Best Latest and Greatest Graphics card?

[ImSpartacus]

yeah, those strikers come loaded. i have heard excelent things about them, its just the price that kills the deal, and the fact that a lot of the things in the i680 chipset arent reallyl necassary, lik ethe full16x sli is a waste, u can run a stock 8800gtx on a 4x pci e slot, it wont run well, but it will run.

and the epp memory thing is just automatic overclocking on your memory, no big deal. the p5n32-e plus is prolly the best motherboard out there that doesnt have a lot of fluff on it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131153

check it out, its certainly not a stricker, but its a beast for sub $200. a precursor to the i680 lt, before nvidia limited what could be put into the i650 and still be called i650 .)

BTW- do u think i could run a Q6600 overclocked to 3.0 GHz (333x9) with one of those zalman 9500's? i really like how it is designed, but i hear that it isnt quite big enough to do the job for a quad core. it looks big enough though, lol

[soccerbummer1104]

lol
its big enough.. btu i dont know about overclocking. it does well, btu doesnt ever get downto room temp.. so if you live somewhere where its cool, or you have ac blasting (my mom doesnt believe in doing that...) it will work wonders, if not, i suggest liquid cooling for overclocking. i have an e6600 overclocked to 2.66 ghz, and it runs at about 44C's atm but its about 85F in my house (~30C), but i need to clean out the copper fins in it. there super dusty atm. (no filters on case)
but supposidly this 1, even though pricy, actually outperforms some water coolign systems
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835702005
review
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/03/...ec_cpu_cooler/

[ImSpartacus]

oh, thats hte monsoon, yeah its great, but the ultra 120 extreme is just as good. not sure about pricing. i think ill just grab a zalman 9700, it seems quiet enough and big enough for what i need.

[InnerGoat]

oh, thats hte monsoon, yeah its great, but the ultra 120 extreme is just as good. not sure about pricing. i think ill just grab a zalman 9700, it seems quiet enough and big enough for what i need.

U120 extreme is better.

Also, the air cooled TECs will do some pretty terrible things if you get out of its thermal range. Very terrible.

[ImSpartacus]

whats a tec? and yeah, i was looking at some benches, and the extreme is pretty much tops.

[Amit]

If you are using two cores you can not add the frequency of them. Just like ImSpartacus said, two cars next to each other going 65mph is not 130mph.

I didn't know that before hand, sorry for the mistake.

nvm, i was just saying u dont have to talk about a google journey where u got dooped w/ false stuff. its no big deal.

Oh, thanks for clearing that up.

lol. I'm pretty sure you may have read about a possible 8800GX2 coming out, since that would be two cards screwed together.

I dunno, probably, if it was, somebody in the thread worded it wrong.

[InnerGoat]

whats a tec? and yeah, i was looking at some benches, and the extreme is pretty much tops.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/03/...ec_cpu_cooler/

The monsoon uses one. Its pretty decent until you up the voltage. Then its more like die in a fire.

[Xetsuei]

Imo I like the evga 680i more than the striker extreme. Mainly because you don't have to rip off shitty heat pipes to water cool it, and you can use up to DDR2 1200 ram with it.

[legionaire45]

I wish that a company made PWM blocks for the 680i. I'll just have to wait for the EVGA 680i Black Pearl edition to come out, which seems to be taking forever =(.

EDIT: On second thought....
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/...itxextreme.jpg

[ImSpartacus]

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/03/...ec_cpu_cooler/

The monsoon uses one. Its pretty decent until you up the voltage. Then its more like die in a fire.

ohh, u just had to say thermal electric cooling and i wouldve known, i read about the monsoon, but didnt think tec was an official category.