bizzmeister
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Anyways, I just returned my XFX Radeon 5970 Black Edition back to Newegg. I got 1k to play with when it comes to my videocard. The reason why I returned it was because I knew the 5970 4gb cards coming in May, I think ?? And I just read the review on the Sapphire 5970 Toxic 4gb edition. Apprently NOW the worlds fastest gpu with 900/1200 clocks from FACTORY and it runs WAYYY COOLER than the 5970 I just returned. That's just insane.
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=24278&page=1
Check out that review. Now Im stuck with this problem here. If you actually read that entire review with the games they benchmarked, nvidias GTX480 in SLI mauls this new $1000 4gb 5970 in the AA department where as it does great elsewhere. I don't understand it. I really don't. I figure ATI would have figured this out by now but I guess not. With AA turned all the way up, the SLI 480's are getting much more FPS. That really bothers me.
What would you do in this case? Go for the dual GTX480's or go with the Sapphire 4gb 5970 toxic edition and why? Remember, more 4gb 5970's are apparently coming out in May too but I doubt they'll surpass this Sapphire one.
ORRRRRR do you wait for Nvidia's dual gpu fermi card? I haven't even heard anything about that yet, though.
** BTW, I just picked up 3 Asus 24" 1920x1080 lcd's to run a triple monitor setup like eyeinfinity BUT im hearing that I can't run this setup on SLI GTX 480 right now. Is that true ? Because newegg has them in stock right now and i want to pull the trigger but im not sure.
----- Please excuse the crappy iphone pics. Also included is a youtube link to video of mysetup now MINUS the 5970 that was returned, if you're curious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFbeBq-OhnQ
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=24278&page=1
Check out that review. Now Im stuck with this problem here. If you actually read that entire review with the games they benchmarked, nvidias GTX480 in SLI mauls this new $1000 4gb 5970 in the AA department where as it does great elsewhere. I don't understand it. I really don't. I figure ATI would have figured this out by now but I guess not. With AA turned all the way up, the SLI 480's are getting much more FPS. That really bothers me.
What would you do in this case? Go for the dual GTX480's or go with the Sapphire 4gb 5970 toxic edition and why? Remember, more 4gb 5970's are apparently coming out in May too but I doubt they'll surpass this Sapphire one.
ORRRRRR do you wait for Nvidia's dual gpu fermi card? I haven't even heard anything about that yet, though.
** BTW, I just picked up 3 Asus 24" 1920x1080 lcd's to run a triple monitor setup like eyeinfinity BUT im hearing that I can't run this setup on SLI GTX 480 right now. Is that true ? Because newegg has them in stock right now and i want to pull the trigger but im not sure.
----- Please excuse the crappy iphone pics. Also included is a youtube link to video of mysetup now MINUS the 5970 that was returned, if you're curious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFbeBq-OhnQ