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New gaming rig
EHM-1997 Alexander:
So I caved in just now and ordered a GTX 570.
I was tempted by the 580, but since I got the 570 for £270 and the jump to the 580 was another £170, I figured I could hold onto the cash and just replace the card sooner.
Should be a decent enough upgrade from my 4870x2 especially in games that don't support crossfire *cough* fsx and x-plane *cough*.
That said, there's nothing the 4870x2 can't run with high graphics at 1920x1200 at the moment, so it was somewhat of a pure indulgence buy.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?cpu=GeForce+GTX+570
EHM-0654 Murray:
Funnily enough, I'm looking at the 460 GTX [either Palit Sonic or Gainward GS, there's an EK full-coverage block for them] (pair of, most probably... I know, I know; SLI/Crossfire is useless, etc, but I have high hopes for the future, and X-P/FSX aren't the only games I play) as being (a) a definite upgrade from the 4850 I currently have, and (b) really very cheap in these times of austerity.
FSX runs far better on NVidia cards (no starting flamewars please ATI fans, it's a fact... Has something to do with few fast running cores compared to many slow running cores and the way FSX builds the viewport...)
Oh, and but that I were an investment banker with sheds full of money - http://rebelgadgets.com/product/448/evga-geforce-gtx-580-ftw-hydro-copper-2-graphics-card.html
EHM-1997 Alexander:
Another decent contender at the moment is the 6850 (which can be bios flashed to a 6870 as they didn't make a physical cut).
I'd recommend not getting to 400 series - the 500 isn't really a leap forward to a new architecture, it's a refinement. the 500s are what the 400s (i'm really talking the 470/480) should have been.
I went nvidia this time as I tend to flit between the two. ATI cards appear to be more efficient, have better output (drive 3 displays off 1 card) and give more ram so can perform better at high resolutions (2560x 1600) at the same price point and typically, just as the drivers for my 4870x2 have settled down, I hear the nvidias are playing up in x-plane :P However I want to try Physx and Cuda and want to get a single GPU card and move on from the multi-GPU mess I've had with the last card.
Nvidias drivers have traditionally been stronger than amd's.
EHM-0654 Murray:
Slings and arrows... I'm in talks with Asus to get the mobo tested and (hopefully) warranty repaired - and the quicker that happens the quicker I can get eBay onto the seller for the cost of the memory I bought which is now dead.
I'm also in the process of changing my mind about the water cooling; rather than the Reserator XT, I'm going to make a mostly internal WC rig from parts so I can have two loops fairly easily (already got an EK dual-res spin bay on the way from eBay)
That'll let me sell my old rig a little easier and I can use the proceeds to get my first new GPU a little quicker.
EHM-0654 Murray:
W00t! Mobo is still in warranty. It's costing me £21 because I can't get the original VAR to send it for warranty repair, and I've got a colleague at work testing my Corsair memory (I'm certain it's dead, but an independant memtest86+ is worth it's weight), then I just need to talk to the eBay vendor about getting some compensation for the memory.
After that though, I should be able to sell my Shuttle and Reserator (got a guy at work interested already).
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