Nvidia 680m or radeon 7970 for £500 less?

[Commanduf]

Its been pretty much said in the title, im getting a new laptop from overclockers uk and they have two laptops that are great, only difference between them is that one has a 4gb Nvidia 680m
and the other has a readeon 7970 2gb (both are RRD5) but the one with the readeon is £470 less, is it worth another £470 for the Nvidia 680? (I have enough to get ether one)

The specs for both laptops apart from the graphics card are..

2.7g i7 quadcore proccesor, 1920x1080 screen, crucial v4 256gb ssd, 16 gig of ram.

Feedback as soon as possible would be appreciated :)

Don't really care about the price, but would rather not pay £500 more for like 5 more frames per second.

[Commanduf]

Oh, i also am going to get borderlands 2, Nvidia say that only the ycan do Physx but i read that as long as you have a good cpu/proccesor, then radeon can do it just fine, and others said that nvidia do physx better is bulls**t

["ITS ME"Mr.Pro]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Conmanduf:

uh, i did not understand anything you just said XD please put it into lamens terms and a step by step guide of how i would tell you what you want to know, i don't actually know that much about computers AT ALL :/ btw i think i will be getting the laptop definetly within the next 2 weeks, can any1 recomed "the best" antivirus? i use kaspersky and have used norton but hated it

avg

[Commanduf]

avg?

oh, avg security software

[Rove]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Conmanduf:

uh, i did not understand anything you just said XD please put it into lamens terms and a step by step guide of how i would tell you what you want to know, i don't actually know that much about computers AT ALL :/

OP easy way to test this is to go to : https://bitminter.com/test and press the button.

You need a current version of Java AND also your AMD graphics drivers (which are *probably* already installed by defualt by the person who puts it together for you, if not www.amd.com navigate to support and downloads and drivers) installed and then you just need to run it with java (the defualt thing) when the pop up comes up and asks you what you want to do.

It's just a test but you can also get paid $ for doing it if you get serious about it and electricity is cheap enough where you are.

"bitcoins" are a type of digital currency and they are created by "bitcoin miners".

The Megahashes/second (mh/s) thing is just a measurement of how much security encryption processes it can perform per second. Bitcoin specifically is using a security encryption called SHA-256 which was developed and release by the US government. So this test just tests how many SHA-256 "hashes" you can perform per second. It's like a benchmark for security encryption.

[Commanduf]

uh...

[Rove]

go to : https://bitminter.com/test and press the button.

Tell me the number is says.

You can do it with your current computer right now just for fun as well.

[Commanduf]

um, i got like half of that but the last 3 mostly 2 paragraphs i dont get.

im not on my new laptop yet, but i will do it on this laptop

your sure this is trustworthy?

[Rove]

I'm running the normal (non-test) downloaded version of it right now on my computer's AMD Radeon HD 6950 @ 320~ mh/s. Considering they are giving me money for doing it I'm pretty sure it's legit and I know bitcoin is legit. I haven't personally verified the code though.

You can get rid of it even if you download it by deleting your Java cache.

[Commanduf]

ok the power of my current laptop (Which i ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ HATE) is 9.70 at its highest

so if i get this program for my new laptop, would i be able to run it while running games? would i degrade graphics card life? would it put extra strain of the card of cpu? how would i claim said money? What is it actually doing when i run this program, is it using my graphics card?

oh, and my current laptop has a REALLY ♥♥♥♥ Nvidia 330m

[Rove]

Ok cool, well that is how it works. I'm really curious to know how the HD 7970m measures up if you remember to tell me.

[Commanduf]

what does the program, to the graphics card? because when i was testing it was using my Nvidia 330m, is it like running a game, or would i be able to run this in the background while playing my games?

and does it affect card lifespan?

[Rove]

Depends what games. Anything demanding, no don't run it at the same time. Yes it does put extra strain on the card, it's running mine at like 99% usage. A good card can take that for a long long time though. Yes it's using your graphics card for GPGPU computing (using GPU like CPU).

I suggest you do some independant research on "bitcoin" because it's just too many questions to answer here on the forum. There is a good page on wikipedia and also a official page and tons of other resources.

[Commanduf]

k, i was just worried you where gonna say, "yeah it eats your card from the inside out" XD

something along those lines

[Rove]

It shouldn't break your GPU, lot of people used to overclock them specifically for bitcoin mining and then mine them, sometimes they would break then after months or years of constant 24/7 100% use at overclocked speeds and very often they'd still be fine.

I just can't find any benchmarks for the mobile GPUs online.

If you think of trying to make $ from it remember that your electricity costs you $ also.

[Commanduf]

i think my parents monthly electricity bill is in the area of £60 and im on my laptop running from the mains all the time, i have a 30 inch tv which is on standby alot, in the living room is a big 40 inch TV, they do buisness on ebay on the living room computer thats almost never off and internet hub is almost never off, my brother has laptop and 40 inch tv and my parents also have laptop and others, my not be eco freindly but is our electricity cheap or?