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Max Payne 3 is a third-person shooter in which the player assumes the role of its titular character, Max Payne. Max Payne 3 features a similar over-the-shoulder camera as its predecessors, with the addition of a cover mechanic, while also retaining much of the same run-and-gun style of gameplay. Max Payne 3 also marks the return of bullet-time in action sequences, for which the franchise is notable.
In bullet-time it is possible to see every bullet strike an enemy in detail. New to the series is a “Last Stand” mechanic, which gives the player a grace period after losing all health during which time the player may kill the enemy that wounded them in order to continue playing, however this mechanic is only usable if the player has one or more bottles of painkillers in their possession.
A great game, one of my favourites in the last year. At these settings the Nvidia cards take the lead, by a small margin, claiming the top two spots.
Love this card, but its still a bit rich for my blood. are they doing this with the GTX 770?
thats a crazy OC for such a high end board.
I love the nvidia boards in this generation, but they are all so expensive. im still looking at getting a 760 as I only game at 1080p. think its enough. waiting on the ti version if there is one coming out soon
Great review, but for under half the price I would recommend getting a GTX 760. I got one last week and it’s a great card for around the £210 mark.
Great review.
I wish you guys would actually find a truly STABLE overclock. Just like everyone else you get a clock speed that’s stable for a 10-minute benchmark, but not for real-world games. It’s misleading and people who buy and overclock the card are disappointed to find that truly stable clocks are much lower than those in reviews. I haven’t seen anyone across all GTX 780 threads get a truly stable core clock above 1040MHz, even for the water cooled custom ones. You should really run intensive games for 3-5 hours to get your overclocking results, and you’ll see they are nowhere near as good as you thought.
I played a few games on it for hours and it was stable at 1040mhz (no artifacting on memory or core and no hard locks etc). Its only misleading if people think that every graphics card in that particular range will hit those speeds, but they don’t as we mention in many reviews and I hope our audience know from 3 years of reviews here that every card can deliver VERY different results. Same as when you are overclocking processors.
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I bought one of these and the card is stable at 1204mhz with a 200mhz boost on the memory (couldnt get the memory overclock they achieved to become stable) but this clock speed was playable through the first half of crysis 3 (got tired of the game after a few hours) Then played borderlands 2 for a few more hourse. I finished off my testing with some fur-mark burn in tests to insure stability (2 hour burn in test). My room did get quite a bit warmer during this gaming period, but my window was open and outside was cold. The temps held steady at 73-76 Celsius for most of the duration of testing with the max temp being 77 degrees Celsius.