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bigjimmyauk

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Just had a lovely letter through the door today saying i'm getting a £500 rebate into my account tommorrow :D

Now i was thinking seriously about 5770 x fire in a couple of months but now this money has come i seem a little baffled as to what to do.

what is going to give me the least troubles/best performance/best minimum and average frame rate 2x5770 or a 5870 or even a 5850.

i did want to upgrade as some games i like to try to play with 4xAA and atleast 16xAF on 1920x1080 resolution suffer sometimes from poor minimums and averages. I would really love to play through crysis and warhead again as the last time i did them i was getting 22FPS with my 5770 and also metro struggles a fair bit

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It needs to be really quiet as my 5770 is inaudible in my rig so would like to follow the same trend by having something with good cooling and quiet fans like the vapour x
 
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I notice you never mentioned Nvidia? anyway if I had £500 to burn today I would get a 480, that can be had for £360.

Regarding a 5970, TBH that kind of power is not required and a 480/5870 is more than enough, they are incredibly fast cards, xfire/SLI come with their own problems, not guaranteed 100% scaling in all games, occasional stuttering and many driver problems from one month to the next, to be fair this is more directed at ATI and their recent xfire performance
 
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stulid said:
get yourself a GTX480
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Never really been part of the green camp ever just been with Ati since i started so will probably stick with them just like i always will buy AMD proccys over intel. Just one of those things i'm not a fan boi just brand power i guess.
 
5970 runs just as hot from the majority benchmarks I have seen, simply set a fan profile for the 480 to ramp up earlier with temps than what the auto fan does and you will never see temps above 80c when gaming with the fan hitting 70% max.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
5970 runs just as hot from the majority benchmarks I have seen, simply set a fan profile for the 480 to ramp up earlier with temps than what the auto fan does and you will never see temps above 80c when gaming with the fan hitting 70% max.
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i heard that the fans are quiet noisy tho i need something fairly quiet as the rest of my system is designed to be as quiet as possible without affecting temps to badly
 
A 59 might run as hot,but remember there is 2 GPUs in there :) Anyway lets not go down the 480/59 road:).

You will have some change from £500 :) think its about a penny.
 
Yeah they are noisy at 80% and above, but 70% is perfectly acceptable and they are not as loud as my 5870 at 70%. If I was in the market today " I'm not as I bought a 5870 on release and love it :D " I would get a 480, at around £360 they are not much more expensive than a 5870 but are marginally faster " a lot faster in some games " and their tessellation performance crushes ATI's. Recent drivers from Nvidia are better than ATI's I'm sad to say, upping the idle clocks when overclocking really ****** me off.

Regarding the comments on 70% fan noise, in a case that is not on your desk and with a side panel on, you can live with it. Anyway if you just happen to find it too loud just set the fan to 50% and see what temps you get in game, it might be enough to give decent max temps.
 
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Can anyone point me in the direction of something that shows all 57 and 58 series cards in one whole benchmark standoff so i can see what real differences are like between them all.
 
If you want speed and silence you should consider a non reference HD5870 such as the ASUS Matrix, Asus V2 or the Sapphire VapourX.

Even though you have the money for a GTX480 the premium isn't worth it IMO for an additional 8% performance plus you have to bear with the noisy Delta fan. Non reference GTX480 cards cost a bomb and make the HD5970 look like good value for money.

I would try and avoid multiple video card setups if you have the cash for a single fast card. SLI/Crossfire setups are always reliant on driver releases for support and performance fixes. Nvidia is slow at getting out drivers but they do work and AMD gives monthly driver updates but can be hit and miss in terms of reliability.
 
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Not sure but if noise is a big factor doubt you could find much quieter cards than 5770s even with two of them. Maybe one of the Asus 5850 or 5870 cards with their custom coolers.
 
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