Pemalite said:
Mummelmann said:
Hah! Mine too, I had the Powercolor Radeon HD 6970. It was decent but had some driver issues and sounded like an airplane on load. Before that, I had the X1950XTX, whose noise kept the whole house awake and easily warmed up my entire bedroom within an hour on load.
Even if performance is on point and the prices are good, I need to see that they've learned how to create drivers and that they're fully on board with all modern rendering tech. I'm really hoping for it, my PC next year probably gets a whole lot cheaper then, especially if the surplus RAM situation remains stable and storage keeps coming down in price.
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I modded my Radeon 6950's into 6970's... Actually remember doing a review and benchmark comparisons with those GPU's on this very forum back in the day.
I had 4x of them as I was running at 5760x1080 and later 7680x1440 (Higher than 4k!) resolutions.
They were actually pretty decent cards compared to nVidia at the time, but yeah, the drivers needed work... It wasn't until probably deep into the GCN era when AMD started to work on the frame pacing issue and fixed allot of bugs along the way that their drivers got solid again.
But for all intents and purposes I haven't had much drama with AMD's drivers outside of that.
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Yeah, the performance of AMD cards back then was quite good. My old 1950 had some major artifact issues though, as I recall this was no longer an issue on the next gen of cards from them (I believe it was a driver issue). My main concern with AMD cards back in the day was overheating; ironically my PSU died in my 1950XTX rig and somehow fried the MB as well, so I never really got to see the longevity of it (I got an entire new rig instead).
