ATi vs Nvidia 2010 - Page 13

Princess Garnet · December 22nd, 2011, 20:52

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Originally Posted by Bill_gates

AMD's new darling's actually slaying the competition! Nvidia will be coming out with their own 28nm card soon so this is probably more of a temporary victory...

Well, it's not exactly cheap itself and it's a generation later; it better be faster than a GeForce GTX 580. While nVidia will need to concern themselves with it for the time being, AMD needs to concern themselves more with what the upcoming GeForce GTX 700 series may bring, as that'll be it's longer term competitor (no GeForce 600 series except for OEM parts, and yes, I'm finding nVidia's constant number skipping lame [the idea is that they skip a number for a new real architecture, but I don't like it]).

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Kaizen · December 22nd, 2011, 21:57

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Originally Posted by Bill_gates

AMD's new darling's actually slaying the competition! Nvidia will be coming out with their own 28nm card soon so this is probably more of a temporary victory...

http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/22/a...relatively-ef/

35% better performance per watt, 26% faster in general.
Solid gains from the 7970 and drivers will push it more.

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Phil · December 23rd, 2011, 10:13

Good gains, but the ball is in nVidia's court now.

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Strike105X · December 23rd, 2011, 10:33

Well good thing i didn't rush to get anything till now and those power gains really hit the spot for me :3.

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**SCHUMI_4EVER** · December 23rd, 2011, 13:50

Gotta say if nVidia drops the ball I might have to look at a 7770 or 7850 myself.

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Strike105X · January 14th, 2012, 22:25

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**n_w95482** · January 15th, 2012, 01:20

Every time I see cards like that packed so closely together, I cringe. They run hot enough on their own

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Strike105X · January 15th, 2012, 08:16

There's no reason to do it though (cringe i mean :P), since its only a test run not a permanent setup.

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**n_w95482** · January 15th, 2012, 09:43

But there's people that have permanent setups as such

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Phil · January 16th, 2012, 03:47

I do too. I mean...the cards are just breathing pure heat....I saw 2900XT's like that. Total, utter disaster.

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Lasnap · January 16th, 2012, 04:31

I try to put at least 1 port between my GPU and any other addon cards I might have such as network pci or sound cards. So having them on top of each other like that is just nuts and I wouldnt do it.

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unit666 · January 16th, 2012, 05:08

nividia i prefer but you half to sell your left nut for one of there gfx cards but AMD definetly for price wise

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**n_w95482** · January 16th, 2012, 09:01

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I do too. I mean...the cards are just breathing pure heat....I saw 2900XT's like that. Total, utter disaster.

I had my old Audigy 2 about that close to my Radeon HD4870 when I first built my i7. It idled at 94 C. Once I removed the Audigy, it dropped to about 60.

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Lasnap · January 16th, 2012, 09:04

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I had my old Audigy 2 about that close to my Radeon HD4870 when I first built my i7. It idled at 94 C. Once I removed the Audigy, it dropped to about 60.

Precisely why you keep at least one port between components.

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**n_w95482** · January 16th, 2012, 09:14

I know that now, that was in 2008

. It's the only reason I bought my X-Fi card, so I could use a PCIe slot farther away from the GPU. But that's why I don't like huge multi-GPU setups like that. They typically only work well with long-term stress with watercooling.

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**SCHUMI_4EVER** · January 16th, 2012, 10:05

To be fair these days most gfx cards are so long that any extra cards next to them don't affect the cooling in the slightest but yeah I also try and leave a port free inbetween. (We need new board standards, the idea of 4 ports being invalidated by two GFX card sucks bigtime).

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**n_w95482** · January 16th, 2012, 10:24

Yeah, that's how it is with my current 6970. My RAID controller is right below it, but it's shorter than the video card (and low profile), so it doesn't block the fan at all.

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Xblade · January 17th, 2012, 07:46

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Originally Posted by Phil

I do too. I mean...the cards are just breathing pure heat....I saw 2900XT's like that. Total, utter disaster.

Doubles as a heater during the winter.

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Strike105X · January 17th, 2012, 08:11

So is there no option to run a cool quad setup ? (other then maybe changing the fans to a liquid cooled enviroment) ?

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**SCHUMI_4EVER** · January 17th, 2012, 09:11

perhaps only in an open air very cold environment but inside a case you can forget it

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December 23rd, 2011, 10:13	#243
Phil 339.9 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: USA Posts: 14,777	Good gains, but the ball is in nVidia's court now. __________________ Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others

December 23rd, 2011, 10:33	#244
Strike105X ヒットハード＆高速 Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Aincrad Posts: 13,679	Well good thing i didn't rush to get anything till now and those power gains really hit the spot for me :3. __________________ DeviantArt\|AnimeList\|PC Config

December 23rd, 2011, 13:50	#245
SCHUMI_4EVER Hackin 'n Slashin Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Most-expensive-Internet-on-the-Planet Land : South Africa Posts: 26,321	Gotta say if nVidia drops the ball I might have to look at a 7770 or 7850 myself. __________________ Intel Core2Quad Q9550 (2.83Ghz stock) \| ASUS P5Q \| 2x2GB Transcend JetRam DDR2-800 \| ASUS ENGTX260\HDTP\896M \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit SP1 The Champ has retired but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!! No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0 Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!!

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n_w95482 Gone Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: California Posts: 6,336	Every time I see cards like that packed so closely together, I cringe. They run hot enough on their own . __________________ Later.

January 15th, 2012, 08:16	#248
Strike105X ヒットハード＆高速 Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Aincrad Posts: 13,679	There's no reason to do it though (cringe i mean :P), since its only a test run not a permanent setup. __________________ DeviantArt\|AnimeList\|PC Config

January 15th, 2012, 09:43	#249
n_w95482 Gone Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: California Posts: 6,336	But there's people that have permanent setups as such . __________________ Later.

January 16th, 2012, 03:47	#250
Phil 339.9 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: USA Posts: 14,777	I do too. I mean...the cards are just breathing pure heat....I saw 2900XT's like that. Total, utter disaster. __________________ Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others

January 16th, 2012, 04:31	#251
Lasnap Elven-Dragon Mage Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: USA Posts: 1,870	I try to put at least 1 port between my GPU and any other addon cards I might have such as network pci or sound cards. So having them on top of each other like that is just nuts and I wouldnt do it. __________________ Love Knows No Bounds!

January 16th, 2012, 05:08	#252
unit666 ********* Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: california Posts: 69	nividia i prefer but you half to sell your left nut for one of there gfx cards but AMD definetly for price wise __________________ Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz over clocked at 3.0 GHz Memory: 8192MB RAM Intel(R) HD Graphics Family DirectX Version: DirectX 11

January 16th, 2012, 09:14	#255
n_w95482 Gone Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: California Posts: 6,336	I know that now, that was in 2008 . It's the only reason I bought my X-Fi card, so I could use a PCIe slot farther away from the GPU. But that's why I don't like huge multi-GPU setups like that. They typically only work well with long-term stress with watercooling. __________________ Later.

January 16th, 2012, 10:05	#256
SCHUMI_4EVER Hackin 'n Slashin Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Most-expensive-Internet-on-the-Planet Land : South Africa Posts: 26,321	To be fair these days most gfx cards are so long that any extra cards next to them don't affect the cooling in the slightest but yeah I also try and leave a port free inbetween. (We need new board standards, the idea of 4 ports being invalidated by two GFX card sucks bigtime). __________________ Intel Core2Quad Q9550 (2.83Ghz stock) \| ASUS P5Q \| 2x2GB Transcend JetRam DDR2-800 \| ASUS ENGTX260\HDTP\896M \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit SP1 The Champ has retired but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!! No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0 Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!!

January 16th, 2012, 10:24	#257
n_w95482 Gone Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: California Posts: 6,336	Yeah, that's how it is with my current 6970. My RAID controller is right below it, but it's shorter than the video card (and low profile), so it doesn't block the fan at all. __________________ Later.

January 17th, 2012, 08:11	#259
Strike105X ヒットハード＆高速 Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Aincrad Posts: 13,679	So is there no option to run a cool quad setup ? (other then maybe changing the fans to a liquid cooled enviroment) ? __________________ DeviantArt\|AnimeList\|PC Config

January 17th, 2012, 09:11	#260
SCHUMI_4EVER Hackin 'n Slashin Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Most-expensive-Internet-on-the-Planet Land : South Africa Posts: 26,321	perhaps only in an open air very cold environment but inside a case you can forget it __________________ Intel Core2Quad Q9550 (2.83Ghz stock) \| ASUS P5Q \| 2x2GB Transcend JetRam DDR2-800 \| ASUS ENGTX260\HDTP\896M \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit SP1 The Champ has retired but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!! No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0 Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!!