What would be better??

miker1 · 15 Oct 2009 at 15:08

Decisions, decisions...

What will be better for my my gaming?

Replace my 4870 512mb with £300 5870

OR

Replace [email protected]/DS3R with £570 I7-920/UD5 @4.0?

BigRazer93 · 15 Oct 2009 at 15:29

Depends. In games you will see more of a boost from the 5870. So i would get the 5870. Most games are gpu dependant.

RadioheadR6 · 15 Oct 2009 at 15:34

Ben-Irvine93 said:
Depends. In games you will see more of a boost from the 5870. So i would get the 5870. Most games are gpu dependant.

This.

miker1 · 15 Oct 2009 at 16:36

So I won't be CPU bound with the 5870?

coolsouthern · 15 Oct 2009 at 17:20

possibly... when I was researching the 5870 with a view to buying it this card was even getting bottlenecked by an overclocked i7. (Guru I think). However, this was only in a couple of tests.

Or... you could go AMD Phenom 955BE w/mboard and get another 4870 512mb to crossfire for possibly less than the 5870. The xfire would last you until you could afford a tope end card by which time they may have dropped in price anyway

BigRazer93 · 15 Oct 2009 at 18:21

coolsouthern said:
possibly... when I was researching the 5870 with a view to buying it this card was even getting bottlenecked by an overclocked i7. (Guru I think). However, this was only in a couple of tests.

Or... you could go AMD Phenom 955BE w/mboard and get another 4870 512mb to crossfire for possibly less than the 5870. The xfire would last you until you could afford a tope end card by which time they may have dropped in price anyway

He is correct there about even core i7 was bottlenecking but thats at very high res. I would personally get the 5870 and overclock the cpu a bit more. Also, if you aint bothered about dx11, 4890 in crossfire is faster than a single 5870 and a little bit cheaper.

coolsouthern · 15 Oct 2009 at 19:12

It was def on Guru's website and the bottlenecking was happening at different kinds of res. In fact I think it was the lower res' that the bottlenecking. Either way it can happen even with the "mighty" i7.

I agree with the above option as well. Kind of. I think my option would be cheaper. My option, however, would only be better if you didn't care that much about dx11!!