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Then few people come and post, "Hardocp - only AMD wins..they use such settings...take with a truck load of pepper." Their main motive is to give you the right picture in their own way. They try to use the latest stable driver when they review a card and only pit it against alternative cards in the same price slot while re-running benchmarks again.
I agree with you. For me, HardOCP provides the whole picture whereas rest just use some presets. Some sites are even posting benckmark figures on Cat 11.4 or earlier Forceware drivers this month. This is laughable. And HardOCP's approach of testing just 2-3 cards at a time is also practical IMO. Hardware Heaven is another site which is somewhat similar in approach to HardOCP. Although they don't give finer details of highest playable settings.
Cat 11.4 is fine. My simple point is, first you say "take reviews of XYZ with a pinch of salt as they are biased." Then you post a review in which the reviewer only used the latest driver for benchmarking the card being reviewed. For other competing cards, he simply used the old benchmarks. I don't see Hardocp doing this.
As I submitted my above post, I've come across this: Introduction - GIGABYTE GTX 560 Ti OC Video Card Review | [H]ard|OCP
Posted yesterday. Latest drivers. ForceWare 275.33 and Catalyst 11.6.
PS: I haven't started reading the review yet.
Posted yesterday. Latest drivers. ForceWare 275.33 and Catalyst 11.6.
PS: I haven't started reading the review yet.
Rs. 10 for every post in this thread. Jaskanwar would have been able to get a GTX 570.
vickybat
I am the night...I am...
i dont think so. 275.33 is latest WHQL driver (latest - 275.50 beta)
NVIDIA Driver Downloads - Advanced Search
Yes the test setup that hardocp was using had 275.33 drivers installed and dragon age II had stability problems. It was a driver issue and hardocp guys admitted this.
Btw, jas our forum member mukherjee got his msi gtx 560 hawk. Why don't you ask him? Check the latest purchase section.
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Jaskanwar Singh
Aspiring Novelist
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buddy msi unavailable at smc. so i have thought to get 6950 1gb. it will allow me to buy led fans too
and performing nicely what you all say?
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Jaskanwar Singh
Aspiring Novelist
Haven't decided yet?
decided. but waiting for your all's opinion
how is this -
Blue LED Silent Fan 120mm - Cooler Master - Leading Provider of Computer Case | Cooler | Power Supply
as compared to Xtra flo?
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Jaskanwar Singh
Aspiring Novelist
hows this -
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*mediahome.in/index.php?page=shop.p...ategory_id=17&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=80
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MegaMind
Human Spambot
They a loud, but they are awesome... Wen paired with a controller, they are damn good...
vickybat
I am the night...I am...
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buddy msi unavailable at smc. so i have thought to get 6950 1gb. it will allow me to buy led fans too
what you all say?
Ask mukherjee from where did he buy. Try checking locally as well.
Else settle for the sapphire cause there's no other option. 6950 is a pretty powerful card at stock. You don't have to overclock it.
tkin
Back to school!!
Mukherjee's card is imported by Topnotch Infotronics, aka Zebronics, SMC being child company of Acro keeps the cards that are imported by them only. So no go with SMC.Mukherjee get it from MD Computers, Kolkata. Guess Kolkata is improving as far as hardware are concerned.
i dont think so. 275.33 is latest WHQL driver (latest - 275.50 beta)
NVIDIA Driver Downloads - Advanced Search
why so?
actually if you see that review 560 hawk is beating a stock 6950 by 2-3 fps in games like crysis, BC2. in metro its equal. so 6950 will easily inch past when overclocked.
you can compare with this too. just 50mhz oced 6950 -
MSI R6950 Twin Frozr III Power Edition OC review
the reason i choose 560 hawk was tfIII cooler and physx. but no news of availability with smc.
so i think 6950 1gb will do fine.
as no msi available. i think 6950 1gb and those xtra flo.
So you are getting a HD6950 1GB and it's done decision now
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buddy msi unavailable at smc. so i have thought to get 6950 1gb. it will allow me to buy led fans too
what you all say?
decided. but waiting for your all's opinion
how is this -
Blue LED Silent Fan 120mm - Cooler Master - Leading Provider of Computer Case | Cooler | Power Supply
as compared to Xtra flo?
You got my vote to go with HD6950 ( as there's no GTX560 Ti of youir choice on SMC ) and I'm using those CM 120mm 90CFM Blue LED fans and they are strongly recommended product by me
I remember one of our forum member ( ithehappy if I can reacll correctly ) bought those and after a few days he sell off those - might the loud jet engine like sound made him doing this so you better get some othr alternatives like mentioned on the previous post
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