Nobody takes you seriously anymore ALXAndy.
When you had 3GB GTX580/7970 you spent months banging on about the importance of VRAM and basically telling anyone who had 2GB or less that they needed better cards to get the same experience you do... Now, you've suddenly switched to dual 1.5GB cards, VRAM is miraculously no longer an issue and you're basically doing the exact opposite and trolling GTX680/7970 owners because you get slightly higher frame rates.
I've had a GTX480 and the fan was horrendously loud but if you're happy with two of them then good luck to you, there's really no need to constantly try to prove that what you have is the best and belittle everybody elses choice though.
Excuse me?
vram is just as important as it ever was. The fact I don't care any more says it all. For the hundredth time, when the next console comes along that can do aliasing I am done. I am sick and tired of being promised the world by new hardware, then given two good games a year. Especially when the consoles get fifty good games a year.
As for proving what is the best? that wasn't what I had in mind. It's just some benchmarks. Amazing the response you can get from a few benchmarks really.
I'm not sitting here preaching that people should go out and buy 480s. If you have the cash in your pocket? it's a bad decision to make. 1.5gb vram is right on the safety zone now, let alone a year down the line.
The very fact I had to switch to them at all though says it all, that is how bad I think AMD's drivers are. They are appalling.
I would say it was a bad decision because technically speaking it was. However, at least they work, which is more than I can say about the 7970.
So maybe one bad decision led to another? yes, I would say that is the case.
This thread was really rather simple. Just some benchmarks comparing two different solutions honestly and truthfully. There was no "Oh but you must now buy 480s because I said so and they are faster".
I've had it all put to me. People telling me I am recommending 480s when clearly I am not. The moment the 7850 dropped in price my recommendation for the 480 (which was great value at the time) came to an end.
Then we have had the heat. Oddly though when both ran in Furmark the 5870 is hardly any cooler. Funny that !
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-480,2585-15.html
And then we had the power consumption argument. Yawn. If I cared about power consumption I would game on a Nintendo DS or something. Hilarious how many people have converted to being hippies ! I would bet if you went back through their ownership history of GPUs they have had some power plants or two shoved in their rig !
But that's just it, isn't it? Anything you can cling to when you are desperately trying to argue with some one.
As for not taking me seriously? then kindly you know? don't read my threads and furthermore don't bother to post in them. It's fragrantly obvious my benchmarks were taken seriously just going on the responses we have had.
Spam pics, **** talking, you name it.
As for the purpose of this thread? that's simple. I find it very constructive given that your average pilchard spends his day on here arguing the toss over what is faster out of the 680 and 7970. At least I dare to be different.
