Which video card should I buy?

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dustnm

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I'm looking at 3 different video cards right now, theyre all the same price (only a 5$ difference between them). Which one of these is the best for the money though?

1. Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
2. ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
3. Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 1.2GB

I'm a gamer (mainly mmorpgs) so I'm looking to know which one of these will work best for that purpose.
 
Processor - Intel Core i7 960 Processor (4x 3.20GHz/8MB L3 Cache)

Memory-6 GB [2 GB X3] DDR3-1333-Corsair

Video Card - undecided

Motherboard -[SLI] Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R w/ 4x PCI-E 2.0 x16-

Power Supply-800 Watt -- Power Supply-SLI Ready

Primary Hard Drive-30 GB Kingston SSDNow V Series MLC SSD-Single Drive

Data Hard Drive-1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s-Single Drive

Operating System - Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
 
True, but personally I would Crossfire the 5770, then either pocket the extra or buy cool accessories :P
 
5770 crossfire.

HDD - I doubt if 30GB enough. If you want to store OS & a few programme, best off to 50- 80 GB

PSU - what brand is it

CPU - Why getting i7 960?? it is expensive. Getting i7 930 with heatsink for overclocking would probably be a cheaper option

RAM - DDR3 1333 is quite slow. Let's get DDR3 2000
 
i hear the 4xx series is hot like stove...not sure if thats true or not, the idea is making me side to ati with their very low idle power consumption... anyone able to confirm how hot the gtx 4's get?
 
Nevakonaza said:
Id get the single 5850 :)
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+1
The ATI HD 5850 is the best way to go.
Compared to GTX 470
1.7% lesser Performance
2.Cheaper
3.Less Power
4.Less Heat
Thus making it a better overclock.

And as for crossfire
always better to get one card since then you will have scope for latter upgrading and only one PCI slot will be occupied and lower power and also lesser heat and more futureproof
 
dustnm said:
Processor - Intel Core i7 960 Processor (4x 3.20GHz/8MB L3 Cache)

Memory-6 GB [2 GB X3] DDR3-1333-Corsair

Video Card - undecided

Motherboard -[SLI] Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R w/ 4x PCI-E 2.0 x16-

Power Supply-800 Watt -- Power Supply-SLI Ready

Primary Hard Drive-30 GB Kingston SSDNow V Series MLC SSD-Single Drive

Data Hard Drive-1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s-Single Drive

Operating System - Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
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I wouldn't go for a kingston SSD, they are cheaper for a reason, that reason being they are much slower than the better SSDs (Intel, OCZ)

What PSU is it?

Atomic Rooster said:
The GTX 470 would be the best choice of the three. It holds a slight performance lead over the HD 5850 in most benches.
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And benches mean what exactly? Benches aren't useful. Because he is getting a gaming video card, I am going to assume he is gaming. You try and get 2 computers, one with a 5850, the other with a 470, and the rest of the system completely identical and you tell me which is which. You wouldn't be able to because they would look the exact same in the real world, the fps difference is negligable and both will play all games out now easily.

I would go 5850 because less power and less heat than the 470.

I diagree with crossfiring for the reason mihir said, it causes more problems with drivers and games not utilising crossfire properly, more heat and uses more space.
 
Aastii said:
I wouldn't go for a kingston SSD, they are cheaper for a reason, that reason being they are much slower than the better SSDs (Intel, OCZ)

What PSU is it?



And benches mean what exactly? Benches aren't useful. Because he is getting a gaming video card, I am going to assume he is gaming. You try and get 2 computers, one with a 5850, the other with a 470, and the rest of the system completely identical and you tell me which is which. You wouldn't be able to because they would look the exact same in the real world, the fps difference is negligable and both will play all games out now easily.

I would go 5850 because less power and less heat than the 470.

I diagree with crossfiring for the reason mihir said, it causes more problems with drivers and games not utilising crossfire properly, more heat and uses more space.
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+1
In real world a Frame rate difference of 2-3 is negligible.
A 5850 is the way to go.
 
How are they all w/i 5 bucks of eachother? the 5770 is like 130 and the 5850 and 470 are like 300..


Anyway, i would probably go for the 470 if they were the same price, cause the performance is good a little better than the 5850, and i personally like nvidia's software better thats why i switched.
 
mx344 said:
How are they all w/i 5 bucks of eachother? the 5770 is like 130 and the 5850 and 470 are like 300..


Anyway, i would probably go for the 470 if they were the same price, cause the performance is good a little better than the 5850, and i personally like nvidia's software better thats why i switched.
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5770 in cross fire so thats twice the price.
 
Aastii said:
And benches mean what exactly? Benches aren't useful.
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Gaming benchmarks are very useful. Without them, how would you know which is a better performer? :rolleyes:

Aastii said:
I would go 5850 because less power and less heat than the 470.
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The guy has an 800W power supply, why worry about power consumption? If you're worried about the heat, adjust the fan speed. It only runs at 62% under full load.
 
Atomic Rooster said:
Gaming benchmarks are very useful. Without them, how would you know which is a better performer? :rolleyes:
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what he meant was that gaming benchmarks dont take power and heat into consideration and only reflect the framerate.And when the difference between them is almost negligible is where the gaming benchmarks misguide the end users the users think "This is a bit better why dont I go for this" but in truth it consumes more power and lets out more heat.
Atomic Rooster said:
The guy has an 800W power supply, why worry about power consumption? If you're worried about the heat, adjust the fan speed. It only runs at 62% under full load.
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what if he wants to Crossfire/sli
 
The gtx470 is an awesome overclocker and yields much better results than an overclocked 5850 (vs a stock/stock comparison). And anyone that complains about the heat is just running auto fan so they are noobs anyway.

For an X58 setup, gtx470 FTW because you can get another down the road and SLI them. Less issues with SLI than with crossfire.
 
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I totally agree the GTX 470 performs good and better in some games in than the ATI HD 5850 but in practical gaming the difference between their performance is not worth the price difference nor the heat nor the power.
As you yourself said he has an 800w PSU so would it be more sensible for him to go with the ATI HD 5850 which he can crossfire in the future without upgrading the PSU rather than going for GTX 470 and then upgrading the PSU and then sli and deal with the heat
 
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