>From the reports I have seen, yes a nVidia card may well give better results (perhaps even substantially better).
In fact I only got my 4870x2 back from RMA about 2 weeks ago, I had to use my old 8800GTX for a few weeks while I was awaiting a replacement and I only took a 5-10FPS performance hit going back to that card temporarily. I really have no idea what the AMD drivers/hardware are doing that causes such a performance hit but so far it does seem limited to WoW that I have seen. One thing that did seem to make it better was switching to Windows 7 and the latest WDM 1.1 drivers.....although obviously that's still in beta and the performance still isn't what it really should be. Regards Jason -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe User Sent: 24 April 2009 13:34 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] CPU vs CPU Hello Jason, Friday, April 24, 2009, 4:23:53 AM, you wrote: > Check the WoW forums, there are a number of people with ADM 48xx cards > that experience bad performance. > I have a 4870x2 and an i...@4ghz and the performance isn't as good as it > probably should be, although I play at 2560x1600 with everything maxed > so I do not expect a silky-smooth 60fps at all times, although for the > most part I do get 60 FPS....and there are plenty of other games that do > play silky-smooth at max settings on this PC, including my current > favourite, Left4Dead. Yeah, I seen those complaints. I use 8.10 drivers since they seem to work the best for WoW and the 4870. During raid last night I don't think I stuttered but maybe once and I never appeared to dip below 30 FPS. That's doing Mimiron and Gen. Vez (All we got left is YS) Anyway, I run at 1920 x 1200 (max for screen) and mine range from over 100 to as low as 30 (like in raid) I know a lot of the performance is out of my control (server load and the like) but I just hate skipping around during a raid when I need to be as clean as possible doing max DPS. If I am just outside, like in grizzly hills, grinding; I can have everything up and shadows and get around 30 to 40. When I play Quake 4, maxed, the game is silky as hell. I hate to get a new card when I spent as much cash as I did for the ATI 4870 but would switching back to a nvidia make that much improvement? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..." This message and any attachment are confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please telephone or email the sender and delete this message and any attachment from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy this message or attachment or disclose the contents to any other person. Clifford Chance LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England & Wales under number OC323571. The firm's registered office and principal place of business is at 10 Upper Bank Street, London, E14 5JJ. For further details, including a list of members and their professional qualifications, see our website at www.cliffordchance.com. The firm uses the word 'partner' to refer to a member of Clifford Chance LLP or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications. The firm is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The Authority's rules can be accessed by clicking on the following link: http://www.sra.org.uk/code-of-conduct.page Clifford Chance as a global firm regularly shares client and/or matter-related data among its different offices and support entities in strict compliance with internal control policies and statutory requirements. Incoming and outgoing email communications may be monitored by Clifford Chance, as permitted by applicable law and regulations. For further information about Clifford Chance please see our website at http://www.cliffordchance.com or refer to any Clifford Chance office.
