Sometimes i think that you are the only one that always love talking back to whatever people have said.
Anyway enough said. You have your point and i have mine.
TS has a budget of overall less than 2k. It does not make sense to spend off 2k and land a gtx760 be it mini or not.
An overall budget of 2k could easily land him a better gpus and also perhaps some other better components.
Why i did say it is useless to get the combo? Well heres the thing.
A gtx760 is actually a card made for 1080p gaming solution for whom did not wanna burn a hole in the pocket.
Although the link below shows an overall performance of benchmarks for a bunch of different games in ultra settings, one may turn down the graphics to med or high in order to attain some extra fps. But most of the games still could not attain slightly above 60fps rates.
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My opinion is this. As long as anything below 60fps it is already deemed slow for certain games especially fps games. Games like my palit gtx760 on high settings bf4 with no AA and i just made it to 60fps and most of the time taking a plunge to 40+ fps.
It just dont make any sense to have a 2k budget and ts could easily settle for either a gtx770 r9 280x or perhaps even a r9 290.
Given the fact that the msi gtx760 2gb mini price in sg is slightly on a high side as compared to the normal sized 760. It would be easily be a r9 280x price range.
I'm not sorry nor misinformed for calling you out on your past and current silly ideas at least
Well for the sake of this pointless debate, among the games benched from that review, 8 games were way well past the holy 60fps at 1920x1080, and the other 8 games that didnt, about half of them were high 40's to low 50's.
Their review sample showed a maximum OC of 1150(11%)/1750(17%) core/mem respectively, and a actual 3D performance gain in BF3 of 11.3% which only resulted in a 1 degree celcius rise in load temp compared to non-OC load temp while the fan noise remains at 32dbA which is an extremely respectable noise level. This means those games that were at low 50-s will easily get past the 60 fps barrier with just a few graphic options turned lower with this overclock that's basically free.
Not to mention their bench results seems very off, when I can get 95~fps
average in 1920x1080 ultra when they only got 73.4fps on their MSI gtx 760, even when my 7870 myst is actually
downclocked to 900/1450 core/mem. All this when the 760 is supposed to be slightly faster than the 7870 myst. I do know some games perform better on AMD or Nvidia cards but for two cards thats supposed to be very closely matched, this disparity is huge enough to throw off the reliability of the benches.
My point being? MSI GTX 760 is a very powerful card(despite what you might think otherwise
) for 1080p gaming, and at a size that currently
no other brand has a contender for except Asus but availability of Asus GTX 760 mini is pretty much 0 so that leaves us only with MSI's.
Sometimes when you keep going for the cheapest stuff, you will really get monkeys when you pay peanuts.
That puts Palit at 41.2 dbA against MSI's almost half the heatsink size and one less fan card at 31dbA, 10dbA difference. Thats about twice as loud which anyone with a working hearing can discern. Is Palit cheap? Definitely. Is it a good product in this case compared to MSI's offering? Not to me.
I think this culture of going for the cheapest raw power without considering the fine details like design, noise level, size, quality of product etc is part of the reason why we dont get to see much brand variety in Singapore, because such a sizable chunk of the market consistently guns for the cheapest all the time how will brands/distros dare to bring in new stuff.
