Recent content by SpeedyGonzales

I think you can not expect linear scalability from RAM. Even GPUs do not always do that under perfect conditions.

I agree, that Big Kepler's gaming performance will not scale linear with the die size compared to current Kepler and for a lot of people this will be a bad surprise. You are probably right with the power efficiency argument. If you take this into the equation with probably 10-20% of the price...

I do not take overclocking into account. a) overclocking is a gamble (at least beyond 15%) b) AMD and Nvidia can not count on overclocking, because only a minority of users are doing it. c) we had very good overclockers in previous generations as well For me it is very simple. Both GTX...

Possible, yes. At least Nvidia has not doubled prices, but the situation has allowed them to increase by roughly a factor of 1,5. A lot of indicators show (die size, GPGPU capabilities), that the GTX680 was never planned to be a GTX 680. As I said, at least Nvidia is not able to charge $600...

They still charge premium (and massive btw), because what they call a GTX680 is just a GTX660TI. 30-35% performance increase (vs. 580) with a new generation on a new node (28mn) is piss poor. Only reason: GTX 680 was always planned to be upper midrange and was re-named once Nvidia saw how bad...

Thanks again for all your input. Usually I only upgrade, when the expected framerate doubles. But this will not happen with a nearly 4 years-old rig, although CPU performance increases have slowed down in the last years. It is the first time since I have a PC, that I did not upgrade the...

Thanks, I am considering this.

Can be up to 50%, more if you overclock the 7870. I am currently not overclocking my 470GTX because it is too noisy. Normally I try to get 70-100% increase when swapping GPUs, this time I am willing to sacrifice a bit on the increase in favour of less noise. Was happpy with the 470GTX...

Thanks. Still unhappy with the fact, that prices for the new GPU generation are too high, with limited supply and early adopter premium. The 470gtx is powerful however way too loud, even though it is a custom design, cooler and quieter than reference. Once we see $50 decrease on the 7870 or...

Thanks for your input. Checked ebay prices for the q9450, indeed prices seem to be good. However, my times of self-build rigs are over, this is a pre-overclocked PC from a small german vendor. I wanted to do the lazy upgrade, not the full.

My current rig is nearly 4 years old. Q9450@3.2Ghz 470gtx (15% oc possible), replaced a 4870 nearly 2 years ago 2*250GB Disc in Raid0 Profile: Office, Internet and Gaming @1080p The CPU goes up to 3.4Ghz but no further, either it is maxxed out or I am lacking the experience for a...

An inexpensive, but good solution for the amateur and semi-pro is the so-called "silver haze pro" bundle. It comes with a DTP94 Colorimeter from Eizo and the iColour Display software from Quato. The bundle is 200 Euros in Germany. If you buy software and hardware separately you end up with...

Do not compare the 460gtx to a 465gtx. The 465gtx is an obsolete model from nvidia´s harvesting process. You can not extrapolate 470gtx stock or oc performance from this.

I upgraded from an ATI 4870/512 Mb to the 470GTX from Palit with the custom PCB/Cooler. It overclocks to 750 core without overvolting, if I compare my testing results with what is available on the internet, the card performes close to a 480gtx at stock speeds. Background for my decision...

The 4xx gtx cards are made for this temp, does not scare me at all. As I did not overclock, it should be comparable to the test on x-bit: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/geforce-gtx470-sli_4.html#sect0 I do not care too much about how much current a vid card is pulling...