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Rule of thumb for newegg reviews: Don't read newegg reviews.
Anything useful you can find from them you can also find from 5 seconds of searching on google.
Well, the newegg reviews are often useful. Sort from lowest to highest and go through all the 1 of 5 egg reviews. Ignore all the things like people sticking a PCIe card into an AGP slot because of manual and look for things like people having the same kind of failure. When the manufacturer (well, major companies such as WD, EVGA, etc.) doesn't step in to make a comment on those reviews, it's generally a hardware fault they try to sweep under the rug.
Rule of thumb for google reviews: dont read google reviews.
Except all the Google reviews I read come in the form of well thought out forum longposts on respected websites like Overclock.net and HardOCP. Much better then on Newegg since you get a bunch of replies from people countering the negative/positive comments the reviewer made.
Significantly better way to research a product than Newegg reviews. But yeah, reading the 1/5 egg reviews and looking for similarity sometimes helps. Most of the time it's still retards using the included drivers/firmware/BIOS and not the latest ones available from the website.
Or because they aren't going to bother replying to 'DOA' commends when they can guess it was due to the user mishandling the shit during installation then blaming shipping/newegg/manufacturer and returning it claiming it's faulty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeph
There's a reason newegg refuses to accept any CPU returns due to damaged pins.
The 'expert reviews' for my video card had a number of complaints about driver restarts/crashes, some of them actually written well and seemingly helpful. Most of course blamed on the hardware, though some said it was adobe flash? Given my level of respect for newegg reviews I completely ignored them and got it anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeph
It started crashing/driver restarts, ok so they were right about one thing, I was surprised. But after seeing it for myself it showed all the signs of an unstable overclock. (this card is factory OC'd) what do you know when I bumped the stuff down to reference levels it runs like a charm. After looking it turns out the reference clocked version of my card has no such negative reviews despite identical hardware.
There were also complaints about heat levels, I can't say much about their systems but either they have poor airflow or live in volcano's. Right now its idling at 32C. Loads don't go over 45C.
Also yeah 680 on newegg for $500 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...20600%20series
E: I literally just watched all these cards go from available to out of stock in 5 minutes, holy crap.
For $500 I'm not surprised. This is the cheapest the top-end single card in a tier has been for a LONG time.
If I had the cash I would have jumped on two.
It's cheaper than HD 7970s were at launch, holy balls. If only I could have waited another three months. Oh well, you can't win them all.
E: After reading the AnandTech review, it appears to me that while a stock GTX 680 performs better (in games I don't play, mind you), the HD7970 has more pent-up potential. It looks as if the GTX 680 is clocked up and that's what's making it run faster. The amount of overclocking headroom on Tahiti is already known to be rather obscene. I'd be interested in seeing head-to-head overclocked match between the 680 and the 7970.
Also, if you do a lot of compute stuff, stay away from the GTX 680. It blows at compute tasks.
Still does CUDA tasks better than AMD cards since AMD cards can't do CUDA at all! :downs:
OpenCL.