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    Memory overclocking does nothing for the 7850

    I think you can not expect linear scalability from RAM. Even GPUs do not always do that under perfect conditions.
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    nVidia GTX 670 appearing in shops.

    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...
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    nVidia GTX 670 appearing in shops.

    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...
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    nVidia GTX 670 appearing in shops.

    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...
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    nVidia GTX 670 appearing in shops.

    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...
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    Worth upgrading this system ?

    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...
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    Worth upgrading this system ?

    Thanks, I am considering this.
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    Worth upgrading this system ?

    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...
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    Worth upgrading this system ?

    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...
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    Worth upgrading this system ?

    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.
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    Worth upgrading this system ?

    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...
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    Monitor Calibration Software/Hardware?

    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...
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    gtx 460 vs. 470 and other questions

    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.
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    gtx 460 vs. 470 and other questions

    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...
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    New Palit 470 GTX - Custom Design - quick feedback

    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...
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    New Palit 470 GTX - Custom Design - quick feedback

    50-60% is ok with this Palit. Over 60% is only ok, when gaming. Idle is 40% which you can not hear. I must correct myself a bit, played a couple of hours tonight. It is very hot in central europe at the moment, Card went over 60% after some time, with headset just ok, card was running at max...
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    New Palit 470 GTX - Custom Design - quick feedback

    Update: Card max out at 760/1520/870 showing first artifacts under heavy load (MSI Kombustor). Fan goes to 90% under this load (93C) and must be considered as loud. Under normal gameplay fan stays at maximum of 60-70% which is ok.
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    New Palit 470 GTX - Custom Design - quick feedback

    I am running at 1680*1050. So the 4870 was sufficient in a lot of cases, except Crysis (no AA), GTA IV and the heavy texture mods for Fallout 3 (Ram). So from an economic point of view, this upgrade was too early, as 3 games should not really justify an upgrade, but I also wanted to have the...
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    New Palit 470 GTX - Custom Design - quick feedback

    Purchased the new Palit 470 GTX with non-reference PCB/Cooler on Friday. Idea was to replace my trusty old 4870 (512mb) and with a bit of overclocking luck get 5870 to 480 GTX (non-overclocked) performance, DX11 features and last but not least more video ram. The price difference to a...
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    Zotac Amp! GTX470 (custom cooler) Tested

    90 Euro premium for this solution. Although specs are convincing and tempting, the price is not. This baby will (probably) be 30-40 Euro more expensive, than a ref 5870. If the premium would be around 40 Euros (which I expected/hoped) I would not hesitate to buy it.
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    Best video card for around $200.00?

    Don't know the prices in the U.S. but what about a 5750CF ? Could be around 220,- and deliver 5850 performance, provided you are willing to deal with CF. Is your mainboard capable of running CF at least x8 ?
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    Fermi's (gtx 380) NDA to lift tonight? Finally some real benchies.

    This is not a paper launch, as nVidia has not launched anything officially yet. It is an appetizer at best. ATI did the same before R5xxx was launched, remember the slides with the performance bars ? It would be a paper launch, if nV would provide review samples to the usual reviewers and...
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    2 Radeon 5770 for a very good price ?

    Thanks for your responses. Although the US$ to € rate is 1:1.44, this is not reflected in hardware prices, which are higher in Central Europe, than what you are used to. The factor in the graphics adapter market is closer to 1:1.1-1.2 However, I have made up my mind: I will continue to...
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    2 Radeon 5770 for a very good price ?

    I prevented CF so far, as I am playing at 1650*1080 and only needed to prevent high AA levels. However I would like to upgrade my 4870, which has only 512mb videoram, which is a limiting factor from time to time (hi-res texture packs or GTA IV). Prices for a R5870 are around €400. Now a...
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    Fermi benchmarked? [Fake]

    What is the problem ? Wait for real numbers. New cards will eventually be tested by trusted reviewers. This is NOT the time to buy, unless your have to, for whatever reason (e.g. new rig) If you have to buy, than go the value road (4890, 260) and then wait. I have a 512MB 4870 and I always...
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    New CCC and Driver out!

    Installed 8.8 yesterday on a Vista-64 system. Works without any issues, however I also noted a slight decrease in 3DMark2006 score, but this will not prevent me from using the drivers.
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    AND SO BEGINS the (unstoppable?) evolution of Multi-GPU gaming

    What he said. I switched from a 7800gt SLI set-up to a single 8800gt 320 set-up and never looked back. I ignore Crysis, most of the other games just run fine @ 1680*1050 on a 2.5 year-old rig. I like new technology, I have the money to buy it, but I do not like to be ripped-off.
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    9800GX2 Pics!

    you get two 8800GTS but as usual with SLI you won't get twice the performance of the single cards (ok, your will also not pay twice the price). If SLI efficiency was 70-80% (and not 30-50%) in 90% of all games (and not 50%), I would consider it. I had the GT7800 in SLI in my current rig and in a...
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    9800GX2 Pics!

    In times of real competition the product cycles usually were: a brand new card every 12 months and a refresh after 6. The 8800gtx is now around for 15 months and has not been replaced, by anything that can beat it. My impression is, that one product cycle is missing. They came with an OC...
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    9800GX2 Pics!

    If the speculations in this thread are correct (9800gx2 30-50% faster than 8800gtx and 9800gtx 10-20% faster than 8800gtx), can we agree, that nVidia and ATI simply missed one product cycle ? ATI because of a late design change, that did not work out and nVidia, because they did not have to...
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    Retro Overclock: 3800X2 on A8NSLI-SE

    I am running a more than two year old X2 3800 @ 240 FSB * 10 with stock cooling and no voltage increase. 250 FSB also works, but I did not want to push it too much. My A8N SLI starts making problems beyond 260 FSB (checked this by taking CPU and Memory out of the equation). I do not like...
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    9800GX2 Pics!

    It will replace the G80 Ultra as long as G100 has not been released. It will be based on G92 architecture as NV is phasing out G80 and it will compete with the ATI dual GPU solution. I assume they will price it to compete in the price/performance ratio with the ATI dual GPU card. The dual GPU...
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    POLL: What kind of vid card do you currently own?

    Purchased a ATI 9700pro some months ago. Fantastic card giving a big boost to AA and AF, has a good chance to stay longer than 12 months in my rig. Cheers Speedy
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    What is the best video card ever made?

    Definitely Voodoo 1. Seeing the improvement it did to the visual quality of Tomb Raider over my Matrox Mystique was simply breathtaking. The magic was "texture filtering" (if I remember it correctly). Voodoo 2 was a cool card, but only faster than the Voodoo 1, however Voodoo 1 was a quantum...
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    LCD's and dead pixels?

    I have an Eizo L565, that came with one dead pixel (always white). You do not see that in games, videos or applications at all. Just when the system boots up and the screen is black (and if you know where it is). If we would still be running DOS, I assume it would be much more visible :D...
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    GF4 @ 300/661 vs. Radeon 9500 Pro @ 355/630

    The R9500pro has 2 advantages over the TI4200: 1.) DirectX9 support, however we do not yet know how a R9500pro will perform using DX9 features 2.) Superior speed with all combinations of AF/AA settings, you will only notice this, if the game is not completely CPU limited and when using high...
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    Using a software program to lower CPU temps?

    This tool was called CPUIdle. At the time it was written either the K2 or the Pentium II (I do not remember which one it was) had no feature to go idle, when it was not actively executing code. You can say: these CPUs were always running like under full load and therefore at a high temperature...
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    Recent 2.4B overclocks?

    I had problems with my 2.4b SL6EF at 2.88Ghz. But did not really try hard to go further. Runs stable at 2.8 with 1.65V (passed 12hours of Prime95). Maybe I give 2.9 another try on the WE, but I may be limited on the mobo side (BD-7). Cheers Speedy
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    p4 2.4 should i o/c?

    :D But seriously, if you have the RAM and mobo to do it, 150 FSB and 2.7Ghz is performance for free. Cheers Speedy
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    What Resolution Do You Run At?

    1280*1024 on a 17inch TFT Cheers Speedy