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6850 or 5850?
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At the same price the 5850 would be better card as it is around 10% faster than the 6850. However, you would also have to factor in things like overclocking (if you are the kind of person would or would like to squeeze extra performance out of the card), as 5850 that are not MSI/Asus or reference model will not be able to voltage tweak for higher overclock and so the overclocked 6850 would be compariable speed at lower power consumption (6850 only require 1 PCI-E connector, whereas 5850 require 2). Crossfire wise, pair of 6850 will be on par with pair of 5850, because the Crossfire scaling is better on the 68xx series than then 58xx series.
Sidenote: you would most likely get better frame rate in Black OPs by overclocking your CPU than at stock speed after you upgrade your card, as the game is highely CPU dependent.
Sidenote: you would most likely get better frame rate in Black OPs by overclocking your CPU than at stock speed after you upgrade your card, as the game is highely CPU dependent.
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just got for the 6850, overclock it to 1000 mhz on the core and profit
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-115-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-115-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866
Soldato
Stretch the budget by £50 and get a 6950? 
Just upgraded from a 8800gts myself and fps in black ops has more than doubled
What res do you play at?
Just upgraded from a 8800gts myself and fps in black ops has more than doubled
What res do you play at?
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Stretch the budget by £50 and get a 6950?
Just upgraded from a 8800gts myself and fps in black ops has more than doubled
What res do you play at?
I would say do this.
May as well flash it as well and turn it into a 6970 if you are comfortable with doing that:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18221844
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I'd say 5850, especially if you can get the MSI one at less than £150 (look out for the regular offers).
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I have done research into this and I can say I've discovered 5850's are more powerfull than 6850's, however 6850's will overclock a lot more and will perform faster when Crossfired.
6850's are considerable cheaper so I am heavily considering buying one too, however the 5850 are very very capable single cards out of box.
Hope this helps you.
6850's are considerable cheaper so I am heavily considering buying one too, however the 5850 are very very capable single cards out of box.
Hope this helps you.
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None of those are true, for example a 6870 is nothing like a 5770 lmao, I don't know where the in heaven you get your information from lol.
i wasn't saying about performance..
amd changed the 5800 to 6900, and 5700 to 6800..
understand now.? if not do some research
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Soldato
All the same really
Make sure you have enough room for it though Its about an inch longer than an atx motherboard is wide.
Make sure you have enough room for it though
Its about an inch longer than an atx motherboard is wide.both the same card.
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To be honest, if you are stretching the budget to £200 range, you should consider getting the Gigabyte GTX480 SE while it is on 10% off offer:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18253177
...assuming that you got a good enough PSU (a decent 600W or above).
Out of the box, it is faster than the 6970 and GTX570, BUT it does have higher power consumption. Also, it has better performance gain on overclocking than the 6970, if it is something you'd do.
Don't bother with the 6950 unless you are flashing it to a 6970...and even then, the GTX480 is still faster.
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Still cant see your point, assuming your making one. this thread is about information regarding performance (because OP wants to play BF3) if he wanted to know about ATI name branding he would have asked.
Btw I'm well very informed in Ati 5xxx to 6xxx cards.
Soldato
will the 6xxx's not only get better when newer drivers with full stop come out?
Of course you are.
Gareth170 was pointing out the perfectly legitimate, and true, point about how ATI/AMD have redone their card naming schemes. The 6870 is the 5770 'equivalent' in their new gpu range. I don't know what your point/problem is...
it's totally simple
6850 is 'equivalent' to 5750. 6950 is 'equivalent' to 5850 .. so a 5850 would have course be faster than a 6850 (5750 'equivalent' )
oh and it's AMD not ATI
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Lol maybe I have a different definition of "equivalent" from you in my dictionary.
/rolleyes
/rolleyes