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GTX 480 or HD5870 for gaming?

If I was buying a new card for high end performance I'd definitely get a 480.

But since I already have a 5870 and it plays everything I throw at with no problems, I'm not too bothered.
 
nvidia are garbage. get a 5850 and oc it beyond 5870. but feel free to buy nvidia 3dfx style rubbish :) look at the card..its simply ridiculous. noise, heat and watts are always a factor. i dont even know that my pc is turned on its so quiet. :)
 
AWPC said:
Order this as well then the GTX480 becomes silent & can still be overclocked.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-002-GD&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=787

Also to the OP not only is the GTX480 the best single GPU card available right now probably until Nvidia bring something faster out next year you also need to consider than 99.9% of PC games run much better on Nvidia gfx cards as the drivers are much better. This is because Nvidia invest a lot of money on this all year round & work closely with most PC game developers to ensure the latest games run stable & well on Nvidia hardware.

Sure ATI make some great gfx cards but the drivers have always been an issue as they just do not put much resource into them so typically the latest game will take longer to get a hotfix...........
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The funny thing here is i actually think he believes this utter load of bs he has posted.
 
I think both companies have had issues with there drivers in the past, ATI seem to update there's more often though, but in little steps, were as Nvidia updates tend to be less frequent, but larger

Personally i prefer the Nvidia less frequent, but bigger updates, but this also causes issues when a major problem is found, you have to wait longer for a fix

I think it's true Nvidia do spend a lot on working with developers etc, and there logo's are everywere so i'm guessing they do spend more than ATI here, but ultimately drivers can only do so much and if the base hardware significantly slower, well....

I have had both ATI andf Nvidia cards, my current card is Nvidia and so was my last, my prev before than was ATI, i can't recall having any serious driver issues/running games issues on any of these cards, and bought simply on good single card performance as i dont fancy the complexity of SLI/XFIRE even if it's intergrated on a single PCB
 
Any idea when the 6xxx proper benchmarks are revealed? I'm itching to buy a system now, but don't know whether to wait for the new cards or not. I'm looking at the 480 or 5870 atm. When are the cards out to rival these two?
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Yeah I was disappointed with the gains had from overclocking the 5870, after 930 core gains went flat, the 480 just love to churn out amazing FPS the higher you go.
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Is it not possible that your overclocks with the 5800 were unstable and possibly needed more voltage? I say this because the 5800 series implements some memory correction algorithm that prevents artefacts and probably behaviour that would lead to crashing at the cost of some performance when it's needed.
 
Wait for the 6000 series launch then get yourself a price reduced 5870 as they will be more than enough for your needs.
 
Will the 5870 and 480 cards likely drop in price? I'm potentially looking at a pre-built system such as the Ultima Dreadnought (after much deliberation!), but obviously OC will be non-commital as to pricing until the new cards come out :)

I guess it depends on stock levels of old and new cards as well as the pricing and benchmarks of the new boys too.
 
If i was thinking of buying either of those, i would wait a few weeks then see who gave the bigger cuts to their cards and choose from there, good chance at seeing some 299.99 480's if you shop around id imagine.
 
Basill said:
If i was thinking of buying either of those, i would wait a few weeks then see who gave the bigger cuts to their cards and choose from there, good chance at seeing some 299.99 480's if you shop around id imagine.
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Sounds easy lol.

The trouble is that I'm looking to buy a pre-built system, rather than a graphics card on it's own. That and the new COD is almost upon us ;)

It's so long since I've been in the market for a new computer, that I don't know if you ever see pre-built systems drop in price to reflect new tech, or do they just stop making htem, sell what they have at the same price, then continue with the new tech?
 
IMO got for the 480 - it's newer tech for a start with many other positives over the 5870


Also I doubt you'll find a 480 too loud. SUre, if it's shut away with poor airflow to it it might get loud. ANd it will sound loud if you manually set the fan speed to 100% but it never gets that high during gameplay on auto fan. Used mine for 6hours of non stop gameplay (well other than for breaks) and never sat there thinking the fan was loud
 
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