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Umilard
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden38 Posts
May 26 2011 09:02 GMT
#61
The new GTX 560 1GB cards might be interresting aswell, Pretty much the followup to the GTX460 1GB, Cheaper than 560ti and a little bit slower but pretty good OC capabities methinks..

ASUS GTX 560 DCII OC

ASUS GTX 560 DCII TOP

Gigabyte GTX 560
SirDuke
Profile Joined October 2010
United States239 Posts
May 26 2011 13:25 GMT
#62
my vote is for the 6870, Ive got a 6850 and it is amazing. my buddy has a 465gtx in his and though they are very similar in performance ik that mine handles extreme graphics in sc2 like its nothin. the ati drivers do have a few bugs, but they are very minor and defiantly shouldnt deter you from ati cards.

hope this helps
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In)Spire
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States1323 Posts
June 03 2011 01:28 GMT
#63
Is the 6870 available in Best Buy? I need to get something to help my computer out b/c it uses in integrated graphics card and lags some when the armies get big, even on lowest settings.
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
June 03 2011 01:30 GMT
#64
Most video cards are available at bestbuy.. if you're buying from best buy, you must have a prebuilt... in which case it isn't recommended to buy a 6870 unless you know for a fact that your power supply is capable of handling such a card.
JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-03 01:32:01
June 03 2011 01:30 GMT
#65
On June 03 2011 10:28 In)Spire wrote:
Is the 6870 available in Best Buy? I need to get something to help my computer out b/c it uses in integrated graphics card and lags some when the armies get big, even on lowest settings.


Best buy has ripoff prices. And what skyR said.

But yeah, you should have an ok selection there. Just avoid the GTX 465. Worst card choice available in the last 2 years or so, overall, not counting Nvidia SE cards.
Juddas
Profile Joined January 2011
768 Posts
June 03 2011 01:40 GMT
#66
check out this link. It may help you decide, at least it did for me

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html

My personal opinion, Nvidia
In)Spire
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States1323 Posts
June 03 2011 01:42 GMT
#67
http://www.gateway.com/systems/product/529668663.php
This is actually the computer I got.


Would it be fine to put in the 6870?
JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
June 03 2011 01:43 GMT
#68
On June 03 2011 10:42 In)Spire wrote:
http://www.gateway.com/systems/product/529668663.php
This is actually the computer I got.


Would it be fine to put in the 6870?


After you buy a real power supply, instead of that cell phone charger, sure, but your CPU will bottleneck the hell out of you.
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-03 02:01:57
June 03 2011 01:44 GMT
#69
The 6870 uses around 125w (edit: 150w is overclocked variants) under load fyi. You have a 220w power supply which won't allow you to buy any graphics card above $100, you're limited to all the ones that do not require a 6pin PCIe connector (ex. Radeon 6670).
JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
June 03 2011 01:45 GMT
#70
On June 03 2011 10:44 skyR wrote:
The 6870 uses around 150w under load fyi. You have a 220w power supply which won't allow you to buy any graphics card above $100, you're limited to all the ones that do not require a 6pin PCIe connector (ex. Radeon 6670).


His CPU would bottleneck for 80% of games anyways.
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
June 03 2011 01:53 GMT
#71
Ya.. you should just save up and build an entirely new computer. Upgrading a slim prebuilt isn't worth the effort, time, or money.
JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-03 02:06:18
June 03 2011 01:55 GMT
#72
For ~$400 you can get a better system, with a Sandy Bridge Pentium, H61 Board, 4GB DDR3 1333, and a low-middle range graphics card, with a reasonable PSU and cheap case. Mind you, we're not talking super high graphics and super high resolution, but certainly better than you have now.

That's assuming you're at least able to reuse optical and HDD. If not, add another ~$50-60
snowbird
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Germany2044 Posts
June 03 2011 03:25 GMT
#73
If you're going to alt-tab out of SC2 a lot, go with Nvidia.

Doesn't work all that well with ATI drivers.
@riotsnowbird
epikAnglory
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States1120 Posts
June 03 2011 03:27 GMT
#74
Nvidia should be more reliable, but the ATI is definitely faster by a lot. I would just get the ATI 6870, you should not experience any severe problems. However, if the card was a 470 or 560 TI, I would choose those though it would still bit a bit slower.
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JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
June 03 2011 04:16 GMT
#75
On June 03 2011 12:27 iTzAnglory wrote:
Nvidia should be more reliable, but the ATI is definitely faster by a lot. I would just get the ATI 6870, you should not experience any severe problems. However, if the card was a 470 or 560 TI, I would choose those though it would still bit a bit slower.


You're suggesting a whole lot of cards that would be bottlenecked out the ass by his CPU.

For Nvidia, reasonable resolution, and no OC, I wouldn't go above a GTS 450 with his setup. Regardless, he really just needs to upgrade the whole system, it'll be less headache, and not too terribly expensive to get better performance than he has now.
justdweezil
Profile Joined July 2009
United States186 Posts
June 03 2011 04:26 GMT
#76
I have an ATI 5770 and have never so much as had even a trivial issue. I'd suggest the 6870.
Loser777
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
1931 Posts
June 03 2011 04:29 GMT
#77
I have a 6870--it seemed that there were driver problems initially (or a misconfiguartion of a media player), but everything works flawlessly from SC2 to h.264 playback in Windows 7 x64 and 2.6.38-Arch. Everything's been fine even after a kernel update and recompiling the drivers.
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Mayor
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States472 Posts
June 03 2011 04:47 GMT
#78
Go for the Nvidia, in my experience they last longer, and ATIs have given me some trouble in the past, also, GTX 460 has overclocking potential, just an FYI, dunno about the other one.
"You can be creative but I will crush it under the iron fist of my conservative play." - Liquid`Tyler
Syben
Profile Joined October 2010
United States512 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-03 05:32:21
June 03 2011 05:29 GMT
#79
I have the XFX 6870 and the card is a beast. Don't listen to all the horrid driver crap, they are fine! Overclocking is easy too with very good results. Don't listen to the haters...go with ATI. Also your going to need a better power supply....220watts wont cut it for really any aftermarket cards....
Definitely gonna switch to G, the only race I havent played yet. - TLO
epikAnglory
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States1120 Posts
June 04 2011 03:22 GMT
#80
On June 03 2011 13:16 JingleHell wrote:
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On June 03 2011 12:27 iTzAnglory wrote:
Nvidia should be more reliable, but the ATI is definitely faster by a lot. I would just get the ATI 6870, you should not experience any severe problems. However, if the card was a 470 or 560 TI, I would choose those though it would still bit a bit slower.


You're suggesting a whole lot of cards that would be bottlenecked out the ass by his CPU.

For Nvidia, reasonable resolution, and no OC, I wouldn't go above a GTS 450 with his setup. Regardless, he really just needs to upgrade the whole system, it'll be less headache, and not too terribly expensive to get better performance than he has now.

I am not suggesting, just giving him a mere comparison of the cards and how I would have preferred it.
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