Recent content by Tumaras

A year ago+ sure, but not in mid-2016. Today go to Newegg and you can buy a 390 new, 8GB, with TW Warhammer included, for $259. That's the problem, being a new gen it should be a slam dunk that it's better. Not basically a wash. If you count Warhammer as $60 game, you can get a faster 390...

To boot, 480 is only getting 21-22 MH/s in mining tests, which was the other thing people were excited about it for. That's slower than the midrange Hawaii cards and WAY slower than the 390. More reason to be glad if you didn't wait.

Brutal, I owned a 390 and wouldn't even want to game with that at 1080p. It wasn't awful, but I had to crank settings down to get consistent 40+ fps without dips even at 1080. And with the 480 looking close to that or even but slower, ouch. People that were comparing the 480 to the 1070 look...

From what I've seen from various reviews around the net on different 1070 AIB models 2100 is maybe just slightly above average, but definitely not 4-leaf clover golden sample lucky or anything. The EVGA SC are at least screened to be a touch above average I believe (although that's been...

Just my personal experience, but thought I'd share a quick summary. Got my EVGA (SC, not FE) 1070 from Newegg yesterday. OC'd no problem to 2100/9000 and Firestrike scored almost 21000. Gaming at 80+ fps with everything Ultra/maxxed in the various games I tried is pretty glorious, and it's...

I think I'll wait the 10 days for some confirmation on some of this. I'm note sure I've ever seen as many faked/shopped leak benchmark screenshots and videos or news for a new vc release as the 480 has had. There are always some, but the 480 has really had a lot of them. So it's tough to...

It puts them in a tough spot, the 3M+ ETH he got if they do nothing with make it have near zero value, and if they do a fork or other action it sounds like the guy who "creatively acquired them" already is lawyer'ed up. Either way it is a massive blow to credibility. I am not short or long...

The only way really around this is for reviewers to get their samples through retail channels. Otherwise since the beginning of time companies have been playing these games with cpus and video cards, whether it's golden samples, modified bios, modified driver, etc. It's so bad that I always...

I got the ad and once you clicked on it and you took you to the item page, there it said free Gigabyte G1 mouse with purchase, and Hurry stock limited to 100 units, or something to that effect. So that was correct and not made up. But they all went super-fast. I mean you pretty much had...

I'm sure many saw this already, but just to update Newegg this morning had 100 of the Gigabyte 1080 G1s for $649.99 (so 3-fan non-FE version) which also included a free Gigabtye gaming mouse. Needless to say they went very fast. But good news to see the ice breaking on the FE wall, since this is...

The problem with the 390/390x (and I'm an owner) are the minimum framerates. It doesn't really matter if it can peak higher if it's frequently dipping under 40 for minimum framerate. That and that the 390/x can literally raise room temp 10 degrees, and that's not exaggerating. Thankfully...

Yeah, although those third-party like this on Newegg/Amazon are barely more than private sellers on ebay. I rarely buy unless it's direct from those 2, I ignore more third-party sellers on their sites.

That's not accurate, at least 2 or 3 other vendors that I've seen have stated pricing at Computex in the last week at $599 MSRP and up for their cooling options. EVGA was just the first, and they happen to be the only AIB I think that sells directly through their site and not only through...

Good point, I wasn't thinking about the memory bus reduction. You're probably right on 20-25 with that in mind. If that turns out to be correct these would be meh for mining since a 380 for $40+ less new (already, and likely to drop once the 480's are out) or less used can do low 20's already...

I would think the RX 480 should end up somewhere around 35 MH/s, based on the early leaked benchmarks of it between the 390 and 390x. So ~35 MH/s at 150w for $199 or $229 will definitely rock the ether market. The catch being it's going to be tough to tell what this will do to ether prices...