If the 5830 is better in the games you play then keep it.

Otherwise sell the 5830.If this is the case you might well consider buying a second GTX 280.A 280 SLI setup will stand you in good stead for the future.

Scougar said:

Sell both and buy a 5850

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He bought a 5830 for £110, 5850s are at least £230 now.

Also with the recent price drop on 5830s he is not going to shift it easily.

With some tweaking you can get 5850 performance.

I say sell the GTX280 and have some fun with the cash and the 5830.

Sell the 280 before it dies and is worthless as they do like dieing.

5830 out of those but i'd personally sell both for a 5850.

Why not just try the 5830 and make up your own mind ?

Keep the new tech 5830, out with the old.

Couldnt see much 280gtx v 5830 reviews but the below shows the 5830 v the gtx275 and the 275 wins in all but a few tests and only a fps diff on the test that it loses.
Look for yourself looks like a downgrade imo.

Each to there own though.


http://www.techspot.com/review/249-ati-radeon-hd-5830/page12.html

sell both and buy one a 5850.

If you paid £110 for a 5830 I think you will do well to get your money back, a new 5830 can be had for £158 now.

You should not have bought the 5830 at all tbh.

I think reading around the net some just hate the 5830 because it was introduced at too high a price point! Fair enough. This should have always been a £150-60 card and at that price point would be very good value vs nVidia's offerings. I paid £100 in the end, managed to knock off another tenner when I mentioned its recent price reduction.

I tried it out and it overclocks easily to 950 core and 1200 mem without breaking a sweat. It has a 5870 cooler, so temps are very low - 40-65C even overclocked and very quiet - haven't even noticed the fan spin up during gaming. Power draw is a lot lower than my GTX 280 and capacitor wine has gone!

At this overclock it plays all my games faster or about equal to my GTX 280, which I sold for £155 after postage and expenses. I'm not sure all the review sites are correct - this card is faster than I expected. Perhaps they were using early beta drivers or something? So a little bit of a side upgrade in some older games, but I made £55 and gained DX11.

This card isn't that bad when overclocked. It's a 4890 with DX11, but beats the 4890 in some titles by a large margin and has newer features. I would recommend it at £150 price point if you game at 1680x1050 with good AA and AF. It would manage 1920x1080 resolutions fine looking at my figures, but getting that high or above I would shoot for a 5850. Taking away AA and the figures are pretty much top notch!

I'm very happy with it for now. Once some decent DX11 games come along, I'll use this to sample and probably shoot for a new card once it's worth it.

I'd say you did very well. It's a 4890 but on a 40nm process, better clocking gDDR5, and 320 extra SP.

With a tad bit of voltage increase you should do 1GHz no problem and it will definitely be quicker than a clocked 280.

Glad to hear it worked out well for you, nice overclock man and cheers for updating us on perfomance.

What impresses me the most is the cooler - it has four copper heatpipes and a large fan, so Powercolor didn't cut down the cooling on this card vs their 5870.

I love quiet cards! Plus if the fan goes bad, it looks like I can easily fit a new one directly to the heatsink.

Hopefully quite soon we'll see the 5770 at £120, 5830 £150 and 5850 £200 leaving the 5870 and 5890 as the top end expensive cards.

One thing is the powercolor does not clock very well but the cooler is exactly the same as the 5870 version and does do an impressive job at keeping things cool and quiet.

I must have got a decent one - I'm running at 950 and 1200. Perhaps after thorough testing I might need to reduce that. I tried these figures after reading what other people managed. Haven't tried higher, but it sounds like 975 and 1250 is the absolute limit without voltage tweaks.

If it had tweakable voltage, perhaps the higher price could have been justified.