Yeah… but there’s just something about having a hinged door on the front of the case that doesn’t go anywhere. :|
Maybe I’ll just put a fan controller in.
the 670 is not 2x the performance of the 660. (to respond to mashakos’s goading me into spending $400)
it’s not, but it does things the gtx660 can’t.
Besides eating an extra 200 bucks, you mean?
200% price increase for 25% performance delta. The other things it does must be to suck one’s dick.
Doesn’t a 670 cost more like $300 rather than $400, these days? 400 was the launch price.
yeah, I can go grab a gtx680 from a local pc shop for $448, and I don’t exactly live in the cheapest place on the planet for electronics (or live next to a Chinese factory)
Prices in Canada start at $389 “after $10 rebate.” http://www.memoryexpress.com/Category/VideoCards?Search=gtx+670
This Asus short 670 looks like it will be priced super high at 380 GBP or 639 SGD
Well of course it does, it is twice the price. Going from a 6850 to a gtx660 is an excellent upgrade (the same one I recently made) without robbing your wallet blind. Not everyone upgrades to top of the line, just to the point of ‘enough’. Games like Tomb Raider play slick as heck - to the point where the extra spent on a higher-end card isn’t worth it right now. Obviously, it will have a shorter life, but meh. Usually a new directX or shader model or other whizbang feature ends up coming out making all current-gen cards moot anyway by the time it matters :)
I forgot that rei was talking about the short PCB 670 which is overpriced. A regular 670 is $325 or less. Not as cheap as a 660 but I think the extra $100-$125 markup is not too bad.
$400 is the regular price of GTX 670 cards in Canada.
The short ASUS one will probably be upwards of $500.
not cheap. Is the price range the same everywhere? local shops, online etc.?