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System Name | Adult Entertainment |
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Processor | i7 2600K 4.4Ghz |
Motherboard | ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe |
Cooling | CM Hyper 212 Evo with two Noctua 12cm fans |
Memory | 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair Vengeance LP 1600 |
Video Card(s) | EVGA Geforce GTX 690 |
Storage | two 3TB hard drives |
Display(s) | 27" Asus |
Case | Bitfenix Prodigy |
Audio Device(s) | Motherboard Soundcard FTW! |
Power Supply | Seasonic X850 |
Software | Windows 10 64bit | Linux Mint | Windows XP 32bit |
Benchmark Scores | Score: OMFGWTFBBQSPEED! |
Deciding on a new build. Deciding whether I should get 470 SLI or 480 SLI. The cost different between the two is around $130 per card. I am trying to decide if the performance difference between 470 and 480 justifies the cost difference.
I've been reading about how Nvidia has made ungodly strides in their drivers where I has seen real world scores (not canned benchmarks, I don't give a damn about canned benchmarks) of 460 (OCed) SLI competing equally and sometimes better than AMD's 5870s CFX. Yes, 460 (OCed of course) SLI on par with 5870 CFX. Yes, I know the Ati 10.7 and even 10.6 CCC drivers and CFX are broken, but lets not get into that, i'm just mentioning them to provide a context.
Anyway, the scores that I have seen on another reputable computer review website, only pitted 460SLI vs 470/480 single cards, in addition to pitting 460SLI vs AMD CFX cards. The scores were interesting to say the least, but I could not extrapolate how 470 and 480 would perform if they were in SLI.
Now before anyone post links of scores for 470/480 SLI, please don't link old scores from like March, and don't link scores from benchmarks older than July. Drivers back then are no good considering how much Nvidia has improved their drivers.
If anyone could help, I'd greatly appreciate it.
I've been reading about how Nvidia has made ungodly strides in their drivers where I has seen real world scores (not canned benchmarks, I don't give a damn about canned benchmarks) of 460 (OCed) SLI competing equally and sometimes better than AMD's 5870s CFX. Yes, 460 (OCed of course) SLI on par with 5870 CFX. Yes, I know the Ati 10.7 and even 10.6 CCC drivers and CFX are broken, but lets not get into that, i'm just mentioning them to provide a context.
Anyway, the scores that I have seen on another reputable computer review website, only pitted 460SLI vs 470/480 single cards, in addition to pitting 460SLI vs AMD CFX cards. The scores were interesting to say the least, but I could not extrapolate how 470 and 480 would perform if they were in SLI.
Now before anyone post links of scores for 470/480 SLI, please don't link old scores from like March, and don't link scores from benchmarks older than July. Drivers back then are no good considering how much Nvidia has improved their drivers.
If anyone could help, I'd greatly appreciate it.