@Doctorchimp said:
@stenchlord said:
EVGA FTW Edition is a fantastic card and it'll likely be just as good an OCer as the ASUS. If you can get it also consider the Gigabyte Windforce, it's been a ripper in the benchmarks and the three fans means it stays super cool while being silent even under load.
Well from the benchmarks and super crazy PC forums I've been lurking on people were directly comparing the FTW 670 to the Asus 670 DCII top. And they were pretty even, like they would alternate between games being 1 higher frame average than the other one.
Except people were giving the edge to EVGA because that Asus card has all sorts of problems right now, where it's like a 50/50 shot it looks like whether it will function.
So I should be getting it Saturday from amazon. (Newegg is cool, but fuck taxes right?)
Then from there I hit the home stretch. I think I'll redo this post too with some more direct questions about building. Along with what I spent so far and numbers. Cause budgets right? Those are important?
@Chavtheworld: Well that sounds fantastic, cause I bought it and now I'm scared.
I own the DCUII Top and my friend owns the FTW, I haven't done any serious overclocking on mine. I haven't even raised it above stock vcore but we've found he's getting better clocks than me. Mine runs quieter and cooler though and in games performance is pretty much identical from what we can tell, we'll likely swap cards at some point though to run some benchs and comparisons.
Perhaps this'll give you an idea of performance.
i7 2700K@4.6GHz, ASUS Maximus IV Gene Z, 16GB 1600MHz, 2GB HD6970@950/1450MHz, 128GB Crucial M4 - P6328
i7 2700K@4.6GHz, ASUS Maximus IV Gene Z, 16GB 1600MHz, 2GB GTX-670DCUII TOP@1137/1502 (stock OC), 128GB Crucial M4 - P9652
i7 2700K@4.6GHz, ASUS Maximus IV Gene Z, 16GB 1600MHz, 2GB GTX-670DCUII TOP@1286/1753 , 128GB Crucial M4 - P10285
Stock 670 is 915/1502
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