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OC GTX275 or a 5850?

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Hi there,

Been reading a lot about the 5850 lately, but can't ever seem to find any in stock and not willing to pay ~£240 for a <£200 card. Now, my natural alternative is an overclocked GTX275 (BFG 709mhz).

From reading around, it seems that the 275 isn't a massive way behind the 5850. The 5850 has DX11, DP, is slightly faster but only has a 2yr warranty.

Worth the wait do you think or just get the 275?
 
Well you said your not willing to pay the price so the decision is made already :D

But the 5850 is a beast if the rest of your computers good then I'd say out of the two the 5850 BUT I was lucky and I bought mine when they were cheaper + dirt 2 saved me 25 quid and I had free delivery so I got mine for £198 and saved money on dirt 2 :P

If I were in your position I'd be looking at the 5770 or the GTX 275 as you've said, I mean you could wait for nvidia but they will release there big cards first so there out of the price range anyway
 
If your not going for the 5850... and don't want to spend over £200.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-054-GI&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=927

Get this - they are actually hand picked properly tested cards and come with atleast 1500MHz shader core. Not just a bunch of normal cards that might hit some slight overclock.

Or if you can find one in stock and want to spend a little over 200 get the 275GTX version of this with 1792MB and 1550 shader.
 
Or you could save even more money and get this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-124-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1403

Will overclock very well and is the cheapest out off all the cards but once overclocked it certainly won't be far behind the OC gtx275 if slower at all. Forget the gtx260 its far to expensive and the same goes for the gtx275. If i were you though i would be waiting for the 5850 prices to drop. The stock levels seem to be rising so the prices may be dropping some time soon.
 
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SoC will edge it over all but the most extreme OC'd 4890 - tho whether an extra 2-3fps is worth £20 I dunno. Infact most of them will overclock pretty well aswell - they really are handpicked cores - so in theory should never lose to the 4890 in most games.
 
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Rroff said:
SoC will edge it over all but the most extreme OC'd 4890 - tho whether an extra 2-3fps is worth £20 I dunno. Infact most of them will overclock pretty well aswell - they really are handpicked cores - so in theory should never lose to the 4890 in most games.
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Looks like an overclocked 4980 would hammer an over clocked 260 card..
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/radeon-5770-overclocking,review-31736-7.html

MSI GTX 260 (680mhz core) marked with red line
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chaparral said:
An overclocked 4980 would hammer an over clocked 260 card..
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http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=3656&p=5

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1113/6/

normally you'd be right... but these SoC cards really are handpicked.

Due to lack of VRAM they do slow up a bit at 2560x res but in most of the 1920x benchmarks they are a fair margin infront of the 4890 - and even tho they are heavily OC'd cards they still can manage around 10% extra on the core and shaders out the box.
 
For that budget l would consider the GTX275 or the 4890 that offer pretty much the same performance. It all comes down to what brand you prefer and minor features that differentiate the two products.
 
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I am pretty sure a £120 or so 4890 will beat it, Mr Nvidia.
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You'd be wrong*. OK it might not beat some of the max OC radeons - depending on the benchmarks you look at - but they are atleast £30 more expensive again... it will beat or match any 4890 under £170.


*Unless you get a very good overclocking vanilla card... which isn't guaranteed.
 
I wouldn't bother with the gtx 275 tbh, old tech and you will be wanting to upgrade ur gpu in about years time, might aswell get somthing decent to start with so it will alst you through the upcoming games???
 
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