£1400 i7 spec

stulid · 15 May 2011 at 15:29

Mr. May said:
the extra vram will help with future games as i think 1280mb is not enough having 2x470's it maxs the memory in a few games already with max settings and high AA, for nearly £500 off gpu i would want it to destroy anything out there and would be a lot more 'as future proof as possible'

and once the 480's are overclocked you should be able to play at high settings easier and i think one imprortant question is what res will he be using ??

with him saying he will be doing editing i would assume he would have a minimum of 1920x1200 isp monitor or even 2560x1440/1600 which the 480's would do a lot better at high res and with the geil coolers they would be quiet

So overclocking GTX480, that will need even bigger psu, spending £80 to try and cool them down and reduce the noise, pointless.

the cheapest GTX480 on OCUk is £199, you can get a Gigabyte GTX480 with custom cooler for £229, so thats cheap than wasting ££££ on those GAY Gelid coolers!!! Yet the heat is still dumped into the case and not exhausted out the back.

[WU-TANG]GZA · 15 May 2011 at 15:30

stulid said:
Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 590 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Gaming Mouse £629.99
(£524.99) £629.99
(£524.99)
OCZ ZX Series 1250W '80 Plus Gold Certified' Modular Power Supply £169.99
(£141.66) £169.99
(£141.66)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £155.99
(£129.99) £155.99
(£129.99)
OCZ Vertex Series 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX120G) £149.99
(£124.99) £149.99
(£124.99)
Coolermaster HAF X Gaming Tower Case - Black (RC-942) £129.98
(£108.32) £129.98
(£108.32)
MSI P67A-GD53 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £109.99
(£91.66) £109.99
(£91.66)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £35.99
(£29.99) £35.99
(£29.99)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
(£13.32)
Sub Total : £1,164.92
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £235.93
Total : £1,415.60

Add another GTX590 later on for quad sli action.

I like it !!

EDIT: Altough isnt a 6990 better and cheaper?

stulid · 15 May 2011 at 15:55

[WU-TANG]GZA;19142524 said:
EDIT: Altough isnt a 6990 better and cheaper?

Its certainly louder

Faster? - http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_590/23.html - nah.

[WU-TANG]GZA · 15 May 2011 at 16:06

stulid said:
Its certainly louder

Faster? - http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_590/23.html - nah.

son of a....

Tomcat825 · 15 May 2011 at 16:12

I'm pretty surprised about the 590 being quieter, and by that much. Aren't GTX's notoriously louder than 4,5,6 series?

stulid · 15 May 2011 at 16:14

Tomcat825 said:
I'm pretty surprised about the 590 being quieter, and by that much. Aren't GTX's notoriously louder than 4,5,6 series?

Nope, ATI use crap Radial fans which suck, or should that be blow?

[WU-TANG]GZA · 15 May 2011 at 17:17

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4239/nvidias-geforce-gtx-590-duking-it-out-for-the-single-card-king/5

It's better at stoopidly low resolutions....seeing as most ppl game above 1024 x 768 I'm still happy saying that the 6990 is better

stulid · 15 May 2011 at 17:23

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/geforce-gtx-590_6.html

stulid · 15 May 2011 at 17:25

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2011/03/24/nvidia-geforce-gtx-590-3gb-review/5

GTX590 easily looks faster here.

as the GTX 590 3GB is the only card that gives you consistent, reliable frame rates in all four of the games with which we test.

[WU-TANG]GZA · 15 May 2011 at 17:30

Fair enough but....

I can see...

Crysis
BC2
Metro2033

Most of which the 6990 just about clinches it from what I can see + the nigh on 20% increase price-wise........

stulid · 15 May 2011 at 17:33

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/crysis-2_5.html#sect1

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-directx-11_5.html#sect1

really? the 6990 drops below 30fps minimum in crysis2 at high resolutions.

Doesnt sound like a hairdryer either

[WU-TANG]GZA · 16 May 2011 at 21:11

Q

"With single-GPU scores in Metro things are rather close, but with these dual-GPU cards scaling becomes a factor. As a result while the GTX 590 falls well behind the 6990 here, facing a sizable 15% gap in performance. The overclocked GTX 590 can just close the gap, but then the 6990 OC opens it back up just as quickly. In the meantime as shading performance is often the most critical factor in this benchmark, this explains why overclocking was so effective."

Quote from anandtech on Metro

And on Crysis Warhead:

"Crysis is often a bellwether for overall performance; if that’s the case here, then NVIDIA and the GTX 590 is not off to a good start at the all-important resolution of 2560x1600"

"The minimum framerate ends up looking better for NVIDIA. The GTX 590 is still behind the 6990, but now it’s only by about 5%, while the EVGA GTX 590 squeezes past by all of .1 frame per second."

Again, for the cost....I'd go 6990

Acutally I'd get xfire 6950/70s

stulid · 16 May 2011 at 21:13

[WU-TANG]GZA;19154149 said:
"With single-GPU scores in Metro things are rather close, but with these dual-GPU cards scaling becomes a factor. As a result while the GTX 590 falls well behind the 6990 here, facing a sizable 15% gap in performance. The overclocked GTX 590 can just close the gap, but then the 6990 OC opens it back up just as quickly. In the meantime as shading performance is often the most critical factor in this benchmark, this explains why overclocking was so effective."

Quote from anandtech on Metro

And on Crysis Warhead:

"Crysis is often a bellwether for overall performance; if that’s the case here, then NVIDIA and the GTX 590 is not off to a good start at the all-important resolution of 2560x1600"

"The minimum framerate ends up looking better for NVIDIA. The GTX 590 is still behind the 6990, but now it’s only by about 5%, while the EVGA GTX 590 squeezes past by all of .1 frame per second."

Again, for the cost....I'd go 6990

Acutally I'd get xfire 6950/70s

Took you a day to find that, want me to go again?

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/geforce-gtx-590-dual-gf110-radeon-hd-6990,review-32149-19.html

Nevertheless, in a comparison between GeForce GTX 590 versus Radeon HD 6990, Nvidia wins.