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When will the AMD Radeon 7990 be made available on the market?
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bdiddytampa
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I'm confused. If you'd care to please explain to me how this works. I thought I could get a Radeon 7990 made by AMD. But they made under different brands. So it's the exact same card? Just different graphics card manufacturing companies have slapped their brand on it.
I don't know much about graphics cards, and this is the first time I'm looking into buying one. What brand of the Radeon 7990 would you suggest I buy?
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You can't buy cards directly from AMD, they sell their cards to board partners like MSI, Gigabyte, ASUS and the like which are then sold to you. In the case of most of the 7990's, the board partners just slap their own sticker on it and sell it off. Though with other cards, often they will put on their own coolers and on some cards they will design their own PCB's to replace the reference (from AMD) design.
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+1 ^
Just on a side note though, I've heard of a lot of problems testers are having with these cards actually running well. AMD has had issues with getting their cards to work well in crossfire, though I don't know anyone who owns one of these 7990s. It seems to me that there are a lot of kinks still to work out with this card and IMHO you'd be better off spending that $1000 on something else... though that 8 game bundle is insane lol. As far as which brand is better, they will all perform the same most likely, but stick with brands you know, read the reviews, and go for ones with good warranties
Just on a side note though, I've heard of a lot of problems testers are having with these cards actually running well. AMD has had issues with getting their cards to work well in crossfire, though I don't know anyone who owns one of these 7990s. It seems to me that there are a lot of kinks still to work out with this card and IMHO you'd be better off spending that $1000 on something else... though that 8 game bundle is insane lol. As far as which brand is better, they will all perform the same most likely, but stick with brands you know, read the reviews, and go for ones with good warranties
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