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DucksUnlimited said:
CGI-Quality said:
Now just fix your Catalyst drivers and this might make a debt, AMD.

Right now, better performance = NVIDIA. Sorry, Reds.

That's true if you're buying a $400+ card. Otherwise, not so much.

AMD is a massive value driver right now. Look at this thing and the price...

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5469329&srkey=A271-7851&SRCCODE=LSCAN&cm_mmc_o=-ddCjC1bELltzywCjC-d2CjCdwwp&AffiliateID=CAqD7bLWUPI-Z2SJ0G2mXATj.dJHqoQPkQ

To beat that overclocked with anything on Nvidias end (overclocked as well) you'd have to spend 300 bucks more for a GTX 780.

Plus the games that would easily cost you 150 if you were to buy them all.



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CGI-Quality said:
I have, thus far, avoid OC'ing. Buddies of mine ended up destroying their stuff or received an abundance of blue screens. :O

Yeah understandable. But keep in mind that overclocking the GPU alone doesn't do anything to your card, nor can the manufacturers tell you've overclocked it. You may get some crashes but it "shouldn't" damage the hardware. 

Overvolting the GPU to get crazy overclocks is where the damage happens...I've never done that myself.



CGI-Quality said:
disolitude said:
CGI-Quality said:
I have, thus far, avoid OC'ing. Buddies of mine ended up destroying their stuff or received an abundance of blue screens. :O

Yeah understandable. But keep in mind that overclocking the GPU alone doesn't do anything to your card, nor can the manufacturers tell you've overclocked it. You may get some crashes but it "shouldn't" damage the hardware. 

Overvolting the GPU to get crazy overclocks is where the damage happens...I've never done that myself.

I have the temptations, it would help in a bunch of games and, as you may know, I'm a benchmark nerd. :P It's just not worth it if it causes problems, you know?

Yeah totally. Things are at a point where OCing just isn't necessary. Until 4K gets here that is... 4K surround. :)

Speaking of 4K, I think I'ma pick one of these up - http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7674736

Price isn't too bad and apparently they allow true 120hz input @ 1080p and 80hz input at 2560x1440. This is amazing...



disolitude said:

Yeah, I'll be switching to Nvidia soon as it fits my needs.While the single 7950 is great and it overclocks like crazy (can match the 680 overclocked on most games), crossfire and AMD are not ideal... I never understood microsuttering since i was a Nvidia user...I do understand it now.

I see myself with a couple of 770s in SLI in a few weeks. Got o power this setup somehow :)

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Vk6fbDZVB8w/Uce0eXgYFhI/AAAAAAAABKM/dws-jxaQBcc/s1278/WP_20130623_004.jpg


You can solve Microstutter by going Tri-fire.
Well, any perceivable Microstutter anyway.

However, AMD is also re-writing it's memory management in the drivers to help lower frame latency and microstutter, so it's not like they aren't doing anything about it.

One feature I *do* want AMD to adopt from nVidia is that adaptive V-sync, to me it's a game changer, you can get a similar thing in 3rd party software, but would rather it just be in the control center.
Or for monitor manufacturers to release 120hz, 1440P, IPS monitors for me to Eyefinity with, Korean Overclocked monitors just won't do!

CGI-Quality said:

They have improved, AMD. I can't take that from them (and lately, NVIDIA has become a bit of a slouch). But, in the past, I didn't have the best experience with their cards nor driver updates. 

I was thinking about a 7990, though. Sexy beast that betters the GTX 690. Problem is, I heard some not-so-good things about its performance.


Well. nVidia hasn't been perfect in the past either.
Heck, nVidia was the cause of 30% of Windows Vista blue-screens.

Fact of the matter is, AMD and nVidia drivers are incredibly complex, they have more lines of code than the Windows NT kernel these days, so a bug or two is bound to crop up regardless of which team you are on.

As for the Radeon 7990, I would never even consider buying it.
For one, it's priced at the level of 3x Radeon 7970's here, yet doesn't even out-perform 2x 7970's and still comes with all the shortfalls of dual graphics.



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