I am building a computer... happy with all selections except the GPU...
Budget is around two hundred monies (with a little wiggle room).
Choices at that price range appear to be...
Nvidia GTX 660TI (which is sort of a 670, at least has the same shader count) £180 monies with a free game
AMD HD 7950 £215 monies with three free games.
The interesting dilema comes from a couple of contradictory factors..
The 660Ti is slightly faster for gaming... but I also want to do some GPU processing... for which the AMD is going to be faster (it's all down to the number of procesing units and the AMD has about 33% more)... hmm.
Oh, and the price difference between them would be enough to pay for a USB Alpha wireless adapter for doing packet injection a prelude to what the GPU processing is for...
Hmm... things are never easy
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Is this the right place to say that I remember when graphics cards started supporting colours?
Or that my first monitor displayed orangey-amber on a black background, rather than green-on-black. Pushing the envelope ...
16 Colours?? You are but a computing child ...
Lucky you
I think I got my first "PC" in 1987. It was one of the IBM XT clones. 8086, I think. Maybe 80286. I remember driving into London to collect it - I didn't trust a courier to deliver it.
A few years later, I remember spending Xmas day fitting a CD drive (which had cost something like £400) into a slightly later PC, and trying to get all the drivers working properly, just so that I could play 7th Guest.