Vegetano1 Wrote:I had really have no need for over-clocking my corei7 720,. ;) don't/won't see any speed-ups in programs/games i use anyway,..

Very true.

For gaming or running normal windows applications, you will see almost 0 performance increase.  Only if you're like me and near-perma encode videos (or something similar), then you'll see the benefits of overclocking something like that.

SchmilK Wrote:dang,  just traded my 2x ati 512mb 4670s for 1x ati 1024mb 4870 and bumped my 3dmark up to 13945

but games are much better.

2x 4670 is an quite an unusual choice...

(This post was last modified: 28/02/2010 05:53 PM by Assassinator.)

Assassinator Wrote:

Vegetano1 Wrote:I had really have no need for over-clocking my corei7 720,. ;) don't/won't see any speed-ups in programs/games i use anyway,..

Very true.

For gaming or running normal windows applications, you will see almost 0 performance increase.  Only if you're like me and near-perma encode videos (or something similar), then you'll see the benefits of overclocking something like that.

SchmilK Wrote:dang,  just traded my 2x ati 512mb 4670s for 1x ati 1024mb 4870 and bumped my 3dmark up to 13945

but games are much better.

2x 4670 is an quite an unusual choice...

i got 4670 cause of pcie 2.0 and cause they were cheap and ran crossfire.

SchmilK Wrote:

Assassinator Wrote:2x 4670 is an quite an unusual choice...

i got 4670 cause of pcie 2.0 and cause they were cheap and ran crossfire.

No, I mean 2x 4670 as opposed to a single card.  Single GPU generally gives more stable results than crossfire/SLI.

Assassinator Wrote:

SchmilK Wrote:

Assassinator Wrote:2x 4670 is an quite an unusual choice...

i got 4670 cause of pcie 2.0 and cause they were cheap and ran crossfire.

No, I mean 2x 4670 as opposed to a single card.  Single GPU generally gives more stable results than crossfire/SLI.

I have always run sli or crossfire since the voodoo days :O  the 4670 were a terrible trade going from 2x 3850 to 2x 4670.  Now I at least have a decent gpu again.

Now that i am barely ever playing pc games, I will go with one card .

Yeah, you guys really should be using 3DMark and PCMark Vantage these days, instead of the old stuff.

http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/pcm.../download/
http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/3dm.../download/

^ doesn't favor compatibility. Hence why wee have separate tables for them.

Up to the tester as to whether they want to test against others.

PCmarkVantage:


3Dvantage:

Probably let down by my (lack of) graphics again.

(This post was last modified: 11/03/2010 11:07 PM by Assassinator.)