AnandTech's GPU Bench isn't to your liking?
Best price/performance will come from an Intel/ATI combination, though it also depends on your performance target. I think Nvidia has some better mid-range options.
AnandTech's GPU Bench isn't to your liking?
Best price/performance will come from an Intel/ATI combination, though it also depends on your performance target. I think Nvidia has some better mid-range options.
This is especially true since I've watched Empire twice today.Originally Posted by Warsaw
Phase building only works if you buy the best of something in each phase since by the time you wait for the next phase something better has already come out putting an even larger performance gap between best and worst available.
Anandtech is great. I'm used to relying on Tomshardware, and oddly the most recent benches they have are workstation benches, not gaming :/ Sad reality of the current gen is this: a lot of pc games these days are ports from consoles, so they don't take advantage of a lot of the power offered by PC's...
@ Zeph:
Yeah, I got that. I'm putting apps in for a bunch of jobs. If I can get another job or two, it will open the doors for me in getting a significantly better computer. If I were to spend a whole $300 on a single card, I'd want the perf ratio to be the best possible. Like, I don't want to pay $700 for an ati 7990 when I can pay ~600 for two 7950's and get similar performance.
I'm looking at benches- Essentially what's the most powerful game out there, and then let's take a recognized 3d bench, and see how much we're paying for that fps. If the Nvidia titan, for example, comes out to less FPS/Dollar, then I may as well go with the titan. It's not a perfect way to compare, but we've got time to go with the price/perf. ratios.
Or rather, Why go with the Nvidia Titan when the Powercolor 7990 is ~$650-$700 and beats out the titan in nearly every aspect? Then again, though, If I get a Powercolor 7990 those things are heat beasts, so i'd want a more powerful cooling unit.
I don't know what cards to compare against what cards tbh. That's making it kind of HARD. Like, what's the equiv. of an ATI 7950?
Why get the Titan? Because a single-GPU card will have less issues than a dual-GPU card. And then you can get another one later and be just as well off. Also 7990s are loud. Very loud. I have two 7970s, and those are very loud, too.
Also, for comparisons:
HD 7970 to GTX 680/ GTX 770
HD 7950 to GTX 670/ GTX 760
I'm less sure about the GTX 7-series, but I'm positive about the GTX 6-series.
Also, frame-rate should not be your only measuring criteria. Equally important is the frame-time. A high frame time will result in a jittery image, even if the frame rates are high. AnandTech has recently started looking into this, but TechReports has been doing it for a good long while. Head over there and do some reading.
As for benches, you need to look at the games you play and form your own averages. There is no "one game to fuck them all." Metro 2033 would be it, except it favours AMD cards. If you don't play that game, it's not that useful to you. BF3 favours Nvidia. Skyrim favours Nvidia. Source favours Nvidia but is so easy to run that it doesn't mean shit.
This really isn't a question about a new build, but I'm posting this question here because I don't want to start a new thread.
So I have a setup right now where I've got my laptop hooked up to a 1080p TV via HDMI. I am only running the single display on the TV and have the laptop display disabled whenever I have the TV hooked up. I have windows desktop resolution set to 1920x1080. However, when I run games, I have them set at 1600x900 through the ingame menus. I do this hoping that it'll be less of a strain on my laptop's GPU as opposed to running them at 1920x1080. In order for the TV to have no black borders when running at 1600x900, I had to enable GPU scaling in CCC and mess around with the over-scaling slider. Effectively, my GPU is still outputting a signal at 1920x1080 but is scaling a 1600x900 image up to the higher resolution. I imagine it is like taking a low resolution picture image and setting it as your desktop background, and having it stretched to fit your screen. The result is a more pixelated and lower quality image.
So my question is this: would I be better off just running the games in 1920x1080? The GPU still has to use its own resources to upscale the 1600x900 image anyway, so maybe the reduction in load is smaller than I think. Perhaps I am not gaining any reduction in load at all??? If I run them at 1920x1080, the image quality would certainly be better, but I don't want my laptop to melt.
Well, the only way is to test, tbh. If you can, what I suggest is to get your GPU temp at the lower resolution stretched, and then to get the non-stretched temperature. If the stretched temp is, on average, higher- THEN try the higher res to see if it compares to the stretched image.
Most GPU's should have some firmware or software suite that tests such things.
I ordered a UtechSmart 8200 dpi mouse b/c the one from GE I bought was NOT working out. Here's quick review: I open the box, it's super convenient, nice packaging. The mouse is usb and comes with 6 led weights. It has blue led lights, one for power, another to show the setting it's on for dpi. The mouse, without the weights, is EXTREMELY light, like feather-light. Below the scroll wheel it has a +/- button for changing the dpi manually. It has 4 side buttons, 3 on the thumb side, one on the right side.
Its curvature is very form-fitting to the hand, and comfortable. It probably has the nicest usb cord I've seen in a mouse, it's some kind of braided cloth covering the usb cord, and has a good length in my opinion. It may not be long enough if your desk is significantly higher than your computer, but for the most part the length fits my purposes.
So far, i'd give it a 5 out of 7 stars- mouse feels like it's made out of plastic and easily breakable. (I haven't tested it on any games up to this point, but I desperately needed a mouse that was much more effective, especially in normal usage) It retails for about $30.
CRAP. Ordering DDR 3 right now, maybe a new gfx card... Couldn't have come at a worse time. Might wait and deal with the price increase? IDK how long it will actually take though, for the prices to impact the market?
Last edited by Dwood; September 4th, 2013 at 02:14 PM.
the prices are already rising, when the hard drive thing happened prices doubled.
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