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ati 5770 vs Leadtek GeForce 9800 GX2

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Right well im nearly finished on the new build, and time has home to pick my gpu
im on a lucid chipset, so i have the option of 2 second hand gpus, and the option to run 1 nvidia card crossed with 1 ati card. although ive heard the drivers are fairly dodgy on the lucid option.

right so i plan on gaming but not obsessive (eg owning all equipent such as high end gaming mouses and headsets.ect)

so far i know ill be running a zosma x4 unlocked to a x6 then overclocked, on a msi fuzion 870a mobo with 4gb ddr3 and a 850w icute psu
oh and a akasa eclipse a62 (almost anything will fit)

no insults for my aperently bad psu, ive had that conversation many times before

ive had a set mind of a ati 5770 for a while now, but then i was browsing the clearence and spotted the geforce 9800 gx2 for £80.00 witch is rather cheep for a high end gpu.
so any opinions on what would be best, and i do have a budget of only about £100
 
how so? enlighten me pleese.
im running 2 dvi moniters, with no hdmi input, core clock is slower than the 5770
has more procesing cores obv but slower memory clock, so can you atlest give reasoning behind it?
:)
 
okay, but that is kind of stretching the budget, as it is im still need to buy my cpu cooler and ram, and being 14 i dont get this kind of money often, whats anyones thoughts on the leadteck card, it looks real nice but does it perform? as i know it has 2 gpu's therfore is very power hungry and rather long.
but will it struggle, as i was running demanding games such as mafia 2 on a hd 4650 witch is a tebible budget card, eapecaily for gaming. and that played high settings.
+ im only play an a fairly small reselution (as things go now) so will the Geforce struggle?
 
the 5770 looks the buisness but i dont know why i realy wanna get the Geforce now, although its bigger, worse and more power hungry
 
:L icute ap-850as
so 850w, and everyone hates icute, but if it was realy that bad it would have killed my cpus whe i shorted the pins with thermal paste and tryed powering it up
 
well, well see, i aint changing it, becuase ive run out of money, and am now reliying on my b day to finish my build, and a new psu would put me way under budget for this build
 
im not going to be doing much gaming, and eva now its not a bad card, and for only £20 more than i piad fr my old 4650.
 
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raw grunt and 1 years sounds pure brilliant to me, becuase as games become more developed i will want to upgrade and if my gpu goes pop then i have a perfect excuse.
i aint worried just as long as it lasts a year but i still think the 9800gx2 is better for me
 
psu's like myne have been stressed on 2 dual gpu ati cards taht can spike over 800w and they have been stres tested like this, and if my psu does go pop fingers crossed it takes nothing with it
 
All im trying to say is the gx2 looks like it will fit my computer more, and all the ati cards alike seem to look fairly small and puny comparing, and ive been told the gx2 is a lighty faster card. Yes i will game, but not much, as i go to school, and do other pc work and after that socailise with freinds, it just seems more agressive, and the same sorta ish speeds, for £20 cheeper.
any other suggestions for a gpu? i may just take my money to the second hand shop in exeter, and see what they have in, becuase they usaly have some pretty nice cards going cheep there
 
okay, insult me for trying to leanr and ask questions?
i asked for help, but at the end of the day its my choice to make :P
 
okay, well im sorry for having my own opinion?
but i thought the 9800gx2 would go better with y pc, and play games at mid-high quality, for a little bit cheaper so...
i asked for help, but then i asked about dx and got shot down, for god sake, i used to play games on my ress with a 4650 on max at 30fps, im not looking for something that'll play the types of games im playing at like 300fps.
Anyway, the new release i want to play comes out in september, so by then i will probaly of upgraded my psu and bought a newer card to run x mode on the lucid chip, witch gives me dx11 support
 
its a farily well know fact youre eyes can only register about 60fps, so anything more than that on max is almost pointless
 
no my freind that is youre opinion and atm im lookig into the 4870x2 seems the sam ish price, but quicker and less power hungry.
i kinda wanna get the gx2 just to prove that icute is not crap and can handle it
 
yes, it requires a 650w psu and recommends a 750watt psu, the leadtech gx2 wants a 700watt psu and suggests a 800w psu? happy now
 
i dotn know, i just like the look and way its presented, the new tech from ati looks bland and nothing jumps out at me.
 
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