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Best Graphics card

GavinWard

GavinWard

GavinWard

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I'm all set to get my new rig I've been looking at benchmarks and I'm wondering which graphics card would be better.

Asus GeForce GTX 285 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) £239.99

Asus ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £235.98

Or if you have any other suggestions, this is about my price bracket and I'm not looking to upgrade again for a long time probably 3-4 years so I'd like it to last a while.

The rest of the rig is below

Quad Core

Processor
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 4 x 2.83Ghz 12Mb Cache 1333 FSB Quad Core Processor - Retail

Motherboard
Asus P5QC Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard

Memory
OCZ Reaper 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C6 1333MHz Dual Channel (OCZ3RPR13334GKK)

Hard drive
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD5001AALS)

Power Supply
OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Modular Power Supply
 
if it was me and im talking from experience now on a few pc's i would go for the following at roughly the same price.

AMD phenom II is cheaper than that current cpu you listed and faster if you overclock i highly reccomended you consider an overclocked phenom II bundle and a 4890 backed up by a quality psu with 2x 8 pin pci-e for future monster cards.
 
btw that bundle i listed will go to about 3.8ghz on air which along with the 4890 or 4870x2 will tear through most games without breaking a sweat.

look at the price ! amazing al that backed up by a amazing psu by corsair with 2x 6 pin and 2x 8 pin! infact it says 2x 6pin +2 which means if im not mistaken 4x 8 pin?

can anyone confirm 4 8 pin on this psu?

also the 4870x2 needs one 6 pin and one 8 pin so make sure your psu has that
 
OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Modular Power Supply

- 150 x 160 x 86mm (W x L x H)
- ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V
- up to 86% Efficiency
- Overvoltage/OverPower/Short-Circuit protection
- (.99)Active PFC
- MTBF: 100,000 hours @ 25C
- 1 x 20/24-pin ATX
- 1 x 8-pin CPU
- 1 x 4-pin CPU
- 1 x 6-pin PCI-E
- 1 x 6+2-pin PCI-E
- 4 x Peripheral
- 2 x Floppy
- 6 x SATA

Would this have the right connectors for my graphica card and well the whole planned computer.

I've had a few suggestions for taking the AMD route but it doesn't seem to benchmark better then the intel quad and I'd not be planning on overclocking as I've not got the first clue how lol. All suggestions welcome though.
 
Lets put it this way, a pair of 4770s in crossfire can upstage a 285 on decent resolution (1680 by 1050) so jus imagine what a pair of 4870s can do :P
 
8igdave said:
when i looked into them before buying my card they were pritty much neck and neck. To me the 285 came out on top because it didn;'t need crossfire support.
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I don't know what you were looking at, but the majority of games are optimised for both SLi and Crossfire, to think a top end dual GPU card is out performed always by the rival top single GPU card is crazy.

Especially considering that both top end single GPU cards offer fairly similar performance.

Ok, so a 4890 is pretty close to a GTX285 ad neck and neck with the 275, but to say it's faster than the 295 because it doesn't need crossfire to run?

Pretty much all games benefit from multiGPU technology.

Maybe you looked at a dodgy website which used dodgy figures, but a 4870 isn't around half the speed of a 275. :confused:

Any reviews I've seen show the X2 being miles ahead of the 285 in pretty much everything except broken games like dead space.
 
lol the Hd 4870 X2 basically rapes the 285, it competes with the 295, in most benchmarks its just a bit better but is it worth £100 more?

same as kyle. all good optimized games use crossfire and SLI these days.
 
The HD4870X2 is more compared with the GTX295 altrhough the GTX295 is a little faster and a little more expesnive by a lot actruly lol
 
what about the physx and cuda wich ati cards dont have, on toms hardware the 4970x2 does beat the gtx 285 on most test but not all
 
AMG said:
The HD4870X2 is more compared with the GTX295 altrhough the GTX295 is a little faster and a little more expesnive by a lot actruly lol
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Yeah a little faster, maybe 5% max but no actual real world gaming will show that, only benchmarks, but the GTX295 is stupidly priced, 4870X2 is the way to go.
 
Thank you guys I'd say the 4870X2 has won the day, I thought it might I just wanted to be sure. On that note, this power supply will run the card won't it I think the card needs a 6 + 2 pin but not sure.

OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Modular Power Supply

- 150 x 160 x 86mm (W x L x H)
- ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V
- up to 86% Efficiency
- Overvoltage/OverPower/Short-Circuit protection
- (.99)Active PFC
- MTBF: 100,000 hours @ 25C
- 1 x 20/24-pin ATX
- 1 x 8-pin CPU
- 1 x 4-pin CPU
- 1 x 6-pin PCI-E
- 1 x 6+2-pin PCI-E
- 4 x Peripheral
- 2 x Floppy
- 6 x SATA
 
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