Upgrade Time!

Computer and electronic gizmo support.
User avatar
DexterPunk
Busted ARSE
Posts: 15218
Joined: Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:18 pm
Location: SE Suburbs, Melbourne
Contact:

Re: Upgrade Time!

Post by DexterPunk »

That would have transformed the system EK. Nice.
User avatar
Enforcer-J
Posts: 6512
Joined: Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:16 pm
Location: right on your A.R.S.E.

Re: Upgrade Time!

Post by Enforcer-J »

Id be happy with just one :) why are gpu's so ridiculously priced!?
User avatar
Exar Kun
Sensible Mick
Posts: 11324
Joined: Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:46 pm
Location: Canberra

Re: Upgrade Time!

Post by Exar Kun »

Yeah, it's got no problems with pCars or AC on triple screens. I'm not running everything maxed, of course, but most settings are high and it looks excellent. Compared to my old 5870s which literally wouldn't run those games at all! I still managed to score $170 or so for the old cards on eBay too.
"If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!"
Shonky
Posts: 5230
Joined: Sun Feb 27, 2005 6:33 pm

Re: Upgrade Time!

Post by Shonky »

Enforcer-J wrote:Id be happy with just one :) why are gpu's so ridiculously priced!?
i7 Haswell around 2.6b transistors on 22nm process

GTX 980 core around 5.2b transistors on 28nm process plus a few GB of DDR5 memory as well, if you compare a CPU and memory together they are a bit closer in pricing.
User avatar
Enforcer-J
Posts: 6512
Joined: Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:16 pm
Location: right on your A.R.S.E.

Re: Upgrade Time!

Post by Enforcer-J »

Billion! wow I didn't realise they had anywhere remotely close to that. Mind blown
Shonky
Posts: 5230
Joined: Sun Feb 27, 2005 6:33 pm

Re: Upgrade Time!

Post by Shonky »

Same, I thought we were still in the millions of transistors!
Sarsippius
Posts: 4336
Joined: Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:13 pm
Location: Darwin

Re: Upgrade Time!

Post by Sarsippius »

GPUs have kind of stagnated and so has the competition in the pricing. I bought my HD 7870 two years ago for $240, an R7 370 which is essentially the same exact card but slightly cut back is in the same $210-230 range. The HD 7870 replaced an HD 6850 purchased a few years earlier for similar dollars for roughly 1.5 times the performance, so we've gone from a 1.5 times increase in performance for the price over two years to no increase at all.
The performance increases in recent times have translated into higher prices.

As a bit of an interim upgrade I just bought a second hand HD 7970 for $160, made sense for something to tide me over till the Rift or Vive are released and I need something like a GTX 970.
User avatar
Enforcer-J
Posts: 6512
Joined: Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:16 pm
Location: right on your A.R.S.E.

Re: Upgrade Time!

Post by Enforcer-J »

Ill be going a GTX 970 when my HD 7850 gets a bit tired. Id see some decent performance gains there, but not really $500 worth in my opinion. Hopefully I'll pick one up cheap by then.
User avatar
richo
Posts: 3471
Joined: Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:45 pm
Location: The Shire, The insular peninsula .
Contact:

Re: Upgrade Time!

Post by richo »

Got 2x HD6950'S and there definitely feeling the strain plus the heat and noise is horrible. Hoping i get something cheaper in the Gtx 980 line in the US next week .
[]D [] []v[] []D
Post Reply