Getting a new computer. Need advice.

[Fast Fingered Fiend]

Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.

Funny how you can get all the **** in here by like half the price and a computer wayyy better than this at a couple less hundred dollars lol

[Red_Comet]

Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.

this thread is over a year old, of course he'd get everything for a couple hundred less now. please try not to bump dead threads again it's a bit annoying.

[devonin]

Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.

this thread is over a year old, of course he'd get everything for a couple hundred less now. please try not to bump dead threads again it's a bit annoying.

While this thread is definitely defunct since Rubix got the system he was asking about, since the site was DOWN for a year, bumping threads from late 2009 isn't bumping, or necromancy, it's just continuing to use the forum.

Bumping threads whose purpose has passed, or that are old by the standards of pre-downtime dates will still get the thread locked, and possibly some other things, but there's nothing inherantly wrong with picking up a thread where it left off at the downtime.

[MrRubix]

Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.

My computer, even today, still beasts everything on the market. I had since added a second GTX 295 to kick Quad SLI into effect. Obviously you can get this stuff cheaper today.

It'll beast things for a long while to come -- since this thread, the GTX 400 series and new ATI series have been released (DX11 cards), but I won't bother getting anything new until a few years down the line.

[DAD1]

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[Zageron]

Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.

So basically your computer will destay any game that doesn't use DX11.

Which is every game... except like 3?

[MrRubix]

Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.

It'll even destroy DX11 games. The GTX 295 still does just fine with DX11 -- it just doesn't support the super-spiffy DX11-card-specific features like the hardware tessellation.

But yeah DX11 games aren't really out there yet anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_11_support

Out of everything in this list I only care about Crysis 2 and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It's funny to look at things from the start of this thread when I didn't know anything about hardware (now I feel that I know quite a bit more).

[Red_Comet]

Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.

i heard dirt 2 is a trip with DX11, might get a 5970 along with it in a few weeks when I plan to get home time for Thanksgiving.

[MrRubix]

Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.

I hear ATI is actually beating out NVidia this time around

The 5970 apparently rapes the face off of the GTX 480.

Unfortunately I can't just take out my 295 and replace it -- I think, even with my fulltower case, it'd be too cramped to get a longer card (I'd need like another inch or two to make it even fit in my fulltower case). Not only that, but since the shippers botched up the computer when I came to NY, the PCI slot lever was snapped off. It'd be hard to even *remove* the card.

[Red_Comet]

Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.

some versions do, like the sapphire toxic version, but overall they're about even steven when comparing and contrasting.

[MrRubix]

Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.

Yes I refer to the Sapphire, sorry.

The 480 is currently the world's fastest single-GPU, but the 5970 is a dual-gpu single-slot card (like the GTX 295) and ultimately edges out. I want to see how the upper-end dual-GPU NVidia card holds. Right now everyone seems to be using Heaven Benchmark to help judge the differences.

[Fast Fingered Fiend]

Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.

I've actually been trying to look for a good place to find brand new gtx 295's. But all I get is unavailable links or just ebay stuff (I'd rather not purchase from there), Although I also heard that the 9800gx2 is pretty beast


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Yes I refer to the Sapphire, sorry.

The 480 is currently the world's fastest single-GPU, but the 5970 is a dual-gpu single-slot card (like the GTX 295) and ultimately edges out. I want to see how the upper-end dual-GPU NVidia card holds. Right now everyone seems to be using Heaven Benchmark to help judge the differences.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LptlSw4ypeY

[MrRubix]

Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.

I've actually been trying to look for a good place to find brand new gtx 295's. But all I get is unavailable links or just ebay stuff (I'd rather not purchase from there), Although I also heard that the 9800gx2 is pretty beast


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LptlSw4ypeY

Dude there's no point in comparing a 295 to a 5970 lmfao. I don't even have to watch this video to know that the 5970 is going to beast it by at least 10 FPS on average. 295 still holds its own, and it will for a long while to come. Crysis is a notoriously poorly-coded game and relies on some pretty inefficient algorithms for the way certain visual effects are drawn. Nevertheless, 295 was an overkill card a year ago, and so it's going to take a while until it leaves something to be desired.

[MrGiggles]

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I hear ATI is actually beating out NVidia this time around

The 5970 apparently rapes the face off of the GTX 480.

Unfortunately I can't just take out my 295 and replace it -- I think, even with my fulltower case, it'd be too cramped to get a longer card (I'd need like another inch or two to make it even fit in my fulltower case). Not only that, but since the shippers botched up the computer when I came to NY, the PCI slot lever was snapped off. It'd be hard to even *remove* the card.

Indeed, brand superiority tends to follow cycles, and right now it's ATI's time to shine while Fermi sets computers on fire.

[MrGiggles]

Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.

ohi mass i didn't know you were still alive
scraping by as a web designer must be hard work

No man that's gazeebo.

Unless they're the same person it's hard to track alts sometimes.

I still think he's right though. That's waaaaay too much dough to blow on a build at one time