Reference or factory oc

[Ingleberry]

Is it worthwhile spending bit more on factory overclocked version of the same card? Do they provide higher oc headroom compared to reference cards?

My other question is how do you make sense of benchmarks, looking at various charts i have no idea whats smooth or playable?

For example looking at a benchmarks 1920x1600 in something like dirt2, far cry2 or bad company would for example geforce 460 be able to play jitter free?

Thanks, Ingleberry

 

[angela]

In my personal experience, Factory OC were not as good in Overclocking, however they would be cooler in clock-per-clock... but each GPU is individual, so there's no guarantee that same gpu will OC as good as other same GPU...

As to games, it depends how GPU hungry they are, bad company would need more powerful GPU to play on max settings...

 

[jmp_78]

My other question is how do you make sense of benchmarks, looking at various charts i have no idea whats smooth or playable?

For example looking at a benchmarks 1920x1600 in something like dirt2, far cry2 or bad company would for example geforce 460 be able to play jitter free?

Thanks, Ingleberry

I always aim to get the magic 60FPS. As far as I understand, the human eye would struggle to notice any difference at any FPS over 60 really.

I think the benchmark resolution that you've been looking at is probably 1920x1080 or 1900x1200, and I am sure that a GTX460 would play these games at decent frame-rates (you just may have to turn down the detail or AA a smidge).

PS... I assume that the rest of your system is up-to-scratch and not going to bottleneck a GTX460

 

[bobert50]

I always aim to get the magic 60FPS. As far as I understand, the human eye would struggle to notice any difference at any FPS over 60 really.

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The most annoying thing ever mentioned on these forums is this "human eye" thing not seeing over 30 / 60 fps!!!

of course you can the difference between 60fps and 120fps on any FPS game is huge, just like between 30 and 60.

god sake ...get fed up of people saying this and i shouldnt post but arggh!

/rant over

 

[Ingleberry]

This is where im lost, fps relating to tv/dvd is different to graphic cards fps, therefore have no idea what these figures mean

 

[Ingleberry]

PS... I assume that the rest of your system is up-to-scratch and not going to bottleneck a GTX460

sorry i don't get the bottleneck comment?

 

[Marine-RX179]

This is where im lost, fps relating to tv/dvd is different to graphic cards fps, therefore have no idea what these figures mean

For average, non-mental gamers, I would say minimum frame rate of 30fps would be minimum acceptable in terms of playable (but for extremely demanding game titles...such as Crysis and Metro2033, 25fps minimum frame rate would be the bare minimum requirement for being considered playable). Of course having faster card would deliver higher frame rate which will feel smoother, but the difference is definitely not as extreme as between 20fps and 30fps, and you have to pay the extra price premium for those extra frame rate.

So generally speaking, aim for at least minimum 30fps for graphic card.

sorry i don't get the bottleneck comment?

Bottleneck is refering to CPU not keeping up with the graphic card, and therefore not using it to its full extent. For a GTX460, ideally you should have at least a dual-core at 3.6-4.0GHz, or a Quad-core at decent speed.

 

[Ingleberry]

Ahh ok so 460 at 1900x1600 would struggle at high detail in new games? I rather spend more on a card that i don't have to turn things down to play.

tbh im looking to buy geforce 570gtx oc or reference on basis i wanted 580gtx with longest bars in all the reviews however availability and price hikes forcing me to go one down instead.

What would be min requirements for 570gtx? i know i need a better psu than 400w Corsair.

Thanks