good job i couldnt care less about vr. thanks op. heat added

A full VR headset and a fluffer.
Everything for nothing of course.

Your loss lol

Not good for VR unfortunately

Your loss lol

Good price!!

Of course not but it's £120. What you expecting?

Good value I'd say !

Great price with Ashes included.

Good but apparently you might get some stutter in some games with only 2gb Vram as opposed to the 4gb version. Still a good deal though.
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Good price for the card with a game that interests me too. If only it was a couple of cm smaller I would have snapped this up.

Having said that: It's worth bearing in mind that AMD are moving to 14nm this year, which translates to faster cards or much less power consumption. Basically if you're not desperate to upgrade right now, I'd recommend you wait just a few more months.

Reassessed? That was in plans that older Graphics cards will be supported.
Besides 2gb? It's not that much.

Async compute strikes again for AMD
:-)

Meanwhile for Nvidia it's still a GTX970 recommended.

HIS made some very good cards in their time, has quality suffered as of late?

I had the Sapphire Nitro 4GB version of the card- dreadful. I went through to two and way too buggy. Now I have an MSI 970 (£210) and it is a very well put together card so MSI are a strong manufacturer.The Sapphire was also fantastically built only let down by dreadful,dreadful AMD drivers.

So seriously, competition is great but what does Async have to do with this? Happy to be educated, just don't see the relevance?

Ahh, I'm so glad you're here. There's another reason we're all abandoning Nvidia, isn't there? You did suggest that you had some inside information about "big announcements" in March that would leave Nvidia high and dry, right?



Now, I like to think of myself as both fairly up-to-date on graphics tech, and a keen shopper. However, not only did I apparently miss these "big announcements", but I haven't seen all of these used Nvidia cards flooding the market. What exactly is it that I have missed?

The cynic in me wonders if you were just inventing something - anything - to forestall someone from buying a Nvidia card! Surely that's not the case? :man:

Perhaps you should finally respond to Nate1492's comment:


Because, to my eyes at least, it seems that you've just been sharing false information yet again.

Perhaps we've answered the question, whatever happened to mystic meg?

I just checked the give website and they recommend an r9 290, so not sure what he's going on about

Eriously though, you spend that much time on me. I'm flattered. Lol

actually I just checked again.
It was a genuine mistake.
I, unlike many others here can accept when I am wrong. They made a mistake and updated it.
http://www.gamecrate.com/update-htc-vive-tweaks-recommended-specs-include-r9-280-new-low-end-gpu/13241

Yes, I'm completely erious.

What happened at GDC last month that meant we should all abandon Nvidia?

I love low spec grapbics card arguments.

Good for you.

Lets take a look at how Nvidia continue to mess up this years drivers for their GPU's
The last three months they can't even get that right. Not even paid marketers/Astro turfers are able to stop the truth about poor drivers.

http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphics/40364-nvidia-geforce-364-72-drivers-come-with-plenty-of-issues

Yes, I'm completely erious.
What happened at GDC last month that meant we should all abandon Nvidia?

(By the way, if you think it takes a long time to hit ctrl-D, and later copy/paste some text, it's possible that you may be experiencing some driver issues? Only takes me a couple of seconds.)

Ooooooooooooooo, good card. nice price, bit better than a 960... bit thirsty though, and it this price (even though cheapish) point might put some people of.

Although it's not VR ready, you could slap another one in crossfire. But not really the best combination really.

AMD drivers are much better now.... hey, it''s hard to find realiable staff these days!

getting a feeling of deja vidia here....:stuck_out_tongue: