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Not sure what to go for now??

Triggaaar said:
A 6970 isn't a significant upgrade over a 5870 - unless you're using crossfire! 6970CF is a good upgrade over 5870 CF, but whether or not it's worth the bother depends how much you'll be restricted by games over the next 12 months. Most would choose to keep the 5870s, skip this generation, and upgrade next time, but if you won't miss the money and you'd like better performance than you currently have, go for it.
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Ok so it's kind of worth doing if it's CF.... interesting.... also I won't be skipping next generation either, like I said I upgrade my graphics cards regardless on a yearly basis...
 
icehot666 said:
Whilst the 6970 and 6950s for their price point seem alright... for someone wanting pure performance I'm not sure what to go for. I game at 1920x1200, and pretty much the latest games of any genre really, if I complete a game like Metro I rarely would play it again but I will play it all the way through once etc

I have 2x 5870s in crossfire and an x38 board I don't intend on upgrading the mobo and cpu until the next gen later next year (as I believe sandy bridge won't have more that 16 pci-e lanes so I won't be an early adopter of that). Hence I have a system that can't run SLI. I thought it was going to be an obvious answer that I would upgrade to 2x 6970s when they came out but now the performance isn't quite what the hype was claiming, so the upgrade isn't as significant as it might have been.

So I'm thinking in order to not de-value my graphics card investment too much by skipping this generation, it's either a single 580gtx or 2x 6970 crossfire. I've never noticed anything like micro-stutter, so I'm really torn as to what might be the best way to go with this. Any ideas?? What would you guys do? Bear in mind I wouldn't want anything like crossfire 6950s cos they're the second card down and I won't do that...
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I say there's no point to upgrading to 6970 xfire. 6970 is a 5870 with couple of extra tesselators bolted in place with 2gb ram...
These new cards are nothing special. Avoid until true next gem come out end of 2011.
 
pingu666 said:
my overclocked 4870 is ok on nearly all games at 1920x1080/1200, with near max details and 2xaa and some af

your crossfire spec is 2-4times faster than mine depending on scaling, and does dx11. theres not a lot of point in you upgrading now, tbh :/

im only looking to upgrade gfx card as i have a 120hz monitor
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I wish they did 120Hz in my res, I think that'd be a lot of fun to play with (3d etc)!! :)
 
icehot666 said:
So u reckon selling them now might be a mistake? I did see those results during my research, unfortunately they're done in gamer mode not enthusiast mode.
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Well I wouldn't say selling now is a mistake - as you won't be getting any more money for it a few months down the road. However, it seems like your main reason to upgrade is on the assumption that your 5870s will drop in value significantly over the next 6-12 months, I am certain this isn't going to be the case (mainly due to the recent price cuts).

Hence, if your graphics system is performing well enough and you aren't going to lose much money by not upgrading now - then I say wait and come back in few months time for a graphics upgrade. By then the AMD HD 6990 will be out, Nvidia looks to be releasing a dual-GPU card and you never know - maybe someone will figure out how to do a die shrink.
 
alright that does seem to be the general concensus not to upgrade yet, so I'll hold on and see how things play out for a while longer I think, if I'm not gonna lose out then I don't mind doing that - apart from my upgrade-itis - Maybe i'll buy an ssd with the xmas money lol :P
 
danceforfreedom said:
No it is true. That although the gtx580 is the fastest single gpu card in sli is slower than two 6970's crossfired. The radeons scalling is much better, google around and see here...

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...s-card-review-crossfire-eyefinity-vs-sli.html

they've been benched all over...
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No offense, but no AA applied for the Crysis Warhead result, and F1 2010 scale better with AMD/ATI cards than Nvidia cards. If they bothered to do Crossfire 6970 vs SLI GTX580 with 4xAA for ALL the games they tested, the GTX580 would beat Crossfire 6970 in almost everything, except for F1 2010, or may be games that refer AMD/ATI hardware like Stalker. Also, Crysis is among the few games which the 6970 do particular well on which it offer close to comparable performance to GTX580 even on single card, whereas the same cannot be said for most games in general...so it's more to do with game scaling than Crossfire vs SLI scaling.

Please don't spread misinformation base on just some specific scenerio results. Not blaming your or anything, just think you need to do more reading around to have a better overview on things.
 
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5870 shouldn't struggle atm and 6970 i got this morning the drivers seem hit and miss some games it's just.. amazing and others it's slower then my 4870x2 :(
 
cmndr_andi said:
Sounds like a great idea. I went for an OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB recently and I'm so happy I did. Windows boots up much quicker and everything loads up much faster and feels snappier.
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lol that is the one thing that puts me off an ssd, is that everyone says windows boot times are quicker, which is the one thing i rarely do as my computer is turned on 24/7!
 
jorzeh said:
5870 shouldn't struggle atm and 6970 i got this morning the drivers seem hit and miss some games it's just.. amazing and others it's slower then my 4870x2 :(
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Wonder if the best thing to do then is wait until the 6990 is out to see how the drivers help out...
 
icehot666 said:
lol that is the one thing that puts me off an ssd, is that everyone says windows boot times are quicker, which is the one thing i rarely do as my computer is turned on 24/7!
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Boot times are one of the most quickly apparent benefits of an SSD - but for most of us it is indeed just a fringe benefit. The real bonus is during use - as anything that is usually bottlenecked by HDD speed (eg. application loading, installing, compressing/uncompressing) is simply much faster and this make PC as a whole feel much more responsive.
 
I think i read somewhere else maybe on this forum, someone saying "2010 the year nothing happened", and I really believe it, it seems almost anything I think of to upgrade would be simply unnoticeable... sux for compulsive upgraders like me :P
 
cmndr_andi said:
Boot times are one of the most quickly apparent benefits of an SSD - but for most of us it is indeed just a fringe benefit. The real bonus is during use - as anything that is usually bottlenecked by HDD speed (eg. application loading, installing, compressing/uncompressing) is simply much faster and this make PC as a whole feel much more responsive.
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Not meaning to turn this thread off topic, but is it really noticeable? I have the 600gb raptor atm...
 
SSD was the most noticeable upgrade I made in a long time.

If I had to go back to a non-SSD drive for my PC - it would now be unbearable!

Responsive system and no noticable degrade in performance over time.
 
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