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The (new) Official PC building thread!

Discussion in 'Building a new PC' started by creaky, Nov 27, 2006.

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    So the ATI card is doing better?
     
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    shaffaaf,
    Make that pic smaller please! You are messing up the screen resolution for everyone. Either make it narrower, use the direct link or remove it please. At 1680x1050 I should never have to scroll the screen side to side!

    Thanks,
    Russ
     
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    Lol I don't usually view afterdawn full screen, so that picture even messes with my box at 2560x1600!

    What's the performance difference between very high and high? On High, a single card gets 19fps at 1920x1200 with 4xAA.
    What makes you assume the GTX280 review is using AA? Generally I find if a bench is using AA, they tell you such. Given those scores though, I would sincerely hope they are!

    There are mountains of GTX280 reviews out there now, so let's try and clear this up.

    At 1600x1200, no AA, the GTX280 (overclocked) gets 31fps average... according to HardOCP.
    According to Tweaktown, however, at 1920x1200 Very High, also no AA seemingly, the GTX280 gets 20fps.
     
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    Thanks for the link Russ, I've read about a dozen reviews for the GTX280, and impressive though it is, it runs similarly to the 9800GX2 in too many games to currently be worth the extra cost.

    That Zotac version is impressive though, a full 10% performance boost over the stock card has to got to be one of the biggest gains I've seen for a pre-overclocked retail card.
     
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    bar crysis, honeslty, (unless your over 1920) its just not worth the 10fps when going at 100 with the GX2. esp now the GX2 is about £300, compared to eh gTX280 its a bargin.

    come on £250 4850X2. :)
     
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    Lol are they making a 4850X2? They probably ought to based on the success of these initial tests.

    Scan UK:

    Leadtek 9800GX2: £316
    XFX 9800GX2: £325

    HIS HD3870X2: £270

    XFX GTX280: £457

    That's a lot.
     
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    sammoris,
    That's why I would be thinking the GTX260. It appears to be the most bang for the buck and a lot less costly than the GTX280!

    Here's what Tom's Hardware had to say about it!
    http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-gtx-280,1953.html

    Best Regards,
    Russ



     
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    The GTX260 is in my mind a better card than the GTX280, merely because it's vastly cheaper, but still offers good performance and has plenty of memory. However, given that even a pair of HD4850s seems to be beating the GTX280, it too may be foreshadowed by AMD's new crossfire efforts.
     
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    Well most people don't have crossfire enabled boards(the X38 changed that a lot, but all of us don't have X38 boards). For them the 260 might be a better choice. Oh well, lets see how this unravels.
     
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    From a reliability aspect, I see your point. Personally though, I'd think the 4870 (singular) could have some promise.
     
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    most people have P35 boards, which do xfire. and so does the P45 borads.

    but the p35 does PCE1.1 at 16x and 4x, so thats why imma get the 4850x2
     
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    Only SOME P35 boards have two PCI-E slots.
     
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    that is true, but most do apart from the lower ones, (eg the DS3 series)
     
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    Most? I'm not so sure about that myself...
     
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    sure would be nice if I could get email notifications when somebody posts to threads I'm subscribed to. anybody else having this problem besides me n GM? I pm'ed dRD about it as per instructed by LOCO, but no response yet.
     
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    I think dRD may still be on vacation, but there are others to contact such as ketola.
     
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    I'm sure at least one other person also complained. I've still received all the notifications from the site which is a bit weird... In threads like this one you can't afford to be behind for too long or you miss pages!
     
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