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#1 harjyotbanwait

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Which would present less of a bottleneck and let a graphics card use its true potential. I am thinking of 4890 CF or gtx 285 sli in terms of graphics cards. BTW I know amd is better when it comes to price/performance, but which is really better.

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#2 Deadly_Fatalis

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If your going for absolute performance, i7 is the clear winner.

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if your talkgin about pure gaming then its about a tie as some games are better with one over the other, but intel from what i have seen has a slight edge(althought most are negligable with a few frames here and there) now if your talkign about everything else inclueded, then i7 beets amd in basically everything

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#4 freesafety13

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Which would present less of a bottleneck and let a graphics card use its true potential. I am thinking of 4890 CF or gtx 285 sli in terms of graphics cards. BTW I know amd is better when it comes to price/performance, but which is really better.
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This will depend on your os first. Speaking from experience, Nvidia's drivers for Vista are worthless. I have a 280ocx and my system constantly just freezes, no bsod's or minidumps. Freezes. If I remove the Nvidia drivers and replace it with my old 3870, everything is as right as rain. So with that said, if your going xp, get an i7 and SLI. If your going Vista, go crossfire. Your processor wont matter as much in gaming.

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Member since 2005 • 473 Posts

[QUOTE="harjyotbanwait"]
Which would present less of a bottleneck and let a graphics card use its true potential. I am thinking of 4890 CF or gtx 285 sli in terms of graphics cards. BTW I know amd is better when it comes to price/performance, but which is really better.
freesafety13

This will depend on your os first. Speaking from experience, Nvidia's drivers for Vista are worthless. I have a 280ocx and my system constantly just freezes, no bsod's or minidumps. Freezes. If I remove the Nvidia drivers and replace it with my old 3870, everything is as right as rain. So with that said, if your going xp, get an i7 and SLI. If your going Vista, go crossfire. Your processor wont matter as much in gaming.

you video card might freeze becouse its unstable with that overclock, you can turn down the oc for it to be stable or increase the voltage (through rivatuner or something) to make it more stable.

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#6 freesafety13

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[QUOTE="freesafety13"][QUOTE="harjyotbanwait"]
Which would present less of a bottleneck and let a graphics card use its true potential. I am thinking of 4890 CF or gtx 285 sli in terms of graphics cards. BTW I know amd is better when it comes to price/performance, but which is really better.
costyssj4

This will depend on your os first. Speaking from experience, Nvidia's drivers for Vista are worthless. I have a 280ocx and my system constantly just freezes, no bsod's or minidumps. Freezes. If I remove the Nvidia drivers and replace it with my old 3870, everything is as right as rain. So with that said, if your going xp, get an i7 and SLI. If your going Vista, go crossfire. Your processor wont matter as much in gaming.

you video card might freeze becouse its unstable with that overclock, you can turn down the oc for it to be stable or increase the voltage (through rivatuner or something) to make it more stable.

That was my original suspicion. So I turned the oc down to match the preclocks of the non-oc version. Same problem. It was a Nvidia driver error. I tried editing the registry, then I read somewhere that Vista sp2 was supposed to have some fixes in regards to Nvidia drivers. But it froze during the update to sp2. After that HIPS was crashing randomly, repairing the registry didnt work. So, I had to reformat, download all the updates, including sp2, and now it hasnt froze once.

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#7 General_GeForce

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:shock: you shouldnt even need to consider when there is an i7 involved they are the best processors. not value wise though:lol:

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