The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (DirectX 9)
The Empire of Tamriel is on the edge. The High King of Skyrim has been murdered.
Alliances form as claims to the throne are made. In the midst of this conflict, a far more dangerous, ancient evil is awakened. Dragons, long lost to the passages of the Elder Scrolls, have returned to Tamriel.
The future of Skyrim, even the Empire itself, hangs in the balance as they wait for the prophesized Dragonborn to come; a hero born with the power of The Voice, and the only one who can stand amongst the dragons.
Our settings for Skyrim
Here is a video our testing run through, for your reference
NVIDIA still benefits here in the raw numbers game because of the lack of capability to completely remove the VSync function, limiting the frame rate to 60 Hz on AMD’s options. The Gigabyte GTX 580 SOC card is showing to be about 7% faster than the reference card but slower than the GTX 560 Ti 2Win card from EVGA until we hit the 2560×1600 resolution.
Great review, judging by the
Great review, judging by the results i think the 40$ price tag is worth it for the cooling. Its overclocked AND runs cooler than the reference, sounds like a good deal to me. I think you forgot the sound levels, it was mentioned in the beginning of the article.
Also, why havnt I seen any reviews of the 3GB 580? Is it because its not reference?
It was due to my ignorance,
It was due to my ignorance, but my cards were over heating because I thought my motherboard was best suited to have the cards right on top of each other. After reading the motherboard manual, I realized that spacing them into slots 1 & 3 were recommended for top speed. Not 1 & 2. Now the cards seem to be peaking around 72 degrees celcius. NIGHT AND DAY is the different.
So if you plan on going SLI with these, make sure you have a motherboard that can support spacing them. As they run too hot (even when downclocked to 600 mhz) to have them sitting on top of each other.
http://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-GeForce-mini-HDMI-Graphics-GV-N580SO-15I/dp/B0052XXCEG?tag=emjay2d-20
GTX 580 has much life left in
GTX 580 has much life left in it. Not bad for 15 months old GPU. 7970 is great overlocker and that is the only thing that cen really make a difference. Nice review..
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