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What ATI card would be the same as my 260GTX

liamcrane

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Evening all i have been doing a bit of reading thru these forums and have come across the news of the new nvidia drivers deciding to cook themselves!! I used to be an ati man started off with a nice little x300 then was told to try nvidia so i went to an 8800GTS which was fab very reliable, i them decided to upgrade to a 260GTX which has been fine but it seems to me that nivida may have hit a brick wall with there latest revalation. So my main question is what card from ATI would match my 260GTX and what would you reccomend as a poosible upgrade as well nividia of ati?

thanks again
 
5770 is closest to 260, maybe little bit slower but you can clock it, upgrade would have to be a 5850.

stulid said:
An 4890 is a perfect match against a gtx260.
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No point, he's gaining nothing, may as well go with DX11 and drop some FPS, less so if you overclock.
 
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The latest Nvidia driver clanger does not affact the 200 series cards apparantly.

However, why go ATI and just get matching performance?

ANyway, the 5770 will match our gtx260 performance and give you dx11 as well.

A 5850 would be a massive upgrade especially overclocked. When overclocked it beats a stock 5870 and hence a gtx295 or two gtx260's in SLI.

A lot of power for under £200 if you look around.

Or wait and see how much the gtx470 is in a few weeks.
 
You can sell the GTX260 for a fair price these days.
Then you can pick up a 5850 for an extra £100 and OC which will give you 260 SLI performance...

That can't be bad!
 
Greebo said:
The latest Nvidia driver clanger does not affact the 200 series cards apparantly.
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Wouldn't be so sure on that... I was getting slowdown over time in source games which I thought was a memory leak but more likely due to the increased heat... the difference being the 200 series are probably better able to thermal manage and throttle down, rather than die like some of the older cards seem to do.
 
I wouldn't go from a gtx260 to a ati5770, its a downgrade in my eyes, this argument has been played to death on this forum as to what's faster.
 
stulid said:
I wouldn't go from a gtx260 to a ati5770, its a downgrade in my eyes, this argument has been played to death on this forum as to what's faster.
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I agree the best route forward (at the present time) is to put the money down on a 5850.
 
thanks for the quick responce guys!! Im running windows 7 64bit so i getting full use of my 4gb of memory and im in one of them kinda moods when i want something new, but i really dont no which way to go. I think i would have to go for a DX 11 card otherwise i might as well stick with the dx10 260 i already have. If i could sell my 260 for say £90 i would be willing to pay another £100 towards a card so im looking for one around the £190 mark.

I am going to look to do my first overclock with which ever card i decide to go for and i was looking to use the evga software to do it with, does it have to be an evga card to be able to use the software? my 260 is a gigabtye card was gonna have a play around with it if it would work to get an idea of how to overclock
 
5770 and clock it to 950-1ghz is the best bang for buck option right now might be a bit of a diagonal/sideways step though, personally I'd sell the 260 and use those funds to get a 5850 but wouldn't pay a penny more than £200 for a 5850.
 
i am thinking of doing the same thing though i'm not sure whether i will se many gains. I have a 275 clocked to above 285 speeds so a 5850 is probably only going to be on a par/ a few frames better than it. Are you pretty much garaunteed a high overclock on them?

I mean assuming i can get £100 or more for my 275 then its not going to be an expensive upgrade.
 
Rroff said:
Wouldn't be so sure on that... I was getting slowdown over time in source games which I thought was a memory leak but more likely due to the increased heat... the difference being the 200 series are probably better able to thermal manage and throttle down, rather than die like some of the older cards seem to do.
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Ive been monitoring my 295 with rivatuner, no probs this end with the new drivers. temps around 72c load which is what theyre normally are.
 
rhys216 said:
Put it on the Members Market and I might make you an offer for around that much... ;)
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Where abouts is the members market i have never used it before?

I have been looking at the 5850 and it looks like the one for me! 1 question tho i see it uses ddr5 ram i want to make sure that my motherboard will support this ok. I cant post a link of the mo board cos overclockers dont seem to have it anymore but i will put the model number below if someone could maybe google it and check the spec for me id be very grateful

ASUS M4A785D-M PRO785G (SOCKET AM3) DDR2 MICRO ATX

thanks again
 
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Gerard said:
Ive been monitoring my 295 with rivatuner, no probs this end with the new drivers. temps around 72c load which is what theyre normally are.
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IIRC temps are mis-reported which is why older hardware doesn't thermal manage and dies... the 200 series I believe still thermal manage tho with these drivers. Personally I wouldn't stick with them.
 
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