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Anyone know of an ETA for 3rd party 480's? i already resold my reference card and I don't want to fish out $300 for a marginal increase on the 1060 with less VRAM
>>55612498
Nobody here knows, horse fucker.
XFX's card looks sexy as fuck though. Why do AMD get nice, understated black designs, whilst Nvidia cards look like fucking toys for five year olds?
>>55612530
didnt asus say mid august?
>>55612530
> fucking toys for five year olds?
Because that's Nvidia's key demographic?
>>55612570
Given the way Asus spectacularly fucked up their 1070 and 1080 Strix cards, that's no indication of anything.
>>55612586
do not follow asus cards( overpriced for nothing), what happened?
>>55612530
shut up mom it's just a phase
You're right, they did a great job.
Nvidia has always been a fan of eye candy.
![HIS-ICEQX2-RX-480-2[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mhVPF1L.jpg "HIS-ICEQX2-RX-480-2[1].jpg")
>>55612530
o i am laffin
>>55612586
I know powercolor is the 21s of this month. the devil thing.
I bet we'll see sapphire's card this week.
next week at the latest
>>55612619
>HIS
what country?
>>55612605
Aimed too high with their factory overclock, terrible yields, no cards on shelves, desperately repurposing OC models that failed testing as cheaper models just to get some cards out there. It's been funny to watch.
>>55612619
>HIS
Literally who? All cards for the Asian market look like tacky garbage.
>>55612619
>HIS
Were not talking about absolute madman tier companies
>>55612605
they were the most hyped aftermarket card. they released way later than originally planned and decided to jack up their price like crazy over what they originally advertised. After all that, their card wasn't anything special.
>>55612630
I'm waiting for it, I really liked their design for the fury.
Too bad I have to buy new tires instead of a new gpu.
>>55612619
DELETE THIS
seriously what is with these designs. I didn't pay attention to the previous generations, were they always this bad?
>>55612669
time to play everyone's favorite game: christian extremism or retarded gaymur branding?
>>55612734
The latter of course.
>>55612734
I do feel slightly uncomfortable buying a card aligning itself with satan. Can't be a good sign. Plus hell is supposed to be hot right? Is Powercolor trying to soften the blow when their temps are revealed?
>>55612764
you're punishing the devil, tying him down to your pcie slot and making him burn.
jesus will understand
>>55612734
>not buying your GPUs from WBC approved sources
how do you live with yourself?
>>55612845
It all makes sense now. It's how AMD get's such good DOOM vulkan scores. They're harnessing the hell energy and now they're building it directly into the boards!
Oy vey are you calling us devils?
>>55612764
>Plus hell is supposed to be hot right?
Christianity stole hell from the Norse. Hel is a cold place. Hel is also a woman.
>>55612997
>that hex
you're not sealing the devil, you're summoning the devil
the five-point pentagon star is the pagan means of sealing
>>55612498
Me thinks that overclockers.co.uk forums say that Sapphire will be in stock on 22nd.
>>55613394
that's expensive in canadian money
>>55613034
That is how you summon AMD drivers.
Kek
>>55612997
>amd literally relying on kabbalah black magic to make their shit work
can't make this up
>>55613018
stop talking about stuff you know nothing about
>>55612498
Why the fuck would you buy a GTX 480 in 2016?
>>55613545
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_(location)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_(being)
norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/giants/hel/
Hel (Old Norse Hel, “Hidden”) is a giantess and goddess in Norse mythology who rules over Helheim, the underworld where the dead dwell.
Better than Christian ripoff any day.
>>55613442
Pound is a little shafted right now, so for me personally it is cheaper than getting it in EURO from my local stores. Which nobody knows WHEN will have stock.
>>55613596
Lithuanian mythology so OP compared to ANYTHING ELSE that they don't even have EVIL Gods.
>>55613549
As opposed to what options? What is in the same price/performance range?
>>55612619
Pssssshhhhhh
Whatever......kid
If I wanted to slap a custom cooler on one, have the reference cards been historically better starting point than any of the AIB's?
>>55613944
payday 2 gpu bro
>>55612619
>HIS
>"Built for Roaring Gamers"
>"Quieter - 0dB Fan"
>leds
>blue and yellow together
Embarrassing
>>55612619
this must be the /g/ equivalent of 2fast2furious ricers on /o/. This triggers me.
>>55612997
Jews did AMD
>>55612619
looks alright to me, HIS is alright if it was cheaper than the other cards would buy
Water cooled when?
>>55612498
Nitro is next week
Rest are speculated end of august
Something about a typhoon or other minor disaster delaying things
>>55613034
its the ring of solomon actually..
Should i pre-order from overclockers or wait for a cheaper price in the EU?By cheaper i mean euro or dollar.Pound is the most expensive currency out of the three for me.
>>55612530
>implying
>>55614375
I'd rather not let a damigami watercool my GPU
>>55612619
10 points Gryffindoor.
>>55613944
This looks pretty good. Simplistic matt black is better than having that box design imprinted in the card or some stupid flaming lion like in a previous post.
>>55614785
What's the worse she could do, flood your room a little?
>>55614785
pick up a cheap 120mm AIO CPU water cooler and install it yourself brah
>>55614811
I don't know if you realize this but it looks very very similar to the Reference 480
>55614991
bait
>>55612997
gonna buy this shit senpai
>>55614375
AAAAAAAAAAH
I WANT MY HOUSEFIRE GPU
>>55613034
The devil is sealed into the card. If you run this card then the seal will be burned open.
>>55612645
HIS was ATI's first AIB partner.
>>55615247
>1280x1024 w/aa was something gpu's used to struggle with
Really makes you think
>>55615436
>Multimonitor setup is something that still works like in 2002 on AMD cards
Really makes you think
>>55615436
I was using 1280x1024 till late 2014.
how much will that fucking sapphire nitro shit cost in the US??
>>55612498
shortly after nivida gtx 1060 will release their non reference mdoels
>>55616191
$279
>>55612664
>1 fan cools absolutely nothing
you can't make this shit up
>these people posting ugly pieces of shit AIB's when op already posted to prettiest
bunch of fucking braindeads in here
>>55612498
Overclockers says it's due 22nd july and powercolors one will be around the same time, so i'm gonna assume most of them will be out between 20th and the end of the month. Asus won't be till august but fuck them anyway.
>>55617058
>2016
>not knowing how heat pipes work
>>55617058
>not understanding how a heatsink works
>being literally retarded
Which third party makes the most reliable AMD cards? I've always had Nvidia cards, and this will be my first AMD card. Right now I have a GTX 960 so I'm pretty excited to get a card that's literally twice as fast.
>>55617137
Sapphire. They're the EVGA of AMD cards. XFX and PowerColor also do good work though.
>>55613018
>Hel is also a woman.
Figures.
>>55612997
That's the ring of Solomon. It gave him command of genies, demons or to speak to animals.
You are playing with fire when you have that card anyways. In before PCI-E power draw.
>>55617055
thanks hon, not too bad.
guess i found my new card.
>>55617796
Still wait for the 1060 benchmarks
>wait wait wait
IM FUCKING TIRED OF WAITING. JUST LET ME BUY THE FUCKING CARD ALREADY!!
>>55617058
>being this stupid
>>55617857
well i will have to wait until august anyhow, perhaps those will be out by then, and stock will be plentiful so i don't have to wait much.
>>55617165
what about gigglebyte? I used to have a 6850 from them that performed well
>>55617165
I never understand the attraction behind eVGA.
Sapphire is a great company, but eVGA had their snafu with their off-center heatpipes, and their cooling is usually mediocre at best relative to how loud they are.
Zotac can output some surprisingly good and cheap cards, but all the same, I would always look up reviews for individual cards.
>Find an open-box Zotac GTX 960
>4GB of vram
>Full-metal shroud
>Backplate
>Fan turns off at idle
Surprisingly good card--I use it right now for my HTPC build
>>55612498
The waiting is too much, i got fed up and impulsively bought a 380x in the nearest shop.
doom 80 fps ultra
Witcher 60 fps with shadows on medium.
I think that 'm not upgrading any time soon.
Fucking based 7970
>>55618661
Yep, I'd argue there isn't anything on the level of Sapphire on Nvidia's side. I guess EVGA's flagship end cards are alright but you can find better on MSI's flagships anyway.
>>55612619
i like the idea of a golden lion i just think it's all done so poorly
>those blue fans
>>55618755
What's so special about Sapphire? To me it looks like they make cards that are at the same level of MSI.
>>55612619
>>55618774
The heatsink looks to be the most based of them all
The fans look shitty but the heatsink and pipes look really based.
>>55617058
that 1 fan cools more because it has no PCB restricting its airflow
>>55618755
MSI has had consistently good cards for awhile, at least in their mainstream section (Gaming models).
Don't mean to be 'that guy' but I think the only reason /g/ fawns over Sapphire is because they're not as mainstream as other manufacturers. Otherwise, there's no reason why you can't recommend a good MSI over a comparative Sapphire.
>>55612530
That looks like an EVGA ACX2.0 cooler
>>55618486
Shit. Their 390(X) is the only voltage locked 390(X) on the market and the cooler is extremely noisy. I'd only put Asus below them for AMD cards these days.
>>55618661
The attraction of EVGA is their unrivalled customer service. Their cards aren't spectacular, but they're solid, middle of the pack performers under every metric.
>>55618793
Appearance is irrelevant really. They make the best coolers around, taming even things like the 290X down to around 70 degrees under full load without sounding like a hurricane. Their build quality is also second to none. Look at that fucking PCB. That sexy little heatsink on the VRMs, which you'll never even see unless you take the cooler off. It doesn't need to be that elaborate. But it is, because Sapphire are fucking great.
>>55618793
They basically made Hawaii worth buying with their Tri-X cooler. Both affordable and reliable, also no shitty Elpida ram. You couldn't get equal value unless you invested in their Lightning. Twin Frozr series doesn't compete and had issues with dying fans. Also even with their Lightning series there was a driver issue where one fan wouldn't turn on.
>>55618876
See the reasons I listed above. Their Gaming series is much better though.
>>55617058
>1 fan cools absolutely nothing
>>55618913
>equal value
Meant equal performance, Lightning was expensive as fuck.
Still better to get a Vapor-X like picturered in >>55618911 unless you found one really cheap.
>>55618876
No, it's because their coolers are just plain better than MSI's. Take it from someone who has owned both a Sapphire 290X Vapor-X and an MSI 290X Gaming that the former was the far, far superior card. Much lower temperatures under load and much quieter. Even the MSI 290X Lightning doesn't come close to the Vapor-X in terms of noise levels.
Sapphire aren't a meme. They're the best AMD partner by none. The idea that they're not mainstream is silly too. They're by far the largest AMD-exclusive brand.
>>55612645
>>55612648
HIS is a based company when it comes to there blower style AIB cards.
>>55618911
>I'd only put Asus below them for AMD cards these days
What's so bad about them?
As someone with a 270 at the moment, the 480 seems like it'd be a great card for me, with roughly twice the performance.
Though i'm a little tempted to wait see if the 490/1060ti comes out at around the £300 mark
>>55618701
The 380x isn't a 7970 though
>>55618911
Gigabyte had issues with the 290x too. They had to change the fan profile because it was running too hot. Pretty sure Powercolor had the same issue except they also shipped review cards with better SK Hynix ram when consumers got Elpida.
>>55619146
Asus? They just recycle their Nvidia coolers on AMD cards, which often results in poor connection with the die and subsequently higher temperatures. It's not like their coolers have even been quiet. Their 390X Strix makes more noise than the Sapphire 390X Nitro whilst running 15 degrees warmer.
>>55619239
I remember Gigabyte's 290X being fairly underwhelming. It was better than the 390X though, which is absolute garbage. They clearly gave no fucks about the 300 series.
I remember that PowerColor issue too. Sneaky.
>>55612530
Judaism is vital to the nvidia brand
Anybody have a general idea how the RX480 compares to a R9 370X in terms of performance?
Potentially looking to make the leap from laptop → desktop
>>55619268
I have a XFX r9 290 DD on CF and it never goes above 70C and the secondary is never above 60C
>>55619296
XFX 2XX DD series cards were terrible because they regularly ran the VRMs at 100+C due to their shitty single plate design. Fucking terrible cooler but people bought it anyway because they liked the design.
I noticed they made a note to actually cool the VRMs properly on their 480 cooler. They fixed it with the 390/x too.
>>55619349
The problem with their 290(X) was that the default fan curve was way too gentle. You can bring the VRMs right down by setting a more aggressive custom one (doesn't need to be 100% like in the example shown, a happy medium can be found). It still shouldn't really have been an issue though, and they did fix it for the 390(X).
>>55619396
Pfft, I had the card. Setting the profile higher is already too much. Thing was louder than the 290 Tri-X I had already. Amazed me that it ran 10c hotter even on the core temps while being louder.
>>55619349
source of pic?
>>55612997
Based Power Color drawing the pentagram for us.
>ITT /x/ cringe material
Literal "chaos maegick xD" tier shit guys.
>>55621202
http://videocardz.com/62220/xfx-radeon-rx-480-double-dissipation-pictured-some-more
>>55612619
who the fuck approved this. it looks awful.
>>55612997
And this. holy shit how terrible. I was actually going to buy this card. And then I saw the embarrassment on the back.
>>55612498
What does AIB mean? Monkey here.
>>55624705
Add In Board
a non reference card
>>55624705
>add-in (graphics) board
>>55618661
Most of EVGA's sales and hype are from international customers as they are the only manufacturer with international warranty. For example I can order a 1080 locally for around 1200 kangaroos. Off amazon USA or UK it is 900-950 kangaroos delivered to my door (with amazons return policy and such)
Also EVGA has the stepup program which is nice.
Ive never used their warranty so I cant comment.
Why are companys like Sapphire and EVGA exclusive?
Is it expensive to make these aftermarket coolers? Is it just them being lazy? Are they just fanboys?
>>55612498
I'll say it again. This has been the worst rollout of new graphics cards in a long time. The supply issues on both sides of the aisle are disgusting. Where the fuck are the AIB 480 boards? Where are the >$379 1070s we were promised? I never thought I'd live to see the day that there would be a $300+ x60 variant yet here we are.
>>55625019
they can get away with it because people are paying it and there are crazy shortages
this is what happens when you have indian jews in charge
>>55612498
23 July
>hurr I can't wait
>>55624981
Incentives offered by AMD/Nvidia. Sapphire work closer with AMD than anyone and also design their reference coolers. PNY have a similar relationship with Nvidia, but they're a far less prominent brand for whatever reason. Other brands actually do sell both under different brands. Zotac and Sapphire are owned by the same parent company.
XFX are an interesting one as they used to make Nvidia cards exclusively, but decided to start making AMD cards as well late last decade. Nvidia threw a shitfit at this and gave them an ultimatum of ditching AMD or losing their rights to make Nvidia cards. Of course, we know how that turned out. It's telling that Nvidia would only try to bully a smaller company like XFX in that way. They wouldn't dare piss off Asus or MSI or Gigabyte, because they're too big.
>>55625019
there is a lot of demand for the 480. It keeps getting stocked and sold out.
The custom cards are suposed to come out in like 5 days.
Anyone know if any itx friendly 480s have been announced? I haven't seen anything myself, but maybe I missed it.
>>55625222
its a dog move really.
these companies are putting their whole future on amd/nvidia so they should really help them or be open to them doing other things as much as possible. Im surprised there are so many manufacturers really
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/4tcf4t/nitro_hasnt_even_gone_to_production_yet_according/
JUST
>>55625296
depends on your case but reference blowers are generally itx friendly.
>>55625296
No AIBs yet
>>55625477
>no VRM cooling
why
>>55614768
This zotac is GORGEOUS.
>>55618661
its the customer service and stepup program.
their customer service is really top notch.
How are gainward aftermarket cards?
Leaning towards trying their 1070 as its a fair bit cheaper others.
>>55625791
also not a hardcore overclocker expecially when most games are averaging 60fps plus at the moment with it.
Called it
>>55622147
>>55625791
Gainward's 1070 and 1080 Phoenix cards are extremely fucking good. Mine barely hits 65c under maximum load and is completely inaudible. Overclocks are on par with other vendors, mine boosts up to 2088MHz and hovers around 2060MHz.
Just bare in mind it's a triple slot card and is 11.2" long.
>>55612619
FUCK YEAH HIS IS FUCKING BASED
If you ever find HIS AMD cards available, BUY IT. Their cooling systems are top notch and they're super reliable.
I still have a 4830 HIS and it works to this day.
>>55625984
>triple slot
im assuming its got a thicker heatsink then? but triple should be ok i think. I have no intention of ever going sli
sapphire isn't even in production yet, confirmed via sapphire livestream.
Time to buy satanic AiB i guess.
>>55612619
I've had 4 HIS cards, 2x 6870 and 2x 7850. 3 cards died with different problems within <2 years.
Never again
>>55626093
it took you 3 dead cards to stop giving them money? lol
>>55615519
>>>55615436
>>Multimonitor setup is something that still works like in 2002 on AMD cards
>Really makes you think
Idling 2 monitors on a brand new amd card consumes more power than stress testing high end laptops
I hope the 470 doesn't do this either or i'm just getting a used nvidia instead
They are waiting for the 1060 to be released so they can tweak it up a little more to pass the 1060's benchmarks. It's so obvious really.
>>55614375
That's not actually real, right?
>>55625498
Uhh, do you not see the sink on the VRMs?
>>55617137
Who told you its twice as fast as the 960? Also
>literally
Im afraid you have to go back to leldit
>>55627815
The whole thread is about 480s but to be fair he didn't specify that he's definitely getting a 480 as the AMD card of choice. I don't think it's a huge stretch to say the 480 is >literally twice as fast as the 960 though. The 960 is pretty fucking bad.
Are there any reliable 480 vs 1060 benchmarks out yet
>>55627900
>reliable benchmarks before the card is released
Let me think about that one for a bit and I'll get back to you.
>>55627969
Just making sure there haven't been any leaks. I haven't kept up with the 1060.
>>55614973
>cheap
It has to handle 250w of output when fully saturated to keep an overclocked 150w GPU in good temps, I don't think cheap is the right word to use here. Hypothetical 1500Mhz RX480s are going to use 220-240w. Before you argue "Well we just want watercooling at stock for the temps" you still need a sizeable TDP headroom for that to happen. I've a 250w rated Arctic TT3 on my OCd GPU that uses 165w in torture tests and it will still break 75C with fans at 55% (still inaudible in the room)
As an example, the FuryX watercooler is said to be a 400-500w TDP design and that's the headroom necessary for this 220-250w card to stay at 60C.
>>55612664
WHy does a 480 need 2x 8pin connectors??
>>55629907
thats a fury
>>55629945
Oh, never mind then.
my bad
>>55612498
should i wait for 460 or zen apu?
>>55612498
Never. Shit is DoA with 1060 AIBs coming out. They had a month to convince poorfags to buy one, now 970/1070 gtx are back on top of sales in both Amazon US and Amazon UK. It's over.
>>55612619
>HIS
That's a low blow and you know it.
