If you had £130 today what card would you buy

Ritsugamesh · 27 Sep 2009 at 08:38

+1 for the 4890, best bang for buck no doubt about it.

=VTA=MANFACE · 27 Sep 2009 at 09:01

'Wes · 27 Sep 2009 at 09:37

4890.

Duke · 27 Sep 2009 at 10:00

Vale · 27 Sep 2009 at 11:07

I bought the VTX 4890, best card I've had in ages.

Alex h · 27 Sep 2009 at 11:25

4890 deffo

Roeg1 · 27 Sep 2009 at 11:27

Well I went went with the 260, more than happy very nice upgrade from an 8800 GTX much better IQ, people who say its noisey really cant have owned an 8800 GTX

to me its silent my corsair hx 620 is easily louder than it.

Fan asnt span up past 40% yet and after playing Empire total Wars for about 5 hours last night it was still under 70 degrees.

Left 4 dead can now be maxed at 1920x1200 with much better solid fps same as empire total wars everything on ultra and it seemed very good, no major slow down anywhere.

My only gripe is where the hell was my free game and my glasses ? Its advertised to come with both the game and 3d glasses but nothing in the box or anything ? pretty poor ocuk advertise free stuff it seems when ever I actually buy it the free games and goodies are never in sight as this isn't the first time this as happened

londonbairn · 27 Sep 2009 at 11:46

That's what you get for not getting the better card (4890)

DavieJG · 27 Sep 2009 at 12:04

just incase you missed the previous 40 posts, 4890 lol.

snowdog · 27 Sep 2009 at 12:21

Roeg1 said:
My only gripe is where the hell was my free game and my glasses ? Its advertised to come with both the game and 3d glasses but nothing in the box or anything ? pretty poor ocuk advertise free stuff it seems when ever I actually buy it the free games and goodies are never in sight as this isn't the first time this as happened

They sometimes indeed forget it, you need to contact them and they will usually send it after a while.

Showboat · 27 Sep 2009 at 12:23

I'd go with the 260GTX, depending on what game / appication you run most depends on wether it's better / worse than a 4890. Both very similar performance cards, go with whatever you can get cheaper.

Shakeel · 27 Sep 2009 at 13:56

ye get hte 4890 for sure

Roeg1 · 27 Sep 2009 at 15:15

snowdog said:
They sometimes indeed forget it, you need to contact them and they will usually send it after a while.

Thank you, ill send a web note. All is forgiven it was a Saturday afternoon and im more than happy with my purchase. I can live without the game until they can get one out.

Buckster · 27 Sep 2009 at 15:31

Shakeel said:
ye get hte 4890 for sure

+1, 4890 without a doubt

baroniuk · 27 Sep 2009 at 16:25

Come on nvidia fanboys it's a 4890 at that price all the way!

Rroff · 27 Sep 2009 at 17:45

With the 4890 very marginally less than 4% faster overall, the only really big advantage it has is the extra VRAM which currently doesn't really come into play unless you are playing at 2560x res...

The 4890 will typically OC by 10-15% with very few capable of clocking above that without voltmodding/replacement cooling, the 260GTX will OC to around 20-25% faster with very few cards not capable of that...

So all in all it works out pretty even give or take unless you only run your cards at stock - where the fps difference really isn't going to make any odds playability wise.

Buckster · 27 Sep 2009 at 17:54

4890 faster by only 4% compared with a GTX260 ? pull the other one

TheRealDeal · 27 Sep 2009 at 17:58

Rroff said:
With the 4890 very marginally less than 4% faster overall, the only really big advantage it has is the extra VRAM which currently doesn't really come into play unless you are playing at 2560x res...

The 4890 will typically OC by 10-15% with very few capable of clocking above that without voltmodding/replacement cooling, the 260GTX will OC to around 20-25% faster with very few cards not capable of that...

So all in all it works out pretty even give or take unless you only run your cards at stock - where the fps difference really isn't going to make any odds playability wise.

Check out this review gives a good comparison and also has minimum frame rates included the 4890 is a lot more than 4% faster.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/23415-sapphire-radeon-hd-5870-1gb-gddr5-review.html

gtx260 holds its own in some games but in most its out classed by the 4890. Its a 5870 review so both cards are on latest drivers i would imagine.

Rroff · 27 Sep 2009 at 18:00

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v713/Beany2004/perfrel.gif

overall benchmark covering a load of games and different resolutions...

Sure the 4890 is moderatly faster in a good number of games, but overall when you test with 20 or so games theres not a huge amount in it.

Buckster · 27 Sep 2009 at 18:01

in Crysis the difference isn't so much as that game favours Nvidia

but in most other games I'd say from looking at the reviews that the 4890 is on average about 18-25% faster than the GTX260 - depending on the game - most being in the upper part of that range