Why do nVidia do weird slots of RAM, like 1.3GB and 1.5GB?

http://www.techpowerup.com/118387/AMD_C … Sight.htmlFloppY_ wrote:
Ya, DO IT... So I can get my 5870 at a good price soon! :]IrishGrimReaper wrote:
Lets Do This Thing!
Nomatter what happens from the ATi end... Stores will drop their prices, perhaps not as much as if ATi also did...max wrote:
http://www.techpowerup.com/118387/AMD_C … Sight.htmlFloppY_ wrote:
Ya, DO IT... So I can get my 5870 at a good price soon! :]IrishGrimReaper wrote:
Lets Do This Thing!
Googles translated versionmenzo wrote:
i know it is dutchs but you guys can understand the graphs
http://www.hardware.info/nl-NL/articles … _GTX_480/8
20-25% higher minimum fps than HD 5870. Card is good in terms of performance, but noisy and hot.Bell wrote:
It is going to take atleast a respin, over even a die shrink before fermi becomes a contender for me. It doesnt justify the wait nor price over a 5870 when it comes to price and performance. And if I really thought to myself, well, I will pay the extra over a 5870 for it, why not go a bit further and get a 5970? Atleast for gaming.
GTX 470's scores where reasonable though considering price point, atleast it is an alternative to the ATi cards. I dont really see the 480 being useful to anyone less you are after Nvidia specific technologies and I certainly am not.
The hot part I agree with.Its only 2 decibels louder than the 5870.GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
20-25% higher minimum fps than HD 5870. Card is good in terms of performance, but noisy and hot.Bell wrote:
It is going to take atleast a respin, over even a die shrink before fermi becomes a contender for me. It doesnt justify the wait nor price over a 5870 when it comes to price and performance. And if I really thought to myself, well, I will pay the extra over a 5870 for it, why not go a bit further and get a 5970? Atleast for gaming.
GTX 470's scores where reasonable though considering price point, atleast it is an alternative to the ATi cards. I dont really see the 480 being useful to anyone less you are after Nvidia specific technologies and I certainly am not.
Ehrm....The_Sniper_NM wrote:
The hot part I agree with.Its only 2 decibels louder than the 5870.GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
20-25% higher minimum fps than HD 5870. Card is good in terms of performance, but noisy and hot.Bell wrote:
It is going to take atleast a respin, over even a die shrink before fermi becomes a contender for me. It doesnt justify the wait nor price over a 5870 when it comes to price and performance. And if I really thought to myself, well, I will pay the extra over a 5870 for it, why not go a bit further and get a 5970? Atleast for gaming.
GTX 470's scores where reasonable though considering price point, atleast it is an alternative to the ATi cards. I dont really see the 480 being useful to anyone less you are after Nvidia specific technologies and I certainly am not.
Last edited by GC_PaNzerFIN (2010-03-27 08:44:42)
yeah but you could easily overclock the 5870 at the same fan speed and get 10% increase with the same\ less heat youd burn out the nvidia card if you over clock it more than 5% since its already in the mid 90s.The_Sniper_NM wrote:
Sound can be distorted by distance, especially if the cooler designs are different.
No need to get in an argument over this. Numbers don't lie.
Yeah, but those numbers were done on the default fan speed, and we all know those are only designed to use the least amount of power while keeping the card just below thermal thresholds.dill13 wrote:
yeah but you could easily overclock the 5870 at the same fan speed and get 10% increase with the same\ less heat youd burn out the nvidia card if you over clock it more than 5% since its already in the mid 90s.The_Sniper_NM wrote:
Sound can be distorted by distance, especially if the cooler designs are different.
No need to get in an argument over this. Numbers don't lie.
Yeah but it would get even noisier when you turn the fan speed up the stock fan at stock speeds keeps the 5870 in the mid 70s so you could oc it and keep it within in reasonable temps without touching fan speeds.The_Sniper_NM wrote:
Yeah, but those numbers were done on the default fan speed, and we all know those are only designed to use the least amount of power while keeping the card just below thermal thresholds.
Even my ancient 9800GTX gets up to 83C with auto fan speed in-game.
Back in the day when I ran i7 + 2x 295 SLI + 260 that was no problemFinray wrote:
http://i43.tinypic.com/zwg9yp.png
Holy crap..
Now someone finally can max out a Corsair HX1000
Fancy sending me something better than my 4670 then?max wrote:
Back in the day when I ran i7 + 2x 295 SLI + 260 that was no problemFinray wrote:
http://i43.tinypic.com/zwg9yp.png
Holy crap..
Now someone finally can max out a Corsair HX1000