by Jupsik » Fri Aug 19, 2011 07:00:01
GPUS
For single card setups nvidia cards are better, namely the 570 and 560ti (the 580s for me are a bit to expencive for the extra performance)
For dual cards setups it seems that amd is ahead for scaling, so for a dual card setup i think the 6950 crossfire is the prefered one at the moment as the scaling is close to 100% and the reference ones unlock to 6970s by a bios flash. the 6950 1gb version is in the same price range as ur 260s are but seeing as ur running on a very high resolution ur gonna need the 2gb of ram the 6950 has to offer. the 570s will bottleneck or so the forums say.
from the drivers perspective their both equal.
that said in 1-3 months supposedly the 7000 series from amd will be released, and their on a 28nm node compared to the 40nm node thats currently out.
CPU
Intel is miles ahead. the i5-2500k and i7-2600k arnt to expencive and can easly be overclocked to 4ghz without touching the voltage and up to 4.5 with small voltage tweaks. Also they absolutely rape, even the currently out i7-990x cant beat the i7-2600k while being about a good 500EUR more expencive.
That said new cpus based on amds bulldozer are comming out i think on 23 of sept., while i dont think it changes anything for gaming, it will change for multitreaded tasks, seeing as they are 8 core cpus based on a completely new architechture, and intel has already stated that they will lower the prices for their i5s and i7s when bulldozer gets released.
Im gonna wait as long as i can an buy a 7950 once its released, unless it has some massive problems.
Boorz! i demand a new sig
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