New system build - COD surprise

[mcler002]

I am looking forward to the new nvidia cards! Don't think its going to be the 600 series, skipping to 700 (remember no 300 series)! The current 500 gpus 'suck' in the sense that they are stupdily big and power hungary. We need small cards, less power hungary but packing lots of ram and drive!!!

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[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by mcler002

I am looking forward to the new nvidia cards! Don't think its going to be the 600 series, skipping to 700 (remember no 300 series)! The current 500 gpus 'suck' in the sense that they are stupdily big and power hungary. We need small cards, less power hungary but packing lots of ram and drive!!!

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Yeah I have decided to jump to nivdia for my next card, ATI are rubbish at the moment.

[AdamB]

dont be too exited for the new ivy bridge.

its based on the sandybridge architechture but with power enhancements and what i think intel is calling the HD5000 - i.e. the upgrade from current intergrated graphics. if im correct in what ive read ivy bridge will make hardly any difference for gaming, it will just require less power to do the same job but it has slight improvements on the sandybridge as well as being made to the 22nm scale, i belive.all i need for the future is a super fast gfx card and then my computer should be able to run most things maxed out

[janpitor]

Originally Posted by AdamB

dont be too exited for the new ivy bridge.

its based on the sandybridge architechture but with power enhancements and what i think intel is calling the HD5000 - i.e. the upgrade from current intergrated graphics. if im correct in what ive read ivy bridge will make hardly any difference for gaming, it will just require less power to do the same job but it has slight improvements on the sandybridge as well as being made to the 22nm scale, i belive.all i need for the future is a super fast gfx card and then my computer should be able to run most things maxed out

No, we need super fast CPU. If I turn down everythig possible even then I can´t get 60FPS steady over land. And that is i5-2500K 4,7GHz with GTX480. Maybe the Ivy bridge will be even better overclockable than sandy bridge. Who knows

[TheEditor]

Check this out!

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5314/x...emicustom-7970

[ramstein]

even if you build your own gaming computer to save money you have to spend at least $2,000 USD to play on higher settings along with at least $40 or more per month for a decent Internet connection...

pretty expensive to get 50 fps...

myself, my old crappy computer plays on medium settings,, it's just at the point where is is enjoyable, but wonder what I am missing in CLOD..

[priller26]

Is 1600x900 considered HD...or does that only begin with 1920x1280?

[GF_Mastiff]

new x 680 will be out in February, myself waiting for gtx 700s

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by AdamB

dont be too exited for the new ivy bridge.

its based on the sandybridge architechture but with power enhancements and what i think intel is calling the HD5000 - i.e. the upgrade from current intergrated graphics. if im correct in what ive read ivy bridge will make hardly any difference for gaming, it will just require less power to do the same job but it has slight improvements on the sandybridge as well as being made to the 22nm scale, i belive.all i need for the future is a super fast gfx card and then my computer should be able to run most things maxed out

Word is the Ivy Bridge integrated graphics is broken ...

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/01/09/i...-stage-at-ces/
http://www.anandtech.com/Show/Index/...cs-at-ces-2012
http://www.itworld.com/hardware/2400...nstead-3d-game


... not that anyone gaming even cares about integrated graphics but it may delay the full chipset release.

Aside from the dodgy. allegedly DX11. GPU the rest of the Ivy Bridge platform looks OK with a smaller die and less heat plus an improved triple channel memory controller, L3 cache and a more optimized instruction set claimed to result in a better Per Core Performance.

Downside ... CPU's seem to be shipping at more than double the price of equivalent Sandy Bridge units and the motherboards and triple channel ram kits are also more expensive. For basically almost double the price you will not be getting double the gaming performance, in fact real world gaming improvements sound like being 10 or 20% at absolute best.

Conclusion ? Only worth it if you buy gaming PCs with your spare change. Otherwise Ivy Bridge looks like it will perform a touch better than Sandy bridge in gaming but at almost double the cost.