wow! thats crazy... I want to get a new case for my PC... gonna start a new topic, just so I dont hijack this one... and then could anybody please post there good cases that arent overly priced... THanks!
wow! thats crazy... I want to get a new case for my PC... gonna start a new topic, just so I dont hijack this one... and then could anybody please post there good cases that arent overly priced... THanks!
Got a few new Toys
With a little tweaking I'll be over the 40,000 mark
OMG! Two stock cooled GTX 480s. A doubtful choice at best IMHO. Why not one or two RADEON HD 5870s with Vapor-X? Cheaper, a lot cooler, a lot more silent, you would save money on your energy bills and last but not least, you wouldn't notice the difference in performance when gaming.
And if you choose for the GTX480 despite of that, I wonder why you chose for one of the worst coolers that exist. I think you should buy two aftermarket coolers to get at least get rid of two of the disadvantages (heat, noise).
http://www.hardware.info/nl-NL/artic...rce_GTX_480/24 The shown TDP is of the card itself BTW.
And this page shows the conclusion of Hardware.info, stating that the average performance is about 15%. The Heaven 2.0 Extreme Tesselation benchmark uses much more tesselation than games will use in practice, so the performance advantage in that benchmark is one without a practical purpose.
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Damn Slay. Got EVGA to swap your GPU's again?
I'm waiting for the second revision of those beasts before upgrading.
And Richard the answer is E-penis. Nvidia is the manlier choice
ATI has the worst Driver Support, poor Crossfire Scaling and while it's not a Deal Breaker, no Physics. Plus the GTX 480 is just plain out faster than the 5870.
I'll be buying a couple aftermarket "air" coolers as soon as Arctic Cooling releases one.
But, the "so-called" Heat Issue is being blown way out of Proportion. I've overclocked these Bad-Boys to 850 from 701 on the core with the VCore over-volted to 1.125 volts and my Temperature never exceeded 76C.
I can't read anything on that website you linked to, but I'll guess there Nvidia Haters.
I'll run the Heaven Benchmark sometime today
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=2145760
Originally Posted by Slaymate
Got a few new Toys
With a little tweaking I'll be over the 40,000 mark
Holy shitmonkeys batman! That is freaking sweet!
Nice setup, but i scored higher...
Till i woke up
Hardware.info is one of the better magazines in NL (they exist on paper too, beside the website) and are focussed on hardware testing.ATI has the worst Driver Support, poor Crossfire Scaling and while it's not a Deal Breaker, no Physics. Plus the GTX 480 is just plain out faster than the 5870.
I'll be buying a couple aftermarket "air" coolers as soon as Arctic Cooling releases one.
But, the "so-called" Heat Issue is being blown way out of Proportion. I've overclocked these Bad-Boys to 850 from 701 on the core with the VCore over-volted to 1.125 volts and my Temperature never exceeded 76C.
I can't read anything on that website you linked to, but I'll guess there Nvidia Haters.
I'll run the Heaven Benchmark sometime today
I know you can't read it (too bad they stopped the English localisation) and that is why I summarised they conclusion page in my previous post. They never said it is utter crap, only that the better performance is but 15% or so and that is too little for the higher price. The extreme Tesselation Benchmark in Heaven 2.0 is said too be unrealistic and thus the much better performance in that benchmark does not matter in practice. They are not nvidia haters (hell, they even triple SLI'd the things), but simply remain realistic. More performance in benchmarks may be nice, but when you won't notice it much in real-life stuff and pay a lot more for it, it may not be the best choice.
And why do folks always complain about crap ATI drivers? I never had issues myself, except for in openSUSE 11.1 with KDE 4.0 as the interface (but that KDE version was buggy as hell, while the Linux editions of ATI's drivers are more aimed at the Gnome interface too).
Neither did I read current reviews complaining about crap drivers for neither of the two brands, only some folks complained on forums but that is not a good indication because on forums usually issues are "reported" and not so much the positive expoeriences (because in that case the topic starters wouldn't ask for help, would they?).
Don't take me wrong, I never condemned you for this choice, I only expressed myself as being a bit sceptical.
@HD0087: "The answer is E-penis: nVidia is a manlier choice" sounds like the opposite of being manly. Grow up, chap, we're talking about graphics cards, things that do make some calculations in our PCs. Some copper and some silicon.
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My Metro 2033 achievements (external link)
Of course my Radeon HD 4850 can handle it. 1280x1024 FTW!
Steam screenshots of Metro 2033 et al. (external link)
I think we'll find out about how much performance is really needed when Crysis 2 comes out. DX11 and it's new features are still pretty new to start saying what may or may not be realistic. But I will be playing every new game at Max. Settings for the next few years
I upgraded to a new Sandy Bridge setup
After lapping, Shiney
5GHz is easy
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