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And here's a good review of Hybrid Crossfire, which indeed was mentioned in the original post: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/dual-graphics-crossfire-benchmark,3583-10.html

Mantle does nothing if you're GPU bottlenecked. At most you'll get a few extra FPS from Mantle. Hybrid Crossfire suffers from heavy microstuttering. Move along, people. Nothing to see here.

I'd like to point out that I see a VERY clear difference between 60 and 144Hz when you actually manage to get that high FPS in shooters since looking around is so twitchy. In videos (with motion interpolation) I see no difference due to motion blur and the in general smoother movement pattern...

IPS screens don't have 1ms GtG, and 99.9% don't have over 60Hz. I'm in the exact same position as you, but the ideal does-everything monitor doesn't exist. The closest thing you can get is getting a 27" Korean monitor (Kawakasi Catleap, 2 or 3 other brands also exist) that are overclockable to...

Hello. TL;DR: Should I get a Yamakasi Catleap, a gaming TN 120+Hz monitor or a gaming IPS monitor? I'm trying to decide which monitor I should buy as an upgrade from my old Samsung P2450H, which looks like crap. Smoothly changing gradients cause horrible flickering and wavy patterns, green...

Ah, here we go: Source frame: http://blisswater.info/comparison/elephantsdream/ed-3681-orig.png 10-bit encoded frame: http://blisswater.info/comparison/elephantsdream/ed-3681-10bit-3000kbps.png 8-bit encoded frame: http://blisswater.info/comparison/elephantsdream/ed-3681-8bit-3000kbps.png Both...

@jaguarskx Very interesting but we're comparing the 8-bit version of the video codec vs the 10-bit version here. It has nothing (or at least not much) to do with 8/10-bit monitors. Due to the compression (depending on the bitrate of the video) the number of possible colors is usually lower than...

Because it has less banding at the same bitrate. With 8-bit encoding at some point you get to the point where the image quality (motion, blockiness, artifacts, etc) is almost identical to the source except that the image still has banding on smooth color transitions. To solve that problem, you...

The DC2T version of the GTX 670 seem to be suffering from unstable clocks due to it boosting to high though, leading to red screens of death during load. I wouldn't mind buying that lottery ticket since I can just return it, but since the Swedish stores are so outrageously expensive returning...

@Bctande1 I know they're pretty close, but what about the DirectCU 2 TOP version of those cards? Are they even closer?

I was going to get a GTX 670. I was looking at the DC2T version of it at online retailers in Sweden. Turns out the most powerful GTX 680 on the planet is cheaper at Newegg than a vanilla GTX 670 in Sweden. What. The. Hell. Since I was ready to spend that kind of money anyway I just figured I...

Hello, everyone! APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Within a month or so. USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Gaming, game development, video watching CURRENT GPU AND POWER SUPPLY: A GTX 295 and a Corsair 750W power supply. OTHER RELEVANT SYSTEM SPECS: i7 860 CPU (no unlocked multipler), 8GB RAM...