Get the best price, best warranty, and don't buy from Diamond. That's all.Dreams-Visions said:yep, I'm gonna go with the 6850. anyone have a recommendation on a particular brand?
Get the best price, best warranty, and don't buy from Diamond. That's all.Dreams-Visions said:yep, I'm gonna go with the 6850. anyone have a recommendation on a particular brand?
Solstice said:God damnit god damnit god damnit. I told myself I was gonna hold off, but I'm starting to feel my 4870's age, and these prices are too good to pass up. This weekend, I'm so buying one.
Crysis 2 is only ~5 months away.otake said:But is there a compelling game worth upgrading for?
Shambles said:"no fucker else" huh?
Those effects already exist and have for a long time. That's like saying no one is going to bother to make graphical eye candy in games because there is no point. And most games are not cheap console ports... I'm not sure what else could be wrong with this post. PhysX is just a label on a box. It itentially uses shitty old X87 code to destroy CPU performance to artifically make the GPU look like it accelerates it. Often the CPU is better suited for physics simulations when systems aren't parallel (but you can also fake a situation to make the collisions parallel when they really aren't). In addition to all these it's silly to run physics calculations on the GPU that is already under full load trying to render frames when the CPU usually is sitting there mostly idle.
DaBuddaDa said:Crysis 2 is only ~5 months away.
Salacious Crumb said:The 6990 is AMDs dual GPU card
Yeah I meant the 6990, and the microstutter is a dealbreaker unfortunately.Mr_Brit said:Single GPU only, yes dual GPU cards still have microstutter just the same as SLI/CF cards do.
The official reqs aren't announced, but I guess the developer spin is that it will look better than Crysis but require lower system specs. We'll see about that.otake said:Isn't that game going to be consoled-down? are the system requirements out yet?
nubbe said:In 5 months we will see 7870 do 120fps in crysis
flyinpiranha said:So for somebody who does not OC, and has a 4850 ... would you aim for a 6850 or a 6870. This is going to last me for about 2 years+ and will be moved into a new build and most likely put into a Xfire to squeeze another couple years out of it.
Salacious Crumb said:The 6950 and 6970 are both single GPU designs.
The 6990 is AMDs dual GPU card
brain_stew said:You''ll purge the disease that is Crossfire from your machine, that's not something to be taken lightly.
In the end its idle power consumption that really matters and a single card solution is always going to have the lower idle consumption, so if you care about reducing your power bills, then the 6970 is going to be the way to go, not dual 6850/6870s. You'll also probably be able to get rid of the 1GB VRAM bottleneck that has been crippling your 5970 as well.
like a candle in the wind. only now are we seeing similar performance cards go for the same price as the 4890 a few months after launch (£130), didn't make sense to keep it hanging around making the 5xxx series look overpriced. can't imagine per-unit profit was exactly stellar, either.Krauser Kat said:i just noticed Newegg no long carries the 4890. Any reason why it phased out so early when the 4870 etc. are still around
Ryoma-Echizen said:If Antilles is based on Barts GPU's it will outperform HD5970. HD6870 CF already surpass HD5870 CF (also better than a 5970), HD6870 for a dual gpu will stay way below the 300w at stock speeds.
HD5970 is toe to toe with a 6850 CF (50w less power consumption than a 5970).
Now if Antilles is based in the Cayman gpu's, hell will be upon us.
Flying_Phoenix said:This has probably been asked a million times already but is the 6870 really worth the extra $50?
All I want is a GPU that will last me 2.5 years (much like how my 8800GT has so far).
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k2k%K@:^JK@$^J$@^Nidain said:Seems the catalyst 10.10 WHQL are out too:
Catalyst 10.10 Released
Win7/Vista 64-bit: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...dd_ccc_enu.exe
Win7/Vista 32-bit: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...dd_ccc_enu.exe
XP 64-bit:https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...dd_ccc_enu.exe
XP 32-bit: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...dd_ccc_enu.exe
App Profiles: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...ppProfiles.exe
Release Notes: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...ease_notes.pdf
They are prolly avalaible thru steam alo
Flying_Phoenix said:This has probably been asked a million times already but is the 6870 really worth the extra $50?
All I want is a GPU that will last me 2.5 years (much like how my 8800GT has so far).
I don't care too much about maxing out every single game to every come out, but more so running it in quality settings. I mean the 6850 looks to be marginally better than the GTX 460 1GB and that was the hot shit up until two days ago.
Akuun said:Still quite happy with my 4870. I can wait until the newer cards come out. Maybe even until the next generation.
brain_stew said:If you're willing to OC (i.e. move a little slider for an instant performance boost), then no. A $180 will perform the same as a stock 6870 once overclocked and the 6870 is not capable of ever reaching much higher performance than what it delivers at stock.
evil solrac v3.0 said:is ATI going to have a PhysX equivalent for games?
Wait, actually...mr_nothin said:k2k%K@:^JK@$^J$@^
Bring on the MLAA hax!!
flyinpiranha said:6850 it is then ... thanks for saving me $50!
otake said:bad company 2 appears to run badly on card. I guess it is time to upgrade.
subversus said:yeah, it's time to upgrade your CPU.
But if you're on quad-core and play on insanely high resolutions, then yeah, you should upgrade your videocard.
otake said:I'm core 2 duo. I don't think I'll be upgrading any time soon. So far, only one compelling game has required going quad.
brain_stew said:You''ll purge the disease that is Crossfire from your machine, that's not something to be taken lightly.
In the end its idle power consumption that really matters and a single card solution is always going to have the lower idle consumption, so if you care about reducing your power bills, then the 6970 is going to be the way to go, not dual 6850/6870s. You'll also probably be able to get rid of the 1GB VRAM bottleneck that has been crippling your 5970 as well.
subversus said:Yes, and this one game is BFBC2, right? (also GTA4, Dragon Age and a dozen more games) My framerate in it doubled when I had upgraded from 2 to 4 cores. Don't waste your money on GPU, if you want to increase fps in BFBC2.
otake said:I played Dragon Age on my c2d with no issues. Upgrading my cpu would mean upgradin my motherboard as well, not looking forward to that. The core i5 stuff is still too expensive.
I thought gaming was becoming much more GPU bound than CPU bound.
otake said:I played Dragon Age on my c2d with no issues. Upgrading my cpu would mean upgradin my motherboard as well, not looking forward to that. The core i5 stuff is still too expensive.
I thought gaming was becoming much more GPU bound than CPU bound.
subversus said:No, since this console generation is light on GPU side the opposite is happening.
Cryengine 3, Frostbite (DICE games from now on), Rage (GTA series) - they all demand 4 cores to run decent on high settings. And again your fps in DA will almost double if you're on quad.
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,...rks-75-percent-boost-for-quad-cores/Practice/
But yeah, Intel CPUs and motherboards are expensive.
otake said:Aren't the console limited to three cores? I know the 360 is three cores and the ps3 is somce crazy 6 or seven spe bullshit.
otake said:I'm core 2 duo. I don't think I'll be upgrading any time soon. So far, only one compelling game has required going quad.
If Crysis 2 ran any worse than the original Crysis I would be shocked.DaBuddaDa said:Crysis 2 is only ~5 months away.
otake said:I played Dragon Age on my c2d with no issues. Upgrading my cpu would mean upgradin my motherboard as well, not looking forward to that. The core i5 stuff is still too expensive.
I thought gaming was becoming much more GPU bound than CPU bound.
brain_stew said:Not on dual core rigs.
You could pick up a used Q6600 for <$100 and clock it to 3ghz+ and it would get rid of your CPU woes for many years to come. I can't rightfully recommend a GPU upgrade until you do at least this.
Amazon.flyinpiranha said:Where do you shop for a used one?
flyinpiranha said:Where do you shop for a used one?
Flying_Phoenix said:Being honest, I suspect that I'll start getting more and more life on my hardware as time goes on. Gaming is reaching its limit in terms of production costs and we haven't seen a game that truly brought PC's to their knees since Crysis.
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brain_stew said:Metro 2033 would like a word.