Guru3D Rig of the Month - June 2011

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9. What's the best part of your rig?

Besides the performance which is on par with any GTX580 systems and the looks, it's definitely it's silence. The loudest part of my system is the HDD fom Western Digital with ~13dB. I think this pretty amazing considering the high-end performance.

Rig of the Month June 2011

10. What sucks and should not have been bought?
I'm not happy with SLI. Performance wise there is nothing to complain about, and with the use of vsync/tripple Buffering/SFR-SLI Mode even the microstuttering is not visible. But I had to change the fans on the graphics cards 3 times and heavily undervolt and underclock the memory to get the temperatures under control. The top card reaches ~86 °C after several hours of gaming when the lower is at max. 70°C.

Overclocking is impossible under this circumstances ­ because I want a very quiet system. So I'm wasting around 20% overclocking performance. So next time I'll buy a high-end graphics card with a triple slot cooler like the ASUS direct Cu II cards which you recently reviewed. The second problem is the weight of this system, it's over 30kg.

Rig of the Month June 2011

 

 

 

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