Recent content by CornellEngineer

Memory bandwidth is obviously important, but it's not the whole story... The Memory Bus Width has been downgraded from a 256-bit interface from the previous generation Fermi GTX 560 to a 192-bit interface, however, this does not mean that the new Kepler GTX 660 will perform slower in overall...

In the first place, the OP stated he had a strong preference for Nvidia cards, so Radeon is not really an option for him. In the second place, some of these benchmarks show that the new GTX 660 SC actually more than holds its own against the 7950, and can even take out the 7970 in some cases...

I'm building a new rig as well...only one or two parts left to go. Have you looked into the new GTX 660 SC card EVGA just released a week or two ago? Looks like an awesome bang for your buck...

Wow, according to AR's most excellent GPU hierarchy table, even 2-year-old cards like the GeForce GT 430 that can be had for around 50 bucks would still provide a performance boost to a shiny new 3570K chip. Looks like the boys over at ol' Intel still have a ways to go on their integrated graphics.

Pretty sure most or even all of my engineering apps will be plenty happy running off the CPU graphics. But I know it won't cut it for playtime. Think maybe I'll just skip the cheap GPU for now and then when I can no longer stand sub-par graphics performance while gaming hopefully by then I'll...

Terrific table, AR. Thanks a lot...much appreciated.

Component selection for my first build is almost done and most parts have been ordered and are starting to trickle in. Was wondering if anybody had any rough idea what the integrated graphics on the i5-3570K were approximately "equivalent" to as far as older GeForce/Radeon cards are...

The more reviews I read the more I am liking this RAM you recommended. I probably never woulda considered it on my own because the stock timings are nothing to write home about. But it looks like if I start tweaking a little earlier than I originally planned these will be great sticks to work...

Whew, for a second there thought I was gonna have to add a hammer to my list of required assembly tools.

Thanks, tweak...but I think that MB you mentioned is for a Sandy-E and I'm going with the 3570K. And we engineers like to play games, too. I'll be glad when all this research is done and the system finally built, although I admit it's been an interesting learning experience.

Well, this guy is running non-QVL Samsung RAM on his ASUS Pro motherboard and he doesn't seem to be having any major problems... http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2251205 As far as your Corsair 400R case, I understand it's a bit tight for watercooling. Not planning on doing that...

BTW, I just noticed you have a Corsair 400R case. That's the one I'm probably gonna get...either that or the 500R, but I do like the styling on yours better. How you liking it so far? Cable management looks terrific on that 400/500 design of theirs.

Holy crap, just looking at user reviews of your suggestion on a few different websites...over 100 reviews and damn near every one is 5 stars. That's impressive. But I just checked ASUS's RAM QVL for their Pro motherboard and your specific Samsung RAM isn't on it. You think I should go ahead...

Hi folks. I'm designing my first build and am getting pretty close to ordering components. Leaning heavily toward the ASUS P8Z77-V Pro board as a decent middle-of-the-road MB, although ASRock's Extreme4 looks good, too. Noticed several posters here said they have this board in their own rigs...