10-18-2010, 07:07 PM | #281 |
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Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.
fast fingers is yaboy he doesnt know **** about **** lmao
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10-19-2010, 02:15 AM | #282 |
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Re: Getting a new computer. Need advice.
so MrRubix how can you afford to do this stuff with the unbelievably crippling cost of living in new york
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10-19-2010, 08:20 AM | #283 | |
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NY costs blow. Rent is like $1400, and then layer on tons of student loans, phone bills, utilities, Internet, clothing, food, monthly unlimited Metrocard, etc. But I make enough to cover those costs with enough left over to spend on whatever I want, really. I just can't go crazy and go out drinking every night because those kind of bills add up fast. My girlfriend and I spend a fair bit of our disposable incomes trying out famous restaurants in Manhattan because we're both big on gastronomy/design/etc, so that's where most of our money ultimately goes. NY is freaking expensive and it's really hard to live decently unless you're making good money here. Even so, NY apartments aren't big enough to justify getting multiple desktops or anything. I don't really want to upgrade my computer on a consistent basis, either, because I like having everything work together at once at maximum quality (as opposed to having parts fail out here and there through wear and tear). I just prefer buying an uber-computer once every few years or so. It's only a few thousand dollars for something you use quite often, and at maximum performance.
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10-19-2010, 08:41 AM | #284 |
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I would LOVE to see NVidia partner with Intel.
That'd be classic. I'm skeptical of ATI's new products, raving about 4GB memory this, huge upgrade that. Again it's just that, ATI has for the most part had higher "specs" of hardware but had lower specs in performance to NVidia's cards. I personally think NVidia is just biding time for itself. That or the 480 Fermi cards are again, as always, better than ATI's top of the line. Plus I've never had an ATI card that didn't burn itself out within a 6 month period of time. So just based on past failures I will keep myself on NVidias loyalty listing.
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Only ATI card I've had burnt out in 2 years. I've never heard anything of actual value about them other than fanboys who don't exactly know how **** works in a computer spamming specs. Too bad the way NVidea does things, offer better performance IMO. It's the same deal with Intel and AMD. Yes the specs are higher in AMDs, and for certain types of computing the chips are better, but for day to day use/the more important and noticeable parts of video game processing is done better with Intel.
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10-19-2010, 11:22 AM | #286 |
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protip: brand loyalty is kind of stupid and fermi is awful
I mentioned this earlier, but brand superiority tends to run in a cycle, and right now a lot of people are busy laughing at NVidia cards setting houses on fire. ATI is finally getting their **** together. How long will this last? Iunno. You're right though, fido. ATI's drivers are a total joek and cost the cards a fair amount of performance. They tend to be cheaper to compensate. |
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ATI has kept a steady pace, this I admit. They've had very successful cards that made me question my choices when building my new systems.
BUT as for the current, I don't want to hear anyone say "Well... Well in benchmarks the 5970 smoked the 480!" Cause I'm sure some people don't know that the 5970 is JUST like(in build design) as the NVidia GeForce 9800 GX2 in that it has TWO GPU processors and hardware to scale. The GTX 480 is a single GPU unit. Now knowing this, yeah the 5970 landed high benchmarks on a lot of tests but even though it is overstacked with hardware compared to the 480, it still lost on several tests to the 480. Consult tomshardware for the data on it. In ATI's defense again though, their cards have been known(lately anyway) to be quieter, use less energy, and are cooler than NVidia's cards while still performing a solid throughput of performance. As well they are always cheaper than NVidia's cards. So all in all, I think ATI is progressing in a lot of good areas though they seem to "out-perform" in order to "out-brag" Nvidia from time to time, while NVidia has some hardware changes they need to make to offer a more economical solution with better ratings for a cheaper price.
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a more valid comparison will be the 5970 vs the 485 (or whatever the dual gpu card is here)
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As far as I've seen, the only "newest" dual-GPU, single card NVidia has released is the GTX 295. Corrected - I guess there is speculation? about a dual-gpu GTX 495
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10-19-2010, 12:56 PM | #290 |
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like i said i wasn't sure which card was dual GPU (I just assumed the 485 -- but it might be labeled a 490 or 495).
The GTX 295 is what I currently own -- it's a dual-GPU card that's about the same as having two GTX 260's in SLI.
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I realize that brand loyalty is pretty silly but the only worth while cards that ATI has out right now are the 5850 and the 5870, and even then they're no match in price or performance for cards like the 460. Quote:
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Almost forgot about the driver issues -- I generally find that both ATI and NVidia suck at writing new drivers, lol.
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I've honestly never had a problem with an NVidea driver, and I have a 460GTX which is a fairly new card. Also I know this doesn't matter to most people but the fact NVidea releases Linux drivers personally pushes me towards them cause I don't want to loose functionality to a whole OS. |
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