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JEMC on 09 October 2013

I don't have a band. Given my budget and needs, I'll go to whichever gives me the best performance/price ratio.



Please excuse my bad English.

Former gaming PC: i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070

Current gaming PC: R5-7600, 32GB RAM 6000MT/s (CL30) and a RX 9060XT 16GB

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Pemalite on 09 October 2013
fatslob-:O said:

Both of them have driver issues like Pemalite said plus I'm pretty sure the comment Linus made was about nvidia drivers not being open source, even though amd gives pretty mediocre linux support they atleast make the drivers open source so that other users from the linux community can improve it unlike when your stuck with an issue on an nvidia driver on linux your pretty much screwed unless nvidia fixes it. 


You took my post out of context. I was reffering to Windows. :P

It's common knowledge that nVidia has a massive edge over AMD in regards to Linux support, that's been status quo for years.

As for games support, you also have Wine (Supports 20,000 games and programs from Windows!).
http://appdb.winehq.org/
And you have Steam Linux (About 100 odd games).
http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/

You also have DosBox for running old DOS games, there are also emulators for pretty much every console/handheld on par with Windows.

So really, game support does exist, it still pales in comparison to Windows though, but it's not like it's a barren wasteland. :P




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ironmanDX on 09 October 2013

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3dfx_Interactive



Pemalite on 09 October 2013
ironmanDX said:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3dfx_Interactive


So, nVidia then? :P




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Dr.Grass on 09 October 2013
ethomaz said:

I only use Linux for years lol

Some Steam games runs better on Linux than Windows

Pretty soon all Steam games will run better on Linux than on Windows. And pretty soon they'll all be compatible.

Pretty soon gamers won't have to purchase an OS every again.

Winner winner chicken dinner.



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Vasto on 09 October 2013

AMD, the king of kings just keep getting better and better. Their video cards are just better then Nvidias and have been for years.



Xen on 09 October 2013

Formerly ATI.
These days AMD

You can't beat the value, and now that they've figured out their driver issues, they're easy to work with. Nvidia can do and release whatever they wants, I will always look into an AMD GPU first and foremost.



fatslob-:O on 09 October 2013
Pemalite said:
fatslob-:O said:

Both of them have driver issues like Pemalite said plus I'm pretty sure the comment Linus made was about nvidia drivers not being open source, even though amd gives pretty mediocre linux support they atleast make the drivers open source so that other users from the linux community can improve it unlike when your stuck with an issue on an nvidia driver on linux your pretty much screwed unless nvidia fixes it. 


You took my post out of context. I was reffering to Windows. :P

It's common knowledge that nVidia has a massive edge over AMD in regards to Linux support, that's been status quo for years.

As for games support, you also have Wine (Supports 20,000 games and programs from Windows!).
http://appdb.winehq.org/
And you have Steam Linux (About 100 odd games).
http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/

You also have DosBox for running old DOS games, there are also emulators for pretty much every console/handheld on par with Windows.

So really, game support does exist, it still pales in comparison to Windows though, but it's not like it's a barren wasteland. :P

There's just one thing that it's missing and that's DX11 support. So far it's fine when using DX9 but when newer games start exclusively using DX11 that's when it will start to fall behind. 



Captain_Tom on 09 October 2013
ethomaz said:

Captain_Tom said:

I fail to see how the HD 7000 series isn't astounding.  The 7970 launched almost 2 years ago and kept its rain as king the entire time.  The only thing that can beat it is the Titan for more than 3x the price.  I'm sorry but that is just a good product...  Especially considering its overclocking headroom allows me to still trade blows with a 780...

You mean GTX 680, no? Because the HD 7970 never beat GTX 680 in performance and like I said you pay more for better performance... so I agree the HD 7970 is a better performance/price.


Never lol.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-770-gk104-review,3519-4.html



Captain_Tom on 09 October 2013
Vasto said:

AMD, the king of kings just keep getting better and better. Their video cards are just better then Nvidias and have been for years.


Yup, since the 4000 series it has largelly been a joke.  $450 GTX 260 or $300 4870 that performs better?  

The only thing AMD is missing is good marketing and partnerships with OEM's to get their name out there.  However this seems to be changing now, and the results will be interesting to see.

Also have you overclocked your 7970?   At 1165 (Core)/1805 (Mem) I start trading blows with the GTX 780...