Nvidia Deals & Offers

Thanks for clarification....

A year or two? Double that easy.

I presume RTX is proprietary and Nvidia won’t let AMD use it, just like hair works, in order to Gimp AMD.

been reading about nvidia releasing 7nm middle next year, amd begining of the year, so why are nvidia releasing rtx cards now :/

Personally, I think NVidia is keeping the RTX GPUs price high so the GTX 10XX series looks cheap in comparison, so they can shift these old stocks. For now, if you want high performance GPU for gaming, you only have NVidia. I have picked up a RX580 for a third of this price, less fps, but perfectly playable (60fps) on Forza 4 with ultra settings. If I really want more fps, I can easily get another for CrossFire and still save enough for a 3rd :).

Personal preference I guess. But you will have enjoyed “ultra” settings in games from 2-3 years ago which will be the equivalent of “very good” now. I’m arguing against improvement which I don’t want to do, but a good game from a few years ago with decent graphics is a good game now with relatively slightly lower graphics

I know right?? Oh well, guess I have to stick with 2

I think it makes a huge difference personally. If I had never seen ultra then yes but I have so everything else is ruined now. That's why console looks like poo to me.

I have a PC. I run on ultra, I just don’t think it’s that big a deal when playing games. Screenshots look great, the diff between very high and ultra isn’t usually that much. What I was saying is that if it wasn’t there you wouldn’t miss it.

Ultra gives you access to things like enhanced shadow textures, Water detail, increased field of view, increased draw distance, bloom lighting, hair works, Foliage realism etc etc. Whilst the graphics won't look "better" per se, the world will be more realistic overall. You'll be able to see further and clearer and you'll get a sheen on surfaces thanks to the enhanced lighting. It's things you would only miss if you games on Ultra and went to high. Honestly that's what it's like going from PC to console you take all these little things for granted and then you go play the same game on a console and it just all looks garbage.

DLSS at 4k makes plenty of sense

lol

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Ah, right, thanks for the detailed reply :-) Apologies for misinterpreting your comment, I was being wary because for a long time it seemed fashionable to bash Nvidia and perpetuate a myth that they deliberately gimped older cards at the driver level. I can't remember where the article is now, but there was a good analysis done on a reputable tech site that completely disproved it. They showed that over time, the performance of both Nvidia and AMDs older cards had been improved by later drivers. Take your point about there being no incentive to optimise newer games for older cards, that makes sense. However older cards can still get small optimisations from other improvements in the drivers. Obviously at some point this just doesn't happen any more, as support does eventually get dropped and clearly this is going to happen to the older cards first.

I didn't say Nvidia was directing gimping driver performance (existing performance), what I said was they just stop bothering optimising driver performance for old cards in NEW games. The simplest example is on latest driver a GTX780Ti will more than likely still beat a R9 290 in pretty much all games that were launch before the card became EOL; on new games that are released AFTER the 780Ti EOL though or games the 780ti get decimated by the 290 series cards- the newer the game, the worse the 780Ti will perform. It is not the case of Nvidia "putting poison" in the driver to cripple the performance of old cards, but more a case of "cutting off supplies" in providing what's needed to perform fully in new games to the level that they once did in the old games. https://www.techspot.com/review/1418-geforce-gtx-780-four-years-later/page9.html "Closing Thoughts It's hard to believe that the GeForce GTX 780 is four years old, although the card is certainly showing its age. In the 22 modern titles we tested, the 780 was just 23% faster than the 1050 Ti, despite the former GPU being four times larger, packing more than twice as many transistors and consuming well over twice as much power. Compared to the R9 390, the GTX 780 has slipped well behind. It's no secret that the Kepler architecture hasn't aged as well, which is either down to the architecture itself or Nvidia neglecting driver development -- or maybe a bit of both. Regardless, we've never seen an Nvidia architecture age as poorly as Kepler has. We don't expect the same to happen to Maxwell anytime soon, but of course we'll keep an eye on its performance."

Thanks Kwl!

Online reviews for the series. In general everything is sound as a pound but for the battery life. At £600 its very expensive punt to take and I think you can easily find something comparable either around this price tag or slightly more and you'd get a great experience.

Where did you see information of the battery life? Weight & Battery life are most important things for me. Thx.

Quality machine, with backlit keyboard and very light at 1.3kg. Shame not touchscreen though.

And shame that the battery life doesn't live up to expectations.

As mentioned by @bouttime2, the 1070TI has a better cooler.

For 10 quid more you can get the gigabyte 1080 OC or for the original price of this you can get a 2070, I would personally pay the 10 quid unless this is somehow better.

From ebuyer: As per our terms and conditions and in line with the Sale of Goods Act 1979, as this item is over 6 months old you will only qualify for a proportionate refund of the original purchase price. Therefore we are unable to issue a replacement as initially requested. If you send it back in 20 months time you won't get a full refund if faulty, unlike amazon.

Got it from Laptops Direct sadly.

£100 too much

Avoid buying from Lenovo direct at all costs. I purchased a laptop the mouse pad was dead on delivery. The build is super cheap and the only advise they give is to fo a full system restore back to manufacture. If I had purchased from currys or pc world I would have demanded a full refund not what you expect when purchasing a purported new item .also when using hdmi the external sound is full of drop out and time lags

ACER swift is actually really good. I might add bigger ssd. However Acer aspire with Ryzen 5 2500u is bit better in multicore benchmarks and graphic card is definitely "much" better than Intel on board graphics. https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/amd-ryzen-mobile-vs-intel-8th-gen-core

I just picked up the Swift 3 for myself, actually. https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8155012 I've only tested LoL on it but it runs that very well even on high settings. That Aspire looks good though for the price. What do you think my machine would be capable of running? I understand the Ryzen chips have much better intergrated gfx.

Have you looked at Acer Aspire 3? Check below and if you decide to buy make sure to add a M. 2 SSD (may cost extra £40-60) and it'll beat i7 7500u and 940mx. https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/acer-aspire-3-15-6-amd-ryzen-5-laptop-1-tb-hdd-black-10180944-pdt.html

Ryzen 5 2500u will beat i7 7500u cpu and 940mx while consuming less power (Ryzen cpu might be slightly slower in single thread works but definitely beat multicore)

Intel have cut prices? R u sure, hun?

I just managed to bag an Asus ROG Strix GeForce STRIX-GTX1080-A8G-GAMING 8 GB from amazon for £350. Used Like New. is that a good version of the 1080? decent price?

Probably part of it, I'm sure plenty of people would be willing to save the money and as a trade off have the slightly noisier fan. I suspect a lot of it is due to the fact there have been a few deals close to the £400 mark, people won't be likely to vote hot on something that is still a distance north of that figure, that goes for me as well. As I said, wouldn't class this as terrible at all, just not hot.

Had a quick look through your previous comments. On Nvidia deals you always go on about the prices being too high, and on AMD (CPU and GPU) deals you talk about how great they are. Also noticed you own both AMD CPU and GPU. The obvious conclusion is that you are an AMD fan boy, so click on Nvidia deals just to talk crap about the prices. What a great life you lead :-) .

MSI's Armor card has had a number of reliability issues, hence the reason it's been discounted a few times in the past, and blower versions are great if you like the sound of an aircraft taking off in your room (or if you have a small case where the blower will help your case thermals). Actually, thinking about it people are probably voting this deal cold because of the £400 blower deal that's been posted.

Should have 1 stick of 8Gb and an empty slot as that's how my slightly different MSI came with.

Or is this ASUS better? Which would you choose between the 2? https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/asus-fx503vm-dm042t-core-i5-7300hq-8gb-1tb-128gb-ssd-geforce-gtx-1060-3gb-fx503vm-dm042t/version.asp

The desktop linked below would offer quite similar performance I would imagine. Although the desktop cpu would be better. An 7700hq or 8300h laptop cpu would be more comparable to the cpu in the desktop linked below. www.hotukdeals.com/deals/amd-ryzen-5-2600-240gb-ssd-8gb-ddr4-gtx-1060-6gb-dragon-gaming-pc-673-freshtecsolutions-3073959

Yes that's what you're doing when you compare a desktop and a laptop. Though they don't market them as "downclocked", because they aren't, they are thermally/power limited. They can run at the same clock speeds as the desktop part for very short bursts but slow down drastically after a few tens of microseconds. Useful for interactive response but no good for heavyweight data movement. As you say, the decision is rarely that simple and most people want laptops anyway, but I wanted to point out that despite the marketing numbers the laptops do not keep pace with desktops, even after several generations of development, so for some uses a used desktop can be a great buy. (Annoyingly I can't edit the quote section to focus on the bits I'm replying to using the latest Android client ..)

You're comparing old desktop CPUs to low power CPUs, downclocked on purpose to use less power and generate less heat because they often run on battery, of course the desktop CPUs will run faster. Even then, Intel are starting to focus on lower power usage on desktop CPUs as well now. A modern high end laptop CPU isn't much worse than a high end desktop CPU, the only difference is caused by the lower clock speeds for power usage. http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-8700-vs-Intel-Core-i7-8850H/3940vsm485626 The real answer to your question is, it depends. What does she really want? If portability is in any way important to her, get a laptop. Will she take it to school/uni? Will she enjoy using it while sat in the lounge watching TV? If she will be exclusively gaming and doesn't care about portability, get a desktop.

It's Back in stock just a few bob cheaper now (embarrassed)

Should be free with packet of cereal. Hot.

OOS

Should be less than £250

£100+ is a pretty big hair