And this is a 6850 not the 6870..
And that leaves us with the Asus EAH6850. Asus’s design philosophy is
normally what we’d call “aggressive”, as we have seen a number of their
cards that trade temperature for noise, similar to the XFX. But this isn’t
the case for the EAH6850 – it’s as balanced a card as we could ask for. It
does well enough at cooling while approaching whisper-quiet noise levels,
and even overclocked it manages to keep the 6850 in check without getting
too loud or drawing more power than is necessary. At 9.5” long Asus did
have to make some kind of tradeoff, but unless you have an extremely
cramped case it’s definitely a reasonable tradeoff. Ignore the ridiculous
token overclock, and you have the Radeon HD 6850 that not only stands
above all others, but can more than give the GTX 460 1GB a solid kick to
the curb.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4002/amd-radeon-hd-6850-overclocking-roundup-asus-xfx-msi
On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:08:20 -0600, Steve Tomporowski <[email protected]>
wrote:
Looked at some benchmarks and I'd have to agree that the 6870 is the
card to get. However, I think I'll wait to pursue that to make sure
that the drivers aren't broken at release or the card doesn't
spontaneously combust in 3d mode ;-).
Steve
On 11/6/2010 2:43 AM, Scoobydo wrote:
Check HardOCP and Anandteck for better reviews of what you're looking
for. The 5830 is worthless for what you want (the 5850 blows it away
and the 6850 is considerably faster than the 5850 so put the 5830 out
of any consideration). In my mind it comes down to either the GTX 460
(my Palit Platinum 1 gig is factory overcloced at 800 MHz and sells for
$230 now) or the HD 6870 which is the better of the two. If I were in
the market and had the cash right now it would be my choice to get the
6870 hands down. The only thing Nvidia is better at is drivers,
supporting games and fold...@home. In a few short weeks AMD will be
coming out with it's newest top of the line cards ( the 6970 and maybe
a 6950) and should meet or beat the GTX 480. We'll see when the NDA's
expire and the reviews start to poor forth. Too rich for my blood
though.
I've been toying with the idea of getting a second 5770 for my game box
and do some Crossfire but the reviews make it pretty clear that two
cards use more electricity than a single 5870 which is probably a
little faster and not all games work well with it. I don't want to draw
that much energy and really don't need anything faster to play L4D 2.
I'll just wait for the dust to settle next year and get a 6870 then.
That really is the sweet spot in my mind for best value.
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:31:14 -0500, Steve Tomporowski
<[email protected]> wrote:
The GTX 460 looks pretty good. Not too bad in price (I was thinking
under $200., but that can change). I've been looking at the charts at
Toms Hardware and it's really a pain to have to weed your way out from
between all the dual card benchmarks.
Interesting to note that the closest ATI (without going over) to the
460 is the 5830. However the 5830 looks like it's more expensive than
the 6870 (Newegg prices).
Steve
On 11/4/2010 5:41 PM, Scoobydo wrote:
This is easy if you want a main stream card. Choose either the GTX
460 1 GIG or even better the new HD 6870. Either on will trounce a
GTX 280 and use less power and produce less heat as well.
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:46:48 -0500, Steve Tomporowski
<[email protected]> wrote:
Currently I have an Nvidia 9600 GT in my i7-870 box. The E8500 box
has the 280 GTX, so I'd like to replace the 9600 with something that
is a little bit faster than the 280. That is something with good
bang for the bux. Not looking to spend much this time around. I
don't have a prejudice on Nvidia or ATI. In the far past I got
turned off of ATI due to their OpenGL implementation and the fact
that every new driver broke something else. I'm assuming that under
the wing of AMD, that both situations have gotten much better.
The variety of models has gotten staggering and the numbering has
gotten ridiculous, you can't count on a larger number being a faster
card. I'm doing research now, but I'd like to see what everybody
has experience with.
The E8500 has been my gaming box, but it's time to move it over.
Rather get a new card than swap cards.
Thanks...Steve
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