4890 -> 6870 or ???

Ewanb75 · 27 Oct 2010 at 11:28

Seen the 6870 on Today Only and am thinking about getting one, not had a grafx update in a while, mostly because I have no idea what to get...

Mostly had Ati's and have a 2gb 4890 in my machine at the mo, which with the q6600 (not oc'd) plays everything i have at 1920 x 1080 mostly all maxed out...

(COD, BF, Supcom, Arma2)

Would it be worthwhile getting one, or just keeping what i have?

Cheers

crackerbear · 27 Oct 2010 at 11:33

If you currently play everything maxed out, I don't really see the point of upgrading. If you were to however, I'd wait for the 69xx cards to come out next month. It'd be a more worth while upgrade than the 6870.

shaf · 27 Oct 2010 at 11:34

In the same boat as you.

I'm waiting for the 6890 in november before deciding to upgrade.

RavenXXX2 · 27 Oct 2010 at 11:35

^^ 6970.

Ewanb75 · 27 Oct 2010 at 11:36

How much will the 69**s be do you reckon

crackerbear · 27 Oct 2010 at 11:40

Ewanb75 said:
How much will the 69**s be do you reckon

There's a thread here about it, but I think estimates put it the 6950 at around £250 and the 6970 at £350+

All purely speculative of course.

RavenXXX2 · 27 Oct 2010 at 11:40

My estimates...

6950-£260 on launch day

6970-£350 on launch day

6990-£600 on launch day.

Jibber55 · 27 Oct 2010 at 11:50

6950 - £201
6970 - £202
6990 - £203

easyrider · 27 Oct 2010 at 12:29

Get one why not?

TheRealDeal · 27 Oct 2010 at 12:32

On a side note you are probably not getting the best from your 4890 atm with your q6600 at stock. The same would be applied to any new graphics card you could buy as an upgrade.

Ewanb75 · 27 Oct 2010 at 14:04

easyrider said:
Get one why not?

How long is it, got a 902 case?

On a side note you are probably not getting the best from your 4890 atm with your q6600 at stock.

Not had any probs so far, had it clocked to 3.2 before, but notched it back down.

d_brennen · 27 Oct 2010 at 14:10

A 6870 is an upgrade... But the 4890 is still a great card. Stick it out for a while.

+1 for ocing your Q6600

Marine-RX179 · 27 Oct 2010 at 14:20

Yea definitely overclock the Q6600. I was using a crappy nforce 650i board and only overclocked my Q6600 to 3.0GHz. I've upgraded my motherboard to Asus P5Q Deluxe couple of days ago and overclocked the Q6600 to 3.6GHz, and when I play Left4Dead 2, the overall experience feel a lot smoother than before when I was on 3.0GHz, despite I'm still using the same 9800GTX+.

I think some games just simply love the extra power from the CPUs.

Xelene · 27 Oct 2010 at 15:13

I keep wanting to spend money, but the 4890 is one of those classic cards that just keeps on giving.

jigger · 27 Oct 2010 at 15:19

RavenXXX2 said:
My estimates...

6950-£260 on launch day

6970-£350 on launch day

6990-£600 on launch day.

Why do you think the prices will be so high ?

ATI would have to be silly to leave such large gaps in the prices. Nvidia would just slip the Fermi range inbetween.

GTX460 £220

6950-£260

GTX470 £300

6970-£350

GTX480 £500

6990-£600

easyrider · 27 Oct 2010 at 15:20

sldsmkd said:
I keep wanting to spend money, but the 4890 is one of those classic cards that just keeps on giving.

They are still holding their value Hence why you should shift it while you can.

That's my philosophy

crackerbear · 27 Oct 2010 at 15:23

jigger said:
Why do you think the prices will be so high ?

ATI would have to be silly to leave such large gaps in the prices. Nvidia would just slip the Fermi range inbetween.

GTX460 £220

6950-£260

GTX470 £300

6970-£350

GTX480 £500

6990-£600

Current prices for the 460 is £150, 470 is £200 and 480 is £350. I'm not sure where you got your prices from? Unless you're guessing at the prices of the 580 range?

jigger · 27 Oct 2010 at 15:24

Read post ?

crackerbear · 27 Oct 2010 at 15:27

jigger said:
Read post ?

So you're saying, if ATI release the 69xx cards at those prices, Nvidia will raise the prices of the current 4x0 cards by about 45%?

RavenXXX2 · 27 Oct 2010 at 15:29

jigger said:
Why do you think the prices will be so high ?

ATI would have to be silly to leave such large gaps in the prices. Nvidia would just slip the Fermi range inbetween.

GTX460 £220

6950-£260

GTX470 £300

6970-£350

GTX480 £500

6990-£600

I'm going on performance, AMD are not going to under cut or equal Nvidia prices if their hardware cleans up in the performance stakes, AMD are bigger than that now.

When does the 460 compete with a 6950...o_0

6990>6970>480>6950>470