I think you need to own Metro 2033 to use its official benchmark tool. Can you stick your 8800GTX in and run the 3DMark11 with that? EDIT: never mind. you cant. 3DMark11 is a Dx11 benchmark only, as such your 8800GTX will not even run with it.
zomg i want it sooooooo bad ... im really thinking of just getting 560ti and OC it to 570 i was gonna do 6950 but i am not an ATI fan TBH nice video thou very geeky haha
But the 590GTX is NOT the all-out fastest graphics card. The only time it wins is in games heavily optimized for Nvidia, and even then it still loses in a few cases. Any game that isnt really optimized for either company, or games that are optimized for AMD, the 6990 tends to win over the 590GTX
I wanted to get a mechanical keyboard because of their build... but they just don't have enough features and these days I don't type as much as I used to. I'm using a Lycosa right now, but I just got the Logitech G19 in the mail (for $110 from slickdeals) dented box. I was considering building a rig soon, but I need to stop buying crap (my Beyerdynamic 880pros are coming in the mail monday). I was thinking of getting the GTX580 from MSI (TwinFrozr). The GTX590 is not really worth it for the extra 300 bucks imo from the reviews. I was wondering whether I should upgrade my CPU (Intel Q6700). I was thinking of a 2500K build, but I am really tempted to go for the 2600K since its like only like $100 more. But I don't think it'll make much difference in gaming, but I also do a lot of high resolution photo editing from photography in CS5 and lightroom, would the i7 be worth it over the i5 if that was the case? Either way I'll be waiting a few months before I start getting the parts for a new rig, right before Battlefield 3 comes out.
You won't notice much gaming performance stepping up from the 2.5k to the 2.6k. If you got cash to burn, then sure - go ahead and grab the 2.6, but if not - stick with the 2.5k. Its a great chip. Definitely would be a worthy investment more than just a gfx card. Unless you can o/c your current chip higher.
If i am not mistaken the 2600k is better for programs that actually will utilise all the cores ... gaming does not and most software does not CS5 does so it would help in that but in very high res stuff not just normal use
New GTX 590 is coming: http://vr-zone.com/articles/revised-geforce-gtx-590-cards-in-june/12222.html# Have to admit, that is one sexy looking card
if they had a hot model just holding the gfx card ... welll we all know what enigma does with just the video card imagine with the model
I might go to jail for the dirty things I would do Maybe even with the card, and the model at the same time mmm mmm I gotta get me some of that.
Awesome Link, thank you. I used to use Tom's Hardware VGA and CPU charts to check out benchmarks but they dont really update them anymore, this is much more useful. I dont plan on upgrading anytime soon since I have a GTX 470 atm which should be able to run games on med/high for a while, but nonetheless its a good website to have. Not that theres that many good PC games coming out lately for PC either. Most games released these days are only able to keep my attention for a month or less before I grow bored of them, its not really worth the cost of a gaming pc upgrade. Even then only a few good games come out each year lately (max 3-4 a year that will catch my attention).
I really hate the "590's burning up" articles of past, of course they are going to smoke if you O/C them that much, any card will. Rather dumb, but good that they are gettin' a "fix" for it?
A voltage bump from 0.91 volts up to 1.025 volts is not very much at all, especially on default clock speeds. No card should be sold with such a low tolerance. It is just asking for trouble. Even a small spike in power could cause the cards to fry. High end power supplies dont even clamp down on voltage fluctuations that small.
Rubius, does your motherboard have PCI 2.0 slots ? If not, your 6950/70 is running at half bandwith like I did at first with TERA.
Shouldnt that still be fine though? Ill have to research it more, but I did not think anything but integrated dual cards (like the 590) use more than PCI-E 2.0 8x bandwidth, which would be the same bandwidth as PCI-E 1.0 16x. But ill look into it more...
Grrrr... Looks like the 6950 Reference models with the Dual Bios are being Discontinued so no more flashing to 6970 If anyone stumbles across a place still selling them, please link me!
You can still flash it I believe... it's just more difficult to reset to default in case you mess up. Just have a motherboard that has an onboard graphic, or run another discrete video card in your 2nd PCI-E slot. When your 6950 won't go past post, the system will run your 2nd video card, then you can reflash it to stock bios in cmd prompt. At least that's how i hope it would work. I'm looking to get a 6950 as well, and i'm guessing the one i'm receiving will be a Rev 2 board. So hopefully our high lord of cybersauce can shed some light
