DiRT 3
DiRT 3 (DirectX 11)
A continuation of the Colin McRae series, but without his name, DiRT 3 is one of the top racing games in the world and offers stunning imagery along with support for features of DirectX 11.
Our settings for DiRT 3
This is another great showing for the Gigabyte overclocked GTX 580 as it does in fact move the GF110 GPU just past the performance of the HD 7970 reference card from AMD.
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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seriously this blog is fantastic i love reading your insight keep up the fantastic work