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OverClocking a GPU is pointless, its not the clocks of the GPU that matter, its how many shader units it has, its interface bandwidth, etc etc.
Example:
OC an 8800GT to the same clocks as an 8800GTX, It will still perform worse, alot worse, because the GTX has a crap load more everything.
I got a whole...Wait for it...3 FPS extra when I OC'd my 8800GT to 750/1875/983
Stock clocks are 600/1500/900.
If you want better performance, your better off buying a cheaper (Everything wise) ATI card such as the 4870X2 or fork out the extra for a 280GTX
Either way, neither the 4 ATI series or 200/9 series nVidia cards are worth what they cost, both series are rather sucky compared to the hype that was around them, and both series are way to expensive for what they offer.
Um... no. Do you have any idea how many components influence gaming performance? Answer: all of them! It's not just your graphics card that counts, odds are your processor is bottlenecking your graphics card anyway. I overclocked my 280 from 650 core to 700, and went from 60fps in UT3 to just over 70.
You're comparing an 8800GT to a GTX, that's just not smart... you can have whatever clocks you want on the GT, it won't match a GTX, so in that respect you're right, but OCing a GPU is NOT pointless.
It is pointless is most all cases, unless you can really get it cranking by 100 or more.
I know more then one component effects gaming, I was talking about the GPU alone though.
Just having higher clocks doesn't mean shit, you can clock any card to be as fast as the next (if of course that card can be clocked that high) and chances are you won't see an improvement in performance anything that is warranted to killing your hardware and spending more money on trying to keep cool.
Actually, I want an nvidia card and this is the best to offer so im sticking with it. I dont want 4870 because I have certain applications that requires Nvidia, and I like Nvidia more (Yes Ive tried both) so its pretty excluded. And I am not going to play crysis very high 24/7 but its so that you can play very high on most of the games with 1280x1024. Although the eye cant handle more than 35 fps (I think) and I want at least 60 fps or more at games and this will get it.
And thanks for mentioning that DarkKrucifix7, it really solved some problems there.
And I felt that we were kinda going off topic here, but I really asked questions about this company, and shipping internationally.
Although I don't know how much they are in Sweden (you can try Tullverket for information) customs, taxes and shipping will probably make the card almost as expensive in the end as buying one from a cheap source close to you, just with a lot more hassle and slower delivery. Check out the prices in Germany if you want to save money, the shipping isn't as bad and you don't need to pay taxes or customs when you buy from there.
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