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Who has waited for 6970 ?

Arcane said:
The 5850s I had were great cards, cool and very quiet, however, I PERSONALLY had a tough time with ATIs Crossfire drivers, nothing insurmountable admittedly, but none the less very annoying.

Changing driver sets constantly, flickering desktop images, DP not working with certain revisions (or ghosting double images), Alt tabbing to enable crossfire, crossfire not working when I changed options in CCC etc etc. I gave up around 9.12 after waiting for magic driver revisions and went 470SLI, far noisier and hotter, but for me, less hassle with far more options within the Control Panel.

I understand the scaling's improved with the 6 series, which is great, now if they devoted more time and resourses to getting a great control panel with lots of options to fault find (along the lines of the SLI load balancing graph and the ability to test different rendering modes) then I'd consider their Multi-GPU offerings again.
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One thing that i have learnt from others with ATi is not to jump on a new GPU line & expect trouble free multi GPU implementation.

Multi GPU 1900, 3870, 5970 have been great as im always late to the party & make sure my shirt (Drivers) gets ironed out first.
 
I'm waiting, but will probably end up skipping this generation. My 5850 xfire set up is more than enough for the games around now. Having said that, if the 6970 is faster by a decent margin (and has 2gb) then I might be tempted to go for one........if the price is right of course. I'm sort of contemplating a NAS upgrade too, which is more likely.

I have considered a 580 but I don't like the NV driver control panel, or the way they handle HDTV resolutions. Everytime I have to use it on my lappy, it makes me feel a bit queasy! :p
 
Waiting for benchmarks for the new cards. But unless they come out with something special at a good price I doubt I will upgrade, with only console ports to play my 5850 will be good for a fair while yet. I think these new cards are only needed by those who play at very high resolutions.
 
Wewt! 1st post from a long time lurker... \o/

I was originally intending to hold out for performance comparisons, but when I read about the delays I succumbed to temptation and bought a 580. And tbh the 6970 will have to be something really special to make me regret my decision.

However you feel about the 480 shenanigans, the 580 is imo a damn good card and its out in decent quantities well before the Xmas rush. Happy days really.
 
Still hanging in there Gj, although technically you did crack and order a 580 which fell through. So I initially was waiting for 6970 but decided after mucho research that I didn't need anything more powerful than 470\6870. As the 6870 was and still is nowhere near rrp i decided on the Msi 470GTX which is in my rig and I am delighted.:)

Ps Bought a Crucial C300 64Gb Ssd with the spare cash and I am equally delighted with it.:D
 
Phoenixdancer said:
Im waiting for the 6990 :)

The people who say ATI drivers are crap are: People who havent used there cards / drivers and just read issues...

Or they cant install ATI software..
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Thanks for assuming people are retarded. I know how to install hardware and software as well as anyone else on this forum.

I've had problems with many ATi cards from 4870x2 quadfire, 5850 TriFire to 5970+5850 tri fire. Performance on some games has been terrible one driver release, good on the next, and terrible on the next. It's very erratic. It's not just games that have issues though, there is the fact the cards were not downclocking one release, and then not upclocking (is that a word?) the next


Please don't assume people are stupid. I've been working in IT over 15 years.
 
I bought a second hand 480 and calling it done, might pick up another when you can pick em up for under 200. Having said that had I known the 580 was due out like 2 weeks after I dropped £270 on it I probably would have bought that. Came from crossfire 5870s which I was very happy with for gaming but needed CUDA for Premiere CS5
 
somewhatdamaged said:
Thanks for assuming people are retarded. I know how to install hardware and software as well as anyone else on this forum.

I've had problems with many ATi cards from 4870x2 quadfire, 5850 TriFire to 5970+5850 tri fire. Performance on some games has been terrible one driver release, good on the next, and terrible on the next. It's very erratic. It's not just games that have issues though, there is the fact the cards were not downclocking one release, and then not upclocking (is that a word?) the next


Please don't assume people are stupid. I've been working in IT over 15 years.
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I'm sorry but what?

I have run all those setups and more.. 4870x2 / 4870x2 +4870 / 5970 / 5970 + 5850 / 5970 + 5870.. / 5970 x2...

The ONLY issue was with 2x 5970..
Thing Is I actually follow amd's directions on installing drivers and can actually troubleshoot well.

The part of IT you have been working in must be a simple desk job :/
 
I did plan to get an EVGA GTX 580 but provided with the current situation it seems like I'm not getting one anytime soon. May as well wait and see what 6950/6970 can offer.

I have to agree the making of ATI catalyst is rather poor. I had my fair share of bad experience for CFX.
 
most issues with SLI/crossfire, for most people, actually come from other parts of the rig, such as PSU and bad install.

I've personally had issues with SLi, but that was down to PSU juice issues causing micro stutters - at least that's what I derived without further testing. I did not need SLI at the time so just got rid of the 2nd card. (sold)
 
Well before I had 480's in SLI, I had a HD 5970 which was a great card but I found stuttery, even when I paired it with another 5870 in tri-fire, it had great max fps but would suffer from low min fps.

When I got the 480's in SLI this completely disappeared and it was a great experience, I was sold!

Now I have the SLI 580s i have ZERO issues, no microstutter or anything, it's great, but that's not putting down ATI cards as I have had a lot of them and they are good hardware, but for me personally (after trying out) I prefer the Nvidia SLI solution.
 
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