Anybody regret going red?

R-T-B · Jun 30, 2016

P4-630 said:
But..But... Your green apple is in the spotlight....

Duly noted. CAPS is an apple racist.

laszlo · Jun 30, 2016

correct thread title shall be " Anybody regret buying an over-priced hyped product?"

as i see who can afford shall not ask these kind of questions...no matter if bought red or green

D007 · Jun 30, 2016

You shouldn't go red Johnny.. My grandmother went red once... Once...

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Jun 30, 2016

R-T-B said:
Duly noted. CAPS is an apple racist.

I currently have Sapphire HD7970 in one PC and EVGA GTX 680 in another............they are both great for what i play.

R-T-B · Jun 30, 2016

CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
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I currently have Sapphire HD7970 in one PC and EVGA GTX 680 in another............they are both great for what i play.

Not sure if people still remember, but I used an R9 290X until early last year and was very happy.

AsRock · Jun 30, 2016

R-T-B said:
I did have one AMD regret.

A build featuring a Phenom I (can't quite remember what, but I think it was a quad core?) and a HD 2900 XT Crossfire setup. My god that build was hot, noisy, and could barely run bioshock I maxed where the GTX 280 could do it with practically one card.

I've liked all my other AMD cards. But the early merger GPU cards were dark, bad days. I hear the CPUs after that never quite got back to their former glory, as well.

Yeah the 2900XT hated AA too lol, if there was any it be that one.

Recon-UK · Jun 30, 2016

I had a bad time with my old 4870, it was a Gainward Golden Sample (high end) no end of driver issues and there was so much stuttering.
7770 was great no issues ever, only it died...

AsRock said:
Yeah the 2900XT hated AA too lol, if there was any it be that one.

My 670 get's a little annoyed when i apply a lot of AA, the GPU can process it but it seems like the memory bandwidth or something can't? huge frame drops when a lot of stuff is going on with AA applied, though not in every game.

AsRock · Jun 30, 2016

The 2900XT just did not like AA period. Although it did replace a 7900 which had a terrible design and i was just not willing to trust a nVidia card at that for a while.

Champ · Jul 1, 2016

Oddly enough my favor setup was crossfire 290s. It did a decent job at 4k for the price.

dieselcat18 · Jul 1, 2016

R-T-B said:
Not sure if people still remember, but I used an R9 290X until early last year and was very happy.

I just moved on from my ASUS R9 290X OC several months ago. Ran that card for approx 2 1/2 years and was extremely pleased with it in every way.

D007 · Jul 1, 2016

Champ said:
Oddly enough my favor setup was crossfire 290s. It did a decent job at 4k for the price.

My SLI 980's didn't even run 4k well..
You mean 3k?
27 fps in metro last light, is not what I consider decent anyway..

R-T-B · Jul 1, 2016

Champ said:
Oddly enough my favor setup was crossfire 290s. It did a decent job at 4k for the price.

Nothing odd about that. The 290 and the 2900XT (which I was upset with) are entirely different cards.

Recon-UK · Jul 1, 2016

Best GPU i ever owned is the GTX 480.... besides it's heat issues and making summer a living hell... for real...
Fermi was a monster, throw AA at it all day long, just kept churning out the numbers.

Caring1 · Jul 1, 2016

Recon-UK said:
Best GPU i ever owned is the GTX 480.... besides it's heat issues and making summer a living hell... for real...
Fermi was a monster, throw AA at it all day long, just kept churning out the numbers.

I like purple

Recon-UK · Jul 1, 2016

This is awesome and i agree.

Champ · Jul 1, 2016

My game at the time was dragon age Inquisition and the mantle drivers worked wonders.

P4-630 · Jul 1, 2016

I was very satisfied with my Gigabyte HD3870 and HD4870 after that, back in the days, amazing overclockers!

Recon-UK · Jul 1, 2016

P4-630 said:
I was very satisfied with my Gigabyte HD3870 and HD4870 after that, back in the days, amazing overclockers!

Glad you had a good 4870, mine would only manage 40mhz on the core and nothing on the memory and it was a Golden Sample... i mean really expensive, dual bios and everything

P4-630 · Jul 1, 2016

Recon-UK said:
Glad you had a good 4870, mine would only manage 40mhz on the core and nothing on the memory and it was a Golden Sample... i mean really expensive, dual bios and everything

Bummer man!

I took off the Zalman coolers they had and installed this one with a 120mm and one 80mm fan on the other side (Thermalright)

ChristineAndRusty · Jul 2, 2016

XFX Radeon HD 5570 DirectX 11 HD-557X-ZNFR 1GB 128-Bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.1 x16 Video Card

Just a hand me down but it really is smooth. Traded a 750GTX that was little "touched" if you know what I mean. Fan had a mind of it's own, friend blamed the Phenom II UCC Gigabyte board and offered this to help me out. Board is fine, GTX is a paperweight now. :fear:

So, we're still friends, and I'm pleased with the choice I had to make.

dieselcat18 · Jul 2, 2016

Just recently went to a Nvidia card. Last ones I owned were a GTX7900 & GTX8800 (not much luck with the 8800)

Since then it's been all RED till now.

An ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB

An ASUS HD4870 512MB (beautiful looking card) (shortly thereafter went to a HIS HD4890 1GB for the increased onboard memory)

Then went with a Sapphire 6970 2GB (another nice running card at the time)

Bought this about 2 1/2 years ago....ASUS R9 290X 4GB OC....Still love this card

Switched to Nvidia due to the price drops of 980ti's since the release of the 1080 cards.

P4-630 · Jul 2, 2016

dieselcat18 said:
Just recently went to a Nvidia card. Last ones I owned were a GTX7900 & GTX8800 (not much luck with the 8800)

Since then it's been all RED till now.

An ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB

An ASUS HD4870 512MB (beautiful looking card) (shortly thereafter went to a HIS HD4890 1GB for the increased onboard memory)

Then went with a Sapphire 6970 2GB (another nice running card at the time)

Bought this about 2 1/2 years ago....ASUS R9 290X 4GB OC....Still love this card

Switched to Nvidia due to the price drops of 980ti's since the release of the 1080 cards.

You should post these photos in https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-nostalgic-hardware-club.108251/page-179#post-3482447

Cvrk · Jul 2, 2016

Champ said:
So it wasn't until I saw Jayz 2 Cent recent aftermarket 1080 vid, that I realized I made a huge mistake. I need to stop trying to go against the grain and support the underdog. Nvidia is dominating for a reason and I saw it. I regret paying almost 500 for my nano months ago and I'm definitely regretting getting a freesync monitor now. We gotta be realistic. AMD will probably never catch Intel/Nvidia. Processor or graphics wise.

i have a freesync monitor. will get the asus rx 480 in one month when it will come out. wanted to get the r9 380x but the rx is a much better deal.
so why you regret the freesync ?

Champ · Jul 2, 2016

Now freesync is one thing I don't regret. It works well. It's just that currently AMD best offering doesn't allow it was work all the time. Cut off rate for my monitor is 40 fps. My nano OCed struggles to keep that at certain scenes in the Witcher 3. I play that the most now. With older games, it's wonderful with the resolution booster thing. Can't think of the name.

pbm86 · Jul 2, 2016

My first ATI card XPert 2000 (not sure PRO or not) had pretty terrible performance at the time I got it. Later all my Radeon cards were pretty good. I used a 9550 for a long time and it lost its usefulness in the end and it died after 8-9 years use. Now I have working HD 5670, HD 7870 and a R7 360. Still pretty good cards.

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Case	Thermaltake Core X31
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Power Supply	FSP Hydro Ti Pro 850W
Mouse	Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless
Keyboard	WASD Code v3 with Cherry Green keyswitches + PBT DS keycaps
Software	Gentoo Linux x64

Anybody regret going red?

R-T-B

laszlo

D007

CAPSLOCKSTUCK

Spaced Out Lunar Tick

R-T-B

AsRock

TPU addict

Recon-UK

AsRock

TPU addict

Champ

dieselcat18

D007

R-T-B

Recon-UK

Caring1

Recon-UK

Champ

P4-630

Recon-UK

P4-630

ChristineAndRusty

dieselcat18

P4-630

Cvrk

Champ

pbm86

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