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Originally Posted by 82mm 4g63
I'm going to be building my new Christmas present, this is what I'm thinking so far.
It's going to be my gaming rig and HTPC. If there's anything left from my bonus I really want a second TV to go dual monitor with.
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Save 100 bucks and go with the 2500k for gaming. You won't see a difference. At least not if it's OC'd to 4.5ghz+ like mine. Also better hop on a 6950 2gb reference card fast if you're looking. They're being pulled from the market, and that means no more 6970 softmodding.
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Originally Posted by WingsofWar
Well FUCK ME TO HIGH HEAVEN! i was all ready to put down $1200 for a workstation card too! and now your telling me i can get a superclocked GTX580 for a fraction of my budget and run a $3000+ Quadro 6000 graphics driver? I can run games AND 3d programs at the same time?
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Yes and no. Games will run worse with the workstation drivers, and workstation projects don't run well with gaming/consumer drivers. I have no clue why, but my department felt the need to put a FireGL V5250 (yeah it's old) card in the very laptop I'm typing this up on. I want to run X1700 drivers for everyday use since the experience would be much more palatable, but it seems like I'd have to flash the BIOS of the card. Unfortunately, I haven't found any of my normal methods to back up the stock BIOS that work, and with a work laptop it's just not the risk.
As far as the above conversation about liquid cooling in a closed loop system, I love my Antec 620, and it was designed by Asetek, so the stock intel stuff can't be that bad.