wow what is wrong with the cpu test lol wtf you use i7 980x in all you test but don't show the results in the cpu test this is the worst test i ever seen. why not show it? or even better why use it? this is waq! we want to compare dual cores vs quad cores vs 6 cores settup! i'm getting 85 fps max settings,(physX on high ) the reason being i have a similar high end setup to GameSpot but you do need that dedicated physx gpu ! to get extra fps in this game
"Test System: Cyberpower - Intel Core i7 980x @ 4.2GHz, Kingston HyperX 1600MHz 6GB DDR3, Asus Rampage III Extreme Motherboard, Kingston 128GB SSD, Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium. Graphics cards: Nvidia GeForce 480 GTX, Forceware 257.15." you have the same system as me nice except i built mine myself and saved thousands of dollars!!!
I owned 2 of the 480's sc in sli and my bill is 5 % gain since last year! i do recommend liquid cooling solution for better over clocking (256 drivers are sick) i get 95 % gain from 2nd card in any game! tri sli vs dual sli no gain in performance!!! (only in higher resolutions)
Hah my 2 year old dual core e6600 oc to 3.3 ghz max setting with my gtx 285 ftw >60+ fps average, until game developers start making games multi threaded like dragon age origin a quad core will not be necessary, that will soon change with directx11 where games take advantage of more cores, so till then ill enjoy my system, and then ill buy a core i9 1xxx and a fermi gpu.
i had vista 64 bit OS since April 07 and can tell you that their were many many problems then, but now its 90 % more stable. Vista users upgrades resolved issues from service packs sp1 - improved 1/2 of the problems but thier were still were problems sp2 - improved most but not all problems (my computer is 2 years old and i never did a fresh boot ever!!! and now ! i love it vista users i wouldn't upgrade yet wait till>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sp3 - with directx 11 update it will be probably very close to win. 7
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