sparky1_2007
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Im just curious of what everyone thinks, because im going to be upgrading my system soon and im probably going to be buying my video card.
i've been primarlly a ati guy mostly because of the price/performance ratio, i started out with an x800xl back in the day, then moved up to a 4870, and when that died i went to a 5770.
anyways, im planning on upgrading my system around this summer to something nice, i was thinking 2600k with 8/16gb of ram, and a killer video card that i wont have to upgrade anytime soon.
so i was origonally thinking hmm, well it'd probably be a good idea to get a 6970 because it's only $300 or so and it's going to offer me quite a bit of performance for my money, but then i got to looking at the 570's and the 580's and i was just wondering what their $100 and $200 price premium gets me aside from being the fastest single core graphics card out there.
from my understanding the whole graphics card breakdown goes like this.
580 > 6970 >= 570 > 6950 > 560=6870 and so on and so forth, is that a fiarly good estimate?
but my question is that if i got a 580, what does that extra $200 price premium get me over a 570/6970??
i've been primarlly a ati guy mostly because of the price/performance ratio, i started out with an x800xl back in the day, then moved up to a 4870, and when that died i went to a 5770.
anyways, im planning on upgrading my system around this summer to something nice, i was thinking 2600k with 8/16gb of ram, and a killer video card that i wont have to upgrade anytime soon.
so i was origonally thinking hmm, well it'd probably be a good idea to get a 6970 because it's only $300 or so and it's going to offer me quite a bit of performance for my money, but then i got to looking at the 570's and the 580's and i was just wondering what their $100 and $200 price premium gets me aside from being the fastest single core graphics card out there.
from my understanding the whole graphics card breakdown goes like this.
580 > 6970 >= 570 > 6950 > 560=6870 and so on and so forth, is that a fiarly good estimate?
but my question is that if i got a 580, what does that extra $200 price premium get me over a 570/6970??