm high fiving myself because I'm the only person who is onboard with it.
iceatcs
Junior Member
Heh, join my club. I'm also 570 user.
It shouldn't take too long, some will get it on their hand by next week./
That's just how Liz Lemon gives a high five.
Self_Destructive
Member
I'm trying to keep up to date on Overclock.net, I wanna jump on that pre-order as soon as possible before they are all snatched up.
DarkChronic
Member
Oh, wow! That's great news! I remember hearing rumors that it would be dropping late September/October.
Bring it on!
Bring it on!
Lost Cloud
Member
The 970 will have roughly the power of a 780 and it might only be $329-$349? That sounds almost too good to be true, but It'll be darn awesome if that price is correct! I'm actually kinda happy now that I had to hold off on getting a GTX 760 a few months ago. I'm really looking forward to hearing some good news from Nvidia's event tomorrow.
Self_Destructive
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There's tons of non reference board pictures already up, and apparently they will be available day and date with the reference design cards.
MasterCard is ready.
I hope this is true. I am desperately awaiting these to finish my new PC!
mordecaii83
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Me too! Does anyone know of a good place (other than this thread) to keep an eye on for pre-orders popping up?
Probably checking this thread as well as some of the sites that have been sourced - and the Nvidia event tomorrow at 6pm pacific if you're able to watch. It sounds like the NDA will be dropping right around the start of it.
mr stroke
Member
I highly doubt it at launch. NVIDIA/AMD generally do free games if there is stiff competition from new cards(so AMD could have a free game promo soon) or at the mid/end of a CPU cycle.
Hope I am wrong though, would love to see a Boarderlands/Ass Creed or COD pack in with the 980's at least.
Clever.
You give me too much credit.
ipukespiders
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Zing!
plagiarize
Banned
And we've seen pictures of boxes with prices on in retailer back rooms. That confirms the hard launch. I will be ready anyways.
It's my ROG Swift that I have on back order that needs to ship already... Cause until I have that, a few 980s are going to be totally bottle necked by my current 1080p / 60 fps display.
mordecaii83
Member
They're "Maxwell" cores which will perform differently than "Kepler" cores that the 780 ti has. Just like the 580 "Fermi" had a very low core count compared to the 680 "Kepler" (512 vs 1536) and yet the 680 was nowhere near 3 times as fast.
ashecitism
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made a countdown timer
is this accurate enough? I put in 6 pm, but it switched to 7 pm when I generated it. Silly timezones.
is this accurate enough? I put in 6 pm, but it switched to 7 pm when I generated it. Silly timezones.
michaelius
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So latest version is 330-350$ for 970 and 550$ for 980 ?
Looks like huge premium for top SKU.
Looks like huge premium for top SKU.
brotkasten
Member
It's still 299 for the reference design and 330-350 for cards with custom coolers. Nothing is confirmed yet.
It really is. Nvidia seem to insist on making their 'one step lower' cards the far more attractive option for some reason.
Any money you have in your PayPal account is automatically selected when making a payment, with your backup funding source making up the difference. The only caveat is that the money in your PayPal account must match the currency of the order; if it doesn't, you'll have to first convert your balance, and PayPal's currency conversion isn't exactly the most favourable.
brotkasten
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Perhaps it's the only way to leave AMD no room in that segment of the market. I wonder how they're going to react.
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