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Get a ATI 5870 or Wait for the GTX 485

I may have to get this 300 £ Eyefinity , little bit put off by the 6 Mini Display ports as I was not after multi-display as main reason for the card, but with these specs at that price it is immense
 
F1aw1ess said:
never had any problems with nvidia and had their cards since the original GeForce 256

Just went over to ATI 5970 and had nothing but problems (yes on a clean install)

Just about to send it back and going to go for 470 SLI
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Same here. Had to send a 5850 back due to never ending issues with flickering and grey-screens, crashes.

If you wind back time to a long time ago, ATI were renowned for crappy drivers.
 
NathWraith said:
It is a well know fact Nvidia's drivers are far less buggy than ATI's. No one can deny this.
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OK dude, little challenge for you then as nobody has ever managed this.
Prove that ATI drivers are worse than Nvidia, not just in your opinion but using facts and statistics. I'm not saying you're right or wrong but this is something that gets thrown around with no facts to back up the statment. It's almost impossible to do and therefore people like yourself pass personal experience/ opinion as fact. Sorry to say but it isn't.
There are many 'well known' facts that turn out to be a load of tosh! It's not a well known fact to me, lets put it that way.
 
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Didn't realise the 2gb 5870s were that cheap now.

Its all swings and roundabouts with drivers anyway, and people with no problems don't generally post about it on forums. Never had any problems with ATI, and had a small problem with Nvidia recently but nothing a driver roll back didn't fix. Personally though prefer the IQ on ATI cards.
 
The only problem I can see with that 2Gb Eyefinity 6 card is the need to buy an mini active Display port to DVI adaptor unless of course the card comes with at least one such device or can you just run a straight forward mini display port to HDMI lead form the card?
 
Jibber55 said:
OK dude, little challenge for you then as nobody has ever managed this.
Prove that ATI drivers are worse than Nvidia, not just in your opinion but using facts and statistics. I'm not saying you're right or wrong but this is something that gets thrown around with no facts to back up the statment. It's almost impossible to do and therefore people like yourself pass personal experience/ opinion as fact. Sorry to say but it isn't.
There are many 'well known' facts that turn out to be a load of tosh! It's not a well known fact to me, lets put it that way.
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Here's some proof (admittedly old now) of the opposite.

http://gizmodo.com/373076/nvidia-responsible-for-nearly-30-of-vista-crashes-in-2007
 
I see where you come from with the Eye6, but its Ati, worst drivers and support ever really (from what i've had), so my next upgrade is back to Nvidia :D
 
Bodom said:
The Powercolor Eyefinity 6 has been that price for afcouple of days now and
I cant find any outher 5870 2gb version's anything close to that price so if it is a priceing error then I just got incredibly lucky :P
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I found this awhile ago but kept on forgetting to bring this up.
 
I'm curious too. As someone who is looking to get a crossfire 5870 setup in a little while, is there any reason why I would go for the 1gb OC 5870 over the 2gb one for cheaper and just OC it myself? Other than the output (does it come with an adapter to DVI) is there anything different? I'd be running it on a single screen at 1920x1200 - but if I can get double the memory on it for roughly the same price/cheaper, I might aswell. (There don't seem to be any reviews on single screens either.)
 
Gackt said:
I'm curious too. As someone who is looking to get a crossfire 5870 setup in a little while, is there any reason why I would go for the 1gb OC 5870 over the 2gb one for cheaper and just OC it myself? Other than the output (does it come with an adapter to DVI) is there anything different? I'd be running it on a single screen at 1920x1200 - but if I can get double the memory on it for roughly the same price/cheaper, I might aswell. (There don't seem to be any reviews on single screens either.)
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See post #34.
 
Gackt said:
I obviously failed at reading your post. :p

Better snap one up before they all go then. :o
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I was seriously looking at this a few weeks ago when it was similarly discounted (about £30 more) at a competitor, hence why I knew about the adapters it comes with.

Great card for the money, but a tad too rich for me.
 
I complained about the ati drivers the other week and got a ban for apprently trolling which i found funny when i was speaking the truth.
 
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