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24th Jul 2009, 15:16
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hi guys i been searching now 4 my new PC rig for sum time. and Ive come to a conclusion on my low budget of 600 pound id be better off with a amd3 setup. and Ive decided id have a ati cards as my graphics for my gaming needs now Ive seen various cards and i am tempted to get either 2 4890's xfx black edition (1gb per card) or 2 sapphire vapor x 4870's (2gb per card) whats better can any one point me in the right direction
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24th Jul 2009, 15:20
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By vendor alone, I'd say XFX is much better than Sapphire, thus I'd choose the 4890's.
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However by the cards themselves, I don't know. Carbon's the guy you want, however I think he says that they're both about the same performance wise, so pick whatevers cheaper. Unless that was when compare to the 4850 rather than the 4870.. I don't know  But XFX is pretty good, Sapphire is.. meh. My System: FordyPC
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24th Jul 2009, 15:23
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hmm well i was lookin at the shapphire 4870 becuase of its massive 2gb frame buffer but then again its on stock speeds and apart from the memory on it there not much diffrence is it worth spending more money on a card with more memory or on a card thats got more gpu speed u see so thats the thing do i get a gpu with more memory or more speed what do u fink
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#4
24th Jul 2009, 15:26
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With 2 x 1GB cards I doubt the increase would be enough to justify it going to 2 x 2GB.
Unless you have a seriously super system and play really intense stuff and are extremely picky.. There are so many other factors or "bottlenecks" that would come into affect before "only" 2GB on the cards total was a problem. |
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24th Jul 2009, 15:35
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hmmm yeah well i just dnt knw u see after weeks of goin through fourms ect i kinda now just wanna say right im gettin this type of card thats it i just dnt knw what would be better is it better to have a card with more memory or a card with more speed just in the past i had a single core shapprie 4870 512mb gddr5 and i fink it was like 650mhz core speed and i had sum probs having it run oc on crysis so i had to flash the bios and it ran at a new stock speed of 750 i fink i cant reamber tbh. but my card has to be 30 frames or more on crysis with very high setting with 4 aa or more at a ress of 1900 by 1200 i fink on a 22inch screen would 1 of these card or two of them do the job i dnt mind gettin a crossfire setup as i want that anyway so money anit too much of a isshure bcause these cards are faily cheap considring there ati cards :) so what im saying is shud i get a 4870 crossfire with the 1gb with the 1000mhz core xfx black edition or the shappire 4890 2gb 750 core speed and have them in crossfire?
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24th Jul 2009, 15:44
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Get a single 4890, that should be sufficient. Crossfire isn't worth the extra money, heat, PSU requirements, etc.
You cannot compare clock speeds across different cards/architectures. The clock speeds of memory, core, etc are apples to oranges from the 4870 to the 4890.
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#7
24th Jul 2009, 15:54
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soz 2 sound rude but spare me the complex tlk so wot ure saying is **** crossfire and get a 4890 and have done :) lol
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#8
24th Jul 2009, 16:16
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Yeah, pretty much.
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#9
24th Jul 2009, 16:18
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hmm ok but i fort crossfire is better then 1 card it just no one can have the perfect pc or the perfect grahics card lets not even go down that road. so i fink its fair to say in this day and age i just have to have what i can offord and what one look best :) but goin bck to wot i said earler shud i have crossfire
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#10
24th Jul 2009, 16:19
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my new pc spec will be
msi 790fx-gd70 amd3 ddr3 with 4 pci 2.0 express slots with a config of (16,16,8,8) or (8,8,8,8) amd phenom ii x2 dual core 550 3.10ghz black editon ocz plaitnum 4gb (2x2gb) ddr3 pc3 10666c7 1333mhz dual channel thermal take (though power series 750 watt psu) |
