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lavaheadache said:
or you can just buy and sell frequently and only ever spend a couple hundred here and there and always have the best. I bought my Titan near launch for $999 + tax at my local Microcenter. I just sold it about a month ago for $850. I basically rented it for something like $1 a day. Not bad.
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Family usually gets my old stuff,when i upgrade my gtx770 i already got a member of the family already assigned to get it,same guy is already using the gtx650 i had prior to this card.

Your way works well for upgrading but man these days the upgrade cycles seem slower and slower,never sat on a processor like i have this one,even had a 3930k platform and it was boring and not practical enough so i decided to sell it and went right back to this i5 lol but maybe broadwell performance will be exciting enough to upgrade to with a 390x?

Maybe BF4 will make me regret selling that 3930k🙂
 
AnandThenMan said:
This is the case for basically all marketing leading products. People are surprisingly loyal, and will buy the same brand over and over again unless they have a truly horrific experience, then they will switch. It doesn't matter how much better a competing product is, the consumer will rationalize and convince themselves as to why their chosen brand is "the best". Even given substantial evidence, people will latch onto reasons why their purchase was justified, and will most certainly do their best to convince others of the same.
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The reason people prefer their brand is because its physically better to them. Eg. Coca Cola tastes better because the brand awareness alters the entire cognitive system. Brand loyality gives you better frame rate. If you measure it you might get lower fps but the perception alters it. Its the reality you experience. Its not a fake experience. Its damn real and it works as well as real framerates.
Thats why there is so much profit in a brand.
 
Strange logo. A crown?

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skipsneeky2 said:
Nothing wrong with dropping a bit of cash once every 2 years or so on a new card when they come out,many people like myself could buy the new 290x when it debutes,put $30 away a month and in exactly 2 years i will have $720 for a high end after market cooled gpu. 🙂

$50 a month and every two years you could drop $1,200 on cards,thats enough for mid -high range sli or crossfire with cash left over.
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I agree totally with this.And this has been my way of buying stuff for a very long time,including PC parts and smartphones.Some of us are indeed in their twenties.I for one am 19,and being a med student I don't have the time to find a stable job and earn some money.So,I mostly live from a steady stream of money that my parents send my way (Which isn't much) and earn some cash here and there when I can,like when some people ask me to build them PCs.In my case,the only way of buying expensive stuff is putting money aside for a long time.That's the way I bought my bicycle (A Giant Defy 2) and that's the way I will buy my PC some time this fall.
Back on topic,my biochemistry exam is tomorrow,right before the announcement.At least I hope I'll arrive home to good news after AMD's announcement,because I'm set to fail in biochemistry 😛 .Seeing the stuff posted the last few days,though,I'm quite excited.Only thing is,I hope they are available before November arrives.
 
lavaheadache said:
or you can just buy and sell frequently and only ever spend a couple hundred here and there and always have the best. I bought my Titan near launch for $999 + tax at my local Microcenter. I just sold it about a month ago for $850. I basically rented it for something like $1 a day. Not bad.
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Did the same thing basically. Now I have your card in the end.
 
Well I don't know what tomorrow will bring but Brent at [h] said he doesn't have a new card in his hands. I take it to mean tomorrow we will just see AMD slides or something.
 
Can someone kindly explain to me whats the big deal with the "512-bit memory bus" apart from allowing more VRAM... what else is there? Is 384-bit a bottleneck?
 
Aminados said:
Can someone kindly explain to me whats the big deal with the "512-bit memory bus" apart from allowing more VRAM... what else is there? Is 384-bit a bottleneck?
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It's said to save die space, power and have better OC potential while still having a bit more data transfer at stock.
 
I'm also thinking AMD went with a 512bit memory bus so they could put large amounts of memory on their professional cards, like 16 gigs for example.
 
Aminados said:
Can someone kindly explain to me whats the big deal with the "512-bit memory bus" apart from allowing more VRAM... what else is there? Is 384-bit a bottleneck?
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It's to increase the cost of the PCB so partners make less money per card.
 
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