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Whoa! Can;t CTRL-V because I have my Steam serial key for the Humble Indie Bundle 2 in it

Entering in this thread too, as I read it you can enter in each thread

Two video cards give you maaaaaaaaaaaad fps, especially the great scaling on GTX 460s

Mass Effect 2 is a very, very close second to BFBC2 in my eyes. ME2 was fantastic, but BFBC2 was also very fun but I got a good 80 hours out of it before I got bored and with ME2 I got a little tired after 2 play throughs, with the second one taking less time than the first.

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So you will buy 2 expensive high powered video cards but not games at anything more than $10. I see. /sarcasm

I visit here for the sweet christmas giveaways!

I currently use Grado SR60s for a decent sounding pair of headphones, because I like having some amount of mobile fidelity. However, it bleeds sound and doesn't block out the noise of a LAN party and this little guy would help out :)

Yes. (Wait until they are out)

Why??? What game can't you max out with your 5970 already? What would adding another (2!!!!) GPUs accomplish?

Half Life 2 (So good!!) and Left4Dead 1 and 2 (they count as one unit imo)

You could also consider just buying 2 5850's and crossfiring them. That will be more available and get you near-identical framerates. They will have better overclocking headroom as well if that matters to you.

He compared the benchmarks for ARMA II because thats the game the OP said he cares about.

^^^ this

Please link benchies!

Yes it will give you high settings. With an e8400 @ 3.6 and a GTX 260 192, all settings high with 4x MSAA it was very smooth

If you're using Windows XP still (im not sure) then DX11 is kinda pointless since you cant use it, but the new cards comming out should have some effect on pricing (at least in the used market) making GTX 2xx and Radeon 48xx cards cheaper

And held by an NDA

They are the only reliable way. Or do you believe nVidias marketing slides more than Kyle or Anand?

Okay, show me links to a 3rd party website like Hardocp or Anandtech that has done a review of the new cards. Oh wait My point is that the rumored performance is just that, rumored. It may be correct or it may not, we need reputable sources to check it out.

No. Its the 196.32 (I believe). I had this problem long prior to the release of those drivers too, and I never used them.

No one actually knows what the performance is yet, everything is just rumor so far.

As a note, my motherboard no longer reads CPU temperatures correctly with Phenom II processors. It's a known bug with this version of the BIOS, unfortunately newer versions of the BIOS have broken compatibility (or so I read) so I didn't risk it. I'm going to reseat my CPU fan and see if that...

Hello everyone, I have a strange issue. My current system is a: M2N-Sli Deluxe (nVidia 570 chipset) AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.2 4 GB G.Skill DDR2-800 Windows 7 Professional 32bit on Vertex 30gb as boot drive 500gb WD caviar blue PNY GTX 260 (192 shader version) I built my brother this computer...

Shattered Horizon is DirectX10 only and is made by Futuremark (who made 3dmark) is really tough to run, look really solid on high settings too. Also Empire Total War

you guys need to be more specific with the 4870. The 4870 512mb version is NOT faster than the 192 260, they are about equal so dont pay more for that one. The 4870 1gb version is faster than the 192 260 and about equal with the 216 version. $120 is a good price, but im always a...

Do you actually have fermi prices?? Please share! or are you just assuming based on rumors?

Thank you, great post. READ THIS PEOPLE!!

Don't use USPS for the love of god. FedEx or UPS should both do well.

Seems to work for Halo lol. Halo 2 is the same as Halo 3 is the same as Halo: ODST which will undoubtedly be the same as Halo: Reacharound

This is a joke. Eyefinity didnt exist until recently, was 3 monitors ever such a big deal for the last 10 years you've used a computer? Then why now? 3 monitor support from 1 card went from a "no one even cares enough to ask about it" feature to "the most important, deciding factor" on...

No it wont. They said its DirectX 10. No word on whether it is 10 or 10.1 though.

dont keep it for physx unless you play Batman: AA for it. If you keep both cards you may want to go a little higher than 650, maybe a 750. If you just go GTX 260 but no 8800 GTS 320 then the 650 should be enough.

He probably cant try it because it costs a fortune.

this

I personally used to run a 2x 8800 GTS 320 SLI and I moved to 1 GTX 260 and it is WAY nicer. It's a hugely noticeable upgrade

Moving to a 4870 1gb or a Gtx 260 would be a pretty good upgrade, if anyone says otherwise they never did it. I moved from an 8800 GTS 320 SLI (yeah mang) to a GTX 260 and the increase in minimum framerates was awesome, it makes it seem way smoother even if the average FPS isn't way higher...

yeah empire total war can use the power

Hypocritical much? Sounds like you're preemptively saying its a failure. Last I checked there were no benchmarks to judge that by.

LOL All the bad stuff like the fact it will use more or less the same power as the GTX 280 and not more like everyone says? :o