Posts by Gungnir

I (finally) passed 1 million a couple days ago.

I would like to see more people benchmarking with Blender/Cycles, especially with CUDA GPUs (and OpenCL, if the devs ever get it working); a good benchmark for Cycles is available here.

Quote:Originally Posted by briddell The difference between the 7970 and the 7950 isn't very noticeable, really. That MSI 7950 could overclock to 7970 performance, pretty easily, as well. Indeed. The 7970 is much better at GPGPU,...

Quote:Originally Posted by revro if 8970 is still 28nm only way to be competitive with 780 is if they use bigger chip therefore more consumption and when overclocking even more consumption best revro Or architecture improvements,...

Quote:Originally Posted by Kaltenbrunner The 1st PC game I saw it in was CoD2 which was fun and looks good, and for that style of front line wave assault I thought thought is was great But yeah too many games seemed to switch to it...

Any 7970 or 7970Ghz with a reference PCB should work fine with 7970 waterblocks, and since you won't be using the stock cooler, a completely reference card may be the cheapest.

ARMA series, Xonotic?

Quote:Originally Posted by Snuckie7 Stock benchmarks are pretty useless with all that boost garbage Nvidia implements. It is legitimate, as it's stock vs stock. This was argued ad infintum when the 680 came out, and I was hoping we...

I would probably go for the Fractal, personally; I like their styling, and they're good quality, plus it has front panel USB3 ports. The Vulcan can mount a 200mm side fan, which can be quite nice, but that's pretty much its only advantage.

Quote:Originally Posted by revro if in a month since release of 780 there is no official word from amd, we can assume their refresh is not gonna be competitive with 780... How can we assume that? Unless AMD is going to release a...