Recent content by Janus67

Technically yes, but under most circumstances and hardware life cycles you will have likely replaced the hardware by the time the life span had decreased enough to be noted.

Definitely not worth the price of admissions for two. One is probably still overboard and better off with SLI 580s (they are faster).

True, especially with places like microcenter selling 2500ks for $180, maybe if they sold this chip for $100-$110 would it even really be considered when $50 jumps you from a dual to a quad.

I would always just download the latest from the manufacturer website and install those, if you get fits from something then you can rollback to older ones, but most of the time there are fixes in those compared to whenever the disc was printed (same with video card drivers, etc).

I think it more depends on what boards you are comparing. All of the boards that are in a similar price bracket will most likely perform similarly, it isn't quite fair to say that x-bought a budget $50 msi board and it was trash, so the next time they built they got a $200 gigabyte board and it...

I could see it doing well in non-threaded applications if it clocks well (superpi, 3dm01) but I don't see much purpose behind it. I wonder how well the chips would bin as well.