WYP
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Get Battlefield V for free with RTX graphics cards.
Read more about Nvidia's "Game On. Game RTX." Battlefield V Bundle.
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Nvidia releases "Game On Game RTX" GPU Bundle
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AlienALX
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Yeah I doubt DICE are going to be dishing out freebies on a launch title, NVidia likely already threw a lot of money & resources at DICE to get RTX in a shipping title, given the launch has been delayed by a month & not all aspects of the game seem fleshed out I'm sure NVidia must have had to throw a few benefits in to get them to commit the man hours to this relatively low-priority feature few people can use. Clearly the RTX side could have done with a fair bit more Q&A and certainly looks like it'll evolve over time, which seems to be the main criticism for the game in general(Though one sweetened somewhat by the years of free DLC content I guess). Not like they don't have the margins on those RTX cards and realistically anyone buying one will also want the one thing they can use it in.
You know what's most sickening about this promo? it will most likely have the biggest impact on sales of the 2070.
..The very card that's just not up to the job of running it with Ray Tracing.:rolleyes5:
AlienALX
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Yup, it's a strange kind of irony.
MacLeod
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The one time I jump on the early adopter bandwagon.....
I've never bought a GPU at launch. I just sat by and watched everybody bask in the glow of higher framerates. This one time I finally give in and it all goes to crap.
Oh well, I'm still OK with it. I really did need a GPU upgrade and I've always wanted a FE card and the 2070's appear to be immune from the QC issues. But I would've liked a free copy of BFV...
I've never bought a GPU at launch. I just sat by and watched everybody bask in the glow of higher framerates. This one time I finally give in and it all goes to crap.
Oh well, I'm still OK with it. I really did need a GPU upgrade and I've always wanted a FE card and the 2070's appear to be immune from the QC issues. But I would've liked a free copy of BFV...
Dicehunter
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JokerProductions 2070 went the way of the dodo recently, It's pretty much all Turing cards that are at risk of failing, Let's hope you got lucky and got one of the non faulty batches.
Haha, love it! A buddy is mad at me for a week now (or for whatever time the deluxe edition can play already), because I didn't preorder the game yet 
And since he was going to buy a 20 series card, he just linked me the article saying: "Oh boi you are lucky" Free BFV for me, yay.
And since he was going to buy a 20 series card, he just linked me the article saying: "Oh boi you are lucky" Free BFV for me, yay.
MacLeod
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That's wonderful to know. I haven't heard much at all about 2070's crapping the bed and was hopeful it was just a 2080/Ti problem.
Mines been running about a month now and so far so good. I'm mostly playing Fortnite these days which I know isn't that demanding but it's running at 100% and I'm locked at 144 fps so it's still getting a workout. Looks like I got a good one.
AlienALX
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Is it a Founders?
From what I have seen it seems to be mainly 2080ti FE failing, but some 2080s have gone. Not seen much about the 2070 though.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasone...v7vhJT8uaNyDrasIgGP6cUzgoH_k-vk4#6f702f7f4958
I doubt any one will remember it (I barely did, tbh) but I did sort of see the future on the heat aspect (having owned several kitchen sink Nvidias.. GTX 280 cooked itself, 480 you could cook with and so on).
I think the main problems are heat related, so the lower down the chain you get the less likely it is you will have issues.
Nvidia are known for making a bad cooler or three as well (GTX 480 any one?). In fact the 580 was only lauded because it had the correct cooler on. If you slapped any aftermarket cooler on temps were amazing. I had a Zalman and I never saw higher than 67c even heavily overclocked. Even the Gelid was enough..... I reckon there might be a flaw with the Founders cooler, though it's not just limited to the FE cooler.
I know why you bought the card though. I bought a 7970 on launch day and I lived to regret it. God that thing was a hot SOB !
MacLeod
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Yeah it's a FE. I've always wanted a founders I guess for all those years of reading reviews on new cards and seeing those shiny new reference cards with "GeForce GTX" shining out from the case while I was having to rock a 2 or 3 year old card. I've got a little more spending cash these days and was finally able to get one and at launch just like all the cool kids.
The cooler seems to be working well on the RTX cards tho at least on mine. Mines not overclocked but the cooler is virtually silent and it runs under 72 most of the time.
demonking
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Mate i remember, i had 280's in SLI and i dont think running them in a freezer would have kept them cool. The one i really remember was the first 295's with the open ended coolers, had 2 of them in SLI and they were so hot my pc kept BSOD.
i need to properly look into BF5. Skipped the last one and was gonna skip this one too but it looks alot better this time round. Waiting for the BR DLC :mellow:
AlienALX
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Mine cooked during a round of Dirt @ 1080p. That was a real GPU cooker back then. I put my hand at the back and the air coming out was scorching lol. 8 months it lasted, then it died.
The case noise dampening didn't help matters either. It just allowed it to slowly roast itself to death
By comparison I actually thought the GTX 470 and 480 I had were cool and quiet. Didn't help matters that it was a XXX edition (the 280) so had a clock it couldn't really keep up with.
Edit. I knew I had a death pic..
lmao that was all she wrote.
The case noise dampening didn't help matters either. It just allowed it to slowly roast itself to death
By comparison I actually thought the GTX 470 and 480 I had were cool and quiet. Didn't help matters that it was a XXX edition (the 280) so had a clock it couldn't really keep up with.
Edit. I knew I had a death pic..
lmao that was all she wrote.
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AlienALX
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Two 5770s.
They sounded kinda hollow and loud, but thankfully never died. It's odd that I talk about them, as that is how I found OC3D all those years ago (looking for reviews). I read VB's review, pulled the trigger but I just didn't get along with them at all and replaced them with a 470 at first. That was a great card with a decent cooler fitted (Zalman). I then went 6970 that died, 7970, then 480 SLI.
Turns out many years later than Crossfire was actually a total bust, once PCPER could physically prove it. I bloody knew it !! all those years of people saying "Your doing it rong" and "I don't see any stutters" and etc.
MacLeod
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I remember the 5770's. They were the best bang for the buck cards during that generation. Kinda like the 4670 of the previous gen. Both were relatively cheap compared to the top tier cards but would still handle pretty much all the games at the time at decent if not max settings with very good frame rates.
AlienALX
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Yeah they were great little cards, aside from the fact that Crossfire wasn't really telling you the truth about the runt and dropped frames in some titles. When it worked though it was amazing. I remember getting something daft like 120 FPS in Need For Speed Shift with everything maxed at 1080p. And in that game it really did work well.
To be fair, it was always well documented that AFR could only ever get half the information/input latency of its frame latency(Not an issue at 60+ but when you're running at 30-50 and you're getting the input latency of 15-25 it can become quite noticeable). Though of course back then there wasn't any real timing control then either so you often got two frames quite relatively together with roughly the same gap in between each pair as a single cards frame. Technically this did mean information was more "accurate" or recent when displayed on the screen but it could end up feel quite jittery.
