Recent content by jbh545

These are the best drivers for someone running multi-GPU 6-series and playing newer games. I have 3x 6970 and play at 2560x1600. Sleeping Dogs - some of the older driver sets ran fast although the low/med AA didn't have great IQ. 12.8 seemed to have high IQ but with TERRIBLE multigpu...

I prefer to keep those and turn shadows down one notch while leaving the high res shadow option turned on. Unless you sit around and closely scrutinize the shadows, they arguably look better that way because they are a lot more defined. I found that neither a pair of overclocked 480s nor a...

Where did you hear that two bridges are recommended for 2560? It sounds a bit outlandish but I'll buy another if it works. Any idea if I could use a 3 way bridge with just 2 cards? That would give the dual SLI connections but the connectors for the third card would be unoccupied.

I've got my pair of GTX 480 at 870/2150. One of the cards could go to 2250 on the memory. This is on air slotted right next to each other but with extra case fans. Temps and noise are alright...I have a set of open headphones (audio technica ADH-AD700) which don't block a lot of sound and the...

No AA and HBAO off...ie middling settings. Turn HBAO on and give it a reasonable (but not extreme) amount of AA like 4x MSAA and those framerates will cut in half...actually the review says it's "unplayable" with even 2x AA on a 5970. Even at those settings, the graph is ugly...that's not a...

Modern Warfare 2's tech is way more than 2 years old and it's designed for consoles. Thanks for proving my point, none of those games are remotely stressful or advanced, (except of course the ones that you admittedly have to turn down the settings on) and I call shenanigans if you're trying to...

Unless you're gonna go dual GPU and get the 5970, I say wait for better single gpu cards. Your best upgrade path right now is just getting another 280 at a good price...the pair should be faster than a 5870 for the most part and you'll probably take less depreciation when it's time to sell...

Maybe if you're playing two year old DX9 games and don't mind running medium settings on any newer game that is even remotely stressful.

lol, just because it has 12 ports doesn't mean it can "drive" those resolutions. eyefinity framerates are already crap with just 3 displays.

ROFL This calculation is only relevant if you subtract out the alternative cost of a more reasonable high end gaming PC, which would still use half the watts. And the real difference is even less than 750w since neither system will be anywhere close to peak wattage most of the time during...

If you want the most performance per dollar I'd think about two or three used GTX 280.

just the afterburner beta. they are volted to 1.1. The temps change a lot from game to game. Assassins Creed 2 at 8X AA 2560x1600 with vsynch on barely even stresses them so they're like 75c at 70% fan. The hottest I saw on on a wide selection of games is 87c at 88%. I don't find them...

I got my SLI pair of GTX 480 up to 870mhz each and they're not even all that hot with the fans I put in the case. Just keep fans blowing across the heatpipes and you can do this on stock cooling.

Any time you want to put a large overclock on the card it's going to take some extra cooling. The difference here that is instead of spending a lot on custom HSF, you can spend a small amount on case fans. I didn't just buy these fans for the cards, I had always planned to add on to this case...

Yeah I know this is the conventional wisdom but the setup seems to work best this way. I felt around in the case for what you're talking about while I was setting it up. If I were to flip that top intake fan, it's just going to be exhausting room temperature air and lowering the pressure on the...