Rate my first build 1/10

chimpbagel

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Rate my system, /10 !!

ASUS GTX 670 4GB
Intel Core i5 2500k
NZXT Tempest 410 elite
ASRock Z77 Extreme4
WD Green 1TB
Rosewill Capstone 750M (80+ Gold)
Kingston HyperX 3K 90GB
Kingston HyperX 8GB ram
Corsair H55 silent edition

Thanks :D

i mostly will be playing BF3, CoD4 and Black Ops 2.
 

blibba

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Your name is fitting. GCN is not yet ready for mainstream gaming use.

http://techreport.com/review/23981/radeon-hd-7950-vs-geforce-gtx-660-ti-revisited

Anyway, OP, we'd need pics and some kind of idea of how the PC will be used (what games and res, for example) before being able to rate it.
 
i have used both. they feel about the same. just that the 7970 doesnt have physx for borderlands but i dont play it much anyways. yes, a 7950 will get more frames than a 660ti but it can sometimes have micro-stuttering.
 

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The same goes for all GCN cards currently. The micro-stuttering as actually very frequent, but obviously one just doesn't notice it when the stutter is from 10ms frame times to 20ms frame times - it still feels no worse than a solid 50FPS.
 

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On the contrary! When both cards are getting 100FPS (i.e. average frame time of 10ms), that's when we don't care and we might as well have bought a GTX460.

At all other times, GCN's stuttering becomes an issue.
 

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Anandtech only benchmarks throughput, it's meaningless. Techreport or bust for graphics testing. Your brother probably wasn't pushing it that hard then, even in metro.

I have rustled jimmies on this issue because I moved from 470SLI to a single 7970 having seen the 7970 pwn at higher resolutions in benchmarks (I play at 3840*2400 - my monitor is an IBM T221). Unfortunately I had to actually turn settings down in the games I play on the 7970.
 

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13.2 beta coming this week supposedly fixes the frame time issues on GCN cards, although the issue has been vastly overstated in my opinion. Most people never even noticed the stuttering until the Tech Report story...
 

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In some games, which have been out for a very long time now.

I never understood the issue until the Techreport article, but it or something very like it certainly existed.