First of all I was looking for a graphics card to replace my old 9800 GT 512MB MSI
Having a pretty good configuration:
- I7 -2600
- 12 GO kingston ram 1333 Mhz
- Motherboard intel DH67CL
- 4 Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB
- Case AeroCool T40
- Power Antec 400W 80+ Bronze
- Philips 24 "
So I had a good card to accompany her all. For my old card, despite being a good graphics card, really starting to be overcome for my use (ultra powerful games)
So I got rather look at ATI or NVIDIA?
==> ATI 7850, 7870 vs GTX 660
For tips and advice enact the net so I got back to NVIDIA and GTX!
I am not at all above special card for that price, all the games in tournes ultras (fully or substantially on certain):
the last Tomb Raider, removing just the tiling function that causes a known bug, cs go, GTA IV, Bioshock infinite, Battlefield 3, Need for speed, Crysis 2, Black Ops 2 ... with an average of 110-130 fps for the less demanding games, up from 60 to 50 fps in the falls for others, see 40 minimum (use resolution: 1920 X 1080)!
So widely playable!
Very quiet and very well cooled compared to my old, thanks to the custom fan Gigabyte
Before (my old): 58 ° on average over the office after some time of use (1 hour) without too much demand "graphic" and 68-73 ° (see over) use of average games, very fan side noisy intensive use and max performance (force otherwise it went up much higher in temperature ...
Now: On the desktop without asking too similar, after 1 hour 32-34 ° (average)
games from 63 to 68 ° (68 to 69 for the greediest).
To conclude:
the +:
- Map silent but very well cooled
- High-performance card for the price
- 4 outputs: HDMI, DVI-I, DVI-D, Display Port
- How perfect! :)
The -:
- Can be great for sure? (I mean, a standard size for this type of card)
- If I see anything? ^^
So you could end up like my pad see ^^ I therefore strongly advice you will not be disappointed!
ps: otherwise perfect delivery and packaging Amazon, with the premium offer of one month, send by express within 1 business day
(Order the day to 10 hours, send to 12:57 the same day and received the next day 8:47)