is this video card right for me?

Thanatos

Active Member
i have a budget of about $180. i plan to play bioshock 1 and 2, and borderlands, and crysis. im thinking this card will work. my monitor has a 1400x900 res.
 

mx344

New Member
Yah you should be able to max out any game, on crysis, im pretty sure you could max it out, depending on the cpu you have and amount of ram, but if you have a decent cpu, you should be able to max it out, idk about having 16 AA tho haha.


I can get all maxed out, but i cant have AA on, once i do that it kills my FPS.
 

jarlmaster47

New Member
I would get the EVGA instead of Zotac, but yeah the new gtx460 kicks butt

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130562

its a good card thats for sure. loses out to the 5830 in quite a few benchies but still a great card. the gtx 460 is the best card Nvidia has put out in quite a while. temps are under control, doesnt draw as much power as other Fermi's. Best fermi thats for sure. But ATI has Nvidia by the nads. 6xxx series will be the final death blow.
 

Twist86

Active Member
I will be honest with you wait till you get a little more money and buy a GTX 460 (1GB version) or the ATI 5830 both perform close to one another and both are better.

Here are some user based benchmarks...notice how big a difference that is?
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/284037-33-5770-5830-head-head

GTX 460 1GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...5333&cm_re=gtx_460_1gb-_-14-125-333-_-Product

ATI 5830
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125317&cm_re=5830-_-14-125-317-_-Product

Just some food for thought...sometimes waiting and going over budget is better in the long-term.
 

87dtna

Active Member
I will be honest with you wait till you get a little more money and buy a GTX 460 (1GB version) or the ATI 5830 both perform close to one another and both are better.

Here are some user based benchmarks...notice how big a difference that is?
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/284037-33-5770-5830-head-head

GTX 460 1GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...5333&cm_re=gtx_460_1gb-_-14-125-333-_-Product

ATI 5830
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125317&cm_re=5830-_-14-125-317-_-Product

Just some food for thought...sometimes waiting and going over budget is better in the long-term.

I was just arguing on another forum about the 5830. The initial reviews were garbage, and not correct at all. The 5830 is massively better than the 5770. I've owned both as well. My vantage scores were 11k with the 5770 and 14k with the 5830, thats a huge difference. Furthermore, I couldn't use eyefinity 5760x1080 (three monitors) on the 5770, so I used 2 (which sucked for first person shooters) and got the same FPS with the 5770 on 2 monitors and I did with the 5830 with 3 monitors. I averaged about 60 FPS playing 3 1080p monitor eyefinity playing COD WAW and NEVER dropped below 50 FPS. Now that not with any AA or AF, but still extremely impressive IMO.

However, I would still get a gtx460 over a 5830, EVEN a 768 mb. Smaller card, less power, and it's Nvidia! LOL
 

Twist86

Active Member
I dunno for a extra $20-30 192 bit to 256 bit would be worth it if you ask me. Sure its 2-3 frames but who knows once you overclock the two how it will fair. I am surprised though after the disaster that is 470/480 that Nvidia has a lower power card then ATI :p

I prefer Nvidia just for the superior drivers to ATI (cept ones that destroy your card :p ) so I am hoping for a new version of the 470/480 this year.
 

87dtna

Active Member
Well it's nearly 30gb/s in memory bandwidth, it's almost 1/3 again the 768mb. Plus it's also another 256mb of memory if you run high resolution (1920x1200 or higher).
 

Ryeong

New Member
its a good card thats for sure. loses out to the 5830 in quite a few benchies but still a great card. the gtx 460 is the best card Nvidia has put out in quite a while. temps are under control, doesnt draw as much power as other Fermi's. Best fermi thats for sure. But ATI has Nvidia by the nads. 6xxx series will be the final death blow.

GTX 480 is the best card... my Max temp oc-ed to 825mhz core and 4500mhz ram is 75c (75-77%Fan speed) with 8hours 100% stress test. it is faster than 5970 under extreme tesselation. Physx, always playable fps in stereosopic 3D, TONS of cuda cores, eats tesselation easy, Ray tracing .. Always faster than 5870 with the new 2xx.xx drivers by 15%+.

Expensive? Not really. Too much extra? maybe...

Go for GTX460.. dont forget tesselation .. it WILL be common soon.
 

87dtna

Active Member
The 768mb is the one that loses to the 5830, byt barely we're only talking 2 FPS average. A 1gb is stronger than a 5830, closer to a 5850 in performance.
 

mihir

VIP Member
GTX 480 is the best card... my Max temp oc-ed to 825mhz core and 4500mhz ram is 75c (75-77%Fan speed) with 8hours 100% stress test. it is faster than 5970 under extreme tesselation. Physx, always playable fps in stereosopic 3D, TONS of cuda cores, eats tesselation easy, Ray tracing .. Always faster than 5870 with the new 2xx.xx drivers by 15%+.

Expensive? Not really. Too much extra? maybe...

Go for GTX460.. dont forget tesselation .. it WILL be common soon.

The HD 5970 is the best card
 

87dtna

Active Member
5970 is a dual GPU.

480 is a single GPU.

480+480-5980= GTX480 By far...

No offense but thats a bad argument. Two gtx480's is $900, a 5970 is $700 and only one card then. If you could tri-SLI some gtx460's that would beat a 5970 for the same price, but again the 5970 is only one card and the 460 doesn't do tri-SLI anyway.



I can't wait until the GTX495 comes out. The gtx475 is set to be released in Q3 this year, so shouldn't be long after that. The 475 is based off the GF104 like the 460. Two gtx475's should be awesome, quad SLI should be killer.
 
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Thanatos

Active Member
man, thanks to everyone who posted. im a little ATI fan boy and i would like to stick with ATI. i also want to make shure that it will fit in my case and on my motherboard. i have an asus M4A78-EM mobo and the antec 900 case.
 

jarlmaster47

New Member
nvidia needs to put it into massive overdrive. ati has the 6800 series right around the corner more or less. thats going to be check and mate.
 

mihir

VIP Member
5970 is a dual GPU.

480 is a single GPU.

480+480-5980= GTX480 By far...

The GTX 480 sli will consume more power produce a lot more heat and will be more expensive to a single HD5970.

The HD5970 takes only one slot and the heat and power produces and used by it are also not off-the charts but the performance is.

As for the comparison you gave GTX 480 = 1 PCI slot

HD 5970 = 1 PCI slot
NO COMPARISON


I guess you are just an Nvidia fan
 
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