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5870 Xfire Vs 6970

Cleeecooo said:
Whatever i tried, i couldn't get the 6970 fan over 40%
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yours is broke then :p If you have DOW2 try last stand for some reason this games loves to give Gpus a works out i tryed it with :

8800GTS, GTX280, 3870x2, 5770 trifire, 5879 xfire and a 6970 same on every card loves a work out :D

I didt have many problems with xfire so it wast a bad expeince but the cost does not justify the cost on 2 high end cards IMO.

Xfire 2 low/middle end like 5770s/6870 would be a nice one high end is no no for me, i done the epeen thing now....will concentrate making my evo as fast as my last skyline :p:D
 
The 5870 to really any of the new cards is mostly a sidegrade, ok the 580gtx is quite a bit faster than a stock 5870 but they overclock well, a single card can easily clock over 1000Mhz.

Would be interesting to know if the WoW result is completely accurate, one of the few games it seems to be spanking the 5870 in it would seem.

But uniengine really means nothing. Same way the 480gtx destroyed a 5870 in uniengine but never once in a single game showed the same level of performance. LIkewise the 6970 excells in tesselation benchmarks vs the 5870, but in games its not close to the same difference.

There seems to be some quite wild deviation in early cards though, heat/power, some say its quieter/cooler than their old cards, reviews/end users, and some say its hotter and louder. I got mine a while ago now, been really ill all weekend so not felt like crawling under the desk to install it unfortunately. Might do that this afternoon, moving from a 5850 to a 6950 though(more to play with it and see than for performance increases, I expect a decent bump in some things though).
 
BigBruiserAl said:
My small office room temp is 23c after 3 hrs gaming no house heating on with 5870xfire changing to the 6970 looked at the wall temp 25.4c
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It shouldn't matter how good or bad your graphics card cooling is to you room temperature. If you had a great heatsink and fan, that just means the heat is being taken off the card efficiently - it wouldn't magically leave the room. Your room temperature will be more linked to your total power consumption, including monitors etc.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Would be interesting to know if the WoW result is completely accurate, one of the few games it seems to be spanking the 5870 in it would seem.

But uniengine really means nothing.
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No mate im the 1st to admit its not accurate at just to give people in the same boat an idea thats all :D

agree 100% about uniengine but again just to give some sort of idea.

Triggaaar said:
It shouldn't matter how good or bad your graphics card cooling is to you room temperature. If you had a great heatsink and fan, that just means the heat is being taken off the card efficiently - it wouldn't magically leave the room. Your room temperature will be more linked to your total power consumption, including monitors etc.
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ofc it matters, while you are correct in a way im sitting there with 5870's toping say 75c for 3 hrs then changing to a card toping out at 90c for 3 hours a small office will get warmer then before.
Regarding power usage ill put my neck on the and say 5870 crossfire uses more power then a single 6970.
 
The temperature the cards get to is largely irrelevant, your room will heat up by the number of watts your PC consumes. Power into a PC is converted almost 100% into heat.
 
i think a set of those 10.4 drivers that kick started the 58xx cards will be on the way
11.2 maybe or even better 11.1
i remember that they gave huge improvements the 10.4's
 
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