Hardware Pre-OC Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 and 260

Why doesn't BT just make a "choose your own benchmark graph" feature. I'm sure you can find some clever web coding monkey to do it. You know, have a list of graphics cards with benchmarks for a certain game, click on "add" and compare it to other cards for the same game. Then you won't have stuff like "But how does it compare to X? What about X in SLI? How about an overclocked Y?"

 

wow, Tim. my deepest condolences. please, forget about us and sort the more important things first!

that being said, woohoo... im now more enticed to pick up a vanilla 260 (<$300 now) and overclock it way past 4870 and all the while avoid having another power-hungry turbine-powered-toaster in my box!

ive said it before somewhere, but the only thing holding me back against a 4870 (the better card than 260 undoubtly) is the heat and noise.

id rather jack up some voltage or use tweaked driver or wutever to clock the 260. ive always been an nvidia fanboi

the last thing to wait is to see how far can an 4870 be overclocked......

 

Because software changes over time. New drivers / game patches, different games etc. Comparisons wouldn't be all that helpful unless the same set-up is used each time.

 

Nice review, but why post benchmarks for 1600x1200 rather than 1680x1050, which is surely in FAR wider use with the proliferation of 20" widescreen LCDs?

 

some of the benchmark software we use doesn't support batch runs of more than one custom resolution, which we reserve for the ultra high end resolutions. 1600x1200 is actually more demanding than 1680x1050 as there are more pixels on screen, so 1680x1050 performance should be a little better in most instances.

 

Cool. Thanks for the explanation - it just seemed a bit weird that some tests showed 1680x1050 and others 1600x1200. As you say, 1600x1200 is about 9% more pixels than 1680x1050, so I'd expect slightly faster performance from my 20" WS display than a 1600x1200 screen.