After much research, and not wanting to spend another £100+ on a slight improvement in frame rate that I won't even be able to detect (40/45FPS) for a 970 I settled on this baby. (Was originally aiming for the 750Ti but as the Ti can outperform a PS4, I figured another £50 for this leap in performance was worth it.)
Initially was going for the 2Gb but been advised 4Gb is a lot better and more future proof with more native 1080p games coming along.
Has 2x DVI so if you're still running old monitors like me, means you don't have to mess with adapters until you upgrade.
Updated to 'Today Only' price, not sure how long this will last.
All comments (36)
Westwoodo
23 Oct 151#1
I was going to get that gfx card but spend a little extra and get Your text here
It's 17% better and has a 3 year guarantee instead of a 1 year.
Roger_Irrelevant
23 Oct 151#2
Off to buy some scrumpy so can't defend this deal for a couple of hours.
Inb4 "Card X was on offer at £156 and is 2FPS faster on game Y".
Basically I reckon the £100-150 price point represents a good balance between price and performance, this card will hold it's own for a few years with iterations slowing down from all manufacturers and nothing new on the horizon until mid 2016.. :man:
How dare you. Scrumpy Jack is not proper cider, let alone scrumpy.
This is scrumpy:
This deal seems to be holding it's own.. Now back to the Scrumpy. :wink:
Roger_Irrelevant
23 Oct 152#9
Nice one. Morrisons are doing Pickled Onions for 40p at the moment too. Anyone got any more irrelevant deals to share in this thread? :smiley:
Bobbith
23 Oct 151#10
It's a cheaper alternative to the other irrelevant deals already posted on the thread :smiley:
dcx_badass
23 Oct 151#11
Seems like a good idea until you have to use AMD drivers. I have a few friends who buy AMD because it's better value, of course they're also the same people always moaning about constantly crashing out of games.
Roger_Irrelevant
24 Oct 15#12
AMD = BSOD. Sadly. It's all to do with hardware design.
Westwoodo to Roger_Irrelevant
24 Oct 15#13
If that was the case in the way you.have stated nobody at all would have them and there would be a outcry. Maybe even a far cry......
BetaRomeo
24 Oct 152#14
Quote of the week right here. :wink: Just put the Industry Standard weightings (ISO28463) to Windows game performance (averaged over the last 2,000 games released on PC), heat, power consumption, noise, Linux/SteamOS performance, ShadowPlay/Raptr features, Freesync/Gsync, and CPU dependence, then divide by the price, et voila! The MSI TwinFrozr 380 is exactly 17% "better". (Well, 16.992% by my reckoning, but close enough.)
Drummerboy
25 Oct 152#15
Wow a free download of a free game
mattturner756 to Drummerboy
25 Oct 15#16
Literally just thinking that. Must be the beginner's pack. Heroes of the storm is hardly the game to show off the graphics card but it's a decent game nonetheless.
Beefnoodlez
25 Oct 151#17
Same card is £151.19 on Scan's 'Today Only' page..
jewelie
25 Oct 15#18
My 960 is lovely, but the 2Gb can be limiting in some circumstances (3D, streaming, resource conflicts with Aero etc) so a 4Gb 960 would be bliss. The 960 is stupid powerful for the lack of electrical power / heat. :smiley: My silent PC is silent, even running the 960 overclocked streaming games into another room whilst my partner sleeps peacefully in the same room as the PC (it's THAT silent!) :smiley:
I saw this on Scan yesterday and put in a Flubit. Got it for sub £150 with delivery mid next week. Still a hot deal, just thought I'd let y'all know :smiley:
simoneroebuck to jamie_nx01
25 Oct 15#25
Been racking up the amazon gift card deals so had to get it from there, probably paid around £120 in cash
In short, 4GB of RAM for 2GB prices, overclocks almost as highly as the MSI Gaming 2G version (about 1475MHz sustained boost), exceptionally quiet, very, very small, only requires 1x 6-pin power from your PSU. R9 380 is faster, but it won't be as small as this, or as quiet as this. Great HTPC card as it has full hardware h.264/HEVC encode/decode.
Got this card for £153 last week from scan, remember avforum users with 20+ post also get free delivery
BetaRomeo
25 Oct 15#30
Errr... is that your alter-ego?
I think the point has flown over your head. :wink: You can evaluate a card's game performance, temperatures, noise, etc - even, to a degree, put a figure on its value for money. But to simply make a statement that one card is "17% better" than another is... priceless. :smile:
And, of course, it helps if your link goes through to compare the cards we're describing. Did you not do any research on that card you claim to have ordered? Its Twin Frozr cooler is nice (my last two cards have had Twin Frozrs), and the clocks are higher than the stock 380 (well, the core clocks, anyway). It seems your "17% better" remark, entertaining as it was, does not even apply here after all!
Bluebella
25 Oct 15#31
I had an AMD 4870 1GB which worked really well apart from frequent crashing and BSOD's. This time I decided to prioritise reliability over performance and managed to get a GTX 960 4GB for £132 thanks to the Ebay 20% voucher :innocent:
Westwoodo
25 Oct 15#32
It seems it does like for like, the twin frozr version of the 960 is still not as good as the twin frozr version of the 380, which you can get for around the same price thus making my point validated, don't shoot something down if you don't understand it or don't ask for reference.
Roger_Irrelevant
26 Oct 151#33
I think there should be a "Triumph Through Adversity" badge; getting a graphics card to go 'hot'.
I hereby apply to be the first recipient of this badge. :man:
BetaRomeo
28 Oct 15#34
I think you're still not understanding... "better" is subjective. :smile: You could say it is "17% faster in Windows performance averaged across these x games at x settings"... but not 17% better.
I wasn't agreeing or disagreeing with your subjective viewpoint that a Twin Frozr 380 is better value for the money - just your hilarious language misuse. And let's not forget that a 960 is 20% better than even AMD's Fury cards.:wink:
wozukSilencer
28 Oct 15#35
Yep I'll have 1 aswell
Roger_Irrelevant
29 Oct 15#36
If it helps anyone, mine's up and running and I'm very impressed. The fans are basically off as are the GPUs until they're needed . Power consumption at idle though is about 45W I found (watched the meter go from 0.9kWh to around 0.95 just from swapping cards). It takes just one six pin power connector.
Not had it running any demanding games yet so can't really go on about frame rates but am sure it'll be fine, even with my old 2x Xeon dual cores.
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Opening post
After much research, and not wanting to spend another £100+ on a slight improvement in frame rate that I won't even be able to detect (40/45FPS) for a 970 I settled on this baby. (Was originally aiming for the 750Ti but as the Ti can outperform a PS4, I figured another £50 for this leap in performance was worth it.)
Initially was going for the 2Gb but been advised 4Gb is a lot better and more future proof with more native 1080p games coming along.
Has 2x DVI so if you're still running old monitors like me, means you don't have to mess with adapters until you upgrade.
Updated to 'Today Only' price, not sure how long this will last.
All comments (36)
It's 17% better and has a 3 year guarantee instead of a 1 year.
Inb4 "Card X was on offer at £156 and is 2FPS faster on game Y".
Basically I reckon the £100-150 price point represents a good balance between price and performance, this card will hold it's own for a few years with iterations slowing down from all manufacturers and nothing new on the horizon until mid 2016.. :man:
Asus Turbo Edition £148.98 (Including delivery) at OcUK
This is scrumpy:
This deal seems to be holding it's own.. Now back to the Scrumpy. :wink:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B012G7VCGU/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new
personally, I would spend the extra £30 and get an r9 290 from amazon. Significantly better performance (with tech specs about 100% greater in every area) http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00HFA44YQ/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used&m=A2OAJ7377F756P
This card is reviewed in depth here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-2gb-vs-4gb-review
In short, 4GB of RAM for 2GB prices, overclocks almost as highly as the MSI Gaming 2G version (about 1475MHz sustained boost), exceptionally quiet, very, very small, only requires 1x 6-pin power from your PSU. R9 380 is faster, but it won't be as small as this, or as quiet as this. Great HTPC card as it has full hardware h.264/HEVC encode/decode.
Here's a size comparison to the MSI 2G model, which is pretty much standard size for this level of card: http://images.eurogamer.net/2013/articles//a/1/7/8/8/3/7/7/4.JPG.jpg
.....you only had to ask asshat.
I think the point has flown over your head. :wink: You can evaluate a card's game performance, temperatures, noise, etc - even, to a degree, put a figure on its value for money. But to simply make a statement that one card is "17% better" than another is... priceless. :smile:
And, of course, it helps if your link goes through to compare the cards we're describing. Did you not do any research on that card you claim to have ordered? Its Twin Frozr cooler is nice (my last two cards have had Twin Frozrs), and the clocks are higher than the stock 380 (well, the core clocks, anyway). It seems your "17% better" remark, entertaining as it was, does not even apply here after all!
I hereby apply to be the first recipient of this badge. :man:
I wasn't agreeing or disagreeing with your subjective viewpoint that a Twin Frozr 380 is better value for the money - just your hilarious language misuse. And let's not forget that a 960 is 20% better than even AMD's Fury cards.:wink:
Not had it running any demanding games yet so can't really go on about frame rates but am sure it'll be fine, even with my old 2x Xeon dual cores.