Quote Originally Posted by VoodooProphetII View Post
Well Ace123, meet insane. However, the price difference for me was closer to 350 when you take what we pay for the cards locally which would make me really insane. But hey, at least I can run my card 1253mhz core and 7600mhz memory 24/7 without an issue.
What is the purpose of a post like this ? I mean, great for u that you have chosen some different card and you are happy with it.But what is the purpose of you telling us this ?
AMD threads are always full of this
"Yea yea, but i will buy nv"
"Well yea but drivers suck"
"Well i can OC my card!"
and so on.Absolutely NOTHING in terms of a topic at hand.
And these broad as hell statements."at least i can overclock my card to "insert some number".What are you implying? That u cant overclock AMD cards ? Not to these speeds ? You know that architectural differences make this kind of comparisons kind of stupid ?You know that your card IS NOT really running at these speeds 24/7 ? Its running at those speeds BEST CASE SCENARIO only when 3D loaded,and still it doesnt matter.Btw you know that memory on 290 is in 512bit configuration, so even running slower MHZ wise can give you more bandwith...Oh i heard that some kind of celeron was overclocked to 9ghz ,it has nothing to do with this topic but here you go, it has more numbers dude.
780Ti is a great card ,it is overpriced great card, but it is great.However 290/X are better in terms of price to performance ratio ,so people will buy what they want.

Anyhow, overclockers.UK are selling premodded 290 to 290X cards for a price between 290 and a 290X, so you have a warranty and all.So this procedure have to be at least somewhat common for them to do that.However from what i read they are not as plentiful as 6950 to 6970 cards.