4870 512 vs 4870 1gb vs 4870 x2
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Counter Terrorist Zombie
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name='Wgizmo' said:
It depends on the games you play tbh..
Why haven't you considered the gtx260 216 core? I think its about the same price as the 1gb 4870.
but if you have the money, the 4870x2 is the daddy
(meh, depends on the game again lol)
I play 1680x1050 and dont need more. The problem is my P5Q Deluxe is Crossfire one and looking forward in future to go for CF then cant go nvidia when in future cant go SLI. What i see so far from some websites 2x4850 is good choice compering to the price. Its like around 300 pounds and almoust the same performance like 4870 x2. Meaby ima wrong and looking for wrong reviews. Do you know any good websites where you have nice charts of GPU?
tbh, the 1gb 4870 cards DON'T offer any performance gain to speak of from the reviews that i have seen.
At your resolution, i'd go for crossfire hd4850. At novatech you can pick up the asus cards ofr £110 a pop. Therefore £220 all in which :
xfire 4870 > xfire 4850 > gtx280 > gtx260 216 ( xfx black) > hd4870 > hd4850
Crossfire 4850 is cheaper than the gtx260 216 and has quite alot better performance.
At your resolution, i'd go for crossfire hd4850. At novatech you can pick up the asus cards ofr £110 a pop. Therefore £220 all in which :
xfire 4870 > xfire 4850 > gtx280 > gtx260 216 ( xfx black) > hd4870 > hd4850
Crossfire 4850 is cheaper than the gtx260 216 and has quite alot better performance.
You need to speak proppa english mate. But i get what your saying.
Save money and just overclock a cheap standard card. Also, the cost of new fans for them is about £20 each!! thats 18% of the cost of the card.
The cards are quite alright running hot, the max oc with stock cooler will only be a little under that of an aftermarket cooler. Therefore the better coolers aren't worth the extra money.
Look here: http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/gpu_displays/asus_hd4850_512mb_pci-e_graphics_card_eah4850/3
Their max clock is 750 core and 1120 memory from 625core 993 mem.
An aftermarket cooler costing £20 may, improve clocks say to 770 1180. This added clock won't outway the cost. But will dramatically reduce temps. But the cards will show artifacts (dots on the screen) when it becomes unstable and too hot. So you will be able to tell when the cards are at their limit.
Hope this helps.
Ed
Save money and just overclock a cheap standard card. Also, the cost of new fans for them is about £20 each!! thats 18% of the cost of the card.
The cards are quite alright running hot, the max oc with stock cooler will only be a little under that of an aftermarket cooler. Therefore the better coolers aren't worth the extra money.
Look here: http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/gpu_displays/asus_hd4850_512mb_pci-e_graphics_card_eah4850/3
Their max clock is 750 core and 1120 memory from 625core 993 mem.
An aftermarket cooler costing £20 may, improve clocks say to 770 1180. This added clock won't outway the cost. But will dramatically reduce temps. But the cards will show artifacts (dots on the screen) when it becomes unstable and too hot. So you will be able to tell when the cards are at their limit.
Hope this helps.
Ed
Rastalovich
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At his resolution, I`d probably have gone for a 4870 512m (out of his provided list) and have done with it.
I think i will go for HIS ATI Radeon HD 4850 IceQ 4 Turbo in CrossFire.
- Powered by Radeon® HD 4850 GPU @650MHz
- 512MB GDDR3 High Performance Memory @ 2000MHz
- 256-Bit Memory Interface
- Innovative IceQ 4 Cooling technology
- 956 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
- 800 stream processing units
- DirectX® 10.1
- 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
- ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
- Use up to four discrete cards with an AMD 790FX based motherboard
- PCI Express® 2.0 support
From moust websites its no big difference between 4870CF and 4850CF. Chipper is 4850 and less power teaking.
I dont wanna pay 50 pounds extra on each card just to know 5-10% difference and dont think i will see that in game with my resolution 1680x1050.
- Powered by Radeon® HD 4850 GPU @650MHz
- 512MB GDDR3 High Performance Memory @ 2000MHz
- 256-Bit Memory Interface
- Innovative IceQ 4 Cooling technology
- 956 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
- 800 stream processing units
- DirectX® 10.1
- 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
- ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
- Use up to four discrete cards with an AMD 790FX based motherboard
- PCI Express® 2.0 support
From moust websites its no big difference between 4870CF and 4850CF. Chipper is 4850 and less power teaking.
I dont wanna pay 50 pounds extra on each card just to know 5-10% difference and dont think i will see that in game with my resolution 1680x1050.
