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Best 285 GTX?

pioneer2000

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What's the best 285 out at the moment? The Zotac look good (higher clocks at one of the lowest prices) or the gainward with it's dual fan cooler?

Is the gainward cooling solution noticeably quieter / better?
 
Yeah I think the Zotac is pitched at a good price, higher clock speeds and still under 250 notes. EVGA as usual are going after the 'money is no object' market.
 
I know I'm moaning about the GTX285 loads lately, but I really don't understand how anyone considers that it's worth its asking price? Surely you know you're wasting over £100 over 4890 which offers very similar performance for a lot less money?
 
kylew said:
I know I'm moaning about the GTX285 loads lately, but I really don't understand how anyone considers that it's worth its asking price? Surely you know you're wasting over £100 over 4890 which offers very similar performance for a lot less money?
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You make a valid point especially since with directx11 cards coming end of year a cheaper card now with comparable speed would do just fine. Then save the £100 difference towards a better next gen card for directx11 games once they arrive.
 
Why don't BFG make a GTX285? I'd always like to go with them due to their amazing warranty/ customer service.


kylew said:
I know I'm moaning about the GTX285 loads lately, but I really don't understand how anyone considers that it's worth its asking price? Surely you know you're wasting over £100 over 4890 which offers very similar performance for a lot less money?
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And with the 4870X2 being so similarly priced as well, you'd have to be a loony.
 
Ben M said:
Why don't BFG make a GTX285? I'd always like to go with them due to their amazing warranty/ customer service.




And with the 4870X2 being so similarly priced as well, you'd have to be a loony.
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Yeah, exactly.
 
Perhaps because the 4870x2 is a dual gpu design and as such has issues / poor performance with several games.

The 4890 is good value but it's ruined by the loud cooler design and lets face it- doesn't look as flashy as the nvidia cards. Also imo Nvidia's drivers are better.
 
pioneer2000 said:
Perhaps because the 4870x2 is a dual gpu design and as such has issues / poor performance with several games.

The 4890 is good value but it's ruined by the loud cooler design and lets face it- doesn't look as flashy as the nvidia cards. Also imo Nvidia's drivers are better.
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What exactly is better? People don't seem to know the difference between better and preference or used to.

Bearing in mind that multi-GPU solutions from ATi and nVidia took off around 5 years ago, they've both had plenty of time to make them work, and work they do.

The amount of games that dual GPU configs don't work well in are either so old that they run fast enough anyway or they're broken.

I think it's safe to say that all games released in the last 2-3 years have some sort of multi-GPU profile.

Multi GPUs have taken off big, they currently work better than ever before and offer a real increase in performance.

A lot of games you can get about an 80% increase in performance over a single card/gpu and increasingly common, games that will give 100% performance over a single card.

I notice that people who have issues with multiGPU setups are still clinging on to the issues there used to be when the current iterations were brought about 4-5 years ago.
 
kylew said:
What exactly is better? People don't seem to know the difference between better and preference or used to.

Bearing in mind that multi-GPU solutions from ATi and nVidia took off around 5 years ago, they've both had plenty of time to make them work, and work they do.

The amount of games that dual GPU configs don't work well in are either so old that they run fast enough anyway or they're broken.

I think it's safe to say that all games released in the last 2-3 years have some sort of multi-GPU profile.

Multi GPUs have taken off big, they currently work better than ever before and offer a real increase in performance.

A lot of games you can get about an 80% increase in performance over a single card/gpu and increasingly common, games that will give 100% performance over a single card.

I notice that people who have issues with multiGPU setups are still clinging on to the issues there used to be when the current iterations were brought about 4-5 years ago.
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Well tbh i moved from ATI > Nvidia and i do think the drivers are more efficient, and this is comig from a long time ATI user.
 
unknownsock said:
Well tbh i moved from ATI > Nvidia and i do think the drivers are more efficient, and this is comig from a long time ATI user.
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People never seem to know what to say when you ask them why though?

What are they 'more efficient' at doing? Outside of having control panel preferences, I don't get where people get the idea that either one is better than the other?
 
Ben M said:
Indeed, I've asked OCUK why they don't sell one =]

Will report back with the answer.
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They used to about a month or so ago. I was going to get the OC2, but it was out of stock so I ended up getting the OCX - which started to produce artifacts a week later.

I took it back to get a refund and buy another one, they had none in stock so I got the ASUS.

Since that time, the BFG cards have dissapeared.
 
kylew said:
People never seem to know what to say when you ask them why though?

What are they 'more efficient' at doing? Outside of having control panel preferences, I don't get where people get the idea that either one is better than the other?
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Simple, Smoother. My minimum FPS was higher.
 
ordered my BFG GTX285 today :)

decided it was worth after all the additional 65 or so over a 4890 - Nvidia cards just seemt o be more consistant over a whole wide range of games ... I also like FSX and the ATI cards have some issues with that game

I have a feeling the 285s are being reduced more than the 275s at the moment as I was going to get a 275 but the price differential wasn't that great
 
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