I like to buy near a product's launch...the slight premium you pay for retail price is worth the $50-100 you might save from waiting 3-6 months and for product longevity/relevance. What good is waiting months for a 25% off sale only for the new products to come out 2 months later and be 40% faster?
Back to school usually has good deals but it's been a few years since I've shopped for hardware so before our dollar went to complete shit
this is interesting though
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10512/...nce-early-2015
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Originally Posted by Akinari
and the previous owner I bought it from didn't fucking know to register it for lifetime warranty  |
that's the risk of buying 2nd hand...you don't know if the previous owner is a noob at overclocking/keeping things ventilated. I've never heard of cards going bad during idle though. What's the temperature? If it's high you've tried cleaning the fans/new thermal paste?