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Arclight · 06-12-09, 07:52 AM

I'm not really buying it for either gaming or compression/encoding, to be honest. It's more like a "get (close to) the biggest CPU the board can handle" thing; plug in one of those suckers now, and don't worry about upgrading untill I build my next system (hopefully 1.5 or 2 years or more down the road).

Even so, quads have benefits, all of which I will thoroughly enjoy.

I didn't know you could downclock a card that far. On mine I can't set clocks lower than 50% stock, but it probably depends on what software you use (rivatuner, in this case). Makes sense that they'd want to cripple it like that to squeze out a little more volts for the CPU.

7 GHz :rotfl:

Wonder what would happen if the cooling failed?

06-12-09, 07:52 AM	#12
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	I'm not really buying it for either gaming or compression/encoding, to be honest. It's more like a "get (close to) the biggest CPU the board can handle" thing; plug in one of those suckers now, and don't worry about upgrading untill I build my next system (hopefully 1.5 or 2 years or more down the road). Even so, quads have benefits, all of which I will thoroughly enjoy. I didn't know you could downclock a card that far. On mine I can't set clocks lower than 50% stock, but it probably depends on what software you use (rivatuner, in this case). Makes sense that they'd want to cripple it like that to squeze out a little more volts for the CPU. 7 GHz :rotfl: Wonder what would happen if the cooling failed? __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.