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5850, 5870 and GTX 470 reduced in price, what you think?

kmufc77 said:
Not sure how many of your threads ive replied to lately regarding you getting a new card?

Having owned a 470 and 5870 and for the price you can get these cards now i would get a 470.

But if i remember correctly you were concerned about noise in your previous threads

If noise is top priorty for you then i would then get the 5870 as under load its a lot quieter than the 470.
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Yea, I have made many posts, simply becuase im unsure what to do!

Im in the market for a new gpu, bu I dont know if I should wait, or buy now.

The card I want is a 5870... but at £287 current price, not sure if getting a 5850 something like a http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-003-HS&tool=3 would be equally as good.

The gtx 470's Im totally unsure about, Iv only really had experince with ATI cards, and Im also wary of noise and heat issues.

I game at 1920x1200 resolution and would obviously like to play games with nearish highest settings, I can make comprimising of course, but Im not sure if the 5850 I linked above would satisfy my need.

Alternatively I just hold on to my 3870x2 and just wait it out untill the 6000 series is here.
 
opethdisciple said:
Yea, I have made many posts, simply becuase im unsure what to do!

Im in the market for a new gpu, bu I dont know if I should wait, or buy now.

The card I want is a 5870... but at £287 current price, not sure if getting a 5850 something like a http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-003-HS&tool=3 would be equally as good.

The gtx 470's Im totally unsure about, Iv only really had experince with ATI cards, and Im also wary of noise and heat issues.

I game at 1920x1200 resolution and would obviously like to play games with nearish highest settings, I can make comprimising of course, but Im not sure if the 5850 I linked above would satisfy my need.

Alternatively I just hold on to my 3870x2 and just wait it out untill the 6000 series is here.
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Not to be sound rude but by looking at your posts/threads you have been told countless times by forum members on there opinions on cards you listed many many times

If you want to wait for ATI new 6 series range you could be waiting till xmas 2010-beginning of 2011

whatever cards you buy 5870/5850/470 all of these cards will be fine for your res and apart from Metro 2033 they will run most games fine,you cant go wrong with any of these cards really

Do you want to stick with your ageing 3870X2 and struggle with top end games or buy a new GPU and play games with no worries? if you wait for new technology to released you will never buy a new GPU as things are always moving so fast.
 
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5870 or 470? 5870 is faster.

470 more heat and noise.

470 better value for money.

5850 cool quite value for money.

erm to sum it up if you overclocker, get 5850 pocket the difference between 5870.

If you don't mind noise / heat get gtx 470 and pocket the difference between 470 and 5870

If you you're not overclocker get 5870 and be happy.
 
Nerusy said:
5870 or 470? 5870 is faster.

470 more heat and noise.

470 better value for money.

5850 cool quite value for money.

erm to sum it up if you overclocker, get 5850 pocket the difference between 5870.

If you don't mind noise / heat get gtx 470 and pocket the difference between 470 and 5870

If you you're not overclocker get 5870 and be happy.
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Thanks for your replies.

Im not really an overcloker at all. Have been looking at the pre overclocked 5850 from HIS:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-003-HS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411

From benchmarks (again, all benchmarks tell a different story) the HIS 5850 turbo is genrally only about 5fps less than the 5870 in some games (based on this review (http://www.guru3d.com/article/his-radeon-5850-icooler-v-turbo-review/3)

Gaming at 1920x1200, for some one as fussy as I am, think I will be happy, with the 5850?
 
opethdisciple said:
Iv been in the market for a new card for about a year now, was initially wating for the 5870 to drop in price, but then, as time when by realised that the 6000 series will be round the corner soon so decided to wait.

I have been looking at the 5850, 5870 and gtx 470.

Just seen today you can get a:

xfx 5850 @ 199
His 5870 @ 287
Zotac 470 @ 235

Any one care to comment. Any of these the stand out card to by at the price?

I do game at 1920x1200 resolution so I do need a powerfull card.

Was tempted by the GTX 470, as its some where inbetten the 5850 and 5870, but will have better tesselation performance for future dx 11 titles in the future.

Is this something I should use as a metric to decided between cards?

More than likely I will not be overcloking the cards, as I dont know how, nor do I want to brek anything.

Should I just wait for the 6000 series?
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Just buy a card god damn it i see a new thread nearly every day off you about buying a card.lol.
In all seriousness any card you buy now im sure you will be happy with.If you wait for the 6*** when it does come out you will just wait and see what Nvidia will bring out or if they will drop in price.
As you already said you have already waited for over a year :)
 
If you want a card then buy one now according to your budget. Don't play the waiting game, you'll be waiting for ever and a day...you've already made a good start on that so far. ;)

If you want something to last you yonks then why not buy a crossfire / sli set-up or the top single card, budget allowing of course. :)
 
opethdisciple said:
Thanks for your replies.

Im not really an overcloker at all. Have been looking at the pre overclocked 5850 from HIS:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-003-HS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411

From benchmarks (again, all benchmarks tell a different story) the HIS 5850 turbo is genrally only about 5fps less than the 5870 in some games (based on this review (http://www.guru3d.com/article/his-radeon-5850-icooler-v-turbo-review/3)

Gaming at 1920x1200, for some one as fussy as I am, think I will be happy, with the 5850?
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Yes, buy a 5850 and they can be easily overclocked to 5870 speeds!
They are also very quiet under load
 
RavenXXX2 said:
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...-high-end-roundup-june-2010-introduction.html

Here's another even more recent review of 470 with a slight overclock.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...gabyte-geforce-gtx-470-oc-edition-review.html

And another review showing detailed min FPS results with Nividias updated drivers, clearly the 5870 has way better min FPS than a 470.

http://www.techspot.com/review/283-geforce-gtx-400-vs-radeon-hd-5800/page2.html
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I said good review sites for a reason, and the only respectable review sites are anandtech and a UK review site, plus Guru3D if you exclude the 'Prolimatech Super Mega scandal'
 
HW91 said:
I said good review sites for a reason, and the only respectable review sites are anandtech and a UK review site, plus Guru3D if you exclude the 'Prolimatech Super Mega scandal'
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lol Guru do not even show min FPS and lol @ guru a respectable review site.
 
^ it's one of the 3 few review sites which doesn't give biased results, so yeah it's a respectable review site, other than that relatively small copyright infringement
 
RavenXXX2 said:
lol Guru do not even show min FPS and lol @ guru a respectable review site.
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Why arent guru a respectable review site?

Are they biased in your opinion?

Do they not review products very well in your opinion?

i personally have found them to be very good at reviewing products

Do they favour Nvdia rather than your beloved ATI?
 
Idealy I say learn how to overclock and buy 5850 but make sure to buy reference or voltage enabled controlled one. Asus 5850 reference is good one.

Overclocking is easy download msi afterburner, enable voltage control in settings, bump the core clock (1ghz is the goal) and memory clock (1250 max I advise). Keep voltage for 24/7 overclock under 1.25v.

Test stability by crysis benchmark, run 3 times loop to check stability while overclocking and run 30 times loop for last check for stability.

If the benchmark freezes or becomes artifacting (block out of colour and picture everywhere) then either increase voltage or decrease core clock
 
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