OC3D Review Asus GTX590

[Icekube]

YouTube is being a pitFa today. That and Im meant to be having some time off!

And rightly so with the amount of work you and team put in, just looking forward to seeing it after teasing us all

 

[Hay11Mac]

Another great review, can't wait to see the vid (god i'm such a geek)

Enjoy your time off Tom, I know you will be living it up Saturday

 

[tinytomlogan]

Im just taking a few days to do some bits and bobs for myself, its actually the first time Ive taken time off since joining OC3D officially. So its the first time in 18months and I still end up working!

 

[DT-525]

Crysis 2 is just a gay port Tom, Just played it on the PC and there are no user settings to set the texture quality or the AA, it complete bulls**t i guess we can put Crytek on the list of PC sellouts. Good game though. There is no DX 11 or 64bit built in to the game as of yet crytek say they will bring out a patch in the next few weeks.

 

[BeholdtheMightySpoon]

I had hoped to see this just smash the 6990 and do it all cool and quite. Now I'm not sure if i should get the gtx 590 or go with my orginal better preforming although much more expensive EVGA gtx 580 FTW HC in sli, they look sexier then hell and single slot is always great. Or i could buy 2 gtx 590's for the epeen and to see the envy on the faces of my progamming class.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Tom,

Now that you've tested both GTX 590 and AMD HD6990, which one would you recommend in a WATERCOOLED setup?

Wait for the video dude, its covered in that but tbh its pretty much covered in this review aswell.

 

[murphy7801]

Wait for the video dude, its covered in that but tbh its pretty much covered in this review aswell.

I know you stated best bang for pound was SLI GTX 570 could possiblely please do a review of that ?

 

[adamjamesroe]

Im realy annoyed that the HD 6990 is better, had realy high hops for the GTX 590. Hopefully there will be a non reference one with more power connectors so the clocks can be ramped up a little more, push it closer to GTX 580 SLI.

 

[adamjamesroe]

I know you stated best bang for pound was SLI GTX 570 could possiblely please do a review of that ?

That would be nice, before i invest im my second GTX 570

 

[sleeper52]

Wait for the video dude, its covered in that but tbh its pretty much covered in this review aswell.

So it's the 6990 then. Thanks Tom.

Im realy annoyed that the HD 6990 is better, had realy high hops for the GTX 590. Hopefully there will be a non reference one with more power connectors so the clocks can be ramped up a little more, push it closer to GTX 580 SLI.

Me either. I actually sold my 5970 hoping to jump on the GTX 590. It looks like I'm gonna have to stick with AMD still.

 

[CueBall]

It's a bit odd imo, if you are going to be spending £600 on a GPU you would think the average user of that GPU would have a res of at least 1900x1200

Well depending point of view offcourse. Not saying its a briljant card.

Just saying I can see what they aimed at. Scoring wise at higher resolutions I think its a bit disappointing.

I would have thought with the gpu used from the 580 it would perform a bit better.

And spending 600 quid on a GPU is a bit silly anyway for me at least.

All cards nowadays perform well at higher resolutions anyways.

For me getting a card like the 590 or 6990 isnt about getting the highest performance but the WOOT factor. Or the more show off factor. These cards are more for benchers in mine point of view anyway.

People like tom for instances who loves searching for the limmit and fiddle around with.

Doesnt mean though I like what nvidia has done with it and also what their aiming for.

So yeah I say way to go green team. Red team isnt doing bad aswell, but should have payed more attention to sound and heat.

 

[adamjamesroe]

So it's the 6990 then. Thanks Tom.

Me either. I actually sold my 5970 hoping to jump on the GTX 590. It looks like I'm gonna have to stick with AMD still.

Well i hope on getting a second GTX 570 which hopefully will in SLI be faster than the GTX 590 and cheaper, but nothing beats a card like this. if you could turn back time and someone offerd me GTX 570 SLI or GTX 590, eventhough the 570 sli would be better i think i would pick the GTX 590, noting can beat it in my mind. like the GTX 295, simply a work of art. noting better than one card with the perfromance of nearly two.

 

[tinytomlogan]

TBH with this sort of money to spend I have to say the sensible money is 2x GTX570's.

Dual waterblocks and some serious overclocking would be nerd p0rn

 

[adamjamesroe]

TBH with this sort of money to spend I have to say the sensible money is 2x GTX570's.

Dual waterblocks and some serious overclocking would be nerd p0rn

Indeed it would.

 

[sleeper52]

TBH with this sort of money to spend I have to say the sensible money is 2x GTX570's.

Dual waterblocks and some serious overclocking would be nerd p0rn

The problem with this is that the cost of 2 waterblocks would bring the total to around $1000 for two GTX 570s in SLI whereas as single GTX 590 or HD6990 with waterblock would cost $800 for practically the same performance.

 

[adamjamesroe]

The problem with this is that the cost of 2 waterblocks would bring the total to around $1000 for two GTX 570s in SLI whereas as single GTX 590 or HD6990 with waterblock would cost $800 for practically the same performance.

Yeah but SLI looks cool.

 

[sleeper52]

Yeah but SLI looks cool.

haha point taken. But you could argue you can add another 6990 for CrossfireX later too lolz.

 

[Mustang]

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[adamjamesroe]

haha point taken. But you could argue you can add another 6990 for CrossfireX later too lolz.

Yes but then instead oh having a hover running all the time, you will have two hovers running all the time.

but yes HD 6990 CF would look quite epic.

 

[adamjamesroe]

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