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Just ordered a gtx470

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I too am tempted to buy the 470. I already have a 5850 (overclocked to 1000/1250), but it will be fun to test them direcetly against eachother and keep whichever I find best overall.

Whichever one I sell I should only lose £20-£30 - the cost of a trip to Pizza Hut.
 
no_1_dave said:
I think you're just too fixed on how much you hate everything Nvidia.
I use 3D Vision now with my 275 & it works very nicely. It is only just starting to struggle, the 470 will eliminate this struggle. To be honest most modern games aren't that demanding as they are all console ports anyway (with metro being an exception).
Looking back at your posts it looks as though you are in bed with ATI. Why carry on posting 1 sided views over & over again? Both ATI & Nvidia offer unique features. ATI's being good price/performance, Nvidia's being good 3D Vision & debatable GPU physics support. Neither company is better then the other.
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I actually quite like 3D vision, but I found the performance impact it had quite surprising, a total halving of the FPS is quite a big drop in performance, I could see the 470 and 480 struggling with playing games with 3D on unless they've made changes to how it works on fermi cards, but there aren't any bench marks currently that show fermi and 3D that I'm aware of.
 
I'd have stuck with the GTX470. Might not be any faster than Ati in games but it offers compute power and stuff is starting to appear that can use it. I checked on the gfx channels and the advice is still to avoid Ati if you're using 3d apps.
 
smilertoo said:
I'd have stuck with the GTX470. Might not be any faster than Ati in games but it offers compute power and stuff is starting to appear that can use it. I checked on the gfx channels and the advice is still to avoid Ati if you're using 3d apps.
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That's probably really specific 3D app plugins that use CUDA, I'm using 3DS Max right now as we speak with a 4850 and it's all good.
 
Final8y said:
You didn't use that term, i did.
I asked you a question, show me something else that ATI had been cheating at recently & you simply failed.
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3Dmark03, a year newer for you good enough? can post your all important link too if you like.
 
well i've pre-ordered the GTX 470 aswell ! I've tried both ATI and Nvidia in the past ! I think the GTX 470 may be a good card ones drivers mature a little.

I'm not looking for any flame wars.
 
stulid said:
3Dmark03, a year newer for you good enough? can post your all important link too if you like.
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Your link would be irrelevant as your reply has no relevance to my question as your reply is not about a recent event.

Anyway i just thought that i may of missed a recent event & i only wanted to know about it.
There is no reason to get wound up.
 
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:) LOL
I can handle the heat that these may exhaust out, Saves turning on the central heating for this one room.

I may even end up watercooling it anyway.
 
If people want to buy a GTX 470 let them. they might like the feature set of the Nvidia cards, the 470 is not a bad card ok it's a little over priced & runs warm, but from what I have seen it overclocks well and scales well with with said overclock.

just needs to be cheaper to sell better.
 
470 would be a bad upgrade in my opinion. Not really all that much faster and in some games the difference is minimal (against a GTX 285 anyway)

I would just overclock your 275 a bit or at the very least go for a 5870/480.

Although your point about driver updates improving performance is very valid. We may see the 400 series get some nice boosts through new drivers in the future.

safest beat would be to get 5870 or just wait for the 6-series/ati refresh.
 
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Locky said:
If people want to buy a GTX 470 let them. they might like the feature set of the Nvidia cards, the 470 is not a bad card ok it's a little over priced & runs warm, but from what I have seen it overclocks well and scales well with with said overclock.

just needs to be cheaper to sell better.
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"warm" :D I bet you wouldn't touch one running full pelt with your bare hands.
 
Good choice OP, 470/480 are worthless cards right now, sure fermi might get better with a refresh (new cards) but nothing can fix these current cards. Theyre too hot, they hog power and theyre very expensive for what they do, drivers will never solve these problems.
 
Helios1234 said:
That's what people said about the HD2900XT as well...:p
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To be fair, it did, it just didnt become the mythbuster special some made it out to be. I know because I've still got one running in a family machine that I did a part exchange with my mate for (cash+card for one of my old cards), and it still runs the vast majority of titles absolutely fine, it's the CPU holding that machine back :)
 
Alexrose1uk said:
To be fair, it did, it just didnt become the mythbuster special some made it out to be. I know because I've still got one running in a family machine that I did a part exchange with my mate for (cash+card for one of my old cards), and it still runs the vast majority of titles absolutely fine, it's the CPU holding that machine back :)
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It did, but that didn't stop the 8800 series from getting better, too. I mean hell, AMD is still releasing drivers that increase the performance of the 4800 series almost two years on. In fact I believe I'm correct in saying that the 2900 series currently fares worse against the 8800 series than it did at any point during its life span (although I suspect that's mostly because testing with 4xMSAA is now considered standard).
 
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