New vid card?

Greddy

Greddy

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Running a 8800GTX atm....ran the bfbc2 beta pretty well but im thinking its time to upgrade. I plan on building an i7 rig sometime this year but for now i want to upgrade just the video card. Was thinking of just getting a simple GTX 260 and then when i do my build getting another and running them in SLI. Problem is i dont know enough about the power of the video cards vs others such as 2 GTX 260's vs 1 GTX 295 and so on. Anyone have any help info or can point me in the right direction?
 
I'm about to get a 5850 myself. I have the same video card as you. If you have the budget, go for the 5850, or the 5770 if it's a bit lower.
 
Greddy I run two GTX260's in SLI and they aren't the best option out there. I run 1680 x 1050 in most games maxed out except BC2. Regardless of which solution you choose if you're going to go SLI or CrossFire I'd recommend at least an 850W power supply. For most single card solutions, aside from dual GPU models, a 550W power supply would suffice. Personally if I had the money to buy a single card today I would choose the 5870 and later add another. These cards are beasts. Here are some benchmarks to look at:

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=328335

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-5870,2422-11.html

Versus 5850:

http://hothardware.com/Articles/AMD-ATI-Radeon-HD-5850-Performance-Review/?page=4

Two 5870's in CrossFire are unreal while a little pricey. The only other option is to wait for Nvidia to release their 400 series cards.
 
Soulz, any reason you chose the 5850 over the 5870 other than price? Im running the same cpu as you so just looking for your input.
 
5870 is 200 bucks more then the 5850 :).
 
ATI 5670 and up. THey are new cards so there will be heating but if you got good fans, and other cooling components you should be good. The new ATI cards are DX11 Nvidia are 10

I'm getting a XFX Radeon HD 5770. Wanted to get Sapphire but XFX would do and very they are very price conscious. Diamond too expensive.

5770 and up will play literally everything at max settings still capped at 60FPS and i would assume BC2 as well.
 
Fast I don't know about the 5770 running BC2 at 60 FPS even with a quad core unless you're talking 1280 x 1024. I'm running a quad core at 4.0GHz with 6GB of RAM and only getting around 60 FPS on medium at 1680 x 1050 with two 260's.
 
I'm running a quad core at 4.0GHz with 6GB of RAM and only getting around 60 FPS on medium at 1680 x 1050 with two 260's.
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How's that possible? Chuck's running a 920 stock speeds with 2x260s in sli and getting about 100fps.
 
Sixer I did just update my drivers and haven't tried it since so maybe it was a driver issue. I briefly remember someone mentioning there was an SLI issue with the 196.21 drivers from January.
 
On the bfbc2 beta boards someone posted his average fps with a single 5770 maxed out gfx at 51.75 or something fps. this is average from like 5 mins of play. Oh uh this was at 1080p
 
The thing to remember here is he obviously doesn't upgrade cards that often if he is still running an 8800GTX. You're talking about a card that was released in 2006. IMO it's better to pay the money up front for a better card and not have to upgrade in a year or so because you got a new monitor or a new game comes up and the card you picked doesn't have the ass to run the it.
 
what setting is chuk runing the game and yoy soldier??
i have a gtx 295 i run about 100-120 fps on medium settings and 55-65 on hi
whitch is the same as 2 GTX260
 
1+ to Sgt. SID. Wait a little longer until the new DX 11 cards come out and ATI will prolly drop the prices on their cards to compete. Their market strategy always seems to be price drop and compete, rather than make the biggest baddest card around (although this last round was a little different)
 
I don't know. If Nvidia really launches their cards at $500 and $680 AND the lower-end card performs worse than the 5870 (which is absolutely ludicrous), I can see ATI cards actually going UP in price.

I mean, why would you buy a $500 nvidia card (GTX 470) which performs worse than a $380 card (ATI 5870)?! Doesn't make a lot of sense does it?
 
Exactly Heat, I've seen the benchmarks for the 470 and the 480 and right now the 5870 is still outperforming it for a lower price.
 
new nvidia cards match the 6 month old ati cards it was a bit higher on benches but not by much, the teselation engine on the board rocks though so reguardless im getting 2 new gtx 480 when they are released march 26th or if u wanna go cheaper the new gtx 300 series is coming
http://images.vizworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/gtx380-benchmarks-530x298.png



or heres the gtx 480
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/03/6mar109t4ww4vee.jpg



heres eyefinity with 3d on gtx 480

http://www.engadget.com/photos/nvidia-3d/#2770201
 
new nvidia cards match the 6 month old ati cards it was a bit higher on benches
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What benches? All that's been released to the press is what Nvidia lets them have right now. Until I see independent tests Nvidia can tell me my cock is made of gold but we both know it's not true.

It's a PR game at this point. ATI did the same thing before the release of the 5870s. Of course, they didn't release their "data" directly to the media but had it "leaked" that the 5870 would outperform the GTX295 by almost 30-40%. In reality, that's just not true. Once reviewers got a chance to tests the cards and post actual benchmarks we saw that then. Wait and see what these cards actually do before jumping on the bandwagon.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fanboy for either camp, I just can't stand everyone drinking the koolaid without even asking WTF is in the koolaid.
 
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