joeynuggetz
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Jun 19, 2006
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I don't want to start a ATI vs nVidia thread but I'm really trying to decide what my next purchase is going to be. I'm waiting for Gulftown before I build an i7 machine. I've RMA's the (2) 8800GTX Ultras that I've been running for years and its be tough without a PC for a while. Yesterday I decide to head over to Fry's and pick up a GPU to get me by until my RMA gets sorted. The highest end card they had in stock was a Diamond 5850 that I picked up for $300.
Few things I noticed compared to my 8800s... It seems like the image quality in games was better. The fan is super loud when cranked all the way up and I've never heard my 8800's do this even when I forced 100% on the fan manually. I wonder if I had bad fans all along on the 8800''s as I've read that those were supposed to be loud but I could barely hear them.
Anyway, I'm getting sick of nVida and I'm really going to give AMD a good hard look this time around. How much faster will a 5970 be than this 5850? The game I'm really building my rig for is Arma2 which is CPU bound. Although the game ran the best it's ever played with the 5850 I picked up, I was far from impressed. Granted I'm still running my old quad core Q6600 at stock speeds so maybe my CPU is truly the bottleneck now since the speed of the game improved but isn't where I'd like it to be.
Looks like the leaked fermi numbers are bust and I feel that ATI is the way to go this time around. What do you guys think? ATI or nVidia? I'm ready to do Crossfire or SLI as I think a single card isn't going to cut it. I'm running a 30 inch panel at 2560x1600.
Few things I noticed compared to my 8800s... It seems like the image quality in games was better. The fan is super loud when cranked all the way up and I've never heard my 8800's do this even when I forced 100% on the fan manually. I wonder if I had bad fans all along on the 8800''s as I've read that those were supposed to be loud but I could barely hear them.
Anyway, I'm getting sick of nVida and I'm really going to give AMD a good hard look this time around. How much faster will a 5970 be than this 5850? The game I'm really building my rig for is Arma2 which is CPU bound. Although the game ran the best it's ever played with the 5850 I picked up, I was far from impressed. Granted I'm still running my old quad core Q6600 at stock speeds so maybe my CPU is truly the bottleneck now since the speed of the game improved but isn't where I'd like it to be.
Looks like the leaked fermi numbers are bust and I feel that ATI is the way to go this time around. What do you guys think? ATI or nVidia? I'm ready to do Crossfire or SLI as I think a single card isn't going to cut it. I'm running a 30 inch panel at 2560x1600.