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OC3D Review AMD HD6990
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TheWhiteRose000
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Does want.
darkshadow
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Lol, this is a banging card. I would get it but I don't have over 700 bucks to spend. GTX 560 TI does me just fine.
Arthur Hucksake
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Once the 590 comes out and ATI drop this down to £500, it will be a no brainer.
I just hate Crossfire personally. Bloody CAP profiles and not being able to force your own AFR modes in the CCC and what not. If they sorted that out, i'd be all over this card.
And when will they introduce twin fan designs for reference cards? Would an extra £5 really matter if your dropping over £500 on a card anyways?
I just hate Crossfire personally. Bloody CAP profiles and not being able to force your own AFR modes in the CCC and what not. If they sorted that out, i'd be all over this card.
And when will they introduce twin fan designs for reference cards? Would an extra £5 really matter if your dropping over £500 on a card anyways?
dugdiamond
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too pricey for me (atm)
Good review as always Tom. I am a little disappointed with the price (I don't think it only deserved a 5 for price though). i think if they had managed to get it to about £500 or just below that would be ideal. Especially given how aggressive Nvidia have been with priceing recently, though I'm sure as Hucksake said the price will drop as it always does in response to Nvidia's new offerings.
MorbiousStone
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The single card vid never came up maybe tomorrow? Great reviews!
Rastalovich
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It may be at £530 approx on release, but I'd imagine sub £500 from about a month or so onwards.
I hate to harp on about it, but looking at some of the comparisons of this card and perhaps an older review of 2x 6970, in some graphs it makes sense and in others it doesn't. Not in the way that you'd look at reflecting, repeating results within the same benchmark and blame the immature drivers for it, but in reflection of one bench vs another where (in all honesty) there just has to be continuity in the comparison.
As a result, I'd have to look around to judge whether this is a pro or con versus just crossfiring cards.
This is almost exactly what "should" have been said about the GTX480.
I hate to harp on about it, but looking at some of the comparisons of this card and perhaps an older review of 2x 6970, in some graphs it makes sense and in others it doesn't. Not in the way that you'd look at reflecting, repeating results within the same benchmark and blame the immature drivers for it, but in reflection of one bench vs another where (in all honesty) there just has to be continuity in the comparison.
As a result, I'd have to look around to judge whether this is a pro or con versus just crossfiring cards.
This is almost exactly what "should" have been said about the GTX480.
Rastalovich
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It'll very much depend on how the review(s) are taken and how people latch onto the judgements.
The 6990 is unmistakenly a very powerful performer, and yes it does have 'some' things that will put off potential buyers (which is almost always a small quantity in the first place with the meaty dual cards). If it's review here went another way, and the words were repeated verbatim whenever anyone mentions it - it'll sink - which is wrong.
The card here isn't 100% the finished product, and there will be reviews to come that will be more favorable, which it deserves. Especially with the finished reference and very much more-so the kind ASUS/etc come out with once they've slapped a more favorable cooling product on it.
If the 6990 and the 590 are 480 V2.0, i.e. the top cards in their class, but will be polished that much better when variations come out, imo they're winners. But if the 6990 and the 590 are trashed, whilst also breaking all the performance records you can possibly smash and you can iron out the obsticles with a £25+ cooler, it would be a travesty.
Let's hope neither of them get the GTX 480 V1.0 treatment.
Just a quick shout out to Tom thanks again for being so honest in the review. I've read a few other reviews today and not ONE of them mentions the thermal and noise issues you clearly ran into, a few even mention how cool and quiet the card is. Which frankly astounds me to the point I'm wondering if they actually tested the card.
Dark NighT
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Well some hardware review sites are like gaming review sites, bloated and biased, willing to exclude important details in order to hype up the product. Im glad i watched the video review tom did, that noise is just unacceptable for a 700 euro card. I wasnt planning on buying the card but i was excited to see how it does and as Tom said, the performance is indeed epic but that cooling just isnt good enough.
UkGouki
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there out as of today.. and are retailing at £570 and above..
I really liked the review. I expected more from this video card. Performances are good, but it is really loud and expensive (for what it offers). I 100% agree with the review. I just followed tinytomlogan's suggestion. I bought a gtx 570 video card, and I couldn't be more satisfied with the quality of the product. I would really avoid this 6990 video card.
