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Hey thanks for the info!. Well I am aware that I'd be better if I get an intel i52500k or the i72700k but I don't have an spare $1000 for it (I need already $1000 for the card+ the 8150 and the psu) so it's certainly not an option. Although the 8150 may look a little bad on surround, 30 inch high res monitors I'm gaming in a sinlge 1080p monitor, so it should be ok. About the Tuban yeah I'd love to hace a 1100t but those are extremily difficult to find (at least here) and the price is almost the same as the 8150 (actually the 1090t cost around $240). Sad that I couldn´t get my 955 stable at 4ghz 🙁
 


680 Sli users report (most around 4.4) the 8150 works as good as the 2500k in sli at 1080p 1 single monitor.

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uhmm both CPUs at 4.4GHz? or BD at 4.4GHz and 2500k at stock. Plus,if you are running a single monitor why the hell spend $1000 USD in two GPUs?
 
when your ready and I finally get GTX 680 in SLi, we'll see.
your 8150 vs my 2500K.

goodluck.
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And let the games begin... oh wait. One moment, Mal needs to break out his hidden stash of money... To buy two 680's cause some of us only run 1 monitor cause we don't wanna look at a big giant screen when were gaming, nor have the hardware to handle it
 
I dunno but the 8150 is most likely like the 2500k, of course the 2700k is light years away from the ppor zambezi. I'll do it for the future, I plan to stick with my rig at least one year and a half more.
 

Yea, I only use 1 monitor. and a single card does me fine
 

Yea me and you will be upgrading about the same time
 
A stock vs stock, oc vs oc review comparing the 670, 680, 7950, and 7970 at HardOCP (although they need to bench a few more than 4 games):
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/05/14/geforce_680_670_vs_radeon_7970_7950_gaming_perf/4

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The Bottom Line
NVIDIA has been able to manhandle AMD with each launch this generation. AMD started off strong this year with no competition in sight. NVIDIA was late to the fight, but it did not show up unarmed when it did finally show. AMD has historically held the crown for most power efficient, fast, and affordable GPUs. However, the tides have shifted with NVIDIA's "Kepler" family of GPUs. With the launch of the GeForce GTX 680 and GeForce GTX 670 we have seen NVIDIA trump AMD’s GPU efficiency, performance, and value. NVIDIA even beat AMD to the punch this time with a dual-GPU solution much in part because of the Kepler’s tremendous efficiencies.

It is also worth again noting that AMD has been having trouble this generation keeping up with driver issues and CrossFireX support. For the first four months of the Radeon HD 7970 there wasn't even an "official" driver. NVIDIA on the other hand has been quick to support new hardware with unified drivers at launch of GTX 680. Even with the launch of GTX 690 that driver already supported its next release the GTX 670 so we were able to use publically available drivers from NVIDIA's website for the GTX 670. We've also seen [here] [here] [here] how NVIDIA's SLI is smoother than AMD's CrossFireX, and in every case we've tested so far this generation we prefer SLI over CFX for the best experience. And if you have not been exposed to NVIDIA’s Adaptive VSync Technology, you should give this feature a few moments of your time.

The GeForce GTX 680 represents a tremendous piece of technology that any gamer should love to have in his rig. The GeForce GTX 670 represents what is easily the best value in enthusiast PC gaming GPUs. Pick your poison.

Kyle and I have both been running Radeon HD 7970 configurations in our primary gaming machines for months now and been happy with these solutions. Both of us are now going Green once again.
 
Best-case scenario for Piledriver, it runs 10% better on Windows 8, and has a 15% improvement over Bulldozer, making it 26.5% better. That would make it almost as good as Sandy Bridge is now. I think that's wishful thinking though.
 
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