As predicted for this year, the dizzying high prices of DDR3 have finally dropped to within reason- and further DDR3 price drops are expected to continue into the fourth quarter and means many will be looking for quality motherboards suitable for high-speed DDR3. That being the case Benchmark Reviews thought it would be of interest to examine one of the more mature DDR3 based motherboard offerings on the market today; the ASUS P5E64 WS Professional Motherboard based on Intel's 3 series X38 Express Chipset with support for unheard of "Quad" graphics.
These days PC benchmarking is at a whole other level with people going to insane extremes to crank as much juice from their machine as possible. A high score in 3Dmark might give some a digital boner but it may not mean all that much depending on what game they’re playing.
Is it so wrong that people try to push their hardware to its limits?
Extreme benchmarking is the tech-world's equivalent to drag racing.
If the consumer's willing to spend the extra dough, I don't see the problem in them pushing their PCs to the utmost limits.
how is there a limit, when the tech keeps evolving and advancing every year...it might last for a couple of months or a year, but something new and more powerful is always around the corner
Pandamobile, I freaking love you. In a totally platonic way of course. Mostly.
OT: I have a corei5 750 overclocked from 2.6 ghz to 4.0 ghz on air, and an ATI 5850 OC'd from 725/1000 to 900/1200. :D I love to overclock. Hell, I even overclocked my droid phone.
I pretty much overclock everything as well. Hell I even overclocked the atom in my mini 311. 1.6 to 2.1 ghz. That is one case where it definitely helps for every day use since the atom is so anemic at stock levels.
I want to over clock my i7 which is at 2.6 but, don't have a clue how. I looked into it a little and from the sound of things its supposed to be a little more complicated then other processors.
Google it.
There will be instruction for each chipset, cpu, gpu etc.
My advise is when you first try out overclocking the key to not melting you system is baby steps. Overclock a little at a time and check for stability and you should be fine.
A simple tweak of the voltages by .1 of a volt can up a 2.6ghz CPU to a 2.75ghz/2.8ghz CPU.
Once you have played around a bit it becomes easier.
Just read up on it and you can't go wrong (usually), I have fried a mobo or two in the past.
I was just looking around a bit and most of it is way beyond me. From what I've read I'm just going to try and get 3.2. It seems to be a safe number with stock cooling for the i7 920 and it'll put me on par with an high end i7.
Hell, I don't even know how to get to the CPU-Z screen to turn on the boost, that all the articles I've read show. If I could get to that screen the turbo boost feature alone would get me to 2.8.
I hate not knowing anything about computers, but since I bought my gaming rig in Jan I love PC gaming. Haven't came across a game that can make it my rig skip a beat yet, well except for the last level of Crysis on full settings.
I have the i7 920 too - had some problems with Starcraft 2 due to the overclocking (was 3.4) which I then reduced (to 3.2) and worked fine.
Wow... I guess I fall into this category as well. I finally was able to OC my 965BE to 3.9ghz stable.
Even though at 1680x1050 resolution it doesn't make a huge impact on games and the fact that I play everything with V-Sync on, it's almost pointless for me to OC.
But I do it anyway. Soon, 4ghz here I come!
PS3 vs XBOX threads, where benchmarking provides indication of performance for future games; picking apart console games (very very small differences when compared to a PC game)
That is pathetic, N4G another FAIL article approved.
Xbox version of metro is 540p from what i recall, and low res textures. You could make those settings on PC or slightly higher if you dont want to upgrade.
If you play Metro 2033 on a capable PC, you will never want to play it on the Xbox360.
Put simply;
Metro 2033 is the best looking game this generation. It even looks better than Crysis Warhead in many cases. The problem lies is you need a high end PC to run it.
Now if you do, you will be blown away by the visuals.
Well and the 360 can't run it in Dx 10 on medium setting higher than 540p like our computers. The 360 has nothing compared to my computer
2 GTX 460s can handle Metro 2033. You can get into the 50 fps with a little overclock.
If you want to burn your house down lol...
jj they are not that bad, but ATi all the way I say.
The GTX 460s are actually extremely efficient and don't use very much power. Nvidia have re-worked the Fermi architecture to draw less power, produce less heat and generally run cooler than the GF100 variations of the 470, 480 and indeed the 465.
I know I was joking lol... I think they are a good card.
Just this gen I have been on ATi's side with their bang for buck cards.
I used to love my 8800 GTS OC edition (800 odd megabytes)
@ Pandamobile above
HAHAHAHAHA I lol'd at that one.
Cool man, I was thinking of going with ATI and getting a 5870, but I would like to see a price-drop. For almost the same price I can get 2 x 460s which drastically outperform 1 x 5870, in some cases they can even outperform a 5970. :)
What ATI card are you using now?
Yeah, I'm bulding my first PC with i5-760 and GTX460(and another one down the road). From what I have read, and I have done a lot of that, it is the best card price/performance wise. In SLI it beats GTX480 by some 10-20%, and all equally and even some more expensively priced ATI cards. Not to mention nVidia's supperior SLI scaling, Physx, etc.
p.s. dammit, can't wait for my new PC T_T
The launch of Radeon HD57xx Juniper-GPU series cards is going very smoothly. ATI learned some hard lessons when they launched the HD4850 a couple years back. All the partners seem to have their cards ready for distribution this time, and there's no price gouging, due to the stable supply. This is doubly important for the HD57xx, since they're in the middle of the pack, performance-wise, and there are lots of competitors. XFX is one of the premium retail partners in the video card industry, although they're a relative newcomer to the ATI camp, and they've supplied Benchmark Reviews a model HD-575X-ZNF7 Radeon HD5750 to review. We recently looked at an early engineering sample of the HD5770, now we have the opportunity to take a look at a production version of the lower priced companion card, the XFX Radeon HD5750. Benchmark Reviews already knows it's not going to challenge the HD5770, but can it beat out its real competition at the lower price point?
I do't use my PC for game anymore (well except STALKER) I use it for transcoding via my 4870OC GPU. Looking transcoding benchmarks, there is no advantage having a 5870 over a 5750. I may get the latter for the future DX11 direct compute/Open Cl potential. A slight stepdown in gaming performance, but a benefit for transcoding and price :-)
It seems like very few people use the GPU for transcoding. I wonder what the real percentage of GPGPU users is?
For computer enthusiasts, the last Intel milestone was the Core i7 processor launch that paralleled the X58-Express motherboard chipset launch back in November of 2008. Ten months later and well into September of 2009, Intel has returned with the P55-Express chipset for mainstream users who pair it with the new LGA1156 socket. On the outside little more than the processor socket and memory configuration has changed, replacing dual-channel for triple. PCI-Express now offers only one 16x lane instead of two, while the number of SATA and USB ports continues to give more expansion room than the average user might need. The consumer might not know what to expect when choosing between the two products, other than one is mainstream (P55) and the other is for extreme enthusiasts (X58). In this article, Benchmark Reviews directly compares the Intel Core i7-860 equipped Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 motherboard against the GA-EX58-UD4P with Intel Core i7-920. Testing a Core i7-860 against an i7-920 might not seem fair, and it's a little biased to compare P55 against X58, but the final outcome might just surprise you.
