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[Soul Assassin]

4800.

R6000 is crazy and not even just listed, sold already.

The Galax GTX 1070 mini cost R5999 at Wootware even the normal Galax GTX 1070 was R6200 a week ago and today it's R6800.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Just before the RX 5xx cards were launched Wootware had the HIS RX 480 4GB for R3199 and I saw them selling for R4800 on Carbonite.

The thing is, globally, pre-orders are on purchase order by miners, and mining corps, which is not the intended market. AMD (and now NVidia) must be smiling, selling more units, but the trend is alienating the gaming market which is running into shortages. Things like this compromises on innovation by developers because the hardware market is becoming stagnated and the sellers go-to-market strategies are impeded.

Genesis apparently has a direct contract with Sapphire, which I believe is BS, because Sapphire was 1st to issue their concern.

I can only see Vega to be on a huge pre-order shortage... Then to take note that the devs will take time to optimise the architecture, the same with Volta.

 

[Soul Assassin]

The thing is, globally, pre-orders are on purchase order by miners, and mining corps, which is not the intended market. AMD (and now NVidia) must be smiling, selling more units, but the trend is alienating the gaming market which is running into shortages. Things like this compromises on innovation by developers because the hardware market is becoming stagnated and the sellers go-to-market strategies are impeded.

Genesis apparently has a direct contract with Sapphire, which I believe is BS, because Sapphire was 1st to issue their concern.

I can only see Vega to be on a huge pre-order shortage... Then to take note that the devs will take time to optimise the architecture, the same with Volta.

AMD's hardware partners are not thrilled with the situation. While they appreciate the initial flurry of sales, companies such as Sapphire and PowerColor that only sell GPUs from AMD fear that ongoing delays could lead customers to look for alternative cards from other manufacturers. There's also the fear that cryptocurrency miners aren't gamers, so long-term this hurts AMD's position in the gaming world.

Blame cryptocurrency miners for scarcity of Radeon RX 580 and 570 cards

 

[Neoprod]

I noticed last week when I was browsing that almost all cards in the mid- and mid-high performance range (RX 570, RX 580, GTX 1070) are "contact for availability" or plain out of stock.

So basically if I sold, I couldn't upgrade anyway :erm:

Unless I wanted to pay 6k for a 1060 or 10k for a 1070, that is.

 

[Fulcrum29]

I noticed last week when I was browsing that almost all cards in the mid- and mid-high performance range (RX 570, RX 580, GTX 1070) are "contact for availability" or plain out of stock.

So basically if I sold, I couldn't upgrade anyway :erm:

Unless I wanted to pay 6k for a 1060 or 10k for a 1070, that is.

Well, you can always score like Soul by playing the ‘cards’ right

Every order coming through on my side is also mining rig related, and the situation at the local suppliers look dire.

 

[supersunbird]

I've got a Radeon HD 6570 1GB in my current rig... get about 30fps... maybe I should upgrade to a Radeon RX 460 2GB?

Opinions please.

Rest of system:
AMD X3 460 (3.4GHz tricore)
8GB RAM

 

[UrBaN963]

I've got a Radeon HD 6570 1GB in my current rig... get about 30fps... maybe I should upgrade to a Radeon RX 460 2GB?

Opinions please.

Rest of system:
AMD X3 460 (3.4GHz tricore)
8GB RAM

Good luck finding one, but if you do, not a bad option. Not sure why your FPS is so low though, I had a 5850 1GB and was getting more than that. What resolution are you playing at?

 

[supersunbird]

Good luck finding one, but if you do, not a bad option. Not sure why your FPS is so low though, I had a 5850 1GB and was getting more than that. What resolution are you playing at?

1920 x 1080, running a config as posted a few pages back. It's smooth enough, I just want MOAR!!!

I thought its the 470s and better that are so in demand, not a lowly 460.

 

[Soul Assassin]

I've got a Radeon HD 6570 1GB in my current rig... get about 30fps... maybe I should upgrade to a Radeon RX 460 2GB?

Opinions please.

Rest of system:
AMD X3 460 (3.4GHz tricore)
8GB RAM

You need to upgrade your potato CPU not GPU.

 

[UrBaN963]

You need to upgrade your computer.

I would change res to one a little lower if I was you. Don't need to play at that high a res and playing at 60 vs 30 will make a HUGE difference to your game.

 

[Soul Assassin]

I would change res to one a little lower if I was you. Don't need to play at that high a res and playing at 60 vs 30 will make a HUGE difference to your game.

I can't even imagine what playing at 30FPS must be like.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Yah, I don't know... not a similar comparison, but I have an old Core Duo E8400 3.00GHz, 8Gb DDR3 and HD 4890 1GB running CSGO at way above 30FPS, I mean like in the hundreds somewhere.

Try this:

CSGO launch options:

-novid -tickrate 128 -high -threads 3 -nojoy -nod3d9ex1 +cl_forcepreload 1 +exec autoexec

and add a autoexec.cfg to \steamapps\common\Counter-Strike Global Offensive\csgo\cfg

// RATES
rate "128000"
cl_cmdrate "128"
cl_updaterate "128"
cl_interp "0.0"
cl_interp_ratio "1"
cl_lagcompensation "1"

// VIDEO
mat_queue_mode "2"
mat_vsync "0"
fps_max "0"
fps_max_menu "0"
r_dynamic "0"
r_drawtracers_firstperson "0"

// MISC
cl_forcepreload "1"
cl_disablehtmlmotd "1"
cl_downloadfilter "nosound"

Keep // MISC in you autoexec even though the one command is included in your launch options.

 

[UrBaN963]

I can't even imagine what playing at 30FPS must be like.

It's like playing old MK vs playing Injustice 2.

 

[Pitbull]

I would change res to one a little lower if I was you. Don't need to play at that high a res and playing at 60 vs 30 will make a HUGE difference to your game.

Or change it in game to 4:3 aspect ratio.

I tried it and it was shyte

 

[supersunbird]

You need to upgrade your potato CPU not GPU.

CPU upgrade = R6000 to R7000 (Ryzen 5 1600, mobo, 8GB to 16GB RAM)
GPU upgrade = R2000

 

[Soul Assassin]

CPU upgrade = R6000 to R7000 (Ryzen 5 1600, mobo, 8GB to 16GB RAM)
GPU upgrade = R2000

CSGO is CPU bound so that R2000 will more than likely not do a thing to your FPS.

 

[supersunbird]

So the cores will be running 100% if I checked while in game?

 

[UrBaN963]

So the cores will be running 100% if I checked while in game?

Perhaps you can monitor them while you play tonight? Will give you an indication of where your bottleneck is. Either way, you should be getting FPS, that's about the FPS my laptop gets and its an i5-3210m with Intel HD4000 GFX - your PC should whip it.

 

[Soul Assassin]

So the cores will be running 100% if I checked while in game?

Yes.

 

[supersunbird]

OK, my mistake, more like 50 to 60fps average.

CPU cores run bout 80% to 90%