Would my 2500k with an overclock be a bottleneck with an RX480 or GTX 1060? I have purchased both top tier and mid range cards in the past and always feel better about the value I get from a mid-range unit. If I can get one more GPU upgrade out of the platform I am running I will be ecstatic...
Hello anand it's been a while. I haven't done any PC gaming for about 2 years but life has me home a lot more lately and I'm thinking of getting back into it. Been out of it for so long I don't know what my hardware can really handle anymore and I'm looking for some advice. My rig is as follows...
Thanks for the info, cooling in my case shouldn't be an issue but I do need a good air cooler for the 2500k before I can oc much I'm thinking a hyper 212 and a oc around 4.5ghz should limit the bottleneck. I have to say the 2500k was a great value for how long it has stayed relevant...
I have a z68 motherboard and a 2500k which I am still happy with because I primarily am concerned with gaming performance. I am probably going to add a second gtx 760 this fall and I just realized I don't think z68 supports two pcie slots at x16 is this correct? If it does not is there any...
Just got around to installing my GTX760 and I noticed in dxdiag and the system info in the driver windows is allocating 2gb of ram to video memory giving me a total of 4gb. Should this be disabled for better performance or is the shared ram only going to be used for windows applications? I...
Right now I would go for a gtx760 which I just bought myself. I had a 7970 at release but ended up selling it for financial reasons and havent been gaming since last fall anyway. I got the gaming itch recently and snagged a 760 for two reasons. I think the 760 has the price/performance crown...
Whats the point of having a card capable of running textures on ultra without the vram to push it. I game at 1080p and have seen usage biting at the heels of 2 gb. A little future proofing never hurts and theres no point in having a card that is bottlenecked by vram.
I remember staring at the voodoo cards under the counter at our local computer store. I grew up in a smallish town and it was all mom and pop computer places that pretty much charged whatever they wanted... I've toyed with the idea of building a vintage gaming rig but I wouldn't have the time...
Based off of that chart the 520m is actually substantially slower then the gpu in the envy. In all honesty finding a gaming laptop that is going to make you feel like you got your money worth is hard to do in the price range at all. I have an Alienware M15x and it was around $2300 new. It was...
Oh ok I did not know if you were considering only a laptop. I guess the envy isn't a bad deal but I don't think you'll be happy with the 6630m its a pretty weak gpu.
Here is a comparison of all notebook gpu's available...
Really if your going to spend that much on a laptop and care about gaming there are better choices in that price range. Does it have to be a laptop? If you want to go budget and get maximum performance you could build or even buy a pc that will SMOKE that envy. Don't forget that down the road...
Op not to be a downer but 20 fps with that gpu is kind of a pipe dream if anything is going on on the screen. You could consider a laptop in the $400 range used such as one of the earlier m11x. Do you have an lcd monitor or hdmi capable tv to use as a monitor? If so consider building a budget...
No nVidia gave him all that stuff for being a focus group member its one of the perks... sorry being an amd shill I get paid to make comments like those.
What brand card do you have? I don't know of anyone who hasn't been able to hit 1575 not to say some cant. Most people were able to max the slider right out.
I have mine @ 1175/1575 it has never gone above 76c for me, in bf3 it hovers around 74. The fps gains you get from oc are pretty nuts really the main benefit ive seen is keeping my minimum frames much higher I game with vsync so on so keeping my fps from straying too far from 60 is important...
are you really comparing your watercooled SLI setup to a stock 7970??? how much were those blocks and the rad and the pump. Guess you already had that stuff laying around so don't bother adding it into the cost of your setup.
edit: lol you beat me to it...
It seems to me your taking the exact same stance on kepler vs. tahiti. Yet it seems by your logic once amd fans who will eventually be comparing kepler to hd8000 do the same thing they have the flawed mentality? Your essentially saying that nvidia wins because their card that isn't out yet...
Funny how anyone buying an AMD card is now manipulated and automatically a fanboy because we didn't wait for the wonder card of tomorrow by nvidia. If you don't compare the 7950 to other current offerings what is there to even compare it to?... we don't even have specs for kepler yet. Lets...
I think if you look at my quote you will see what I'm talking about, nothing to do with OP. Another poster said that it is pointless to compare fermi to tahiti and I made the argument that it is not pointless because those are the current available offerings from both companies.
Quick update on this. Was able to minimize the next time I saw an artifact appear still only minor and not game breaking but anyway I dropped everything back to stock and no change. The only thing that dropped off were my frames, it is really insane to me how much better my FPS is with the...
Well if you just built a new rig and wanted the best single GPU card available the cost argument is pointless and overdone at this point. I built a new rig, wanted to game, had $500, bought a 7970. Truth be told I originally wanted a 7950 but it wasn't out yet. I had about $550 for a video...
No your comparing what will be out Jan 31 with what will also be available Jan 31. The kepler vs tahiti argument is pointless until you have a kepler in your rig.
I bet that is all that CCC will let it clock but considering all 7950 models will be non ref designs I would not be surprised to see some of these hit clocks decently higher then that. I think its supposed to launch around $450 but who knows.
I have to agree I will not be butthurt when NV launches a faster chip... it is inevitable. The thing is I had about $500 budgeted to a videocard and bought a 7970 because it is clearly better then a gtx580. If a 680 is 25% faster then my card I wont go crying about but some people who upgraded...
I'm not sure what to make of this as the information regarding the names of their chips seems confusing to say the least. I have seen some conflicting answers regarding the internal naming of their chips so is he saying that a 670 or 660 part beats a 7970? I fully expect nvidia to have a more...
In regular gaming I haven't had the fan go above 41% that is at 1125/1575. You can set it manually and see how those noise levels sit with you, for me its not a problem at all.
I dunno about that card from what some people have been saying about the VRM's overheating. Is there a reason you don't want a reference card? I have only seen maybe two posts where people tried to OC the BE and I think both times it would only clock to around 1100. I think if you want a non...
So i finally was able to reproduce the black lines... I played all night various maps and no problems then at the beginning of a match only players, vehicles, and building doors would occasionally have a black line coming out. I minimized the game to drop my oc and before I got a chance I...
I am about to investigate this further. And thank you my new system is treating me great it is a solid performer and I spent a total of $1400 by snagging every newegg promo code and bundle deal I could squeeze... the only thing I paid full price for was the 7970.
Anyway thank you to those...
I dont think that calling a poster lazy is productive or adds to a thread in any way. I did not know it was safe to adjust clocks or voltages while the gpu.is under load. I also did not know that powertune did not up the voltage.
Just wanted to add that most of the reviews I read of the 7970...
Thanks for the useless post/thread crap but maybe you should read the thread before making needless rude comments. I asked because it was only in one instance of a certain game that had an issue and given the wide gammut of cards that had similar issues with the same game I wanted to see if...
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