PC Tech Talk

[StarsMine]

Well the reviews for the nividias 470 and 480 are out.

From what I can tell the 470 is a decent card, and the 480 is a hot, power hungery, overprice,d cool looking, heat pipe stuffin card.

yea dont get the 480.

[ZERO]

Both looked useless. For something that needs to be a game changer this is looking like the fx series all over again. I figured this would happen when I heard of the fab problems back in the winter. Unless I hear of a driver update that gives 50% boost in performance they are in big trouble.

[A Baby Panda]

Both looked useless. For something that needs to be a game changer this is looking like the fx series all over again. I figured this would happen when I heard of the fab problems back in the winter. Unless I hear of a driver update that gives 50% boost in performance they are in big trouble.

Not to mention tremendously behind...

[StarsMine]

Yea, Nivida is going to need to pull something amazing to save their ass
The only thing the 400 cards excel at is doing lots of tessellation (unengine heaven 2.0), by the time we have programs doing massive tessellation, the 6000s will most likely be out, blowing away whatever lead Nividias cards had on the 5000s

apparently they built these cards to run veary well with SLI, and looking at the benchmarks, im impressed. but that is way to much power, nearly 800 fucking watts at full load!

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=23132&page=1

[ZERO]

Really though if your not running over 1000w and you want multi gpu your kidding yourself.

[A Baby Panda]

Really though if your not running over 1000w and you want multi gpu your kidding yourself.

I am running 2 ATI HD5770s in crossfire, quad core phenomII processor, and a wd caviar green with a 750w.

[ZERO]

I was referring to things that actually use power. Also I am assuming that a balanced system is being used. For example if your already spending all the money for two gpus I would assume that you would also water cool them for overclock as to extend the lifetime and thus value of the investment. I also assume that you are going to run two high end cards becuase while you can take advantage of two low cards to be a bit better than one top end card this is not the case for every environment. Also I can say that you are pushing that psu close to its limit and run the rick of needing a new psu in the future. Remember to that as you get close to the limit you also decrease in conversion efficiency and as a result waste more money. I have been using 500+w systems for over 5 years. The benefit is that they can still be used and that is why when I needed a new psu for my tv computer I got a 910w so I would be ready for anything down the road.

[StarsMine]

I am running 2 ATI HD5770s in crossfire, quad core phenomII processor, and a wd caviar green with a 750w.

You dont need 750w in that machine, you could easily run that with 600W
However that does give you room to upgrade