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  • PeachNCream - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link

    Those GPUs look as stupid as Seth Rogen would in a leather n' lace Halloween devil girl outfit with the pointy tail and spike horn headband. Who thinks up product branding like this? And 2.5 slots wide? Why?! Is that really the way PowerColor is trying to one up the competition by molesting away all of our expansion slots with an obnoxious cooler? What's wrong with a little kiss, man?
  • JoeyJoJo123 - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link

    It's not a crime against humanity for cards to exist with 2.5 or 3 PCI-e slot width coolers. I do in fact end up recommending them to friends since they have that much extra cooling mass and are effectively more cooling for the money since all they're really interested in is a single GPU for their GPU-slots, and maybe an M.2 PCI-e SSD.
  • JoeyJoJo123 - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link

    PCI-e* slots. Not sure what I was thinking.
  • PeachNCream - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link

    To each their own, but don't blame me if Seth Rogen doesn't like you after you basically endorsed putting him in a devil girl costume.
  • JoeyJoJo123 - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link

    I really don't care about Seth Rogen, nor do I care for Jeff Dunham-tier SNL antics/humor and was mostly only notable for starring in a pothead movie. I really don't get what kind of comparison you're making here, either, with Seth Rogen to video card width.

    For what it's worth, I have one friend who's still using a 3570k + Asus DirectCU II 7950 (https://i.imgur.com/dQC90.jpg) PC build to this day, because they still doesn't see much point in upgrading since everything he plays runs at 1080p 60fps, although with some adjustment/disabling of objectively bad and graphically taxing visual presets like Motion Blur, HDR, Bloom, Depth of Field, Volumetric Lighting/Weather effects, etc. High textures, medium models/meshes/character detail, 16x AF, 2x or disabled AA is all they feel they need/want and the games still churn at 60fps+ avg despite being on a GPU that's since lost driver updates many moons ago. This is just anecdotal, and presumably you don't care anyways what some unnamed no-face "friend" of some guy you don't even know posting online, which is fair.

    3-slot GPUs are just a lot easier to clean out without disassembly, and if they're available for a similar price as 2-slot GPUs, why not if the user's just going to run a single GPU in the PCI-e slots anyways? You get more longevity, better thermals, and less noise with bigger fans and bigger heatsinks.

    I don't particularly care for Powercolor, but they must be doing something right if they're still in business. I only really look for manufacturer warranty periods and lowest prices on any GPU purchases anyways, so I don't delude myself into thinking that one company's Vega GPUs are consistently better than another company's Vega GPUs. I'm not particularly interested in Vega GPUs either since they don't really carry an adequate price/performance ratio for most game titles right now. The HBM2 is nice, but according to benchmarks isn't a game-changer for the price it's going for.
  • Luscious - Friday, December 8, 2017 - link

    "It's not a crime against humanity for cards to exist with 2.5 or 3 PCI-e slot width coolers"

    No, it just makes it glaringly obvious that the ATX 2.x spec is OBSOLETE.
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