Allow me to save everyone a little bit of time. Buy an Nvidia.
Is your res 800x400?I have xfx 280x and play everything maxed out at high fps. Had it for over a year and only next card I will upgrade to is a 395x2. Anything less wouldn't be worth the money. Im sure that wont be at least till end of this year for 4k
That happened with the introduction of Kepler, which brought a lower power utilization envelope which led to the GTX 670 (and later 760) using a foreshortened PCB. Once the blower addition was removed from the card, you had a pretty decent choice of mITX targeted cards. The 970 is more or less an extension of lower power paradigm. Losing out on efficiency, makes AMD's architecture ill suited for such dimensions - at least at that performance level of graphics.
More or less. (Playing the pedant here) For reference cards, Nvidia has kept to 10.5" (267mm) for years (since 2006) as were ATI/AMD's. AMD's have been creeping up in size for the last few generations. From 10.6" (270mm) for the 6950/6970, the HD 7970/280X/290/290X have all been 10.83" (275mm).
As for AIB's, they are only bound by the ATX specification -maximum length of 12.283" (312mm).
I'd tend to argue that most of the CCC options aren't all that useful -at least I've never found them so (tended to use the basic driver* + RadeonPro / ATI Tray Tools). They give the appearance of full features but don't really deliver that much. Overclocking? What's the CCC OC limit these days? Display tweaking? Most people I know that do so -including myself, set up our own ICC profiles using dedicated software. If you want to switch profiles without delving into the OS, just use a utility like Color Sustainer.
Seems a bit reductive don't you think. Most people buy/compare based on current pricing. Using your logic, we should avoid Samsung and LG monitors because of their price fixing past, and Nvidia and AMD graphics because of their price fixing past. Price fixing is worse than charging a higher price than their competitor, right?...and that's without even touching upon antitrust and IP theft. At least the consumer has a choice over an individual vendors pricing...not quite as much when the fix is in.
Most everything, but not everything. As an example, Nvidia developed the MXM (mobile PCI-Express module) and handed the spec and development over to an independent authority. While it is a bummer that Nvidia do tend to charge more for product, it also seems to translate directly into R&D and features that are first to market (G-Sync, adaptive V-sync, GeForce Experience, ShadowPlay etc.). Whether or not the features offset the price you pay is rather dependent upon what individual user values them at - which tends to directly translate into market share.
* The one thing that would have made me install CCC was provision for game profiles, but that was pitifully late in arriving to Catalyst (intro'd for Forceware in 2004 - albeit fairly buggy at first)
Do you honestly believe AMD will let nVidia be the cheaper product? AMD being the cheaper product is part of AMD's marketing strategy.Right now though, Nvidia is still charging a premium over AMD cards.
The opposite is just as true. If you (the company) believe you have the stronger product, it is priced as such. You don't invite the perception that your product is the bargain alternative if you want to retain Top of the Mind awareness with the buying public, and with consumerism, all too often perception is reality.Do you honestly believe AMD will let nVidia be the cheaper product? AMD being the cheaper product is part of AMD's marketing strategy.
That certainly seems to be working for Apple.If you (the company) believe you have the stronger product, it is priced as such. You don't invite the perception that your product is the bargain alternative if you want to retain Top of the Mind awareness with the buying public, and with consumerism, all too often perception is reality.
It sounds like the console wars have moved to video cards now I just think we buy the card we want.I as an older gamer (58) bought a gaming pc because it will be the last one I really will need.Never had a high end rig before and I do love it, it run sli 780tis superclocked and man do I love the frame rates.I say get the card you want it is not a pissing contest as I have always had AMD cards and 1992 my first pc was an AMD rig 386dx66 cpu even have cpus that have got off ebay that are AMDs must admit I do favour the under dog.Reason I got Nvidia was to say I have tried them and so far it has been awesome so hang fighting over GPUs just get what you want and keep gaming.
got the same same card waiting for 395x2 alsoI have xfx 280x and play everything maxed out at high fps. Had it for over a year and only next card I will upgrade to is a 395x2. Anything less wouldn't be worth the money. Im sure that wont be at least till end of this year for 4k
I'm a lazy ****, I hate bs screwing around with updating drivers with my amd card..
You go to there site.. its set out like an armature website designer built it and then you gotta figure out where the hell your card drivers are. And what makes it worse is trying to figure out what driver I need for my apu and my gpu to work together. Last time I tried my crossfire would not work.. Then the control center would never show up.. I reinstall again but I have to uninstall all old stuff manually. then download another type and try my luck again.. ok now the control center comes up but I cant turn on crossfire..
Who ever designed this driver page its a complete nightmare. Millions of dollars and you cant pay a decent web developer to design a proper driver page.
As for the drivers.. Hahaha blue screens black screens.. graphics driver not responding.. Im really tired of it. glitch bug ware when will it stop. I need stability on my pc.