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So if we did shove the card into the 8x slot instead of the squeeze of the 16x one, it wouldn't make much difference then? Even though we wouldn't overclock the card?
This?Well he says it isn't as he can't run some games at full settings!
I'm not sure of which model it is, but it's a "Antec" one. I presume it's the latest one they have out. It has three front fans.
Would a side fan help with cooling though?
Thanks PaulyD & Duff-Man
Well worth a try. It will be one more thing for him to play around with and test, which if he's anything like me or the other geeks I know, will only add to the fun
And yes - it always amazes me that motherboard manufacturers insist on putting the two x16 slots right next to each other. Perhaps there is some kind of layout reason for it...
.I wish I had a wife like OP who brought me these kind of surprises
Shouldn't make much difference, no. From what I have seen, in most cases the difference is usually just 1% to 2% between PCI-e 16x and 8x. I considered putting my second GTX480 in the 8x slot on my motherboard, but in the end the temperatures and noise with them together were not so bad and didn't affect my overclock (I can get the same as I could with the cards individually), so I kept the original configuration.
The best way will be to try both and see which gives the best results (reduced noise and temperatures vs very slightly improved performance)
If it really is only 1-2% that really suprises me, from what I've been told in the past I thought it was more like 30%+!Heh - tell me about it! It's a rare breed of woman who:
a) Would consider buying anything at all for her man, outside of birthdays / christmas
b) Knows/cares enough about computer hardware to buy nice new geeky toys!
Do you have a sister by any chance, Laura?
Physx aside, I don't think either ATI or Nvidia can make games run crapper on for their competitor's hardware. Some people might disagree with me, but my personal belief is that the reason why Nvidia cards get more performance than similiar level ATI card in Nvidia games or vice versa is become they invest in providing support for the development of the those particular games while their competitor didn't, and the games are running with increased performance with their hardware, rather than decreasing the performance of the cards of the side that did not work with the developer during the game development process.I've heard about the backstabbings of ATI & Nvidia games. If it's ATI gamers moaning that they can't get NVIDIA PhysX, it seems that both companies shove in dodgy codes into their games to cause problems to players with the other manufacturers card.
And no, Metro 2033 isn't the only game he's playing! He's also looking out for future games like Crysis 2.
He still won't be able too, even with 2 5970's DoF and Tessellation reduce the game to unplayable rates. Fortunately the game looks stunning without them.At the moment he's playing that Metro game (2033?) and he can't crank the highest settings up on that (he's got a [email protected] & 6GB RAM) .Thanks NathWraith!
Hopefully, it appears that the card will be coming tomorrow so I'll have a look when putting it in; in mission impossible mode... , but annoyingly it now appears I won't get the PSU till the end of the week.
Just thought there's something else you might need to know. While the 5000 series cards are great for games in general, however it leave something to be desired in the area of tesselation performance if comparing to the Nvidia's GTX470/480 card (which the design heavily focused on tessellation).
