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lol, I wondered the same thing but realised it was a fake when a Google search linked me back to this topic.Interesting... got a link?
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lol, I wondered the same thing but realised it was a fake when a Google search linked me back to this topic.Interesting... got a link?
I see my confusion.
I wrote and was quoted - "Believe it or not, the overwhelming majority of CPU owners never overclock."
ALXAndy's first line reply was - "I don't."
I misunderstood the use of "I don't" as a direct response to my "believe it or not" statement, rather than the way ALXAndy really intended.
I apologise to ALXAndy for my mistake. English is not my first language (German is), and sometimes I take things in the wrong context. I must take more time before responding, and read comments fully. My English is not so good as I sometimes believe it to be
I would expect 95% of people buying a 7970 from here to overclock it, I would expect the same percentage of people buying 560ti's, and 5850's, and 6970's and 580gtx's.
Who buys a 2500k to run at 3.3Ghz, who buys a Phenom quad to run at 3Ghz. Oh I get it, Nvidia users have a problem with how fast the 7970 is, so now overclocking doesn't count...... cry me a river.
DM- I have a 3930K, 570SLI and a 2500K. ( in a different rig)
None overclocked.
What exactly do we mean by overclocked?
I would have thought some of those here stating that they don't overclock have memory with extended profiles (XMP is it?) that will automatically and safely overclock your system by a set amount, without any fiddling. Likewise for prebuilt machines where many will probably use such memory.
I can't be bothered to manually overclock either but I purchase memory with XMP profiles. On my i5 750 system that means an automatic overclock to 3.2mhz I think from 2.66. So I don't overclock either but consider that an overclocked processor albeit using memory profiles
because some people have that much money or they are people that have to have the latest hardware...
There are peeps out there who can afford, & would get such a set up.
Most peeps now consider a 24"monitor as a minimum size of choice, but 27" & 30" monitors gaining popularity very quickly, & AMD are quick to realise this.
The point is that +2GB of ram is not required for most games at 2560x1600.
But what about the games that do benefit from 2GB, if a person is never going to play such games then fine.
I personally don't want to come across a single game where my performance is hampered because of Vram.
But more than 2GB for most is not necessary.
My 7970 uses 1.7gb ram on BF3 in MP @ ultra settings at 1920x1080, so at 2560x1600 it would use more than 2gb at a guess.
Nope, see Locky's post above. The whole 'you need a 3GB card for 2560X1600' argument is rubbish.
i have x2 GTX560Ti 1gb in SLi, i assume that the memory 'pools' to become 2gb of video memory
i have x2 GTX560Ti 1gb in SLi, i assume that the memory 'pools' to become 2gb of video memory