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Asus Eyefinity Card

These are the test results from the last two weeks at TechCorp:

Paul these are the results of a couple of weeks of testing:

FASTEST VIDEO CARD- ATI PowerColor AX5870 1GB DDR5 VRAM 256 bit interface
EVGA 015-P3 1480 GeForce GTX 480 1536 MB 384 bit interface
EVGA 012-P3 1470-AR GeForceGTX 470 1280GB VRAM 320 bit interface


MOST RELIABLE VIDEO - ATI PowerColor AX5870 1GB DDR5 VRAM 256 bit interface
NVidia MSI N460 GTX Cyclone 1GB DDR5 VRAM 256 bit interface

Overall best performance ATI PowerColor AX5870 1GB DDR5 VRAM 256 bit interface

MSI N460 GTX Hawk 1GB DDR5 VRAM 256 bit interface- this card
was the best performer of all the cards when OC'd to 900mhz and still
ran reasonably cool
MSI N460 GTX Cyclone 1GB DDR5 VRAM 256 bit interface

ATI still doesn't look that great in FSX VCs
The EVGA GTX 480 FERMI may seem like overkill but it is a BEAST!
The Cyclone while fast at stock speeds took up too much room with that HUGE FAN
The problem with all the EVGA 470s was screen freeze-ups and black screen-it some tweaking to get them to perform properly
Very impressed with twin MSI N460s Hawks-even one OC'd to 900mhz was incredible

If you want Eyefinity you must use AMD ATI. It works as advertised and great with Track IR

These were all run on the same configuration CPU, motherboard, memory, and power supply.

ASUS TUF series Sabretooth X58 motherboard-Outstanding performance and very hard to damage in overclocking

Memory was 6GB OCZ Blade DDR3 Triple channel CAS Latency 7

Power supply was the BFG ES800...quiet cool and stabel

CPU was the Intel i7 980X...absolutely outstanding CPU even stock...we did OC it to 4.0Ghz however!
 
Wow! Thanks for the info Ted:salute:

My pleasure sir, these were tests run for few guys like yourself wanting to upgrade. I had posted this info and just added some since you asked about the system as well. That ASUS Sabretooth is a sweetheart motherboard. We were all impressed.
 
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