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It's the first time I have the latest card actually.
Monday, 22-May-17 15:53:02 UTC from web-
@nerthos why'd you go for something that new tho? surely something one tier below would've been more price efficient?
tbh haven't really seen anything worth running coming out recently, and feeling like I wasted money on my 290 3 years ago. -
@shpuld Because this one costed ar$5700 and R9s were about ar$5400-6000. Between a R9 380 for 5400 and a Rx 580 I'd rather spend ar$300 more and buy the newest one that has 50% better performance.
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@shpuld They were all around $300-350 here, as far as the newer stuff went. There was no point on buying something cheap but with the same performance of my 2011 card. Ended up spending ar$6000 between card, cable, and a new mouse (roughly us$375). Buying the card online for it's proper market price would end up costing the same due to shipping but I'd have to wait two weeks to a month to have it.
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@nerthos the 290 (2013/2014) and 480 (2016) are actually fairly close to the 580 when it comes to perf (380 is worse than 290 iirc), amd hasn't really made any leaps since 290/290x, maybe vega will change that
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@shpuld AFAIK the 580 is just a 480 with buffed up clockspeed and ram.
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@nerthos pretty much, and 480 isn't far from 290/290x
3-4 years with not much progress, whereas nvidia has had the entire 9/10 series.. wish amd would properly step up -
@shpuld I went for this one because I used the HD6870 for five years without any issues or it lagging behind too badly even now, so I'm content with AMD. Plus in it's price range it was the best offer. The Nvidia GPUs that costed about the same had the same performance basically so the choice was which brand I liked more.
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@nerthos yeah I can't remember the last time I've owned nvidia either. when I got my current card in 2014, it just made no sense to go for nvidia with the prices at the time, and I hadn't had too many issues with my previous ati cards either
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@shpuld I used an Nvidia card for a while around 2010 or so, but it wasn't my puchrase. I was using a Radeon 9600pro that died and my father bought a GeForce whose model I can't remember right now. It performed worse than the 9600 but it was more stable, then again my father doesn't know about games so he bought it based on video memory alone, and it was at that point a discrete GPU, not a gaming one.
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@nerthos >9600 pro
shiit, I had one of those as well, amazing card... it was my first pc upgrade, got it to get doom 3 running, which opened doors to other games like far cry and splinter cell chaos theory as well. a real work horse of a card. -
@shpuld The one I had was REALLY unstable but I think it was due to the rig not being built around it, my father just bought upgrades as he went by back then, and since the most demanding stuff he did was watch videos anything worked for him. That card was great though, ran Oblivion pretty well and at the time that card came out that was one of the heaviest games you could get.
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@nerthos was stable in our system, which also was built with another (some geforce) card in mind. I think I had a sapphire one, coincidentally also running sapphire right now.
>Oblivion
yeah, one of the last games I ran on it as well, before becoming a laptop pleb for quite a few years -
@shpuld I was running it on an Asrock board with a Sempron 2800 back then, I think for a while it ran on an Asus with a Duron 1300. Assembler was Radeon.
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