Geforce 570 1.2 MB vs Nvidia 6950 2.0 MB

Hello,

I'm purchasing a gaming computer for my son and have a choice between the above video cards/memory (Geforce 570 with 1.2 MB or Nvidia 6950 with 2.0 MB). I understand the 570 benchmarks are slightly higher than the 6950's but I'm not sure how the memory factors into the picture. The Nvidia is $200 more and has a 64 MB SSD hard drive but I'm thinking that the Geforce might be the better purchase. Any advice?

Do you have any links to this gaming computer configuration?

Yes, please post a link to this computer. Depending on the price we will advise you to make one from parts or not.

A GTX 570 is not worth $200 more than 6950.

It looks like part of the $200 extra is for Microsoft Office Starter (which they will charge $99 extra for on the 6950 system if you wanted it).

If you bought your son a 1920x1080 monitor and not doing a multiple monitor setup there is no reason to have the extra vram. The 570 kicks ass and should last for years

I'd be more concerned about the power supply than the graphics. Anyways...you'll get a much better build for a better price if you start here:
http://www.lucomputers.com/site/sy [...] 9&class=52
You can customize all the parts you like so we can help you choose parts if you want. I think they charge like $60 shipping. I'd need a Canadian address to check though.

The i7-960 is not top of the line anymore and those systems you linked are overpriced.

Ditch both of those computers and go with a Sandy Bridge model.

Ko888 posted a great build.

I still think customizing the parts on lucomputers.com is better than the Cyberpower on Newegg.

Also, an i5-2500K is just as good as an i7-2600K in gaming. So you should downgrade to save money if you go to lucocomputers.

http://secure.newegg.ca/Shopping/S [...] rsion.aspx

I made a little setup. I did not get the cheapest components. If you want i can get it to 1200$ but would lose sata 6Gb caviar black in favor of blue model, cl6 at 1600Mhz RAM and cheaper motherboard(a p67, not the z68 i chose) plus a cheaper cooler. Also the case is very good ventilated.

Video card evga dual fan model. The asus posted above is more expensive and with 10Mhz overclock to the video processor.

OS same thing, w7 home 64 bit.

Your first choices war around 1.5k$ . If you want to buy a 1.5k$ PC made from parts you can ad a blu ray writer to the parts i posted and another 4Gb of RAM. Also to assemble a PC is easy. Just read the instructions if you or your son do not know how to do it and do not have a friend that knows. Also you can ask here what and how.

Don't know why, it works for me. http://secure.newegg.ca/Shopping/S [...] junctionCA

It's 1 TB caviar black. And you get higher speeds on sata III than on sata 2. I know you don't get double the speed but it's still a little better. Plus the one you posted in your configuration is also sata III.

Latency matter too, especially if you have it at that speed and with that voltage. It's 1.5v so if you overclock the memory you have the room to increase the voltage and get better timings along with speed.

For 10Mhz i would not spend 50$ more .

Does the link i posted above work? If not here(click on spoiler):

The difference is minimal to none. Might be at transfer speeds but the HDD's can't even max out sata 2 bandwidth so..just newer tech. I haven't checked if the samsung has 64mb of cache. But again, not many applications saturate the 32mb buffer.

As for samsung f3 vs caviar black, i don't even look at that. Always heard that samsung has more RMA's, higher breakdown percentage. Never used samsung before so i recommend only what worked for me.

From what I can tell, most people here have been recommending the Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB for most HDDs for the last 10 months or more and I've never heard about problems with quality. I've had three running great for nearly a year now. It's only got the 32MB buffer (8,000,000,000x bigger than "mb" ), but that doesn't seem to hurt it in any benchmarks I've seen.

Nevertheless, the Samsung's not on lucocomputers and costs too much on Newegg.ca.

@shrkbay--I haven't seen a GTX 570 for much cheaper than that on prebuilts. If you know a better deal, please share.

I didn't recommend 8GB of RAM because it's easy to upgrade yourself and overpriced on prebuilts. Besides, gaming doesn't use more than 4GB.

@dalauder, i cannot share a link, but i've heard that there's a GTX570 available on newegg for 289AR, couldn't check it and can't anyway *can't open newegg anymore, idk why*. About RAM i just said it, because i like number 8 LOL.