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MSI Twin Frozr II 5850 eats GTX 460

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Well what can i say i was about to get the gtx 460 and looked high and low for reviews comparing the 2 and nearly all say the gtx 460 is the best value . I disagree at £144 from overclockers the Msi 5850 is a bargain and a half .

check out this review of the top spec gtx 460 vs a vanilla 5850 and you tell me if it is worth £170 or you should buy this the 5850

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/10/18/asus_engtx460_top_1gb_video_card_review/6

i think all the hype is generated by the massive marketing done by Nvidia to shift the stock before the 560 ti comes out which this 5850 keeps up with lol why would you buy anything else

thank you overclockers for such a bargain this card is £220 + on other sites oyyy would you pay this ;)
 
Every review that says the GTX 460 is better value than a 5850 were written back when the 5850 cost over £200, and the GTX 460 was £150.

The current price on the 5850 is only that low because the card is EOL and they are trying to get rid of the remaining chips.
 
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very true indeed but to be honest if it runs all games at hd resolutions what more do you want . To be honest i have a bug bear about marketing as if we belived all the hype we would be running games on a top spec i7 with like 12 gb ram ect ect .

but really what games need this sort of spec i emphasize need also , prime example is when i got sucked into Apple computers . No denying great os but realy £1100 + for a computer with a I3 and a 5670 gfx card is that not style over substance , having said that if i had a spare 1200 quid i would have 1 lol
 
the 5850 is an awsome card even now . i was going to replace mine with a gtx 570 but having overclocked my 5850 to 1032/1275 it is seriously fast . just over 5000 in 3dmark 11 and over 25000 in 06 . it runs crysis@1080p on high easy . who really gives a nut why the price is low ( as long as there isnt a problem ) get one if you need to upgrade and on a budget
cheers
 
Every review that saws the GTX 460 is better value than a 5850 were written back when the 5850 cost over £200, and the GTX 460 was £150.


This. Back when the 460 came out the 5850 was over £200. The 460 was around £180 at launch (when I bought one :() and within about 4-6 weeks the prices had stabilised around £150 and slowly crept down. The 5850 is a better card, of that there's little doubt, but at the time you could get near 5850 performce for £50-£70 less. To some, like myself, there was little to choose other than the 460 at the time. I'm still very happy with it, but I doubt it'll last the 2 1/2 years my 8800GT did.
 
This. Back when the 460 came out the 5850 was over £200. The 460 was around £180 at launch (when I bought one :() and within about 4-6 weeks the prices had stabilised around £150 and slowly crept down. The 5850 is a better card, of that there's little doubt, but at the time you could get near 5850 performce for £50-£70 less. To some, like myself, there was little to choose other than the 460 at the time. I'm still very happy with it, but I doubt it'll last the 2 1/2 years my 8800GT did.

What happened to your 8800 if you don't mind me asking. They are still reasonable enough to game on.
 
Very happy with my 5850 for £100. Overclocks very well and performance is fantastic at 1920x1200.

I would have liked a quieter cooler like the msi card has though.
 
Both good cards. Don't forget that 460's tend to overclock from 675 to ~900MHz (33%), but V2 5850's without voltage tweak have much less headroom. If you can get a voltage tweakable 5850 for ~£130 or a used V1 for ~£100 it is a bargain.

460's also offer better tessellation performance, run cooler and support Physx, but 5800's have Eyfinity. Swings and rounabouts.

I have owned 460 SLI & 5850 SLI and it was hard to spot any real difference between them @ 1920x1200. Some games favoured one slightly, others liked the other.
 
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What happened to your 8800 if you don't mind me asking. They are still reasonable enough to game on.

Sorry just seen this. I still have it. I was going to put it into my other machine (E7400 2.8Ghz, 2Gb Ram) but it's an Xpertvision one which has no fan controller AFAIK making it run at 100% all the time. It was an amazing card, ran CoD and any game I threw at it until BFBC2 which started to show it for being long in the tooth. i ended up taking it out of the other PC as it was just too noisy as the PC is on the desk. it's sitting downstairs in a box waiting for a suitable offer from a mate or something. not really thought much about it as it's worth £30 tops these days.
 
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