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4890 or wait for gtx275 prices to drop

shephga

shephga

shephga

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I have a 8800gt, my cpu is a q6600 on a Gigabyte P35 ds4. I have money burning a hole in my pocket as I want to upgrade my graphics card. I would really like to get a gtx275 (brand loyalty) but feel I'd be spending an extra £30 (which I dont really have) +/- over similar quality of a 4890 card.

I'm running a 22" lcd at 1680x1050, I play WoW , have Crysis Warhead (which has been mocking me when I've tried to play it previously).

Go for the ATI or wait a week or more for the prices to drop on the gtx, every review seems to have the gtx275 ahead slightly.

Help me make my mind up :)

Cheers
 
tbh at 140 I'd grab the 4890. Not to mention you can expect 950mhz on stock voltage....and 1+ghz witha slight voltage bump.
 
yeah but you can still up the voltage with rivatuner or similar tweaking programs.

Also from what I've seen some of the sapphire cards will do over 1ghz on stock voltage.
 
Still fairly sure a 4 series ATi will hold up FAR better to dx11 games next year with improved IQ with tesselation aswell than Nvidia cards. I wouldn't touch anything but an ATi card till Nvidia get dx11 cards out and see how they compare. quite a lot of dx10.1 improvements are the big steps between dx 10 and 11 and so a lot of the speed increases and the tesselation unit IQ improvements will work on current ATi cards.

Games will be using dx11 and big, and quickly. Keep in mind the majority of dx11 and all of dx10.1 was supposed to be in games for the past 2 years now, and games in developement for the past 3-4 years at least would have been gearing up to use what was dx10.1 before it was cut down. In other words, most dx10 games out now have dx10.1 bits dormant in the code unusable, some of them like Assasins creed already showed dx10.1 is noticeably faster. THe thing is that almost all game developers already have experience coding for dx10.1(and therefore dx11 mostly) so they'll all be ready to go when dx11 is out and now that dx11 is really REALLY worthwhile everyone will jump on it, when you throw in that DX11 isn't crippled like dx10 was, and most cards sold in the past 3 generations or so are DX10(dx10.1 for ati) already theres a large base of people to be worth programming for.
 
shrek2 said:
When are these Nvidia price drops happening?
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Probably when the 5 series of ATi cards come out, and just before the GTX300 series come out will probably be another drop.

Speculation and rumour from this forum suggest that ATi 5 series will be around September/October, and GTX300 series will be around early 2010

But don't take my word for it
 
The problem atm if you it will happen for proces to drop is that it will happen when ati want to clear old stock to make way for the 5800 cards so you'll be in 2 minds to w8 or not. either buy it now or w8 for the 5850/5870 which i'd pursume was the same speed.
 
Anyone know if a Q9550 is likely to bottleneck 2 x 5000 series?

I play EVE online and want to run 3 monitors so they won't be in crossfire.
 
If its overclocked no.

But DONT get 2x5xxx....If it aint in CF, it doesnt make a difference what your second card uses, its a complete waste of money.

And also a 5xxx series would be completely overkill for eve.

And keep in mind ATI's resolutions are very limited compared to nvidia's :).
 
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