Dan3345 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 But who needs CPU performance these days? A small bunch of modded Fallout/Skyrim gamers... anyone else?And professional users, but Intel would rather have them buy server parts. TXT isn't locked on K series for no reason. The performance desktop CPU market is all but dead. The few top CPU that do get out are like a bone thrown to a dog. People who need real performance are choosing between custom RISC and GPGPU solutions. Here's the current list: http://www.top500.org/lists/2012/11/1 - Tesla+Opteron2 - Power BQC 3 - SPARC 64 Don't expect powerful GPGPU customer solutions from Nvidia, though. They've got Tesla for $5,000 and they don't $500 cards to cannibalize its sales. General computing capability in the 600 series got nerfed, not improved. NV today is getting a lot like Intel, they are holding back on their mass solutions so as to segment the market and maximize the margins. And all this is happening amidst the ultratabletphone crowd chanting "who needs performance no om no mo". So 3/4 of the customers don't want it; Vendors don't want to give it, not even to the 1/4 that do want it. Things are not looking good. It's not AMD, or Intel, or x86, or even CISC that is going down; it's performance computing. How many of you are taking a Concorde to your winter vacation destination this year?Your sentiment on Nvidia is dead on.. When I bought my 680 the BIOS had just been locked and I hadn't realized. Asus was making the Mars 3 which was going to be released with a stock clock of 1302mhz, but it got canned before release because Nvidia threatened lawsuits to every company that made a card with unlocked BIOS. For now I can keep buying Intel Processors, but if Nvidia keeps this up I will buy another radeon card for sure. I really like the Asus Matrix 7970. In fact, my dad needs a new GPU. Depending on how much cash I get from work in the next day or two, and money I get in gifts on Christmas I may just buy the Matrix. Hell of a card that is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor. Posted December 23, 2012 Author Share Posted December 23, 2012 (edited) Dan3345 go with gigabyte, if you can find it, its one of the best manufacturers out there, http://www.newegg.ca...N82E16814125413 Edited December 23, 2012 by Thor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blove Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 I have an Asus Matrix Platinum 7970. It is huge, quiet, sexy, and is easy to overclock. Any of the red or green Asus DC2s should be a good bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoofhearted4 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 im getting the Gigabyte 7950 here probably right after Christmas (thats probably when itll be delivered. its already been bought, now im just waiting) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMod Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 If you were getting a 7970, I'd hate to rain on your parade by saying they are already stockpiling 8970s for the launch. But since it's 7950, no problem. Anyway, for people looking forward to 7970, consider that 8970 is expected to launch ~Feb'13 and will be at least 25% faster. At least it has ~25% more of everything. And it's not just more the same, they're introducing CPU/GPU cross-addressing; not used by any software at the moment, but maybe it will be in the card's lifetime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blove Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Grinch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan3345 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 If you were getting a 7970, I'd hate to rain on your parade by saying they are already stockpiling 8970s for the launch. But since it's 7950, no problem. Anyway, for people looking forward to 7970, consider that 8970 is expected to launch ~Feb'13 and will be at least 25% faster. At least it has ~25% more of everything. And it's not just more the same, they're introducing CPU/GPU cross-addressing; not used by any software at the moment, but maybe it will be in the card's lifetime.I'm not really buying one, it was more of a hypothetical. Anyone else surprised to see the 8 series so soon? It doesn't even feel like its been a year.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMod Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 It's been. 7970 debuted early Jan'12.And 8970 uses the same 28nm process, just improved architecture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoofhearted4 Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 luckily for me im not the type who NEEDS the best. so ill be fine with my 7950 at least until the 9000 series or 10k series (hypothetical numbering ofc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor. Posted December 25, 2012 Author Share Posted December 25, 2012 I'm waiting for the 157432 8k HD Radeons http://forums.nexusmods.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/dance.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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