ellover009
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Hey guy I currently have a 8800gtx 756mb and I am thinking that it's time to upgrade to something nicer. I've been looking at a few cards, almost ended up with a 5870 when they used to be cheap near launch but decided to stick around to see what nvidia had to offer.
My friend is an big amd fan and keeps trying to push me to go amd this time around, he keeps mentioning something in the lines about how nv is loosing money from the rambus lawsuit, the mobile 8xxx series failure, loosing the intel 1366 license among telling me how great it would be to heat the house and how it's power consumption requires are insane.
I never owned an amd card so it makes deciding harder, I have heard the 6xxx series is due sometime possibly after October, and from some unproven benches should put the 6870 around 5970s speeds which is not too far off since the 5970 uses 5850s clock speeds and not 5870s.
I considered either dual 460s, or single 480.
I think I would prefer a single powerful card over 2 of them, this would keep compatibility with all games, and less likely to show rubber band effect or micro-stuttering.
I started looking at some 480's and I noticed some companies are starting to offer some non reference cooler designs. I noticed an new gtx 480 by sparkle that looks interesting.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187117&cm_re=gtx_480-_-14-187-117-_-Product
Does anyone know if sparkle's lifetime warranty is any good?
I have heard that newer amd 5xxx do not get along with crt monitors, I have a sony fw900 and I am pretty attached to it, any truth to this?
I was considering either
sparkle tricooler 480
regular reference evga 480
or wait for the new amd 6xxx card.
What do you guys think?
My friend is an big amd fan and keeps trying to push me to go amd this time around, he keeps mentioning something in the lines about how nv is loosing money from the rambus lawsuit, the mobile 8xxx series failure, loosing the intel 1366 license among telling me how great it would be to heat the house and how it's power consumption requires are insane.
I never owned an amd card so it makes deciding harder, I have heard the 6xxx series is due sometime possibly after October, and from some unproven benches should put the 6870 around 5970s speeds which is not too far off since the 5970 uses 5850s clock speeds and not 5870s.
I considered either dual 460s, or single 480.
I think I would prefer a single powerful card over 2 of them, this would keep compatibility with all games, and less likely to show rubber band effect or micro-stuttering.
I started looking at some 480's and I noticed some companies are starting to offer some non reference cooler designs. I noticed an new gtx 480 by sparkle that looks interesting.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187117&cm_re=gtx_480-_-14-187-117-_-Product
Does anyone know if sparkle's lifetime warranty is any good?
I have heard that newer amd 5xxx do not get along with crt monitors, I have a sony fw900 and I am pretty attached to it, any truth to this?
I was considering either
sparkle tricooler 480
regular reference evga 480
or wait for the new amd 6xxx card.
What do you guys think?