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GameAnalyser on 25 August 2013
ghost_of_fazz said:
CGI-Quality said:
ghost_of_fazz said:
I'm gonna get a GTX760 in a month, finally ditching AMD.

Good to hear nVidia is launching the 750 for the mainstream market : D

As a huge nVIDIA fan, even I ask, why the ditch?


I'm kinda tired of AMD's bad drivers, not that I expected anything today from my old Radeon 4850, but it happened since I got it back in 2008. The hardware was (and still is) awesome, but the drivers are bad.

Also, CUDA, for VRay RT and what not.

The amd beta catalyst driver updates are really bad. I was actually  a fan of Nvidia since Geforce FX 5500 was released for mainstream. It's almost time to switch back.



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zarx on 25 August 2013
Cobretti2 said:
Meh maxwell aint powerful enough for me I will wait for Volta.


2016+ seems a bit far off to me



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Captain_Tom on 25 August 2013
zarx said:
You know for all the talk about Nvidia's drivers being so much better than AMDs, since I switched to Nvidia with a 560 Ti I have had nothing but fucking driver problems. I have literally never had so many graphics driver issues. There has been 4-5 driver releases that have constant TDRs when using a web browser or if the system is left idle for too long FFS. The current driver branch is a fucking train wreck.


That's the exact reason I have stayed in AMD's camp for a good near 2 years now.  I heard their drivers sucked but for many reasons I was forced to basically switch.  And then... My problems went away...

However I will say that my recently bought laptop with a 765m works SUPER smooth so at least that's good.  Idk maybe the 500 series just sucked...



zarx on 25 August 2013
CGI-Quality said:
zarx said:
You know for all the talk about Nvidia's drivers being so much better than AMDs, since I switched to Nvidia with a 560 Ti I have had nothing but fucking driver problems. I have literally never had so many graphics driver issues. There has been 4-5 driver releases that have constant TDRs when using a web browser or if the system is left idle for too long FFS. The current driver branch is a fucking train wreck.

If you switched recently, that is why. The 320xx series hasn't been the greatest for many people. Some just stuck with 314.22, as that was the last, 100%, stable driver. Only defense I can give them is they've been slacking due to the launch of the Shield, but things will be back to normal by the holidays, since their in a tech deal with Ubisoft on their upcoming titles.


I have had it for a couple years now, and in that time there have been several bad branches. Their profile support for new games is usually pretty good and the additions like CUDA and PhysX can be nice but their general driver stability is pretty terrible, and I don't think cramming to support all the big new releases is going to help with that.



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zarx on 25 August 2013
CGI-Quality said:

Haven't had the issues you've had, but I certainly did with Catalyst drivers.


Keep in mind the quality of their support drops rapidly once your GPU is a generation old. Also their drivers are usually broken whenever a new OS comes out. It's often more down to luck about whether you have driver issues anyway TBH. Both sides have their share of desasters with certain games and hardware combinations and not everyone will hit the same issues.



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Captain_Tom on 26 August 2013
the-pi-guy said:
You guys and your beastly computers. How I envy you.

All I can say is they really aren't that exspensive.  A PC is only as expensive as you want it to be.  In fact I could build you a PC now that is stronger than the Xbox One for the same price or cheaper...



Pemalite on 26 August 2013
CGI-Quality said:
Captain_Tom said:
the-pi-guy said:
You guys and your beastly computers. How I envy you.

All I can say is they really aren't that exspensive.  A PC is only as expensive as you want it to be.  In fact I could build you a PC now that is stronger than the Xbox One for the same price or cheaper...

Agreed. Enthusiast PCs are beastly priced, but just to have a "beast", wouldn't take much more than $500-$600.


Agreed.
Once you hit the $1,000 mark you begin to get diminishing returns in price/performance.
If you can build your PC at a price lower than that, over the long term it *is* cheaper than console gaming if you are the kind of person who buys allot of games.




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Captain_Tom on 26 August 2013
Pemalite said:
CGI-Quality said:
Captain_Tom said:
the-pi-guy said:
You guys and your beastly computers. How I envy you.

All I can say is they really aren't that exspensive.  A PC is only as expensive as you want it to be.  In fact I could build you a PC now that is stronger than the Xbox One for the same price or cheaper...

Agreed. Enthusiast PCs are beastly priced, but just to have a "beast", wouldn't take much more than $500-$600.


Agreed.
Once you hit the $1,000 mark you begin to get diminishing returns in price/performance.
If you can build your PC at a price lower than that, over the long term it *is* cheaper than console gaming if you are the kind of person who buys allot of games.


Yeah I would agree the $1000 mark is the sweet spot right now unless you wanna make it supper nice.  Mine cost ~$1300 total but I have a 500GB SSD (For the extra durability since I constantly am traveling), a Blueray player, and 3 OVERPOWERED fans with a controller so I can safely overclock my GPU to insane levels...

Btw I have a question about your 1440p eyefinity.  What is the performance drop when going from 1 monitor to three?  I experimented with it a little and it didn't seem like it was 1/3rd.