Recent content by Dravonic

The 7970 is about 5-10% faster clock for clock. If it's enough performance to warrant the extra cost, that's a question only you can answer. The reference cards are fine, unless you have a problem with noise. As far as performance goes, different brands make no matter.

You should really, I mean REALLY, find some review or at least some user experience with hybrid CFX. Remember that AFR means one card renders a frame, then the other one renders the next. A slower card could very well screw up with your frametimes. CFX already has microstuttering problems as it is.

Try MSI Afterburner with the Disable ULPS option checked.

There's really no need to run the GHz bios, unless you're looking for "out-of-the-box" overclocking. But that's rather pointless considering quite a lot of cards will overclock past GHz speeds and you need an overclocking program to do that. I would easily say that GE/Special Editions are a...

I always prefer to use games to test stability. Crysis 3 is a pretty good one if you have it. Furmark and the like can be helpful, but they use your GPU in a much different way than games do. It's not uncommon to find a stable overclock in Furmark that will crash games. Or vice-versa. Not to...

It doesn't. Go to a big area like Mountain village or shantytown, watch how your FPS and GPU usage drops. Now check your CPU per core usage since it's the culprit. Only 2 cores are taxed, the rest not at all.

General consensus seems to be don't overvoltage your memory since it significantly reduces it's lifespan. For benchmarking it's not much of a problem, but 24/7 usage is a no no.

To clarify, old in this case means the latest stable version. If you're going to use unofficial overclocking in AB you need the beta.

I'm backing up what I'm saying with an argument. I'll be kind enough to rephrase it: Games have for a very long time portrayed effects similar to what you see in Hawken with PhysX. Hawken therefore could have a simplified version of those PhysX effects using the same techniques used by other...

Come again? The game has scripted effects even with PhysX disabled? Do you see some swirling greenish effect on the off side of that screenshot? And what do you expect me to do here? Post a link to a developer spelling it out for you? If you can't use a bit of common sense, feel free to ignore...

It's just common sense, really. Games have been using scripted effects for years, why can't Hawken? Uhm, let's see... wouldn't it be because the developers preferred to use PhysX instead?

It isn't much of a problem, specially since you already have experience with SLI. Generally speaking, if you want performance SLI is your answer. If stability and ease-of-use are more important to you than performance, go with the Titan.

As homebrew2ny said, neither will keep a 60fps average with all games. SLI will get you closer than the Titan, but only triple SLI would get there, I think.

Except Hawken developers clearly skipped implementing the "generic version" of the effects and went directly to PhysX. I don't exactly blame them (too much) for it, because developing both versions would require more time and money than a single version, but the result is PhysX did indirectly...

Nobody can be sure. The titan is new, so it has more "optimization headroom" so to speak, but the 680 isn't exactly fully optimized, especially when considering SLI. The titan will very likely close the gap, but how much is anyone's guess. I certainly wouldn't assume it will match the 680s and...