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damn all u guys with your spare cash (jelous) to buy a 690
i would love one but i simply dont have the funds
well i could take it out the joint savings account but i think the wife would file for a divorce lol

Actually, I am considering canceling my order. Only having 2gb per gpu has something to do with it, but mainly because the game that I will be playing the next couple of month aren't taxing enough. The last couple of days I have been back and forth and can't seem to decide.

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Tossing up wither I should bring one back to NZ or not, microstutter sounds like a concern tho, haha and the price - single 5870 is getting a bit long in the tooth.

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Tossing up wither I should bring one back to NZ or not, microstutter sounds like a concern tho, haha and the price - single 5870 is getting a bit long in the tooth.

The concern might be from different experiences and whatnot. For me, I had a terrible experience with AMD's 6990 and AMD's technical support in general.

On NVIDIA, I haven't had a single issue. But the difference is I'm running an SLI setup as opposed to a dual GPU card. (All be it, GTX 570 in SLI isn't as high end). This is mainly where concern from micro-stutter comes in for me. Dual GPU on Crysis (maxed out) in Surround yielded some horrid micro-stutter. SLI on the other hand, hasn't given me a single stutter or freeze.

Let's say I do decide to keep it. I figure that it would be easy to sell, based on that the GTX 590 only went up in price after launch. Do you guys agree with that?

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New plan: cancel GTX 690 order and buy 2 GTX 670's 4gb when I need the gpu horsepower. Maybe Nvidia and AMD will start an price war, which will only be beneficial for us.

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Sounds like a plan Hannibal!

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New plan: cancel GTX 690 order and buy 2 GTX 670's 4gb when I need the gpu horsepower. Maybe Nvidia and AMD will start an price war, which will only be beneficial for us.

"Sounds like a plan Hannibal" (Sorry A-Team no infringement intended but couldn't resisit)

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price war ? haha you wish!

AMD droped the price around 50$ cuz Nvidia's GPU were so powerfull! (well, maybe the sold them 50$ more expensive than expected cuz there were no Nvidia competition cards at launch ?) why should Nvidia lower the price now ? they don't have enought production capability! TSMC is producing as much as they can!

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Sure, but AMD has reason to drop their prices, since Nvidia offers better price/performance cards especially the GTX 670. In return Nvidia will do the same. Might take more than a couple of months though.

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[quote]Where did you get that 690 for €895 :O , can you please post a link? They're going for over €1050 here as well. Thank you.

Here is the link, but they are not in store yet. Also its a Dutch website which means, you probably have higher shipping rates. The price has gone up a little since Saturday.

Thanks :onethumb

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