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clone wrote:Stop saying this! Stop! Stop it right now! FSAA is *never* irrelevant! If we had gigapixel displays, it would still be relevant!wonderful times indeed and if you give up on FSAA, a feature that is sorta redundant by 1080P it gets even better.
auxy wrote:clone wrote:Stop saying this! Stop! Stop it right now! FSAA is *never* irrelevant! If we had gigapixel displays, it would still be relevant!wonderful times indeed and if you give up on FSAA, a feature that is sorta redundant by 1080P it gets even better.
Don't ever say this again! You're spreading a malicious and mal-informed lie!
Bensam123 wrote:Why do you see there being a window for buying a extra card? I actually see it as a way of extending a initial purchase. A 7870 was great for me when I first bought it, but now I want more FPS and games are more demanding. Instead of buying a new gen card I can get one more of what I already have that has decreased significantly in price due to the release of a new card. That means my initial investment gains more value and I can extend it longer, as well as it being a good deal $/performance wise compared to new cards. Had I bought two at the same time I would've spent more and there may not have been games around to take advantage of it nearly as much.
I don't think this sort of logic hold once you go back 2-3 generations, but for the last gen that's still readily available on the market it makes sense.
"The mistake people make is thinking that two older cards on an outdated architecture is a sensible upgrade path"
That. Once you reach a certain age it's not worth crossfiring/sling them even if you can get the second card cheap. Second gen is still relatively fresh.
Bensam123 wrote:Once you reach a certain age it's not worth crossfiring/sling them even if you can get the second card cheap. Second gen is still relatively fresh.
Bensam123 wrote:Go back to my other posts in this thread. The context is always "buy one get another one (much) later is a bad idea". It pretty much boils down to knowing what you want and have a realistic plan in an appropriate time frame. Not people thinking about teamng low end cards with a time window of after 2-3 newer generations of CPU and GPU are out (extreme case here, but you get the idea).Curiously Fox, you say buying a second card is a bad value proposition, but don't offer any reasoning as to why. For example I can buy a 7870 for $150 and it almost doubles my performance, which is faster then even a R9-290x.
Airmantharp wrote:1. Hold out. The HD7870 isn't nearly slow at 1080p.
2. Upgrade the GPU; do not try to CF on an x16/x4 board. And don't buy any more of those boards .
3. Prepare to upgrade everything, especially if you're not running an overclocked Ivy quad.
I'm in a similar position with Z68- PCIe 2.0 x8/x8 will likely be a limitation for higher-end CF/SLI that would replace my GTX670's, and I'd like to move up to either a Haswell i7 K or an Ivy-E six-core for content creation work, along with a 4k monitor when those become feasible sometime next year. I'm basically resigned to trading out everything, and waiting for stuff like the PCIe SSD sticks to hit motherboards.
Airmantharp wrote:New single-GPU down the road, when you get your 1440p display.
Duct Tape Dude wrote:Airmantharp wrote:New single-GPU down the road, when you get your 1440p display.
Thanks! I look forward to the post-28nm flagships.