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May 25, 2013 | 12:01 PM

#136

gc8Ninja

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Been considering upgrading my dinosaur of a card with this:

Amazon.com: ZOTAC NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB GDDR5 2DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort PCI-Express Video Card ZT-60901-10M: Computers & Accessories

What do you guys think? Buy or no?

Last edited by gc8Ninja; May 25, 2013 at 12:06 PM.

May 25, 2013 | 12:06 PM

#137

oshrizak

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Quote:

Originally Posted by w0ng3r

hasswell k chips need to be out, like, last week

Yes! Then I can upgrade laptops, upgrade my CPU... And get the 780

went out today to purchase some new drives and 100gb ssd for the server os

May 25, 2013 | 12:10 PM

#138

oshrizak

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Quote:

Originally Posted by gc8Ninja

Been considering upgrading my dinosaur of a card with this:

Video Link: http://www.amazon.com/NVIDIA-GeForce-DisplayPort-PCI-Express-ZT-60901-10M/dp/B009AEL3JO/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1369508733&sr=1-1&keywords=GTX+660

What do you guys think? Buy or no?

Its worth it.. I had it once upon a time lol. On a more serious note how much do you game you could probably get away with a lower grade one if you don't game much and just watch movies or TV..

Edit: just looked at the price... Is that pre-oc'd??

Last edited by oshrizak; May 25, 2013 at 12:15 PM.

May 25, 2013 | 12:24 PM

#139

gc8Ninja

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Quote:

Originally Posted by oshrizak

Looks like it's not OC'd,

I was looking at OC'd cards too and this came up:

Amazon.com: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 OC 2GB GDDR5 PCI-Express 3.0 DVI-I/DVI-D/HDMI/Displayport SLI Ready Graphics Card GV-N660OC-2GD: Computers & Accessories

189 after rebate.

May 25, 2013 | 12:35 PM

#140

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Quote:

Originally Posted by gc8Ninja

Looks like it's not OC'd,

I was looking at OC'd cards too and this came up:

Video Link: http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-PCI-Express-Displayport-Graphics-GV-N660OC-2GD/dp/B00942TK8I/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1369509341&sr=1-3&keywords=GTX+660

189 after rebate.

Well how good are you at OCing? Its just like tuning a car... That is what will justify me to go after your first option. If you have had experience and done the research behind ocing get the first.

May 25, 2013 | 12:37 PM

#141

sigma pi

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I have 2x GTX 275

I dont want to upgrade because I have two full coverage blocks.

May 25, 2013 | 12:38 PM

#142

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Quote:

Originally Posted by oshrizak

Well how good are you at OCing? Its just like tuning a car... That is what will justify me to go after your first option. If you have had experience and done the research behind ocing get the first.

Edit Lol its not just like tuning a car but you get what I mean.. If you do a bad oc you'll notice it acting bad or even crash

May 25, 2013 | 01:33 PM

#143

gc8Ninja

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Quote:

Originally Posted by oshrizak

Edit Lol its not just like tuning a car but you get what I mean.. If you do a bad oc you'll notice it acting bad or even crash

Cool thanks for the info/help.

May 25, 2013 | 01:47 PM

#144

sigma pi

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it wont boot is the first dead give away you are getting too jiggy with it.

May 25, 2013 | 02:01 PM

#145

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Originally Posted by gc8Ninja

Cool thanks for the info/help.

Use a tool like OCCT to stress test the overclock for stability,

Sent from my Nexus 4 using i-Club

May 25, 2013 | 02:09 PM

#146

JourdanWithaU

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Prime95

Run that **** for a while (12+ hours).

May 25, 2013 | 02:28 PM

#147

oshrizak

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Quote:

Originally Posted by JourdanWithaU

Prime95

Run that **** for a while (12+ hours).

Prime95 is good enough as a start.. I started using Everest ultimate... The best in my opinion for stats/overclocking stress tests lol.

May 25, 2013 | 04:33 PM

#148

w0ng3r

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Quote:

Originally Posted by gc8Ninja

Been considering upgrading my dinosaur of a card with this:

Amazon.com: ZOTAC NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB GDDR5 2DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort PCI-Express Video Card ZT-60901-10M: Computers & Accessories

What do you guys think? Buy or no?

i'm selling my gtx 680

May 25, 2013 | 06:38 PM

#149

oshrizak

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Quote:

Originally Posted by w0ng3r

i'm selling my gtx 680

Offer him!

May 26, 2013 | 12:19 PM

#150

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Don't want to derail the thread, but I have a GTS 250 I want to get rid of.
What's a fair parting price... $40 ?

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