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IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Latest instalment in the acclaimed IL-2 Sturmovik series from award-winning developer Maddox Games. |
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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...rd,2857-7.html Those results are backed up by other reviews (I spent 3 months looking at them before buying my new PC in December). If you have the money to be thinking 580 you should be comparing it with the 5970 or even wait until the AMD 6990 comes out and gets some reviews. I'm not saying I recommend AMD, in fact I bought Nvidia 570 instead of AMD 6970 for my own reasons, but the 6990 should be pitching at or above the 580 performance. Essentially the difference between the AMD 58xx and 69xx series is the 68's use lower power and deliver far better tesselation performance (although CoD doesn't use tesselation). The 69xx series will push the 58xx series down in price but at the level you are considering the 58xx series is not the way to go IMHO.
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CPU drivers I never said anything about. I was just saying the options were gpu's and I thought he misunderstood that. 2 580s can run 4 monitors and are muc more powerful cards, SLI is also more efficient then crossfire when you scale them (tomshardware). |
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P.S. Note that i never said if the performace gain would be 1 fps or 100. The reason Luthier cant awnser the "how much gain will Sli/crossfire give" is because A: the game aint finished. B: There isnt any Sli/crossfire profile for CoD out yet, since the game aint finished. C: Asking Oleg and team to run any kind of configuration under the sun to save us a buck is kind of crossing the line into lala land.If people want sli/crossfire to give a 100% boost i suggest you all contact NVidia/AMD right now and put the pressure on. I would however be extremely surprised if at least Sli didnt get a boost since Oleg stated they worked with NVidia Anyhow, i think we are digressing from the original question. Last edited by Baron; 02-20-2011 at 03:05 PM. |
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How about utter lack of a multi-GPU system in their office or with beta testers? It's one possibility.
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@TreeUK, how exactly is CoD:IL-2's engine "very similar" to IL-2's? Last edited by kimosabi; 02-20-2011 at 04:51 PM. |
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First: They have more important things to do than making sure u/we buy the right hardware. Its not their job to do so. The sooner u understand this the sooner u can move on to your next pet peew. Second: Similar engine to IL2? I know u just loove to take digs at oleg and team but lets keep it real, your creditability benefits greatly from it if u do. (in fact, i cant recollect a single post from u where u havent, in one subtle way or another taken a dig at the dev team). Last edited by Baron; 02-20-2011 at 06:04 PM. |
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The new engine has been developed in an era when usable CPU power is bottlenecking, and GPU power advances unchecked. |
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As for building a 5+ year system, here's a rough visual representation of why this is a bad idea.
As you can see you are really paying through the nose for those last few FPS that you're not going to get with a $1000 system. But! Buying more often for a more reasonable price yields better results since that $1000 system the next year will trounce that $3000 system, and probably have more features and options. Plus you're getting a new warranty as well. Uploaded with ImageShack.us |
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