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CRAZYCAP

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Guys I read an interesting article today where Nvidia tested a Core 2 Duo against an I7 for gaming and found that it is better to invest in fillrate than processor power. After reading the Nvidia article and checking out FPS on youtube etc I have decided to go for the GTX 570. I currently have an ATI 5850 and I know that I could buy another for crossfire goodness but I like CUDA and Physx and I have heard of people having issues with crossfire setups. The 570 can be had for under $400 which I reakon is pretty good. I know its overkill on 1680x1050 but you know what...I just want one.

The 580 is $600 and maybe you guys can tell we whether the unlocked cores etc in the 580 is worth the $200.

Machine Specs.

Case - Lancool PC-K62

Motherboard - EP45-UD3P

CPU - E8400 (E0 stepping) @ 4Ghz

RAM - 8GB DDR2 800mhz Ballistix tracers

G.skill 120GB SSD (boot)

2x300gb RAID 0 (Installed games drive)

1TB Storage Drive

LG blueray burner

H50 Cooling

Huntkey 900w power supply

22inch Asus 2ms Monitor

Toms hardware Nvidia review - http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-ge...re-i7,7624.html
 
its all up to you really crazy either way your going to be getting excellent performance from the 580 or 570 in my honest opinion i prefer single cards over SLi cards but its all up to you matey. As for the 570 OC your its only 5ish fps behind a stock 580 so i would save ya self 200$ and go for a 570
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CRAZYCAP said:
Guys I read an interesting article today where Nvidia tested a Core 2 Duo against an I7 for gaming and found that it is better to invest in fillrate than processor power. After reading the Nvidia article and checking out FPS on youtube etc I have decided to go for the GTX 570.

Toms hardware Nvidia review - http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-ge...re-i7,7624.html
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I've been saying that for so long it's embarassing.

Games don't know what cores are, I play almost all games atleast once, cos I have to, and the display of the cpu will be representitive of the cores:cpu usage. i.e. a dual 50% of the 2 cores, a quad 25% of the 4 cores, both equalling 100 - but NOT ever 100% of the cpu.

Only artificial benchmarks really tax cpus, and with them meaning to be representitive of gaming performance, they're really not.

The sad thing is, if you're building a new gaming rig as a one off, with a long time til you upgrade anything, you'll be better of with an Intel IP35 and an E8400 plus GTX580, than an Intel X58 and an i7 plus a GTX460.

Dump the cash in the gfxcards, and buy whatever with the rest.
 
Ok Today I upgraded from my Sapphire 5850 to the awesomeness of an MSI GTX 570. I ran some benchies for anyone interested with my E8400 @ 4ghz. I am glad I have turned green.

3D Mark Vantage - P23488

GPU - 20172

CPU - 46345

3D Mark 11 - 4290 3D marks
 
Good to see it worked out for you, and for choosing MSI all I have to say is..."GOOD MAN!" Any chance for frame rates while playing games?
 
I maxed everything in 3 games tonight (1680x1050) and using FRAPS I managed the below.

Averages

Grid - 97 FPS

Metro 2033 - 40 FPS

Black Ops - 70 FPS

I will play more tomorrow (crysis,mafia ii)

Downloading the most recent drivers now so will see if that also improves things (version 266.35)
 
Yep fold whenever you're not gaming on your computer, OC3D WILL BEAT EVGA!!!!! SOMEHOW!!!

But first we have to overtake Hardware Brazil, seriously they are better than us at soccer (football), we can't let them be better than us at Folding as well
 
This makes me think I should get TTL's budget rig and a msi 570, was gonna go for a 560 but this thread changed my mind.

edit: does this come with a hdmi cable?
 
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