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capriboy1978

capriboy1978

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hi all


I'm slowly puttig together bits for my 1st i7 build. It looks like this so far, not all bits arrived/ordered as yet mind.

i7 920 d0
foxconn bloodrage
ocz reaper 6gb
seasonic m12d 850w
zalman gt900
f1 1tb

System will be moderately overclocked and used mainly as a general purpose machine, bit of this n that, but will likely be most powerful pc on site and so will get it's fair share of gaming hours as well as photo work.

I'm stuck on graphics cards at the moment though.... i'd like to go with a single card now and add a second in 6months or so. I'm currently stuck choosing between the gtx275/285 or ati 4890's. Anyone have any thoughts? Gaming will be at 1920 x 1200 on either a hp2475 or nec 24wmgx3 (if i can magic a new one!). My considerations are performance, power consumption, noise and physical size, pretty much in that order.

Any help or personal experience gratefully appreciated.

ta

craig
 
both cards are good, no point in the GTX285, as you can probley overclock the HD4890/GTX275
the GTX275 is about the same price as the HD4890 now and both overclock well, I would also get the XT XFX HD4890 unless you want what the sapphire cards come with, which is a lot
 
will play a mix of games, with a fair fps bias though. currently game on xbox360, while it's handy in the lounge the visuals are pretty dire.

I have considered the 4870x2 but have heard bad things about twin card setups, plus the triple fan asus model i liked seems to have gone walkies on here.
 
well you can take both SLI or crossfire on that board and both GTX275 and HD4890 are cost effective and with two will eat the X2 anyways and the hugly expesnive GTX295
 
AMG said:
both cards are good, no point in the GTX285, as you can probley overclock the HD4890/GTX275
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I'd take the 275 at it's new price, about the same sort of speed and price but will be quieter than the 4890. Don't forget you could also overclock the 285, although I take your point it's too expensive for the small amount of extra graphical horsepower you would get.

AMG said:
well you can take both SLI or crossfire on that board and both GTX275 and HD4890 are cost effective and with two will eat the X2 anyways and the hugly expesnive GTX295
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The GTX 295 is effectively two 275's albeit slightly lower clocked, so saying that two 275's will eat a 295 is just wrong, definitely more cost effective though, there's no denying that.
 
The GTX 295 is effectively two 275's albeit slightly lower clocked, so saying that two 275's will eat a 295 is just wrong, definitely more cost effective though, there's no denying that.
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overclocked, it won't at stock.

in most situations and yes a lot more cost effective.
 
two GTX275 or two HD4890 will not beat a GTX295 at stock will fall about on par. I really do need to find a way to keep my room cool lol I m missing keywords here :mad:
 
In all the benchmarks and reviews I've read, the GTX275 is virtually on par with the 4890, if not slightly better (only slightly) in some tests.

Although, I do believe 2 x 4890's work better in Crossfire than 2 x 275's in SLI mode. Dont quote me on that though, but I do believe Crossfire yields better performance over similarly performing nVidia cards in SLi mode.
 
I think SLI is more mature than crossfire, but I think there is very little differences tbh just rember the LGA775 Nvida chipset is quite a bad one and a pain to get working properly.
 
so there's very little performance difference between 2 275 and 2 4890 and the 285's don't justify the premium.

How do temps and power consumption vary between the 275's and 4890's. I have a good 850w psu but not sure how good my case is at cooling and there's no room for a full internal water cool set up.
 
capriboy1978 said:
so there's very little performance difference between 2 275 and 2 4890 and the 285's don't justify the premium.

How do temps and power consumption vary between the 275's and 4890's. I have a good 850w psu but not sure how good my case is at cooling and there's no room for a full internal water cool set up.
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is it really that hard to type "4890 275 power" into Google?
 
the GTX275 is quieter, at ideal it consumers more power than the GTX275 but under load I think its the other way around
 
sldsmkd said:
is it really that hard to type "4890 275 power" into Google?
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I think you've missed the point in these forums.

It's not hard to type it in to google. Asking real people is usually a better and more reliable answer than trawling google.

Typing "4890 275 power" into google is going to get you very vague results.

I don't think you're the google wizard you think you are.
 
I think google will go mental and bring out all kinds of ****

GTX275 power consumtion would be better as an example
 
thanks again for the input, looks like decision will come down to price and specific cooler such as sapphire's vapor x, based on presumption that similiar power consumption means similiar amounts of heat.
Worth knowing that the non load usage differs though, as i'm sure they'll plenty of times a twin card set up won't be maxed out.

Whats google btw. . . . .
 
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