Why would you downgrade to a 6870?not even sold my 5870 yet and prices a failing fast for them it seems
Seems lunacy model naming to me, much like Nvidia's old 8800GTX>9800GTX which was effectively a slower card, ignoring PPW.
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Seems lunacy model naming to me, much like Nvidia's old 8800GTX>9800GTX which was effectively a slower card, ignoring PPW.
lol, yeah, my bad, even forgot the numeric day, only thing I could remember was the weekly day.
So from the looks of it, the 6850 really gonna be going head to head with the GTX460 1GB and the 6870 going head to head with the GTX470 judging from the price. Let's hope performance and overclocking would be disappointingI'd have to make the decision which one to get between the GTX460 1GB and the HD6850.
6850 Problem is the 1 x 6pin connector which will limit at maximum of 150 watts. The reference card will likely consume 128 watts at full load. The GTX 460 1GB might win here with the overclock.
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im not, im waiting on the 5870 replacement. just keeping up to speed on the 6850 6870 in the mean time. Ive been waiting on a release date for the 69** cards so been checking ebay and 5870's are going for 200 bucks
Nice price on the 6870. Glad I sold my 5850 for £160.
You getting a 6870?
Nah I picked up two gtx465 which were moddable to to gtx470's for £149 each (sold the mafia 2 for £20) and added a couple of water blocks onto them.
I'm in the Nvidia SLI camp for a while now
I doubt I will be looking at replacing my gtx470's for some time. Both clocked to 830 they are pretty powerful
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i think this too i think a lot of people are thinking the 6850/70 are the upgrades to the 5850/70
1 last time the 69** series are the true performance replacements for the 5850/5870.
From what i have seen the 6870 if to be true will not out perform the 5870
Hold on, stupid question..... just stumbled in here as I'm still on a 4870 GPU. Are we saying that a 6870 is slower than a 5870? That's a bit underhand isn't it, most people will go "oh 6870... that's higher than a 5870".
I'm wanting to upgrade my GPU, I'm guessing this is not the card to go for?
I'm wanting to upgrade my GPU, I'm guessing this is not the card to go for?
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I'm possibly going to go for 2 5850's or maybe 2 GTX460
Apparently 1 5850 beats at 6850 hands down because the 6850 is a replacement for a 5770.
This is correct as far as i'm aware the 6850/70 will replace the 5770 and 5830
then the 6950/70 will replace the 5850/70
Just remember we know nothing really until all the reviews r out but i can't see a 6850 with 1 6 pin power supply spanking a 5850 somehow
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Looks like the 6870 will just beat the 5850 if the 6870s OCed.
Im Guessing?
Im Guessing?
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Do we usually see price-gouging on the mid-level cards? If £150 and £200 are the RRPs it seems like a missed opportunity.