Hi All,
I keep reading and reading reviews and the very informed views on the forums etc and still cannot decide!
I am not in anyway Nvidia fan-boy (bit of background on me
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I used to build my own and families PC's and I am still the first line responder to PC woes, but to give you an idea, the last system I built was around a voodoo 3000. After which i went to the dark side of console gaming
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I digress sorry, I am in my final year of a degree and to help with the coding I decided to build a new system. This was mainly for Matlab and Solidworks so went down the Intel path, no way could i afford decent i7 so went with the i5 3570K, I love this chip, sits at 25C happily and when loaded hits 45-47C and only 45W (handbrake recoding 9Gb rip to 1.5Gb).
So as this was for uni and I was doing my dissertation I took the sensible choice and left out buying a graphics card (procrastination always a problem) but thought on completion i would treat my self.
Again not Nvidia fan-boy but with the usage of Matlab and Solidworks its a no brainer to choose Nvidia, go '
Cuda's'.
With the outing of the GTX 650 Ti Boost I thought they had hit the sweat spot for me personally, but then looking at the £5-15 price difference on the GTX 660 why wouldnt I?
So what would you all recommend, UK based.
EVGA GTX 650 ti boost SC 2GB
http://tinyurl.com/poo4j8o
or
EVGA Nvidia GTX 660 2GB
http://tinyurl.com/nkauurk
vs
Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX660 OC 2gb
http://tinyurl.com/pumle97
Right why EVGA or Gigabyte, I like the UK RMA polices. Also the choice is internal ventilation or rear exhaust. I have small case, with the stock fans and its next to living room tv (Fractal cases are excellent at hiding, and is nearly silent with included fans). Also as heat isn't a problem yet I don't wont to introduce a problem into the case, but will add secondary intake in front or possible in bottom direct onto GPU fan placement.
I know the recommended power is 450W but with my i5 and only one HDD it shouldn't hit more than 330W fully loaded, I've added other components and monitored rails (software monitor only) and its a really stable PSU and again quiet, 28hrs solid coding and typing and CPU never got above 27C. But wouldn't want to add anything more power hungry than 660.
its a stupid question really i know just want to know oppinions on internal external venting and temps, is the 650 Boost power and noise worth the drop in performance over the 660 non ti? Things like that.
Please no buy a 7850 it beats....... I know ATI are good real good but they aren't strongly supported in the software I use
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sorry.
Thank you all in advance for reading this and any help and advice oh and budget is fixed no more in the piggy bank
Dan