Far Cry 2 Results
1280 x 1024 at Very High Quality
Blue bars used a Core i7 965 at 4GHz
Red bars used a Core 2 QX9650 at 3GHz
Longer bars are better
Far Cry 2 Results
1920 x 1080 at Very High Quality
8x anti-aliasing
Blue bars used a Core i7 965 at 4GHz
Red bars used a Core 2 QX9650 at 3GHz
Longer bars are better
Power Draw Results
Power draw in Watt (W)
Blue bars used a Core i7 965 at 4GHz
Red bars used a Core 2 QX9650 at 3GHz
COMMENTS
world's most expensive graphics board
Not heard of nVidia Quardro cards then?
I wonder if Atomic has seen this?
As in 'Atomic' magazine - the Australian gaming computer mag - whose logo looks a lot like the one ATi seem to have, er, borrowed.
Warranty
> Doing the same for your graphics card is a different proposition as you have to dismantle the
> original cooler before you attach the VGA water block and hook it into the cooling loop.
Eh, you lose warranty on the motherboard when you install water cooling on your PC too. That's because most water cooling solutions also come with a water cooling block that covers over the chipset. And if you're a gaming afficiando most likely you'd have a performance motherboard that has a chipset fan. And of course, most likely you're going to remove the chipset fan for the water block anyway.
Personally, tho, I went the way of convectional cooling. Sure, it requires my air conditioner to be at full blast and my rig's case to have half a dozen fans installed (and thus sound like a mini jet engine), but it beats the fear of the cooling system springing a leak and causing a shortout.
Problems with math?
Leaving aside the scoring, as it has been covered by another comment:
"we can't imagine anyone spending £590 on a graphics card. If we take a charitable view, you're paying £400 for the graphics card and £100 for the water-cooling hardware."
I can't imagine how £400 + £100 somehow equates anywhere near to £590. Do you somehow get a £90 discount for taking "a charitable view"?
Reviewer = Tool
"Did you hear that whooshing noise? That was the sound of your warranty flying out through the window."
Didnt bother reading more after seeing this because the reviewers obviously a tool. EVGA give you a lifetime warranty on the card EVEN IF you tear off the stock heatsink and add a water block so long as you send the parts back in the same box if it blows up. Do your bloody research
