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No where am I saying you need Unix. I have not used unix, nor will I use unix. However Linux is much better than windows at everything unless you need 2 things. 1. Games that just install and work. 2. Something that a 3rd grader with a IQ of 10 could use without issue. And developer tools. BS. C++ works much better on Linux than on windows. Still have not found a compiler that just works without a manual longer than the bible and quran together on how to use it.

If you want to spend your life paying $100 ever couple of years just to use your computer, go right ahead. But Microsoft is not the future of computers, and it will just end up being the damn apple of software. I prefer to install something that I don't have to spend $100 on, and then another 10,000 in software to get the 100 software to be useful. Let alone worry about if I am going to get a virus.
 
I haven't had a virus in 2+ years. If you're not stupid with what you're downloading, its really a non-issue.

And saying AMD sucks because it has bad linux drivers is rubbish. If you need linux, then yes, Nvidia all the way. If you're looking for a cheap card for gaming, AMD is the choice. A 7870 is equal to a 660ti for $80 less. Like said, not everyone uses linux. I'm not here to say that's right and that's what it should be. But most games are on windows only, and I'm not gonna move to linux if there's no games supported. That may change in the near future, with Win8 coming out, but right now Windows is the way to go. Saying AMD is not worth $10 is pure fanboyism. Sorry, but there's nothing to defend that claim besides it has no support for linux, which only a percentage of PC users use.

But I do agree with linux having great C++ tools. Dual-booting my laptop just for my C++ class.
 
I am calling you on that one. There are very few games that will not wirk at all under linux. It will take some work arounds on most of them, but I have yet to find a game that will not eventually work on linux.

Call it fanboy if you like. I have used both and the only thing that the AMD cards could do without issue was gaming. The drivers in windows and linux were horrible. with a HD4870 installed, CCC 12.6 refused to even acknowledge the card existed (seeing as the monitor was displaying from it, kind of leads to say it does exist on the system and it does work). I am sorry, but if I am going to pay more than $10 for a card, I want it to work with anything, be it a game, a simulation, a distributed computing app, a movie, or different operating systems ranging from Linux to windows 2k forward. AMD just can not do it, and they lost my confidence with the HD6570 and HD4870 that I tried. Both were happy in windows XP and 7, but throwing anything else at it (vista and Ubuntu 10.04.3) just landed in the land of driver headaches.
 
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I am calling you on that one. There are very few games that will not wirk at all under linux. It will take some work arounds on most of them, but I have yet to find a game that will not eventually work on linux.

Call it fanboy if you like. I have used both and the only thing that the AMD cards could do without issue was gaming. The drivers in windows and linux were horrible. with a HD4870 installed, CCC 12.6 refused to even acknowledge the card existed (seeing as the monitor was displaying from it, kind of leads to say it does exist on the system and it does work). I am sorry, but if I am going to pay more than $10 for a card, I want it to work with anything, be it a game, a simulation, a distributed computing app, a movie, or different operating systems ranging from Linux to windows 2k forward. AMD just can not do it, and they lost my confidence with the HD6570 and HD4870 that I tried. Both were happy in windows XP and 7, but throwing anything else at it (vista and Ubuntu 10.04.3) just landed in the land of driver headaches.
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GTA4 being one. I ran Ubuntu 10.4 LTS for a while with an X1950 pro card and could not get ANY drivers to work. While some games would work, even without drivers, GTA4 will not work at all. Which was one reason I stopped using Ubuntu. It required too much effort to install and run games that its really not worth it.

If you ask me, any form of Linux should only be used as a web browsing machine. Gaming, should be left for Windows.

And all this about C++ working better in Linux? How? I dont see how it would run better under either OS seeing as its just a compiler you write code in.... C++ works perfectly fine for me in Windows 7 and I dont see how it could possibly work any "better" under another OS. Besides that Microsoft offers the program for free so where is the problem here...
 
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If you ask me, any form of Linux should only be used as a web browsing machine. Gaming, should be left for Windows.
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Yea, because we all want windows to stay around doing things that make no since for the rest of civilization, right? I don't think that is true.

I agree that windows is for gaming at this point. I have a felling that I will go to the store tomorrow after school to buy a VGA cable, and reinstall my system with linux only. Leave gaming for a while. Have not really been using it much lately anyway.

And all this about C++ working better in Linux? How? I dont see how it would run better under either OS seeing as its just a compiler you write code in.... C++ works perfectly fine for me in Windows 7 and I dont see how it could possibly work any "better" under another OS. Besides that Microsoft offers the program for free so where is the problem here...
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I am talking about the compiler working better. The compilers in Ubuntu are much easier to use than anything available in windows that I have found.
 
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soon ill be posting a score with 2 x 670 in sli. ordering onother one for x-mas for myself, and should be great. hoping for the 16000 mark....
 
You did not even follow the rules for the screenshot. 2 CPUz's open (one on memory tab) and the GPUz should be on the graphics card tab. The example screenshot was given in post 2.

With that said, the other rules were minimum of 100 posts, and member for 1 year so I cannot accept it anyway.
 
Updated. You should overclock the 670. Even a small OC on all stock volts like +100 on the core clock and +200 on the memory should get you 4th place instead of your current 6th. You'd probably place in the top 5 overall as well.

You could even hit 3rd if you overclocked the CPU to atleast 4.6-4.8 and overclocked the 670 to max.
 
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Updated. You should overclock the 670. Even a small OC on all stock volts like +100 on the core clock and +200 on the memory should get you 4th place instead of your current 6th. You'd probably place in the top 5 overall as well.

You could even hit 3rd if you overclocked the CPU to atleast 4.6-4.8 and overclocked the 670 to max.
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memory clock doesn't do anything, tested that yesterday... had only 20 points difference going from 1375 to 1500.
 
87dtna said:
Updated. You should overclock the 670. Even a small OC on all stock volts like +100 on the core clock and +200 on the memory should get you 4th place instead of your current 6th. You'd probably place in the top 5 overall as well.

You could even hit 3rd if you overclocked the CPU to atleast 4.6-4.8 and overclocked the 670 to max.
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Thanks,To be honest....i use to be into benchmarking and Overclocking,squeezing as much performance as i could but these days i just cant be bothered. :P

As long as my system plays everything i want it too and performs well (which is does very well)....im happy. :)
 
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broke that 10k :) (I was doing this yesterday but everyone ran into my room to watch ted so i never uploaded it yet lol)
 
Nice job. I really wish I'd have benched that 7970 when I had it but I totally forgot. Oh well.

Updated, Gooberman takes the top AMD spot.
 
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