RX 480 8Gb price released, RM1249.

Not sure about the RX470 but the RX 480 4Gb version is expected to by sub RM1k

And hence, best to wait it out. All this rush to roll out the products to the market is never a good thing

Good to know there are other unkers in the midst. My gaming started with the likes of the Phillips "TV game" in black and white that looks like the pix in the spoiler.
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Gaming on home based PC started with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, loading stuff off from a cassette tape. Then, brother Steve (Jobs), god bless his soul, introduced the first true PC in the form of the Apple II for the masses. Of course, I only managed to save up for an Apple clone back in the day, which served its purpose. After the Apple, it was the IBM PC XT (clone la of course) with a 8088 CPU. Mind you, these were all running stuff off 5.25" floppy disks then! Since then, 286, 386, 486, P1, P3 (I skipped P2) and so on..... a walk down memory lane, literally.

EDIT : Forgot tis is a GPU related thread. So, back then, graphics cards were EGA, VGA...I can't even remember the brand names anymore but prior to the red and green teams' emergence in the market, there was VooDoo (3dfx)!

This post has been edited by richard912: Jun 17 2016, 01:41 PM

I remember now, Tseng Lab and S3 were among some of the earlier GFX card players in the market. And I forgot to add CGA graphics too

Indeed! And let's not forget too that back in the day, the PC was only generating beeps and boops unless you invested in a sound card ala Adlip or Creative sound cards. I remember I once had a Creative AWE32

Yes, very true. The entire playing field (pun intended) is in the midst of transitioning out of 1080p with 1440p expected to be the new norm. Hence, older generation GPUs will struggle at higher resolutions while maintain max settings.

This post has been edited by richard912: Jun 17 2016, 10:25 PM

I'm in no hurry. Am waiting for the pascal ti too. Janggut? Shave lor

I have usually preferred ASUS as my first choice but looking at how their prices have been over the top against other competing brands, I went with Zotac for my current GTX 980ti.

Yes, the tax relief of RM3k once every 3 years is for a whole PC or notebook, not for parts. Do be aware of this in case you kena tax-audited.

The 8gb version is supposed to be RM1249. You can read it here.

For the consideration of Elite Bangsawans, the Tesla!

*Casts poison resistance buff +100*

This fellow super hantu

Lucky thing for me the monitor I am targeting still not available yet (X34P or better?). So, can still hold off