Which is the better graphics card?

[Officious (DayZ) 4]

Proof of temps:

I live in Canada and I have AC on when it's hot out side (and the window open while gaming in the winter/fall/spring)

This is the cooler I'm using:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103089&Tpk=cooler%20master%20v6

Inside my case:

There is a blower type fan you can't see because I took it out, it goes over the GPUs though to pull more air off of them and push it out the back. That photo is a little old, as I rotated the heat sink on the CPU 90*Clockwise so it's pulling in the front and pushing out the back this improved my temps by about 2*C.

Obviously if it's 30*C+ in the house it doesn't run this cool, but when its 23-25*C (around 74-76*F on average in the summer) I get awesome temps under load.

[mikemike664 1]

Hey i have a i5 2500k and a gtx 550ti and i can run the game with a high res and normal settings with 50-60 fps

[Psyl3nt 125]

Well, there you have it, I retract my previous statement, it must be pretty cold there to get those temps. That IS a nice CPU cooler you have there.

And I took the 38 as at %100 load, my bad.

As I said earlier I've never seen a system of that spec, at those temps, but then I guess Australia must be a fair bit warmer than Canada.

Good work on the system there. (I make the assumption it's something you've built, as it looks too clean / organised to be a shop bought pc).

[Officious (DayZ) 4]

Well' date=' there you have it, I retract my previous statement, it must be pretty cold there to get those temps. That IS a nice CPU cooler you have there.

And I took the 38 as at %100 load, my bad.

As I said earlier I've never seen a system of that spec, at those temps, but then I guess Australia must be a fair bit warmer than Canada.

Good work on the system there. (I make the assumption it's something you've built, as it looks too clean / organised to be a shop bought pc).

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LOL 38*C at 100% would be amazing for any computer, it hits about 59-60*C with prime running it full blast.

I did build it and Australia is probably warmer on average year round, but the last few weeks we've had 30-35*C plus humidity making it feel like 40*C. (So I hide inside playing Dayz with the AC on full blast lol)

If I was building a new system I'd use the same heat sink but it would be an i5 2500k build. That series of CPUs is far superior to what I'm using.