Ultimate Computer Build Thread - Page 42

slowzerg

United States62 Posts

July 20 2010 18:16 GMT

#821

On July 20 2010 12:34 semantics wrote:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/starcraft-ii-wings-of-liberty-gpu-graphics-performance/1

I wish I would have read that before I spec'd my friends machine out with a ATI Radeon 5770. I remember thinking "Is the 460 really going to be worth the extra $70? For SC2, probably not...". Oops. Ah well, live and learn. Here's hoping AMD/ATI improves driver performance when the game goes live.

gchan

United States654 Posts

July 20 2010 19:26 GMT

#822

For people looking to buy the GTX 460, there's a great deal on the MSI 1 GB variant right now: http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=800767&t=2137358. This model has been consistently sold out at newegg, and it has stellar performance (review).

I just got my MSI 1GB GTX 460 and I got lucky. Just tested overclocking last night and I hit 900 Mhz core with 4000 Mhz effective memory on stock voltage of 1.012. My temps are stable at 66C on load, so I am definitely happy with how it came out. Also note that the design of this card basically dumps out all the heat into the case (there is no back exhaust fan), but it does a really good job getting heat away from the GPU. With my setup, I basically have nothing in my case so I have great air circulation and this particular combination worked well.

1312020

United States28 Posts

July 20 2010 21:16 GMT

#823

Alternatively if you're willing to go through Bing Cashback and a bunch of rebates and other such buffoonery, you can get an EVGA GTX 470 for 227 before tax/shipping. If you don't count the price of the coupon books it's 215. But as I said, there's a lot of hoops to jump through. GTX 470

EDIT: Also do you guys think a 1000 Watt PSU would be enough for SLI 470s? Because I can get a 1000 Watt PSU for a little over 100 whereas a cheap 1200 Watt PSU is 170, and is probably pretty shoddy.

DaBears57

United States300 Posts

July 20 2010 22:23 GMT

#824

Does anyone have any criticisms of this laptop? I am going to purchase this for sc2 and college and was wondering if anyone had anything to say about it.

15.6” FHD 16: 9 LED Backlit Wide screen (1920x1080) Super Clear Glare Type Screen
Intel® Core™ i5-540M, 2.53-3.06GHz, (3MB L3 cache)
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD5650 1024MB PCI-Express GDDR3
4,096MB (2 SODIMMS) DDR3 1333MHz Dual Channel Memory
500GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache Buffer (Serial-ATA II 3GB/s)
$1030

One of my minor concerns is that that the fn key and the ctrl are swapped so the fn key is on the far left. I was wondering if its possible to change this in the BIOS or does sc2 allow you to rebind it to something else like capslock?

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

July 20 2010 22:27 GMT

#825

On July 21 2010 06:16 1312020 wrote:Also do you guys think a 1000 Watt PSU would be enough for SLI 470s? Because I can get a 1000 Watt PSU for a little over 100 whereas a cheap 1200 Watt PSU is 170, and is probably pretty shoddy.

1000w is enough for SLI, you'd want a bigger psu if you plan on doing tri or quad sli in the future.

waffling1

599 Posts

July 20 2010 22:34 GMT

#826

it's all about the quality / price ratio, not simply maximizing quality.

businesses thrive on milking the profits with a high price / quality ratio of their latest products.