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Whats going on! is the 4870 that good?
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Soldato
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lol. Don't you children ever stop bickering! I would have thought both the 280 and the 4870 are excellent cards. Buy whichever floats your boat and the one you can afford, you wont be disappointed in either.
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I often hear this IQ argument on here. I'd be interested to know how many of you who put forward this "fact" would be able to tell which gpu was which in a blind test.
Not many me thinks.
the 4870 would be super inprovement on your 7950gx2 and it is a singe card. take it this way its better then gt260. and it is better in some games then gt280 but in other games wins by few fps but hey its shorter cheaper and has more features.
edit: i dont think u can use B*tch word here
The 4870 is a great card but what would the improvements be over the 7950X2.
So long as your minimum FPS is above 20 you wouldn't see stutter and every game will look just as nice.
It's ok to say 50% jump for some but if that relates in a rise from 40 to 80 FPS for me that wouldn't be worth the upgrade as you won't SEE any difference.
However, my 7600GT was getting <20 FPS in COD4 with most options off at 1400*990 and the fan would be going like a jet engine on the card. The 4870 I get 91 FPS with everything on and 4XAA with very little spiking mimimum framerate hasn't dropped below 55 FPS. But it's the noise of the card that is brilliant. The card doesn't even ramp up after 2 hours solid COD4 gaming. (Although temps of 87°C are worrying hehe)
Didn't that change when the 8 series **** all over the 2900?
Unless it's changed back to the days of 7 series and X1xxxx...
Because they are not selfish people and are willing to spend their money and use their electricity to hopefully benefit others.
Well i'm gonna assume that you're asking specifically about the folding capability of graphics cards, and not folding in itself, cause anyone who has ever had someone they loved die because of the diseases folding@home are aimed at curing would have no doubts that it's a great project. As for the GPU's they do a lot more calculations per watt and are incredibly easy to add to an existing folding rig, i've been running folding on 4 GPU's for 3 months now and while i am gonna have to stop now because the parent's are complaining about the electricity bill, even with me offering to pay for it. I have ordered a 4870 for this reason, had i still had a chance to use it to fold i would have gotten a 280, simple as that.
I'll just let supercomputers stick to tasks like folding, my desktop PC was never designed for folding, folding could proberbly cure stuff that nearly killed my mum, killed my gran and nearly did to other family members but that aint going to justify folding to me.
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Because they are not selfish people and are willing to spend their money and use their electricity to hopefully benefit others.
Their parents electricity more like...
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Boredom?
That pesky arctic ice.
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Yeah when the fan is at 100% it really does sound like a bloody helicopter taking off.
I keep mine at about 75% which is just about okay, if I go back to stock clocks then 60% is more than enough tbh and pretty quiet at load.
I wasn't aware that gpu's could now do that type of folding, I thought it was just some e-peen thing for people with high-end cards. Fair enough then.
The 4870 competes with a GTX260 and is more or less level in most games. However because of its price it is the better buy. However, it simply can't compete with a GTX280 - especially at higher resolutions. I have recently reviewed all 3 in single card aswell as crossfire and SLI configurations.
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The 4870 competes with a GTX260 and is more or less level in most games. However because of its price it is the better buy. However, it simply can't compete with a GTX280 - especially at higher resolutions. I have reviewed all 3
Well get reviewing the X2 4870 as that's what I'm interested in
. 1920x1200 and below the single 4870 is fine though?.