ATI 4870 vs 5770 vs Nvidia GTX 260 Core 216

If you go to ASUS web site you wil see the 5850 was discontinued. I called them to verify this. I bet it was too good for the price.
 
Don't get the 5830, it's a dud of a card...

About overclocking the 5770: mine does 930/1300 stable, according to GPU-Z my memory bandwidth is 86.4Gb/s, Pixel Fillrate of 15 Gigapixels, Texture fillrate of 37.6 Gigatexels.

For all it's worth, overclocking gave me a massive boost in FPS with DiRT 2. at stock settings i get a min fps of 28, when overclocked i get a min of 38, which is a nice improvement.

I would seriously wait until the GTX 470 and GTX 480 are released, and then see how the prices go on the Radeons. You might be able to afford a 5850.
 
linkin said:
Don't get the 5830, it's a dud of a card...

About overclocking the 5770: mine does 930/1300 stable, according to GPU-Z my memory bandwidth is 86.4Gb/s, Pixel Fillrate of 15 Gigapixels, Texture fillrate of 37.6 Gigatexels.

For all it's worth, overclocking gave me a massive boost in FPS with DiRT 2. at stock settings i get a min fps of 28, when overclocked i get a min of 38, which is a nice improvement.

I would seriously wait until the GTX 470 and GTX 480 are released, and then see how the prices go on the Radeons. You might be able to afford a 5850.
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You can go 1050/1400 stable with the msi 5770.
 
Twist86 said:
1. Upgrades - In 1 year you might find a cheap GPU in your local papers and want to buy it to max those games out again.
2. PSU wont have to give you 90% of its capacity thus will run cooler and less issues of it blowing up and killing your system.
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So true, plugging an 8800 GT into my system a few years back flicking the power to see a small line of smoke come out of my PSU....

Most fear I have experienced with my computer ever!

(and that was a 600W PSU)
 
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