Team Red or Green

Skerries

Just a poll to see what the Boardsie PCMR are sporting in their rigs

edit: the poll fecked up for me

Digital Solitude

Team Red, R9 290

No poll option though

*Edit* No particular loyalty towards AMD but I'm not an nVidia fan so it's like a backwards loyalty. I'd prefer not to support nVidia so I support their competitors.

That being said it doesn't hold that much sway for me it just means in times where I'm struggling to make my mind up AMD is where I'll go.

Try to keep it personal though, I try not to let it influence recommendations for other people.

Dave_The_Sheep

Team Green, though through no particular loyalty. Just they happened to have the best on the market when I was buying. GTX 1080.

Icyseanfitz

currently team green but i go where the best performance is, if amd destroy my 1080 and the future ti il look their direction. Used a 7970 for 4 years.

TerrorFirmer

Team green as well here, the only choice really for me as AMD have nothing to offer in the high-end market at the moment! No qualms about switching if they release something worth buying at that level.

SkinnyBuddha

GTX1070...like everyone else I'll for the best that I can afford at the time of purchase

dreamers75

Long time Red fan but their inability to release a card that matched the 1080 made me switch.

I really wanted a 490 but alas it was never announced, now im team green with a 1080

scamalert

team green for two decades,amd while have their moments but seems nvidia is one laying out new tech and amd usually sprouts cheaper option,with less performance.That said due upgrade since my 560ti is overdue and nvidia 1060-1080 seem decently priced,also anyone any idea if theres any price drop coming say march,since need cpu+gpu to go back to latest titles,so saving around 500 for both.

Moon54

Team Red here.
Gotta love their 'Fine-Wine' technology where game performance actually improves with age, i.e. as new drivers are released.
Definitely extends the life-time of their cards in gaming rigs.
Suits me great as I'm a patient gamer and I rarely buy the latest games on release.

Dcully

Green at the moment but have no preference, depends on when I'm in the market whats the best bang per buck at that time.
Having said that I have a gsync monitor so its green for now.

Shiminay

Green ATM too (970), was Red before that (Crossfire 6950s) and Green before that (8800 GTX SLI). It's all about the best bang for buck I can afford at the time.

Venom

No brand preference but flying Team Green colors at the moment (1070) as it offered the best bang for buck performance wise.

Canis Lupus

Green but no loyalty. 1060 seemed to give best performance for the price at the time I needed it although i feel I should have stretched for the 1070.

Gbear

Eagerly awaiting the new top end AMD. I just hope they don't let me down again.
I've an R9 Fury. It's fine.

Nvidia are ***** but my disloyalty to ***** only goes so far.

Intel are ***** as well but I can't bring myself to get an AMD processor.

ShadowHearth

Team green at the moment.

No loyalty, I always go for best bang for to money. At the time 1060 looked good value, but I kind of regret not pushing it to 1070.
Hopefully amd new gpus will be at least decent and stir prices a bit.

Shiminay

Oh, for what it's worth, buying a lesser card with the intention of Crossfiring/SLI'ing is a bad idea. I never had anything but stress with Crossfire, no games supported it properly for weeks after release. You're better off waiting that extra hundred quid (however long it might take you to save it) and getting the better card.

EoinHef

Green at the moment,like most its just whatever is available when im getting an upgrade. This time it was Nvidia who had all the high end options so went with them.

Cravez

Team green as well. I'd be open to AMD GPU's but I've been with nVidia cards for so long I usually always just go with what I know.

Woden

Team green as well currently but whatever has the price/performance for me at the time. This made me think of my gfx card history. Not sure if I can even recall it accurately but it was along the lines of this:

Nvidia 2 MX
ATI X1900XTX
ATI 4870
ATI 6950
Nvidia 1080

Turtwig

Green, no loyalty. Just scrooging.:)

wotzgoingon

I was a long time console gamer. But my first non gaming GPU was a team green GT 240, then I started PC gaming and got a GTX 580 then switched to team RED with a R9 290 and now a R9 Fury X. And I will be a long time team red from now on.

EoinHef

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I was a long time console gamer. But my first non gaming GPU was a team green GT 240, then I started PC gaming and got a GTX 580 then switched to team RED with a R9 290 and now a R9 Fury X. And I will be a long time team red from now on.

Why would you show brand loyalty like that?

If next time you went to buy a gpu and Nvidia by far had the better option for you,you wouldnt buy it because its not an AMD product?

Not havin a go,just curious.

FAILSAFE 00

Nvidia, the wife you want to leave but the sex is great.

Icyseanfitz

FAILSAFE 00 wrote: »

Nvidia, the wife you want to leave but the sex is great.

hahaha perfect intels the dangerous bit on the side

dreamers75

Might a be a typo but I would have held out for one.


http://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-4-high-resolution-texture-pack-arrives-next-week-for-pc/

Your PC will also need to meet or exceed the recommended specs:

Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
Intel Core i7-5820K or better
GTX 1080 8GB/AMD Radeon RX 490 8GB
8GB+ Ram

wotzgoingon

dreamers75 wrote: »

Might a be a typo but I would have held out for one.


http://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-4-high-resolution-texture-pack-arrives-next-week-for-pc/

I mentioned that in a different thread last night. I doubt it is a typo as a RX 480 is no where near the performance of a 1080 and just the naming of the new Vega GPU. They must be scrapping the Fury name.

K.O.Kiki

Team Green for now (got my GPU at basically half-price), kind of want to switch back to Team Red.

wotzgoingon

EoinHef wrote: »

Why would you show brand loyalty like that?

If next time you went to buy a gpu and Nvidia by far had the better option for you,you wouldnt buy it because its not an AMD product?

Not havin a go,just curious.

I don't agree with Nvidia's business practices. They deliberately ruin games on AMD and they pay their way into game developers pockets. Nvidia hair works and such shíte springs to mind.

EoinHef

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I don't agree with Nvidia's business practices. They deliberately ruin games on AMD and they pay their way into game developers pockets. Nvidia hair works and such shíte springs to mind.

Cool,i agree a lot of Nvidia practices leave a lot to be desired. Ive had Nvidia for last two cards and i dont use their gameworks stuff either. Found it not to be worth the performance hit in most cases.

I dont know if i could bring myself to buy something that i knew may not be the best available because of it though.

ED E

Don't forget nVidia giving the linux community the middle finger.



8800GTX
->
5770 PMD1G
->
7870 Royal King

In line for an upgrade now as I built a completely new rig not too long ago but retained the GPU. No time to game recently though so not bothered to purchase just yet. Will wait to see how Vega does and then probably buy a 1070 or the red equivalent.

jrby

I've a question.....I've a GTX570, and mostly play BF1, seems to play fine....is there any point in upgrading?

jrby

and to what?

Sonics2k

Green I suppose.
I've never had anything but bad experiences with AMD cards over the years.

Admittedly I have a 970 which was caught up on the whole 3.5Gb thing, but honestly this card has been fantastic and runs most games at High/Ultra that I'm interested in.

Korvanica

On a 390 at the moment. Good card. No real alliance with either, i just get whats good value when i want to upgrade.

Kiith

I've been Team Red my entire PC life. Not sure why, but it always seemed like they had the best value for money whenever i'm buying cards. Currently on an R9 290.

I'm planning an upgrade in the next few months though, and i suspect i may switch sides.

mayordenis

I don't buy Nvidia, I don't buy Apple, I don't buy Diageo, all different levels of anti competitive but I try at least to avoid them. I'm sure I have bought and still buy plenty of stuff that I shouldn't from companies who have ****ty policies but I can only try.

2ndcoming

RX480 at the moment, delivered by a relative from the States for 200 quid. By far the best value for money for me at the time, and very happy with it.

FAILSAFE 00

2ndcoming wrote: »

RX480 at the moment, delivered by a relative from the States for 200 quid. By far the best value for money for me at the time, and very happy with it.

Keep in mind that if an issue arises with the card it will have to go back to the U.S.

*Trump isn't letting in any team red graphics cards.

dreamers75

I was bang for the buck but recent economical changes changed what I buy for my PC.


From that I still reckon the 4870 was the best Bang for the buck card ever made and a real gamer changer for AMD, altho the console business is not doing them any harm. Is there more consoles than gaming PCs in the world?

2ndcoming

FAILSAFE 00 wrote: »

Keep in mind that if an issue arises with the card it will have to go back to the U.S.

*Trump is letting in any team red graphics cards.

Yeah well the bro lives there so shouldn't be too much of an issue. None so far 7 months in. I'm not very hard on it anyway, I had been out of the loop with games since about 2009 so I've been doing a lot of catching up. Doom is pretty much the only 2016 AAA game I've even played on it, and it chewed through that. Tormenting myself about two hours in to Dark Souls at present.

2ndcoming

dreamers75 wrote: »

I was bang for the buck but recent economical changes changed what I buy for my PC.


From that I still reckon the 4870 was the best Bang for the buck card ever made and a real gamer changer for AMD, altho the console business is not doing them any harm. Is there more consoles than gaming PCs in the world?

Many millions more, but I think I read somewhere that AMD sign one off deals on those chips that aren't as lucrative as you'd expect. Personally I hope they're Ryzen CPUs kick ass, mainly so Intel may have to drop prices.