I really hope that PhysX will start to actually have impact on gameplay in the near future. It's stupid how much advertisement and money has gone into it and yet... PhysX isn't really anywhere where it was touted to be.

Glass that shatters and fly through the air SHOULD CUT you, not just roll of your body. Bullet shots to walls and pillars where stones fly around should HIT you, not rull on the ground.

That's how PhysX should work, not just glorified physics.

I foresee that more and more games will be AMD "optimized" in the near future when next-gen consoles are out.
Simply because next-gen consoles will be using AMD hardware, porting down to consoles will be an even easier task.

Not to crash the Nvidia thread of course. But I think Nvidia needs to revise their pricing structure a little bit.

Nvidia do have a the performance edge still on the high end side, which I'm happy to see.
What they need to improve on is the prices they have on their mainstream market... like seriously, 650Ti going up against a HD7770? What kinda logic is that?

I don't think AMD's marketing is any worse than Nvidia at all either right now. Their Never Settle Reloaded? Crysis 3 + Tomb Raider + Bioshock Infinite? These are brand new AAA titles! When it was announced, neither of the games was even released yet.
What is Nvidia giving out? Free DLC for F2P MMOs... See the problem here?

Then of course with AMD securing the deal on the 2 major next-gen consoles, this is quite a big blow to Nvidia here IMO. It's obvious Nvidia wanted to steal the spotlight with an announcement of PhysX being supported on the next-gen consoles... running on what? AMD hardware.

This was the same Nvidia that stripped AMD users from using PhysX on their graphics card EVENTHOUGH AMD users were willing to go add in a cheap low-end card (9600GT at that time) to run PhysX along with an AMD card. How ironic they're going to allow support on pure AMD hardware now.

I have been an Nvidia user for over 10 years, there's only once where I was on ATi but it's hard to discount what Nvidia is doing here at the moment.

Volta sounds incredible now, but it is obviously a good 4 years away. Then in 4 years time, 1TB of bandwidth is just "meh".

Still impressive regardless.

Missing config file.

Completely uninstall it with Revo Uninstaller and try again.

GDDR5 is indeed based on DDR3, but they are not manufactured or processed at the same time.
Which means, OEMs do not process a huge batch of DDR3 then seperate 30% of it from the entire pool and make them into GDDR5. Doesn't work like that.

GDDR5 is processed differently altogether and they have a stricter binning process as well.

With that said, do expect prices for graphics card are going to stay stale over the next 4-6 months. GDDR5 isn't entirely in short supply, but not entirely booming off the factory either.

If you want to get a GTX670 now, go get it. No point waiting for a month or 2 because nothing will change.

^Agreed.

DON'T use driver sweeper for Nvidia drivers.
Driver sweeper tends to delete things that shouldn't be deleted in the first place, doesn't happen everytime indeed but when it does.. you'll be scratching your head on what went wrong as your system suddenly becomes very unstable.

Follow this thread to safely and completely remove Nvidia drivers:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1150443/how-to-...dia-gpu-drivers

Don't let the multitude of steps scare you, it is actually easier and shorter than it looks. Also, do it in safe mode if you can.

Uhm... did you disable Windows Update from auto updating your drivers?

^In addition:

3) Have good positive airflow in your casing.
4) Having a side fan with positive air pressure mounted to the side panel of your case will also help.

GTX 770 specs according to videocardz - http://videocardz.com/41002/nvidia-geforce...series-detailed

GK104-425
CUDA Cores - 1536
TMUs - 128
ROPs - 32
Memory - 4GB GDDR5
Interface - 256-bit
MSRP - $399

Seems odd to me that they'll slap 4GB of VRAM onto a tweaked GK104. Because if the specs are real, the GTX770 is basically a re-named GTX680 with an extra 2GB of VRAM.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Apr 23 2013, 10:31 PM

GTX 570 dropped like.. ~RM100+ after the GTX 670 came out. Before a GTX 570 could even become a bargain, it was already phased out.

Same thing happened to the GTX 470, same for the GTX 270.

Same thing happened over at the AMD side as well.
So what does history tell you? If you can get it now, just get it. If you think saving RM100+ is such a big deal, you shouldn't be getting a high-end card in the first place. No offense, it's how it has always been.

What driver are you on and did you update Crysis 3 to the latest patch recently?
The latest patch caused quite a bit of issues for multi-card users, especially SLI.

FRAPS isn't a good way anymore to measure multi-card usage.

Yeah that's the issue there, v1.3 does indeed have issues with SLI.
There are many people over at Neogaf complaining about it. The latest Nvidia beta 320.00 driver doesn't seem to fix anything either.

Here.

And we're still fairly early in driver development for the Titan. Will be interesting to see how much more optimised performance be in the coming months.

Theoretically, $650 x 3.05 = RM1982.

The reason why it is going for ~RM2.8k here is because, well.. someone itchy loves marking up prices.

You want it cheaper, you can try and order it from Newegg. Adding in shipping cost and any possible tax (unlikely, but just in case), it shouldn't cost more than RM2.3k.
Just be prepared to wait.

Only works for SLI configs, single cards don't bother.
You can search up bits to input into a game where it isn't optimized for SLI yet — which according to that video's date, Crysis 3 beta wasn't ready for SLI yet.

For single card users, you're better off in optimizing game settings through the internal engine and ini configs. Go research on Neogaf.

GTX570/GTX560Ti users looking for a GTX770 upgarde, an alternative would be to scout second hand non-reference GTX680s. You'll actually spend less and get the same performance as a GTX770.

GTX670 and 680 users, just stay put and wait for Maxwell. Don't need to scratch a hole in your head on whether to upgrade or not, gaming development will take a change very soon. For all you know, your current cards will be even more optimized for games.

Understand that half the time it isn't because a particular card cannot run a game at a desired high-settings, it's just because the game isn't properly optimized. If you take the time to go tweak .ini and .dat files for games with with a scalable engine, you'll be surprised how much performance you're actually missing.

*EDIT*
By the way, "no brainer" means to do something without much thought.
So upgrading from a GTX680 > GTX770 being a "no brainer" would actually mean to just do it, don't even need to compare or argue about it.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: May 31 2013, 02:52 PM

Lame decals though. "Gamer Force", it's like aiming for the 18 year olds.