Review: Palit GeForce GTX 950 Storm Dual

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    In this review we check out the 2GB version of the Palit GeForce GTX 950. The GTX 950 is the entry-level to mainstream graphics card in the Maxwell range of GPUs from Nvidia. Palit offers it in a Stor...

    Review: Palit GeForce GTX 950 Storm Dual
     
  2. CalculuS

    CalculuS Ancient Guru

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    That oc pushed it immediately past 7970/GTX 680 levels, holy ****.
     
  3. moab600

    moab600 Ancient Guru

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    good stuff for 150$, but it gonna cost more in Europe therefore canceling it's value immediately.

    the max i would pay for such a card is 150$, but even that feels too much.
     
  4. rl66

    rl66 Ancient Guru

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    what a price ???
    the GTX950 cost only 10 buck less than the GTX960, and 20 more than the R7 370
    ???

    Something wrong in there.
     

  5. StewieTech

    StewieTech Chuck Norris

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    Here in Portugal it costs 199€, now that´s what i call "lulz". Gotta love the lulz. The gtx 960 is only 20/30€ more expensive, so despite the value overcloked, these puppies won´t shine unless a price cut is in the works.

    Seems every year it passes the harware gets ever so more expensive regardless of segment. In five years then what, 300€ for this segment and 1000€ for the single gpu top dog? For gods sake!
     
  6. Cave Waverider

    Cave Waverider Ancient Guru

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    Over here the cheapest 960 is even cheaper than the cheapest 950 at the moment.
     
  7. StewieTech

    StewieTech Chuck Norris

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    Yeah here the cheapest 950 is 187.5€(MSI GEFORCE GTX950 OC, the little white single fan) and the cheapest 960 is 216.15€(ASUS GEFORCE GTX960 TURBO OC, the white one with what i guess is some sort of a reference cooler), i mean...why??

    They need a 50€ difference between the two for people to consider the 950. Only someone with no knowledge or reference will buy the 950, at least with the current price. Drink a coffe or two less during a week and there you have it, you can buy a stronger gpu, lest we forget that whatever gpu you buy will have to serve you well for at least months, maybe some years so what´s the excuse?

    I´d be interested in hearing about prices in other contries because at least here from what i wrote above the situation is just plain bizarre.
     
  8. Loophole35

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    $40 difference here in the states. That's not including the $20 MIR on most 960's. The 960 was a fail card IMO. The 960 should be renamed the 950Ti and it would be better.

    950 at $129
    950Ti at $159
     
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    Outside the 970 and 980ti this nvidia gen has been so boring and unexciting, performance improvements are nothing to write home about, can´t handle peasant textures and barely can play in peasant resolutions. :sleep2:
     
  10. Elder III

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    Palit did a really nice job here, but the price is a fail on NVIDIA's part.
     

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