J.D. Hodges

Every four years or so I invest in a new video card. The latest edition, ordered today, is the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 650 Ti OC 2GB card. I actually meant to order a BOOST edition but somewhat mistakenly ordered the ‘OC’ edition. 🙁 However, I like the overall features of the card and if it performs well enough I will keep it. 🙂 Otherwise, I may return it and look at a GTX 760.

My general usage scenarios will be to use the card’s HDMI 1.4 interface to test a 3840×2160 4K UHD LCD. Beyond that, I plan on doing a bit of SC2 Heart of the Swarm gaming on a Dell 30″ 2560×1600 display. I do not necessarily need high/ultra display settings at that resolution as medium is fine by me.

Benchmark roundup of various cards

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Review, Feat. Gigabyte, Zotac, & EVGAhttp://www.anandtech.com/show/6359/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-650-ti-review/14Our next game is Starcraft II, Blizzard’s 2010 RTS megahit. Much like Portal 2 it’s a DX9 game designed to run on a wide range of hardware so performance is quite peppy with most…

Build A StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm PC For Less Than $450http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/build-a-starcraft-ii-heart-of-the-swarm-pc-for-less-than-450As the data shows, Heart of the Swarm is a demanding beast when its new, mightily impressive engine is unleashed. In Wings of Liberty, a GeForce GTX 680 would break 120 frames per second without a…

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost OC WindForce 2X reviewhttp://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gigabyte_geforce_gtx_650_ti_boost_windforce_review,15.htmlIn this article we review the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost OC WindForce 2X with that OC for a factory tweak and the Windforce indicating a silent yet powerful two fan cooling solution. The product is customized with a new PCB, cooling and a few tweaks, it has 2GB of memory with both that memory and the core base-clock slightly overclocked.

AMD Radeon HD 7750 & Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition Reviewhttp://www.anandtech.com/show/5541/amd-radeon-hd-7750-radeon-hd-7770-ghz-edition-review/18Our next game is Starcraft II, Blizzard’s 2010 RTS megahit. Much like Portal 2 it’s a DX9 game designed to run on a wide range of hardware so performance is quite peppy with most…

AMD’s Radeon HD 6450: UVD3 Meets The HTPChttp://www.anandtech.com/show/4263/amds-radeon-hd-6450-uvd3-meets-htpc/11Blizzard’s latest RTS is CPU-bound under most situations, but with low-end GPUs most scenes become GPU bound as long as there aren’t too many active units on the screen. With the 6450 we…