EndlessWargasm
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1)When choosing GPU it's price/performance. Limited by budget.
2)When choosing a specific card it's noise.
2)When choosing a specific card it's noise.
1)When choosing GPU it's price/performance. Limited by budget.
2)When choosing a specific card it's noise.
Are both of those under some sort of full load during that 12-14 hours/day? If they're idle most of the time they shouldn't be drawing that much power provided you haven't disabled any of the power saving stuff.
That's pretty much exactly what I would consider to be issues that would stop me from being a return customer as well, except for the warranty part (a good product doesn't need to make use of its warranty) and the overclocking part (I just can't be bothered, despite owning a 4690k...).I like low maintenance gpu's..... set it and forget it.
I don't want it to use too much power that will heat my room and other case components.
I don't want to hear it, if at all possible.
I don't want it to break down (no bad fans ect. ect.) and have a good warranty
I don't want to mess with driver downloads and hotfixes.
I want it to overclock without the above dont's.
I want it to play games out of the box correctly.
I want it to give me much better/faster resolutions, graphics and framerates than current consoles.
I want it to have the latest features. hdmi 2.0, ,h.265 video,, HBM, DP 1.4 (not that important but a plus)
I want it to not to hurt my wallet too bad, but if I get the above dont's and wants ,I'll gladly pay a little extra. And this goes for most of my system purchases.
That's pretty much exactly what I would consider to be issues that would stop me from being a return customer as well, except for the warranty part (a good product doesn't need to make use of its warranty) and the overclocking part (I just can't be bothered, despite owning a 4690k...).
I tend to give them to friends for cheap. But I also tend to keep my hardware for 2-3 generations at a time, from an over all cost perspective that's way more efficient than speculating on resale value imho.Don't forget the resale value when it comes to a warranty.
I sell my gpu's when I upgrade. :thumbsup:
perf/$ and noise. does anything else matter?
loud noise is a deal breaker no matter how cheap it is. unless there is a 3rd party cooler for it.
ps: people who are limited by size and psu don't really count. they aren't even a minority when it comes to gpu sales.
All the people listing price/performance as their primary or only criteria who aren't using a $100 video card are either lying for some unknown reason, or not understanding what price/performance is. Beyond fluke sales there are no cards that beat cards in the $100 range for price/performance. $300 cards not 3 times faster than $100 cards nor are $600 cards 6 times faster.
What you're probably doing, which I do myself, is picking a budget and then finding the fastest card that fits within that budget.
Before I get there, it has to have stable drivers that just work. I'm no longer interested in spending time trying to get basic functions that I use working, nor am I interested in downloading updated drivers just to find they break functionality that I use on a regular basis.
After I've selected the GPU I want, the specific model needs to be as quiet as reasonably possible. It doesn't need to be dead silent when gaming, but it can't sound like a leaf blower, and I don't want to hear the card when I am not gaming, so no coil whine either.
Don't care about power usage so long as it isn't way out of whack from the rest of the field, don't care about politics, anti competitive behaviors, multi GPU performance/support (both sides suck, I'm not going that route again), longevity, API support (I don't keep cards long enough for either to matter).
All the people listing price/performance as their primary or only criteria who aren't using a $100 video card are either lying for some unknown reason, or not understanding what price/performance is. Beyond fluke sales there are no cards that beat cards in the $100 range for price/performance. $300 cards not 3 times faster than $100 cards nor are $600 cards 6 times faster.
What you're probably doing, which I do myself, is picking a budget and then finding the fastest card that fits within that budget.
Before I get there, it has to have stable drivers that just work. I'm no longer interested in spending time trying to get basic functions that I use working, nor am I interested in downloading updated drivers just to find they break functionality that I use on a regular basis.
After I've selected the GPU I want, the specific model needs to be as quiet as reasonably possible. It doesn't need to be dead silent when gaming, but it can't sound like a leaf blower, and I don't want to hear the card when I am not gaming, so no coil whine either.
Don't care about power usage so long as it isn't way out of whack from the rest of the field, don't care about politics, anti competitive behaviors, multi GPU performance/support (both sides suck, I'm not going that route again), longevity, API support (I don't keep cards long enough for either to matter).