Upgrading from a GTX 260..

[RavenXXX2]

FFS, get a clue, the difference is marginal-fact, with or without OC.

 

[doiks14]

Wait for 5850/5870, a lot better value for money, features and it would also last you longer due to DX11 support

Its not such a long wait at all

 

[Rroff]

If you would oc a 260 then you would clearly oc a 4890 so therefore its irrelevant.

Sure if you were talking about the difference between the 2 cards BEFORE you'd purchased either...

Tho tbh - I've not see many 260GTX that won't OC by 20-25% and I've not seen many 4890s that will OC more than 10-15% so on balance you'd end up with pretty similiar performance when both are OC'd.

 

[Deific]

You have to be mad to upgrade from a 260 to a 4890. If you can't justify spending over 200 on a 5850, then you certainly can't justify spending 150 quid on a 4890 when you already have a 260.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

If you would oc a 260 then you would clearly oc a 4890 so therefore its irrelevant.

Yep, the good old, 'my OVERCLOCKED Nvidia card is around the same as your STOCK ATi one' card, being going for years this crap as well.

Id keep the 260 as its still a very decent card, some legs left in it yet.

 

[Rroff]

Yep, the good old, 'my OVERCLOCKED Nvidia card is around the same as your STOCK ATi one' card, being going for years this crap as well.

Id keep the 260 as its still a very decent card, some legs left in it yet.

To be fair tho we are talking about a situation where the OP already has one of the cards... so overclocking rather than upgrading is a fair comment.

 

[Lightnix]

I'd actually agree, the 4890 is barely an upgrade, it's what? 10% faster. Wait until the 5800 series for a real upgrade, anything else is going to be barely noticeable, unless you want to go for one of the dual GPU parts. Although if we are going to talk about overclocking the things, you could always overclock the 4890 to be faster than the GTX285. I have to agree, though, if you want some more performance, just clock the 260. There's no point in switching between any of those cards because the performance gap at that performance segment is so tiny.

 

[toon_mad]

i will see how much these 5850's are when they come out, i saw somewhere they are going to be around $300, which equates to about £180 or so which doesnt sound right, im expecting a big price on them