hmm well i was in a similar situation only i had 2 4870s, and i do game at 2560 x 1600, and the 2 were struggling a little, and i found myself like you trying to justify a gtx 480, took me weeks to bite the bullet, glad i did though they are awesome, mine is not overclocked but plays every game i have maxed out even aliens vs predator, which according to reviews isnt playable at my res with one card, and also i do a bit of video encoding, on my spare pc using win avi 10.1,i can convert a 700mb avi to 4gb dvd in about 18mins ( q6600 @3.8 ), on my main pc using cuda in win avi it takes only 3 mins for the same file, now thats impressive.
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Poll: 5870/crossfire/480 switchover + testing and results
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Fermi vs Cypress at max clocks review for you rjkoneill
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=453143
Pretty much confirms what I was saying.
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=453143
Pretty much confirms what I was saying.
Q6600 is much slower than i7 as well at encoding.
Looks genuine enough for me. Fact remains, Fermi scales better with clocks than Cypress does.
Fermi clocks do scale better than Cypress clocks do, but insinuating that a GTX465 that struggles against a 5850 would trade blows with a 5870 strikes me as being a *little* biased. It is the EVGA forum after all, and EVGA is a staunch partner of Nvidia. I never look at reviews produced by or within the arena of board partners, there is simply too much vested interest involved
Am about to head out, otherwise I'd have a look on independent sites to see if higher clocks do scale that well. Can anyone find clock for clock comparisons?
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will be purchasing the Asus GTX 480 today 
have done a list of benchmarks on my system using single 5870 and crossfire [with some very interesting results]
i will run the same tests with the GTX 480 at stock and overclocked too.
when i have all my results i will throw them together in some pretty charts for you guys
thanks for all the advice too, it is appreciated
rjk
have done a list of benchmarks on my system using single 5870 and crossfire [with some very interesting results]
i will run the same tests with the GTX 480 at stock and overclocked too.
when i have all my results i will throw them together in some pretty charts for you guys
thanks for all the advice too, it is appreciated
rjk
I could easily say the same about someone reviewing an etailers products, for said etailers own site.
will be purchasing the Asus GTX 480 today
Do Asus let you take the cooler off without voiding the warranty? Does that even apply to you?!
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Do Asus let you take the cooler off without voiding the warranty? Does that even apply to you?!
rjkoneill laughs in the face of warranty!
Do Asus let you take the cooler off without voiding the warranty? Does that even apply to you?!
not officially as far as i am aware, it would be void
rjkoneill laughs in the face of warranty!
QOTD TBH
yeah, I have to deal with warranty and all that stuff just like you guys.
asus are generally very very good with graphics cards
my 8800GT, 8800gtx, 280's, 285's were all asus. one of my 280s had a fault though
even when i removed the stock cooler and didnt do a fantastic job of putting it back together it was still replaced.
i havent really had much experience with other companies personally so cant really comment.
compiling my results at the moment.
going to do a brief summary of them all in the next couple of days when i get some free time.
heres a taster - without much trying and my chip only running at 4GHz
the 5870 crossfire only got 30k
uploaded to HWBOT nets the following vantage results
96th fastest single card result in vantage
54th fastest GTX 480
and it certainly looks the part too
going to do a brief summary of them all in the next couple of days when i get some free time.
heres a taster - without much trying and my chip only running at 4GHz
the 5870 crossfire only got 30k
uploaded to HWBOT nets the following vantage results
96th fastest single card result in vantage
54th fastest GTX 480
and it certainly looks the part too
Personally would just stick with the 5870s. Save the hassle of switching cards, though I'm lazy
same here
i have been using it all day with no issues. it has ran furmark for three hours. max temp 60'c @ 1.113v
it has headroom too
results will be posted when i get a chance to compile them and make them make sense.
glad i made the switch though
temps for the 480 are good for a 480
the rest of my loop is suffering. cpu load temps have risen 10'c when folding
no SLI either
im done with multi gpu.
Testing Results
just a compilation of my testing results to compare the cards
we have
5870
5870 crossfire
480 @ stock
480 @ GPU 900MHz, Mem 1109MHz, Shader 1800MHz
tests carried out on:
Intel Extreme 980X @ 4.2GHz
OCZ Blade 2000MHz 8-7-7-20-1T
Rampage II Extreme - Watercooled
Corsair HX 850w
Intel X25 160GB SSD
i dont have many games installed at the moment...
i did do the comparison on MW2
but mw2 gives 91fps on all of them solidly with vsync on or off
the settings used for all of the tests are the same except where stated.
every game running at max settings except where stated.
the resolution for all testing was 1900X1200
i used Fraps to record a 60 second benchmark and used the same mission in each game to take the benchmark.
Splintercell Conviction - very console orientated port. not too brilliant for benching and with an obvious cap on fps.
the clocked 480 takes the lead in a dramatic way here and felt the smoothest experience. the colours seem a little richer and more vibrant in this game too with the nvidia card.
Dawn Of War II - generally favours single GPU. the stock 480 kept on getting massive max frames on this test. i did three runs at stock to make sure and it happened every time. the overclock seemed to add consistancey to the FPS. the crossfire did very poorly in this test.
GTA IV - the Lost & Damned this has been pretty much the hardest to judge. the game is poorly coded for pc and doesnt play well on max settings. i had to take aa and af down to the second lowest settings but kept view distance on max. again the 480 had the most consistant framerates both stock and clocked. crossfire performance was shambolic... again
Just Cause 2 - Nvidias current posterchild, i felt reluctant to run this as the ATI cards only run to 60fps, whereas the nvidia cards are uncapped. this i found very strange. nonetheless, the results were fairly tight together
Bad Company 2 - this contains some quite strange results. after compiling the charts i realised that i had benched the 480s with the AA set to 32X
this throws off the results slightly, but i plan on redoing them soon and ammending the charts.
hit me up if you have any questions
rjk
just a compilation of my testing results to compare the cards
we have
5870
5870 crossfire
480 @ stock
480 @ GPU 900MHz, Mem 1109MHz, Shader 1800MHz
tests carried out on:
Intel Extreme 980X @ 4.2GHz
OCZ Blade 2000MHz 8-7-7-20-1T
Rampage II Extreme - Watercooled
Corsair HX 850w
Intel X25 160GB SSD
i dont have many games installed at the moment...
i did do the comparison on MW2
but mw2 gives 91fps on all of them solidly with vsync on or off
the settings used for all of the tests are the same except where stated.
every game running at max settings except where stated.
the resolution for all testing was 1900X1200
i used Fraps to record a 60 second benchmark and used the same mission in each game to take the benchmark.
Splintercell Conviction - very console orientated port. not too brilliant for benching and with an obvious cap on fps.
the clocked 480 takes the lead in a dramatic way here and felt the smoothest experience. the colours seem a little richer and more vibrant in this game too with the nvidia card.
Dawn Of War II - generally favours single GPU. the stock 480 kept on getting massive max frames on this test. i did three runs at stock to make sure and it happened every time. the overclock seemed to add consistancey to the FPS. the crossfire did very poorly in this test.
GTA IV - the Lost & Damned this has been pretty much the hardest to judge. the game is poorly coded for pc and doesnt play well on max settings. i had to take aa and af down to the second lowest settings but kept view distance on max. again the 480 had the most consistant framerates both stock and clocked. crossfire performance was shambolic... again
Just Cause 2 - Nvidias current posterchild, i felt reluctant to run this as the ATI cards only run to 60fps, whereas the nvidia cards are uncapped. this i found very strange. nonetheless, the results were fairly tight together
Bad Company 2 - this contains some quite strange results. after compiling the charts i realised that i had benched the 480s with the AA set to 32X
this throws off the results slightly, but i plan on redoing them soon and ammending the charts.
hit me up if you have any questions
rjk