EPTReview of the V2. Solid.
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
Review of the V2. Solid. | ||
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MorNin
United States443 Posts
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162058 Edit: Link | ||
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wesbare
United States35 Posts
All of this to say, if the 6870 is cheaper... get it. | ||
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TobZero
Germany493 Posts
i run 2 screens on it: a 19'' widescreen with 1440*900 and a 24'' widescreen in 1920*1080. cant report any problems or errors. i can play next to every game on max on the 24'' while watching movies or streams on the second screen. i want to add that im neither ati nor nvidia biased as i switch between both brands from time to time (had a nvidia before the 6870 and was fine with it too). dont want to tell you which to buy, just to describe my experience. you have to decide yourself which suites you best! | ||
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dxong
Denmark109 Posts
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writer22816
United States5775 Posts
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On May 25 2011 19:57 writer22816 wrote: 6870 for sure, much better price/performance wise. I use an ATI card and I don't have any complaints about the drivers. To be perfectly honest, I heard that NVIDIA drivers are just as bad if not worse. AMD and Nvidia both tend to have their moments with drivers, I wouldn't try to say either is "the worst", as with all things GPU, it's too specific to when you ask about what game and what configuration. You can find true horror stories for both, but you'll still buy a GPU, so the best bet is to get the one that does the best job for what you want that's inside your budget. | ||
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clusen
Germany8702 Posts
note: the following applies to enthusiasts only, if you are not always shooting for max IQ, if you do not know what supersampling, downsampling and all that stuff is, if you are not buying high end cards - it does not matter to you. It's still worth to be mentioned in this driver debate. Nvidia offers you a way to disable any kind of driver level interference with AF quality, ATI does not. The HQ setting is untouchable by ATI, the best they can offer is at the same level as the Q setting for Nvidia. For most people that does not matter, but for some it does. Some people even call it cheating by ATI, because many review sites use the standard settings in the driver, which means that ATI is benchmarked with a slightly worse IQ which results in a minor performance boost(not even 5%). Nvidia also has the advantage of third party tools, which again is only important for enthusiasts. Apart from that both drivers work equally well, both have their issues sometimes. | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
Inundate people with too much information, and they may end up spending more on something they'll never actually learn to use. | ||
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Siran
Germany4 Posts
Still, I'd recommend the HD6870 as well: I never experienced any major driver issues with Ati, same with nvidia, but in this case, the 6870 will be the faster one in Starcraft 2 (provided you don't use Anti-Aliasing, which I wouldn't recommend on both cards anyways, since they lack the power to keep decent framerates for SC2 at higher resolutions with AA enabled) | ||
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purecarnagge
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Otak
United Kingdom110 Posts
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Umilard
Sweden38 Posts
On May 23 2011 17:33 KOVU wrote: Hmm, I'm in a similar situation. What about GTX 560 Ti vs 6950 (1GB)? I was told that the 560 Ti is a much better option, would anyone care to shed some light on it? 6950 has slightly better performance generally but are louder than 560Ti. Blizzard games tend to favour nvidia cards tho so a 560ti might very well outperform the 6950 in sc2. I have a Gigabyte 560ti OC myself and it's really silent and I haven't had any issues with it but there has been problems with cards that aren't stable at the factory oc. However, most of the people having issues are people that have crappy power supplies. I wouldn't care that much about "driver issues", both of them come up with terrible drivers at times, just recently a bunch of 590 GTX burned up in testlabs becouse of driver issues. | ||
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Greem
730 Posts
On May 26 2011 06:25 Umilard wrote: 6950 has slightly better performance generally but are louder than 560Ti. Blizzard games tend to favour nvidia cards tho so a 560ti might very well outperform the 6950 in sc2. I have a Gigabyte 560ti OC myself and it's really silent and I haven't had any issues with it but there has been problems with cards that aren't stable at the factory oc. However, most of the people having issues are people that have crappy power supplies. I wouldn't care that much about "driver issues", both of them come up with terrible drivers at times, just recently a bunch of 590 GTX burned up in testlabs becouse of driver issues. I would agree with this, Blizzard games tend to be more stable on NVIDIA, I never had any ATI card personally , atm using GTX 470, gonna upgrade to 470xSLI soon since i dont think 560 ti will overrun 2x470 sli, that my actual opinion, havent checked that yet. Hm, but again why you buying 460 instead of 560 ti, since 560 costs like 40$ more, am i right ? EDIT: Thats if you can add money on top of your voucher. | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On May 26 2011 06:37 Greem wrote: I would agree with this, Blizzard games tend to have more stable on NVIDIA, I don't never had any ATI card personally , atm using GTX 470, gonna upgrade to 470xSLI soon since i dont think 560 ti will overrun 2x470 sli, that my actual opinion, havent checked that yet. Hm, but again why you buying 460 instead of 560 ti, since 560 costs like 40$ more, am i right ? No, the 560 won't do better than SLI 470's in games with SLI profiles. Do your research about SLI scaling in games you play before comitting, SLI can be a headache. Also, check that you have a hell of a PSU before you upgrade to that jet engine simulator next to your desk. It'll be hot and loud. | ||
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Greem
730 Posts
On May 26 2011 06:41 JingleHell wrote: No, the 560 won't do better than SLI 470's in games with SLI profiles. Do your research about SLI scaling in games you play before comitting, SLI can be a headache. Also, check that you have a hell of a PSU before you upgrade to that jet engine simulator next to your desk. It'll be hot and loud. Thx for advice, i do have good 1k PSU, noice isn't really an issue either. But ill take precaution and do the extensive research before commiting to it, single 470 is doing amazing for me right now. | ||
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Greem
730 Posts
On May 26 2011 06:37 Greem wrote: I would agree with this, Blizzard games tend to be more stable on NVIDIA, I never had any ATI card personally , atm using GTX 470, gonna upgrade to 470xSLI soon since i dont think 560 ti will overrun 2x470 sli, that my actual opinion, havent checked that yet. Hm, but again why you buying 460 instead of 560 ti, since 560 costs like 40$ more, am i right ? EDIT: Thats if you can add money on top of your voucher. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4344/nvidias-geforce-gtx-560-top-to-bottom-overclock It is actually 70$ more expensive. | ||
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TheGiftedApe
United States1243 Posts
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Starp
Canada199 Posts
I would definitely get 6870 over 460. But haven't said that I saw that I could have gotten the 6950 for the same price 4-5 months later ... (sigh) 6950>560ti>6870>460 Get whichever you like, you can't really lose...just look for good deals over a few weeks if time permits. (This was my first real significant graphics card purchase and I'm very happy with it. ... look at the size of that thing! lol woohoo) Edit: I like AMD ATI but don't dislike Nvidia (they power my laptop and maybe my netbook I think) | ||
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jacosajh
2919 Posts
having used other amd cards with no issues i dont see why you wouldnt get something with more power for cheaper just because there were some bugs a while back in thr companies history -- which were fixed and its not like its competitor has its own issues. being an amd fanboy i would argue that amds prices are much better which is why nvidia issues gimped cards (typically from its flagship cards) just to grab a piece of the market share. i think that should tell you something. | ||
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