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Question about the 660ti

*when somebody says something I can't counter I'll pretend I haven't heard anything to try and remain in the argument*

upinsmoke2k7 said:
Yeah, i appreciate the heads up there. In terms of evga or gainward or any other, are vendors pretty irrelevent when choosing cards? Are you just purely looking what offers better value or do some vendors have a better track record so to speak...
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The 660Ti is bad value for money even on the nVidia side. A good option if you are open to different ideas would be to save a little longer if possible and buy a custom cooled 670 or one on the 680 PCB as these are better clockers and quieter.

Alternatively, you could get one GTX 660 now and then save for a second. There isn't that much difference between a 660 and a 660Ti and you'll be getting better value for money overall by doing this way.

If you want the best for your money now then a reference 670 is your best option - shop around for deals as well. :)

EVGA, MSI, Gigabyte are good vendors.
 
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Rusty0611 said:
Look up.
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I don't see anything other than get a HD 7950 and all your usual trolling and personal attacks that usually follow.

Only an idiot would sell 2 x GTX 680s at a loss an swap them for HD 7950s especially from a vendor who had known issues with this particular card.
 
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Unless you need Nvidia 3D (which that monitor doesn't seem to have) or Physx I can't see the reason why you'd rather go for a 660Ti whilst knowing 79xx cards are better value o_O Do you mod Skyrim a lot? Mine hit 2.5GB Vram at 1080p xD
 
SkodaMart said:
I don't see anything other than get a HD 7950 and all your usual trolling and personal attacks that usually follow.

Only an idiot would sell 2 x GTX 680s at a loss an swap them for HD 7950s especially from a vendor who had know issues with this particular card.
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Something wrong with your eyes?

Because I sold the 680s for over £680 combined and the 7950's cost £480 and were massively faster at a triple screen resolution? That's a £200 gain and faster performance. I got decent money for them second hand and more than I would have got for them now. If that makes me an idiot then I suppose I can accept that :D.

Not sure what that has to do with this thread? I think you're getting quite desperate now...

p.s. it's not trolling if you can't respond to the points being made but I understand that you've lost the argument are are trying to save face.
 
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Rusty0611 said:
Because I sold the 680s for over £680 combined and the 7950's cost £480 and were massively faster at a triple screen resolution?
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Understandable when you put it like that.

Only an idiot would sell 2 GTX 680s at a loss and switch to HD 7950's from a vendor with known issues with this particular card just to get extra performance on three screens -

then sell 2 of the screens!!

Essentially a personage in this predicament would find himself far far worse off finacially than a chap using a GTX 660 Ti on a single screen. ;)
 
SkodaMart said:

In the words of Linus, "the GTX 660Ti is pretty much a beast!!"
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That was before the latest drivers. Now its a completly different story in preformance.

Back on topic. I have a mate that has a 660ti his really really happy with it and runs bf3 on ultra and he also plays skyrim on high, its a great card but overpriced.
 
Geo-Gamer said:
That was before the latest drivers. Now its a completly different story in preformance.

Back on topic. I have a mate that has a 660ti his really really happy with it and runs bf3 on ultra and he also plays skyrim on high, its a great card but overpriced.
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This pretty much sums it up.

The GTX660 is very decent at £160...but the GTX660Ti that's marginal faster and priced at £240-£260 is not. The GTX660Ti should really be at £180-£200 max.

Card with a crippled memory bus at less than 256-bit should not even belong at the £200+ price range.
 
SkodaMart said:
Understandable when you put it like that.

Only an idiot would sell 2 GTX 680s at a loss and switch to HD 7950's from a vendor with known issues with this particular card just to get extra performance on three screens -

then sell 2 of the screens!!

Essentially a personage in this predicament would find himself far far worse off finacially than a chap using a GTX 660 Ti on a single screen. ;)
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The money lost on the sell up is a few hours work (way less than £100 overall). I'll take that as a compromise for months of triple screen goodness followed by the warm fuzz of providing some useful information to the community of which you are aware of as you subscribed to my thread and funnily enough didn't say any of this then :rolleyes:.

I'm glad to know that the way I have unpicked your arguments has made you resort to such hyprocritical measures.

I don't have the time to game much in the next 6-12 months hence the selling up now. It's better to sell up now as opposed to waiting for months and watching your goods depreciate in value while they sit unused.

To be fair, if you look at it another way and say I sold the Windforce card for £360 and bought a brand new 7950 for £240 and it performs in BF3 only 8% slower. So after the downsizing exercise was complete I made £120 on changing GPU for essentially similar performance.
 
The 670s are coming down in price fast, tbh if you want it because of Physx its pointless.

borderlands 2 only adds toxic slime on the floor that you can walk over and kick it like jelly.

Thats the only difference i seen from low to high physx settings, anything else you wont notice tbh.

I cant comment on other games but i agree with rusty for cost wise the 7950 is great price atm, he paid £450! wow that must have hurt lol.

But the 660Ti is over priced, i have the 660 and it runs all them games on just about max anyway with 60 fps 1920x1200. So the Ti is a ripp off.

rusty link the bench mark site with all the cards with the latest drivers please.
 
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There was a benchmark just done just last week with the latest drivers that i cant seem to find :( It had the 7950 just on top of the 670 just by a tiny tiny bit in bf3. If i find it il post back!
 
SkodaMart said:
This is why I tried to steer OP in the direction of the GTX 670 for the same money.
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Problem is the GTX670 at the "same money" you refer to are most likely with reference cutdown PCB and piece of poo blower cooler, rather than a proper full size PCB with a custom cooler.

I recently bought a 120Hz monitor, so I'm probably due for an graphic card upgrade soon. As much as I would like to go back to Nvidia (since from my own experience I feel that they can actually deliver smoother gameplay despite lower in fps figures), I don't think I can justify getting a GTX670 over a 7950 (if I was to buy a new card right now), purely because of the GTX670 has a narrower memory-bus, and also more expensive. However, if there was a Asus/Gigabyte GTX670 with a full size PCB and custom cooler for the same price as a 7950, then I might be tempted even if it means going for 256-bit memory bus over 384-bit.
 
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Marine-RX179 said:
Problem is the GTX670 at the "same money" you refer to are most likely with reference cutdown PCB and piece of poo blower cooler, rather than a proper full size PCB with a custom cooler.
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Indeed. Not a very good recommendation at all from him. The small PCB ones get LOUD as well.

The world is a confusing place outside the sphere of 660Ti purchase justification for that one :D.
 
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