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Looking at those charts one can easily understand why Linus Torvalds flipped Nvidia "the bird"! Now I understand this is a little out of context, but I am sure this sentiment still remains.
Honestly, 30fps on a gtx 680 with open drivers versus 250fps??? Are you kidding me! :(
If it were...
The thread/post I was referring to at the AMD forums is here (by Immortal Lobster, second from the top). Basically, because of the QC checks and binning practices at AMD, your mileage will always vary with unlocking the 4th core, and there is always a risk of catastrophic failure. Further down...
I have an 720 be running stable at 3.6 ghz on 3 cores. Got my 5830 on order from newegg yesterday, should be here soon. I believe that at 3.6, the 5830 will play very nicely. I can unlock the fourth core, but OC'ing is unstable and flaky. Besides, the best payoff in game benchmarks has been...
Wow, I hope someone at MS is listening to this....
I just built a AicroATX system for a guy (obviously, no FDD was present to save room).
Needed to F6 for the SATA 150 drivers, ugh!
Good News: My USB FDD from my laptop did the trick for the OS install, whew!
Bad News: The mobo...