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RICHARD J.

RICHARD J.

Joined on 03/11/07

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Most Favorable Review

Beastly

Palit GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Video Card NE5X56T01142-1041F
Palit GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Video Card NE5X56T01142-1041F

Pros: -Great heat management -Easy to overclock -Standard HMDI port -SLI is eating everything I can throw at it. -Size. Some of the shortest cards I've put my hands on since the extra long 8800 series.

Cons: -Design bleeds heat into the case. Not a problem if you have good airflow or you are using a external liquid cooling system. -Price of going SLI I could have gotten the newest single card with 1024 cuda cores. Aw well.

Overall Review: -The rig I put this in needs and upgrade. I have bottle necking at the FSB. Thats to be expected with a 4 year old setup. -The person said it plays wow at 60 fps is a stupid F. Even an 8800gt card can play wow at 60fps. Wow by design is meant to be played on shnitty systems. Try using Rift as a mmo for testing. Putting the game in ultra doesn't even max out all the settings. -I future proofed my computer and bought a 850watt PSU. Does it NEED it? Nope. Will I ever use that much probably not. Still I have plenty to juice for OC. lol

Most Critical Review

I've had two die in two years.

WD Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD10EZEX
WD Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD10EZEX

Pros: Cheap. Lots of space.

Cons: Not very fast. And I've had two of them die months apart from each other. One is one year old, the other is 2 years and 4 months. I've replaced more of these HD's then I wish to bother buying.

GTX 1080 makes my card of less then one year utterly pointless.

EVGA GeForce GTX 980 04G-P4-2983-KR 4GB SC GAMING w/ACX 2.0, 26% Cooler and 36% Quieter Cooling Graphics Card
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 04G-P4-2983-KR 4GB SC GAMING w/ACX 2.0, 26% Cooler and 36% Quieter Cooling Graphics Card

Pros: I'm upgrading from two palet GTX 550 TI's. This one car completely over shadows those two. However there are some side problems. <br><br>1. I don't use SSD's meaning my HD had trouble keeping up with this beast. I find that my card has to throttle itself down to compensate. Why is this a pro? Because it means it's a beast and I future proofed myself. :P<br><br>2. Used Less power then my old 550 ti SLi's. <br><br>3. Single more powerful cards are always better then two lower teir cards. Just are. If you have the money go high. You can always buy another for SLI later when they are cheaper.

Cons: - I can't SLi them because they aren't being made anymore. Good job Nvida. Thanks for the waste of money. -Trucker is HUGE. I'm using an Antec 900 case, modified to be 100% modular. I have to unlock my two from fans and push them forward to make room. Bad thing? No but it's something I didn't plan for. <br>-It makes me want to have two. <br><br>- My only fear is that 4gb of VRam will not be enough in the near future.

Overall Review: So I bought this card to future proof myself when VR becomes more main stream. You see, I have a major eye issue. There coined term is Stereo blindness. (Not official term) What it means is when I look at images or things that come towards me close us and fast. My brain can not put the two images together and so I have trouble telling the two things apart. There are actually neural plasticity exercises that people can use to train the brain. However they don't work very well on me. We discovered that those little slide show toys (the ones with the round white disks with pictures in them) work for me. They shouldn't. My doctors are thinking that VR may in fact cure me of this problem. Forcing my brain to train itself to see one image at close range. So I'm not only investing in my computer, I'm investing in my health. (Never thought I'd say that while buying computer parts.)

I've been running two since they came out.

Palit GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Video Card NE5X56T01102-1140F
Palit GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Video Card NE5X56T01102-1140F

Pros: Small, quiet, fast at the time. STILL kicks utt in SLI mode. Latest generation just now caught up with them 4 years later.

Cons: N/A

12/21/2013

refuses to recognise dvd or Blue ray player.

ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: No idea.

Cons: I can not get this thing to boot from CD. It will just sit there with a blinking line then say reboot and select a proper drive or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key. However BOTH drives work for my other computer. CD nor HHD is bad. I'm voting one egg till I find a answer to why it won't load.

Awesome card. BUT THE GAME SUCKED

EVGA 01G-P3-1460-K1 GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) Duke's Fully Loaded Package Edition 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
EVGA 01G-P3-1460-K1 GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) Duke's Fully Loaded Package Edition 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: The card is awesome. Its the way to go if you are only running one card. However if you have the money and space running two gtx560's in SLI is far more powerful.

Cons: The game was... very bad. Not worth spending money on this combo. I know we all remember the original Duke Nukem 3d. This is not it. Go read some reviews on the game if you want. All labeled it very lack luster.

Overall Review: No idea how much the card is by itself. I didn't look.