Nvidia are teh "apple" of gfx cards.
Always overpriced and worse than their coutnerparts in terms of £/performance
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Nvidia are teh "apple" of gfx cards.
Always overpriced and worse than their coutnerparts in terms of £/performance
Who knew when I did this typo error a couple weeks back that it would actually turn out to be true :D. Following the absolute BS nVidia has put us through for the last few months, I'm jumping off the bandwagon and joining most of you guys as ATi owners. I've also tweaked a few values and parts and this is the up-to-date version as of today (22nd Febuary). Rumour has it that the i7 930 will be out in the next week or so, so it won't be too long now until this is a realityQuote:
Originally Posted by Oricalcos
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Yeah Oric it looks like you've made a good decision. That 5870 will easily cope with everything unless you are obsessed with anti-aliasing at massive resolutions (like me :p).
In fact, it may well be fine with that. It is the 2nd best card out right now!
Heh, nVidia specialise in pissing us all off.
£141 each for the hard disks or total?Quote:
Originally Posted by Oricalcos
Other than OP PSU and buying windows 7 looks good but way more than neccesary :P
HD price is total for both.
It also means that I upgrade later and less frequently than people who settle for a cheaper build. Extra £500 now extends live by a year or two minimum and saves me money in the long run.(e.g If I had spent less than I did on Mk.1, I would have had to upgrade ages ago, due to ineptness, and it's actually only just stopped physically working this week. Had it not broken, it would still be fine to play most games like GenGen and AoE2)Quote:
but way more than neccesary
AMD phenom slightly overclocked will rape a i7 stock and 900 antec case is sex...12gb ram thant u can't even use and tbh all you need it a pc that will run bf3 on full settings cost u bowt £500 prob less, ur spend a lot more and not reallt gettin that much better of a pc, I'll accept on paper the i7 is better but for the extra 5fps you'll get it really not worth the extra £150+ or so..but its totally up to u!!!
Now adays its just not worth spending that much on a rig because in a couple of years its dicked on and the year after that its useless....really you want to spend as little as possible and build a rig that can easily be upgraded in the future...but if they have ddr3 ram now I am pretty sure in the next 6 months they will have ddr5
And psu I would get 700w+ but it doesn't matter what make so long as you know that the components in your pc use no more than 700w you'll never have a problem no matter what the make and there prob all made in china for 37p and just have a brand label stuck on them....
My response to Chris (LOOOOONG post) is in the spoiler, because most of the time, people turn off whenthey see my mass of text. In terms of when, the i7 930 is all but officially confirmed to be out on the 28th, but whenever that is available, I can click buy on the lot in 5 mins, so I expect to be up and running in mid-March at the latest.
And now - my response to Chris's post.
Spoiler:
Well tbh for the lol amount of money thats being wasted here why don't you just kick yourself in the face and buy an alienware
And I meant on value for a money...for the tiny amount of performance increase you may get from the i7 its just not worth extra lol £s being wasted