ShuttleLuv
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I'm selling mine even if Fermi is $500+ and only 30% faster. 1GB is not enough memory for 2560x1600. I'll probably hold onto the 5970 until fermi is out, but I'd ditch my barely used xfx 5870 today if I had a decent offer.
Here's the real question: What if Fermi STILL requires 2 cards for triple monitor gaming? We're talking at least $800 to side with nVidia and get the eyefinity equivalent. Even if they were same cost as the 5870, faster, and had OMG TRUE GEOMETRY, there's no way in hell I'm buying 2 of them for my 3 monitors.
It's funny how neutral you first stated yourself to be shuttleLuv, but when people started disagreeing with you and shooting down your arguments, you back up into a color and let your true fanboyism shine.
To the non fan boys this poll reads:
If you could sell your current card and get something significantly better for the same money would you?
Yes
No
To the fan boys this reads:
Would you sell ati and buy nvidia?
Yes
No
The results of this poll are more an indictment of the state of these forums then anything.
I'm tossing mine for the 5800 refreshes.where is the option of keeping my 4870 for another year till the 6k series comes out?
@UtherLazarus: You can't claim NV Surround isn't worse than Eyefinity until people have actually used it. You *claim* it properly supports SLI, but you don't have any idea if it does. For all we know it requires SLI, but only 1 card is doing the rendering and the other is just for output. Scaling could be utter crap for all we know. You also claim it supports bezel management, but again, we don't know that. ATI could also have bezel management in place before Fermi launches, making that point moot anyway.
Read:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_86775.html
and
http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_sli_mosaic_mode.html
Unless nvidia flat out lied, NV Surround will support bezel management from the start and will render two screens with one card and the third screen with the other. My take? It's simply SLI Mosaic (limited to 1x3 config) enabled on GT 2xx and GF1xx cards. Why did they not keep the SLI Mosaic name? I would suggest because:
1. The decision to add support was made late in game
2. The next iteration of Fermi cards will support NV Surround on a single card
The last two points are just speculation on my part.
However, by your logic it's just as wrong to claim NV Surround is worse than Eyefinity, but I don't see you jumping all over the person who said "Nfinity is worse" as if it were a known fact. I never said NV Surround was better or worse actually. I simply said both schemes have their strengths and weaknesses, based on what we know currently.
Honestly - I would. I like my 5870, but the whole stuttering w/ vsync thing really annoys the hell out of me.
Finally, the PhysX ATI hack works, but it's still pretty weird.
If Fermi were to hit at a comparable price with the same/better performance I think I might jump on it.
I'm not saying Nvidia is flat out lying - just that bezel management might not be there at launch, or that ATI will already have it by then. As for SLI, that doesn't address how well it scales in games. I'm just trying to say that we really don't *know* how nFinity will behave whereas we do *know* how Eyefinity behaves. I certainly wouldn't claim that nFinity is worse than Eyefinity, either.
Uh, changing your card won't change how VSync works. The "stuttering" you refer to is simply due to how VSync works, it isn't a card or driver bug. You could try forcing triple buffering.
Huh?!
I played about 90% of all my games in 2560x1600 just fine with a 512Mb 4870 crossfire rig, and play 100% of all my games in 2560x1600 just fine with a 1Gb 5970.
The few games that struggle at 2560x1600 aren't struggling because of lack of memory I'm fairly certain.