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moonbogg said:
I have an allowance I give myself each week. I don't go beyond it and I don't go below it. I can save it to buy something big (like 980ti's) or I can piss it away on expensive lunch and starbucks every day. I don't have a lot of money, but the money I do have I am deliberate with and I make choices. The only credit I used is for a mortgage. I won't borrow from some rich bank CEO bastard just so I can buy a couple video cards that I can't afford. I have no debt other than a mortgage, and that's enough to piss me right off actually.
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I like your thinking!
 
Magic Carpet said:
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those frame rate are laughable.

try reducing setting for enjoyable frame rate.
~60fps be a good starting point.
 
moonbogg said:
I have an allowance I give myself each week. I don't go beyond it and I don't go below it. I can save it to buy something big (like 980ti's) or I can piss it away on expensive lunch and starbucks every day. I don't have a lot of money, but the money I do have I am deliberate with and I make choices. The only credit I used is for a mortgage. I won't borrow from some rich bank CEO bastard just so I can buy a couple video cards that I can't afford. I have no debt other than a mortgage, and that's enough to piss me right off actually.
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Wow. Wise words. That's Awesome. It should be on a poster, with a picture of your avatar. Maybe even a MEME.

(Me, gently shamed, because I spend beyond my means on computer hardware to play with.)
 
sandorski said:
Anyone considering a 960 for Gaming should actually be buying a 380.
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Do you have 2 , 380's?
I would love to bench our systems when I grab another 4gb gtx960 (if I find another one for ~170$), with all 4 of our cards overclocked.

Mabe I'll overclock my cpu as well.

I'll shoot you a pm when I grab my second card, ok?
what games do you have?
 
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Madpacket said:
Bitcoin which I earned with video cards years ago. I started mining when they were worth $3.00 each a and a single 5870 could earn you a whole coin in a day or two.


How do you convert gift cards to Amazon bucks? 🙂
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I'll get the rebate in a VISA or AMEX form, then I simply buy an amazon gift card for the total value of the card and send it to myself.
 
happy medium said:
Do you have 2 , 380's?
I would love to bench our systems when I grab another 4gb gtx960 (if I find another one for ~170$), with all 4 of our cards overclocked.

Mabe I'll overclock my cpu as well.

I'll shoot you a pm when I grab my second card, ok?
what games do you have?
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Only have 1
 
2is said:
I'll get the rebate in a VISA or AMEX form, then I simply buy an amazon gift card for the total value of the card and send it to myself.
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Genius. I have 3 AMEX gift cards of various amounts sitting in front of me and tend to have difficulty finding places to use them. Hopefully this works on Amazon.ca

Thanks for the tip!
 
happy medium said:
Do you have 2 , 380's?
I would love to bench our systems when I grab another 4gb gtx960 (if I find another one for ~170$), with all 4 of our cards overclocked.

Mabe I'll overclock my cpu as well.

I'll shoot you a pm when I grab my second card, ok?
what games do you have?
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Other than power consumption I would bet on the 380's winning by a small margin.
 
Innokentij said:
I wouldnt i think. The 960 is a maxwell after all, it will OC like a king.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/08/04/msi_geforce_gtx_960_gaming_4g_video_card_review/9
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Thats only 100MHZ more than my GTX960 does out of the box,and most GTX960 cards tend to boost to around 1.3GHZ to 1.4GHZ,so as a percentage its not really overclocking that well. My GTX960 runs at nearly 1.35GHZ out of the box and its a shorter PCB model too.

The thing is the R9 380 is generally a faster card than the GTX960 especially as the resolution rises.
 
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USER8000 said:
Thats only 100MHZ more than my GTX960 does out of the box,and most GTX960 cards tend to boost to around 1.3GHZ to 1.4GHZ,so as a percentage its not really overclocking that well. My GTX960 runs at nearly 1.35GHZ out of the box and its a shorter PCB model too.

The thing is the R9 380 is generally a faster card than the GTX960 especially as the resolution rises.
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Stock boost clock is 1178, that it's boosting high for u means u have nice cool case and nvidia boost technology is working flawless for u. You should send em a mail thanking em for giving u such nice boost for free. 😎
 
Innokentij said:
Stock boost clock is 1178, that it's boosting high for u means u have nice cool case and nvidia boost technology is working flawless for u. You should send em a mail thanking em for giving u such nice boost for free. 😎
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Or it means Nvidia held back way too much on stock clocks. Mine is boosting to 1542 MHz with some tweaking and a tad extra volts.

And quite frankly, Maxwell needs the high clocks anyway to even keep pace with the larger Radeon counterparts.

That said, Nvidia's high clock-speed approach to the stagnating 28 nm fab is quite interesting and speaks volumes of the engineering talent there. AMD's approach simply turned out to be better albeit more expensive.
 
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poofyhairguy said:
Amen, I would love a GTX 950 for sub-$100.
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Yeah, I need a new HTPC card. GTX 950/960s seem to be perfect for what I want to use, but not at todays prices. Unless of course there is another "entry" Maxwell v2 SKU coming out soon (getting tired of Fermi/Kepler re-brands to death).

2is said:
After playing AC: Unity I feel like my 980Ti is already obsolete.
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One game doesn't make it obsolete, does it? Last I checked, 980 Ti was still crazy fast in single-monitor gaming situations. Anyway, what you are thinking, maybe slap another card for some SLI action or wait for the next King of the hill?
 
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Magic Carpet said:
Yeah, I need a new HTPC card. GTX 950/960 seem to be perfect for what I want to use, but not at todays prices. Unless of course there is another "entry" Maxwell v2 SKU coming out soon (getting tired of Fermi/Kepler re-brands to death).


One game doesn't make it obsolete, does it? Last I checked, 980 Ti was still crazy fast in single-monitor gaming situations. Anyway, what you are thinking of, slap another card for some SLI action or wait till the benchmarks of the next King of the Hell, perhaps?
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It was more of a tongue in cheek comment then anything else, I'm actually very happy with this card, especially paired up with a 1440p gsync monitor.

I'm waiting to see what "Big Pascal" brings to the table, that will be my earliest upgrade if I feel it's worthwhile.
 
Innokentij said:
Stock boost clock is 1178, that it's boosting high for u means u have nice cool case and nvidia boost technology is working flawless for u. You should send em a mail thanking em for giving u such nice boost for free. 😎
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I am running a small form factor Gigabyte GTX960 in a mini-ITX case!
 
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