Caporegime
People are hopeless >.<
Just take it laying down.
Just take it laying down.
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**ATI RADEON 7800 SERIES NOW AVAILABLE!!**
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Caporegime
just stop arguing on the price and buy one,you know you want too
what you expect when you live in rip off britain
what you expect when you live in rip off britain
Soldato
Yes. For people buying now who would buy a 5XXX or even a 6XXX rather than a 7XXX?
It doesn't matter what the 5XXX or 6XXX launch price was, it's irrelevant. Right now for sub £200 new you can't get a better card than the 7850.
It simply is the best card in that price range based on performance, power draw, heat, noise and features. Simple as that.
It's not like GPU launch prices have always been low, if anything they are returning to what they used to be (unfortunately for us consumers), ATi had a patch of cheap GPU's (after the 2900 bombed) where they were trying to win market share back after the 8800 series kicked them to the curb after the long period of 9700pro-1900XTX dominance.
The 3870 was peanuts, the 4870 a bargain, the 5870 prices started to creep back up, the 6970 was about the same price, and now the 7970 is back to pre 2900 pricing. nVidia on the other hand have had pretty much consistent high launch prices.
Caporegime
what does the 7850 score in 3dmark 11?
Soldato
I get about 6400 ish OC'd.
just a quick question im thinking of upgrading to a 7850 and was wondering if its worth the upgrade from my 6850? what kind of performance difference would i see?
i am debating about waiting for awhile though to see how everything levels out(price wise) and see what nividia has to offer and such.
i am debating about waiting for awhile though to see how everything levels out(price wise) and see what nividia has to offer and such.
Soldato
It'd be a sizeable upgrade.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5625/...-7850-review-rounding-out-southern-islands/19
6850 is about on par with a 460 1GB, which is slower than the 560Ti at the bottom of these charts.
The 7850 especially when OC'd will give you a significant boost.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5625/...-7850-review-rounding-out-southern-islands/19
6850 is about on par with a 460 1GB, which is slower than the 560Ti at the bottom of these charts.
The 7850 especially when OC'd will give you a significant boost.
Soldato
I always use MSI AB because I just prefer the interface.
Caporegime
Have any of you played gta 4 on these new cards? What settings and how much memory does it take up?
Is it wrong to think that benchmark seems quite pathetic for a game as old as that? it feels like minimal gains in fps. This latest generation I would have expected it to smash that game.
It just feels like all this new hardware is just trickling minimal gains looking at that graph. Throw in 10fps or so the next release, then the next.
Caporegime
could be bios issue,sleep resume is usually ram related as it saves the sleep state to the ram
either dram or cpu northbridge voltage not enough asuming its not bios related
either dram or cpu northbridge voltage not enough asuming its not bios related
Caporegime
could be
Soldato
hex- you done anymore overclocking and you had to touch voltage yet
Not yet, i've not found a way around teh CCC limits yet, MSI AB doesn't like the 12.4beta's (with regards to voltage and ccc unlocks), and Trixx doesn't support 78XX's yet. So it's just a matter of waiting for the apps to catch up.
I don't really want to go back to older CAT versions. As soon as the OC apps let me I'll be aiming for 1150+
Soldato
I am warming to this card now that I've seen it for less than the 480 price but just not a big enough upgrade over my 470. What do you guys think? Anand.