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    SweClockers: Geforce GTX 590 burns @ 772MHz & 1.025V

    Did you ask me if I were for real and bullshitting afterwards? Sincerely why? You 're taking an extreme stance that a lucky few manage to overclock their cards. And that it is a non issue that many cards blow if you try to overclock them. All other cards in history where you rolled...
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    SweClockers: Geforce GTX 590 burns @ 772MHz & 1.025V

    Nonsense. CPUs and GPUs are usually overclockable. The failure mode usually being that they don't overclock very well. Not blowing up. Especially not six out of a limited review set. Some people got lucky since their cards did not blow up?
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    Modern Graphics Cards vs. Game Consoles

    I have my computer connected to a LCD screen at a table in one room and to a 1080 beamer and the "big" sound system in another room. I always use beamer, never the LCD anymore. Better sound, graphics quality and flexibility than any console. Not to mention the 5x better loading times as compared...
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    Best performance at 225$?

    Hd5870
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    Replacing 8800GT

    If you're worried by the PSU beeing on the weak side HD6850 is a better choice than GTX460
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    6950 flashed to 6970

    Do you have any source? Is it many shareholders that have expressed this sentiment? It's a quite odd reaction...
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    6950 flashed to 6970

    You're right, it doesn't. At all.
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    The time has come. OP Updated.

    Buy a HD6950 @279$, performs close to GTX570 and you can always try to flash it to a HD6970.
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    6950 flashed to 6970

    What brand?
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    AMD HD 6850 Review/Benchmark [You were wrong if you thought I couldn't add more]

    Nice results, it does not really look like you need to crossfire at that resolution yet. One HD6850 is quite enough. You have plenty of time to wait for pricedrops.
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    What changes would you make to video game benchmarking

    FPS over time, sorry. In order to see how the FPS drop behave and where min FPS is. Is it a single dip or is it several small dips. Does the cards dip at the same place? Is it visible on screen etc.
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    What changes would you make to video game benchmarking

    3) Full plot of FPS over time. This gives much more info than any histograms. Statistical data in histogram form does not ad very much if anything. 2)a1 High resolution - Eyfinity/surround + @ most common resolution 1920x1080. More is not needed 2)b Compare with no AA/AF and at highest...
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    Decided to return XFX 6950 unopened

    They run a tight ship there. Healthy scepticiscm from the crowd also.
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    GTX 580 Soft Launched ? - Out of Stock at all Major E-tailors...

    You made that statement up- Didn't you? And what have the number of produced GTX580s to do with 6XXX? cmon,,, Next general availability of GTX580 will be when next big batch is ready for shipping. Until then we will see well spread out single number deliveries. This is standard...
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    GTX 580 Soft Launched ? - Out of Stock at all Major E-tailors...

    You call for evidence and then... Just curious, Do you have any idea at all how many cards have been sold worldwide? 10000? 5000? 1000? Or are you only pulling statements out of a hat to be able to fit that petty generalization into a post? Wow.
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    GTX 580 Soft Launched ? - Out of Stock at all Major E-tailors...

    A few cards here and there, yes. Look at it as a limited supply halo part. Usually it is not possible to ramp up production. You get what the supply you get. A high price is kept to keep demand low. If supply will become much less constrained with coming batches we will surely see a price...
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    VC&G Community Poll Request (mod-sponsored)

    I think it's time to leave that whole argument behind. The thought that people can't disregard a specific occasion for taking a general view may be true for a single few. Instead, be happy that you contributed as a medium to modify the guidelines in a direction that can only raise the level...
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    GTX 580 Soft Launched ? - Out of Stock at all Major E-tailors...

    For all we know yield for the 512 SP part is extremely low. It's basically a full Gf100, no changes and we know that they couldn't go business with that one. It will probably be very low availability and low demand for this card during it's lifespan. This is quite expected. Of course there...
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    German sites IQ findings trickling over to the US. DISCLAIMER: Toms hardware link.

    Good question. To my understanding AMD gives the option to optimize at different levels, but optimization is always on on nvidia cards? Level of optimization we just don't know. Two other quite relevant questions: Didn't the last thread indicate that nvidia give lower detail in at least some...
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    AMD 6900 reviews thread (UPDATED)

    Noone to my knowledge. If they will come to be short in supply there is plenty of room for price gouging though.
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    AMD 6900 reviews thread (UPDATED)

    I, for one, did that math but also pointed out that this resulted in ridiculous numbers. Well, now it has 1536 SPs versus 1120 it's 136%. I think that much of the too high expectations was based on the 1920 SP rumor. It sounded too good to be true, and it was. Nothing wrong in doing the math...
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    The 6970 runs at 880 core, 1536sp's, 250watt TDP, launch date is the 14th in US

    Performance is meaningless if it is not rated against anything: Perf/GPU, Perf/Card, Perf/W, Perf/mm2 Perf/$ etc. All these can be said to show different efficiency ratios. Perf/mm2 and Perf/W are the main driving forces in semiconductor industry. From company perspective these are the long...
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    The 6970 runs at 880 core, 1536sp's, 250watt TDP, launch date is the 14th in US

    Point taken, increasing the area just enough to use their better architecture to actually beat nVidias top cards. Possible. Nvidia have no chance to increase die size and have probably crammed out as much as they can from the fermi architecture at 40 nm. A new architecture from nvidia at 40nm is...
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    The 6970 runs at 880 core, 1536sp's, 250watt TDP, launch date is the 14th in US

    It's of course better to be performance leader also and it would be a great bonus for AMD. We already know that this is not AMDs strategy however. My guess is that if Cayman really is around 400mm2 it's probably more to the fact that they implemented 32 nm planned architecture on 40 nm than...
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    The 6970 runs at 880 core, 1536sp's, 250watt TDP, launch date is the 14th in US

    Yes, TSMCs 40 nm node have been problematic but this is true for everyone utilizing it. TSMC would be a convenient excuse, although nvidia themselves have not touted it as any main reason for the delays or the obvious leakage problems of fermi. The powerdraw is btw similar on the GTX580 GPU as...
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    VC&G Community Poll Request (mod-sponsored)

    Agreed, and we should not blame them. It's how we handle the data. They claim not to be more than rumoursites. Granted, Charlie seem to have a fairly good understanding and often quite good sources. Fuad repeatedly show that he does not understand much at all and obviously are making up things...
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    VC&G Community Poll Request (mod-sponsored)

    Are you against putting site reference in the title? Why? Sofar you'r arguments have degraded to false comparisons "coordinated offense v. total absense" and nonsense - "Everybody clicks all threads anyway". It would be nice to see a rational argument if your're against the...
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    AMD Radeon 6970/6950 Retail Pictured, released Dec 13-17, $500/$375 pricing

    Noone needs to explain it you just don't know what profit AMD makes on their graphics division. Your statement is just plain false.
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    AMD Radeon 6970/6950 Retail Pictured, released Dec 13-17, $500/$375 pricing

    Well it forced radical price adjustments to a 50%and a 100% larger GPU card (GTX460 and GTX470). The GPU costs for nvidia should be around 200% and 400% of Barts depending on yields. That is certainly painful, if not slaying. Anyway, 6870 was launched as a replacement between 57xx and...
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    Radeon HD 6970 is 10 - 20% faster than GTX 480....FUDZILLA says :AMD claims

    These kinds of stretches are fun but useless IMHO.
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    The 6970 runs at 880 core, 1536sp's, 250watt TDP, launch date is the 14th in US

    Well it's Fuad, he usually does not get it right even if he have the whitepaper tattooed on his forehead... But when was the last time ATI/AMD did pull out a single chip to fight the top nvidia chip? Why are we so sure they plan to do it now? It's all about perf/price versus perf/cost and...
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    NVIDIA set to gain market share, 560 soon?

    They fight like a tiger for keeping market share right now. The aggressive pricing on the quite large GF104 is quite telling.
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    NVIDIA set to gain market share, 560 soon?

    It will probably be something like fully working 384 SP GF104 parts in the beginning, similar solution as the 512 SP GTX580s (GF100B/GF110). Maybe saved chips if they did put Bins aside. This should give somewhere around GTX470 performance but at an appreciably lower cost level. You forget(?)...
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    AMD Radeon 6970/6950 Retail Pictured, released Dec 13-17, $500/$375 pricing

    Well it's a videocard forum. People talk GPUs. Perf/cost, Perf/price, Perf/W, Perf/mm2 etc... Diminishing importance of key parameters by ridiculing US consumers? Convincing...
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    DX11 Market Steam Hardware Survey - AMD maintains 80% of the DX11 Market

    Wow, I've never seen two well known double-identity green guys in the same thread before. Welcome Atech and Prime1. Are these Steam numbers so bad for nvidia to get people so up in speed? This manner of posting is divisive and not conducive to constructive dialogue. Please reconsider your...
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    AMD Radeon 6970/6950 Retail Pictured, released Dec 13-17, $500/$375 pricing

    They usually are a bit different from the general canned bench crop. Comes with the gameplay testing to much extent. But HD6870 did beat GTX470 in some reviews I believe. They are very close in performance.
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    AMD Radeon 6970/6950 Retail Pictured, released Dec 13-17, $500/$375 pricing

    Evolution is proven without doubt, over and over agin. I agree with this. That does not make your comment less ad hominem. It's always provoking when religious groups try to twist science but don't use their tricks. Difference between the two parts of your Ad Hominem abuse is that creationism...
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    DX11 Market Steam Hardware Survey - AMD maintains 80% of the DX11 Market

    This is a brilliant double example of Ad Hominem. And, what worse is, the insult lacks style.
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    AMD Radeon 6970/6950 Retail Pictured, released Dec 13-17, $500/$375 pricing

    80% that don't believe in Chuck Norris or evolution? That's 80% of the US- about 3% of the world population.