ATI cuts 6950 allocation

Greebo · 12 Dec 2010 at 23:43

Mr Krugga said:
Well, he had bought his cards before you did exchange your GTX580 for two GTX470s.

You paid £370 for those.

He got one GTX470 on offer for some silly money with a game to sell over and GTX465, I believe, that got unlocked to full GTX470.

In fact I got one gtx465 for 165 less £20 for selling Mafia 2 so £145 net plus another for £145 on MM. I bought a new waterblock for £60 and got another for £35 from MM so both cards flashed to gtx470's with waterblocks for £385

Less the £165 I got fro my 5850

Rroff · 12 Dec 2010 at 23:45

Gerard said:
Why do the results look so odd in the summary? It'll usually say something like "39.4" not "3904,5"

I smell Pish.

Hes benchmarked with 64bit ticked - it doesn't spit out the results properly.

Gerard · 12 Dec 2010 at 23:48

Rroff said:
Hes benchmarked with 64bit ticked - it doesn't spit out the results properly.

Ive benched crysis in 64 bit mode, ive yet to see it coming out like that

Only time i seen it like above was on the 3870x2 and that had a "." between the numbers not a ","

Rroff · 12 Dec 2010 at 23:50

Always does it for me if I have 64bit ticked not sure why (tho I don't get fps figures in the 1000s that is a bit odd) but if I have 64bit ticked it doesn't display the fps figures properly as in that screenshot.

RavenXXX2 · 12 Dec 2010 at 23:51

Gerard is using a different build in his screens.

Mr Krugga · 12 Dec 2010 at 23:51

Gerard · 12 Dec 2010 at 23:51

RavenXXX2 said:
Gerard is using a different build in his screens.

Indeed theyre from just after the 4870x2 launch.

RavenXXX2 · 12 Dec 2010 at 23:53

So the smell of pish is subsiding?

easyrider · 12 Dec 2010 at 23:54

15% faster than the 480GTX is the latest on the street

Mr Krugga · 13 Dec 2010 at 00:00

easyrider said:
15% faster than the 480GTX is the latest on the street

That is around as fast as the GTX580? Wouldn't be that bad tbf.

Buckster · 13 Dec 2010 at 00:01

for very similar price - so I suppose it would be broadly competitive then

easyrider · 13 Dec 2010 at 00:02

I think the delay in the 6900 was the drivers hence the poo benchies we are seeing

Mr Krugga · 13 Dec 2010 at 00:04

easyrider said:
I think the delay in the 6900 was the drivers hence the poo benchies we are seeing

I think there were some driver related rumours earlier, weren't there?

jigger · 13 Dec 2010 at 00:05

Is that 15% in games Easy ?

Broken Hope · 13 Dec 2010 at 00:19

I suppose it's possible that the 10.11's compiler may not be using the 4D architecture properly and the 10.12's may fix this.

easyrider · 13 Dec 2010 at 00:20

^^ As far as I know...The driver being used is not the correct one it seems.

easyrider · 13 Dec 2010 at 00:22

Look at it this way

the 6870 has less SP than the 5870 and is virtually on par with it. I don't think we should worry about the 4D SP and the number to much on the 6970

gareth170 · 13 Dec 2010 at 00:27

why are they not using 8.801 driver?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=4662012&postcount=2592

Mr Krugga · 13 Dec 2010 at 00:30

gareth170 said:
why are they not using 8.801 driver?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=4662012&postcount=2592

Because it's a ******* con.

RavenXXX2 · 13 Dec 2010 at 00:31

gareth170 said:
why are they not using 8.801 driver?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=4662012&postcount=2592

Ignore the 8.80 driver that is just a modded chipset drivers, and provides not really the same performance as 8.79.6.