580 isn't worth the trouble brah and I think my chip sucks because I can't seem to go past ~920mhz stable even with the vcore maxed out (1.150v) so it's reeeally not worth it.
I'm seriously waiting for GK110. It's going to be the god of all GPU's, hopefully capable of pushing 120fps at high/ultra and certainly one deserving of a waterblock.
Last edited by Xuvial; 2012-07-18 at 09:08 AM.
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Oh yeah, fun story.
So dustinhome.no was being slow in processing our order, despite us having paid up front already. So we call them and ask. Turns out they only had 1 kit of 16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum left, while we'd ordered two (4x8GB for X79's quad-channel).
After a bit of internal discussion, me and my brother concluded that we'd just drop one kit and let me have 16GB of Dominator Platinum, while he gets my 32GB kit of Corsair Dominator.
Hopefully we have all the stuff before the weekend.
No pictures to be had yet. However, I also ordered Corsair's blue braided cables for this rig.
I think my weekend project this Saturday will be to swap my workstation and server cases around, so I can use this HD5970 that I got for free.
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You are exaggerating a lot here. It was the GTX 670 Ti who got renamed. So it was just a step down.
They also didn't see it as crappy. They realised all they needed was the GTX 670 Ti.
And with the release of the GTX 690 they showed they had no need to "soil" the 600-series with the GK110 who as far as we know may have other issues, making them prefer the GTX 670 Ti.
I mean, rather than want a super hungry, warm but powerful GPU like they've been known for, they could get people to associate them with a power-efficient, cool-running and still pretty powerful GPU.
Pardon me, read somewhere it was the 650.
I thought that seemed a bit extreme.
Still though tetris, I think we would have been interested in seeing just what the GK110 could do, it is after all quite large and the supposed stats were stupid-ridiculous.
New stuff! Who wants another Sabertooth Z77?!
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Processor: i5-3570k 4.5GHz@1.25v
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100 p/p (2xAerocool Shark White pushing, 2xCM Excalibur pulling)
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It passed a full OCCT 1hr test, but evidently taking the screenshot didn't work for the OC thread.. Ugh, gotta run it again.
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Was just gonna wait for next-gen series, probably grab a "780" or w/e whenever it comes out.
in the official statement Nvidia made a while back, they said they are not sure if the Geforce series will ever see the GK110, the GK104 is so far more than enough for gaming,
currently they are planning on the GK110 being used for Teslas and Quadros, with a remote possibility to see a Geforce card sometime late this year depending on what AMD releases, otherwise nothing till Q1/Q2 of 2013
Boo. We'll see then. Maybe a 670/680 within the next couple months.
I'm rather sad we never saw a GTX 660 or 660 ti. Of course they may still be on the way, but I feel nVidia are lagging behind here very badly.