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The problem is that most enthusiasts already bought 2x 670/680 or a 690. So to get a definitive upgrade, you need to spend not $1000, but $2000. It's not a matter of whether people can afford it or not. It is a matter of whether it is a ripoff/overpriced, someone could price an t-shirt at...

I like the idea of running a fast single card vs SLi. But the performance isn't quite on par with SLi or a 690. I would need to buy two of them to actually make it a definitive upgrade over what I have now, and for two of them it is $2000 not including tax. That coupled with the fact there...

I think the Titan pricing underscores how important it is that AMD/ATi is to the price of computer hardware. There would be no way nVidia would charge $1000 for Titan if AMD had a card ready to compete with it. Sure hope AMD/ATi don't ever go out of business, or decide to abandon the high end...

I probably would have gotten one or two of these before I got married in my single days. But spending $1000 on video cards in SLi is hard enough to explain to the wife, $2000 would probably land me on the couch. Also, with the rate at which video cards become outdated $1000 per video card just...

I don't think that will be enough for real time transcoding.

I built a similar mini-itx home server, I opted for the Intel DQ77KB. I find Intel boards are generally slightly more power efficient than the competition, plus the DQ77KB has a built in power supply so you don't need a Pico PSU. It also has dual gigabit ports, which means it can replace your...

The main drawback of this and other Atom and ARM based boxes is that they are insufficient to decode codecs that aren't supported by hardware. An Atom is insufficient to decode 10bit h264 videos (mainly used by the fansub scene), and high resolution rmvbs. It will also be insufficient to...

Both the PS3 and Xbox 360 already had multiple cpu cores. The new consoles will not make any difference with respect to that. Also, from the most recent reports I've seen, the 720 will not be using bulldozer processors, but it will still be an IBM Power PC architecture, AMD will only be...

I don't see it happening either, as the article states, Intel wanted GeForce graphics for the Sandy/IvyBridge. But at this point Intel already developed the graphics core of Sandy/Ivy. Although I still wouldn't game with it, it has improved significantly each generation. Even with nVidia's...

I have the same motherboard (DQ77KB) in my router/server. I opted for the minibox m350. Very small and good ventilation, other than the CPU fan, no additional fans required. Not the best looking case but it is a router/server so who cares.

He is building a Plex Media Server. For Plex Media Server the GPU is not utilized.

Is your network wired or wireless? If you are running wireless you will probably need to transcode the video to a bitrate low enough for wireless. Transcoding on Plex runs much better on Intel CPUs than AMD, though you probably want an i5 if you want to transcode 1080p. If you are running...

I'm guessing they increased the boost clock or modified the clock table so it stays in the higher boost levels more often.

Wow [H] must have gotten a golden chip/card. Anand wasn't able to exceed 7Ghz on the memory on either of their 3 cards and nor was Toms or most of the other major sites I read. I wonder if it has anything to do with the odd memory configuration on the Galaxy?

I remember that. nVidia actually gave me $125 bucks cash back after the 280 GTX price drop. Sadly that was only half the actual price drop of $250 dollars (650 to 400). The 280 GTX was a horrible launch, my first 2 cards overheated causing shutdowns when they hit 105 degrees and they were...

Already saw the video, that is why I said I had to lookup the video to notice it. Honestly, if the smoke had not been there it would not have made a big difference to me. I liked the games, but like I said I am not the type to stop and mess around with papers on the floor and stuff in games...

It looks cool in the videos, but unless you are the type that likes to anally mess around with objects in the environment, you are unlikely to even notice. I recently bought both Batman games during the Steam sale, and I didn't even notice the effects. I had to watch a youtube video to know...

The other thing I noticed in the Tweaktown review is the large gap between the 7970 and the 7970 Gigahertz Edition. Also in their test methodology they state Catalyst 12.4/12.7. What I think happened is; they were too lazy to re-test the original 7970 (non GE) and 7950 with the newer 12.7...

I also find it funny that a site that always complains how terrible nVidia is to them, always uses nVidia's hand picked benchmark suite of Lost Planet 2, HAWX 2....

On my system it performed significantly better than my two previous air coolers the Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 Pro and Thermalright Ultra 120 extreme. My Lian Li A05B doesn't have the best case ventilation when you compare it to some of the other cases out there, what my Antec Kuhler allowed me...

I have an Antec Kuhler which uses the same mounting system (both Thermaltake and Antec's closed loop coolers are made by Asetek). The same thing happened to me, the metal screw receivers warped the plastic on the back plate and the screws ended up turning endlessly. To get the waterblock off...

From what I read during the 680 launch, the primary thing holding back memory speeds is not the GDDR5 memory chips but memory controllers. 680 GTX was a major breakthrough in creating a memory controller that GDDR5 at higher speeds. So I'm not sure if including faster memory will help if the...

If you look at the Tech Report GTX article when they measure frame latencies by percentile (which is the measure for microstuttering); 680 sli and the gtx 690, the curve is pretty much identical. http://techreport.com/articles.x/22890/7 And if you read this part of the article...

The 690 is no more or less vulnerable to microstuttering than 680 SLi. nVidia supposedly implemented frame metering with the 6xx series which is supposed to help with microstuttering though. Microstuttering is a biproduct of Alternate Frame Rendering, having the chips on a single card will...

I went from SLi 580 3GB cards to SLi 670's. Performance wise it wasn't a big difference, but like the OP I wanted less heat and power consumption. Given the weather we have had as of late, I am happy those 2 580's aren't pumping extra heat into my computer room.

I run sli 670's on z77 with a overclocked 3770k, and 3 HDDs. Using a kill-a-watt power meter I measured the power consumption at the wall to be only 440-450 watts under load. So given my PC Power and Cooling Silencer 910's 88% efficiency at 50% load that would mean that the DC wattage is only...

Supreme FX IV is the realtek alc898 codec with a metallic shield to reduce interference. It also comes with Creative's X-Fi MB2 for software emulation of EAX, CMSS3D, X-Fi Crystalizer etc.

From what I can see the Maximus V Formula has no regular PCI slots.

The ASRock z77 Extreme6 lets you install two graphics cards and keep a PCI slot free for a soundcard. The soundcard does get sandwiched inbetween the two graphics cards but it doesn't block the air intakes on reference design coolers. The reason I chose the extreme6 was because I run SLi and...

I had the same problem. I went with an Antec H2O kuhler 620. Any all in one water cooling unit will solve the ramsink problem. All in one water cooling kits require as little maintenance as large heatsinks and they are just as easy to install. The price of them has dropped to the same level...

Seems like a draw with the 680 for the most part. It does prove what some on this forum have been saying since the 680 was launched, that a overclocked 7970 was as fast or faster than a 680. It seems like the people who bought the 7970 last year made the best decision. I don't think the...

It's been so long that I can't remember the last time nVidia had a decent low end offering that offered better bang for your buck than AMD. nVidia's high end and mid range cards have always been decent but they seem to ignore the low end segment, counting on their name recognition for sales...

Reference coolers are part of the reason I like EVGA. Coolers like the Windforce and DirectCU don't vent the hot air out of the case. This is fine if you use something like a Antec skeleton, a test bench, but in most cases it will cause a significant increase in case temperature. And it is an...

It could be that you are experiencing the infamous gtx 670/680 stutter bug.

Techpowerup did an analysis of this. http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Intel/Ivy_Bridge_PCI-Express_Scaling/6.html PCIe 3.0 which is what you have with your Ivy Bridge and Z77 is 2x as fast as PCIe 2.0. So PCIe 3.0 running at x8 is as fast as PCIe 2.0 running at x16. They don't test SLi...

You will probably see better performance because of the higher power limit, voltage and clocks. But you could achieve the same thing by overclocking.

I switched from just 2 580's in SLi to 2 670s in SLi, the heat differences was huge. I can just imagine how hot your room gets with 3x 580s during long gaming sessions. Afer 480 GTX SLi, I learned that heat and noise can significantly detract from your gaming experience, sitting in a...

I play with vsync on. It gets rid of tearing. With most LCD monitors nowadays being 60hz there is no point is no point in having the card render more frames than 60 a second. I have not noticed any stuttering on my 670 SLi setup though. I even just recently finished Mass Effect 2 on it, on...

I don't know about that I bought 2x EVGA 670 Superclock cards and according to the Anandtech review it is already pretty close to a 680, I don't think I would notice a 1-4 fps difference in most games. Also looking at the power numbers, the 670 uses about 30W less electricity at stock...

I just upgraded from 580 3GB SLi to 670 SLi yesterday. The 580 is still a fine card, in SLi it was handling everything I could throw at it. The main advantages for the 580 over the 670/680 are: -3GB vs 2GB (though there are supposed to be 4GB 6XX cards soon, I haven't seen any in retail...