fair enough, if you have the money for it then i see no problem (i'm used to gaming on a budget and out of the 7 pc's i've built so far those were also built on a budget.)ravenshrike said:
Poll: ATI vs. Nvidia for a serious gaming machine.
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Going to have to give it to the first response and say go with that advice. I've run both setups multiple times. Both work just fine in every capacity.Nimbus said:
The two sweet spots for value for money seem to be the GTX 560 from Nvidia and the HD 6970 from ATI/AMD. The ATI/AMD gets slightly more frames per second but the Nvidia consumes a lot less power for almost the same performance. Swings and round-a-bouts.
I avoid SLI and Xfire as I like to keep my setup as simple as possible. I have been driven to distraction by stuttering on dual card rigs. Even on a machine with a 5970.
I have two desktop computers one running XP 32bit, OSX and Linux with an HD 4890 from XFX and one running Windows 7 64bit with a GTX 580 from EVGA. Both my cards are strong and reliable and have worked well for me. I have had more issues with compatibility with the HD 4890 though and from memory it was only with GTA IV which didn't work at all with Radeon cards.
I avoid SLI and Xfire as I like to keep my setup as simple as possible. I have been driven to distraction by stuttering on dual card rigs. Even on a machine with a 5970.
I have two desktop computers one running XP 32bit, OSX and Linux with an HD 4890 from XFX and one running Windows 7 64bit with a GTX 580 from EVGA. Both my cards are strong and reliable and have worked well for me. I have had more issues with compatibility with the HD 4890 though and from memory it was only with GTA IV which didn't work at all with Radeon cards.
SLI/CF works very well. They have around 80-90% increase of performance compared to using only one card. And I had very few bugs with sli, and when I have they are often fixed within a couple of days.fix-the-spade said:
And there isnt anything odd that 2x 6970 outperforms a 6990 since 6990 have two downclocked 6970 gpus
And the only card that is close to using 1kwh is (2x)590 in sli (used 935w, measured before the power supply unit)
So please do your research before saying stuff.
More details on your set up please, you are a rarity.Tubez said:
On a single monitor I haven't seen any gains from SLI/CF that couldn't be made by buying the next card up the range. Any single GPU over £200 now can push 1080p and a fairly high level of AA through it without a problem.
On multi monitors both systems are crap. They deliver good average frame rates but the actual fps swings massively. It's common to see CF set ups delivering average rates close to 100fps but a minium of 0, stuttering is the most common complaint and whilst new profiles come out regularly they never seem to fix it.
It's a complete compatability lottery too, especially in DX11 games like BC2 (and one would assume BF3 as well).
My experience of the 6970 is that with some clocking you can make one of those cards produce a more stable frame rate than one 6990 or even two 6970 cards running multiple monitors.
Im in no way a rarity. Just cheak pretty much every benchmark test that have been done during the latest 2-3 years.fix-the-spade said:
Here is a test on Bad company 2 (with highest settings)
http://www.sweclockers.com/recension/13175-amd-radeon-hd-6970-och-hd-6950/13#pagehead
It was done a few days after 6970&6950 was released.
1x 6970 = 72 highest fps, 52 fps lowest
2x 6970 = 142 highest fps, 101 fps lowest
Here is a test on Bad company 2 with 6990.
http://www.sweclockers.com/recension/13610-amd-radeon-hd-6990/13#pagehead
It was done a few days after 6990 was released
1x 6990 = 136 highest fps, 99 lowest fps
So can you please show a link that a 6970 is beating a 6990.
And btw my setup is
2x gtx 480 (wc)
i7 2600k (wc)
5760x1080 resolution.
And as you can see Im using multi monitor and its not crap at all. Unless you think highest settings possible in bc2 with 5760x1080 and stable 60fps (since Im using vsync). And I have never had stuttering
If you're a casual user that has no interest in overclocking and all that tech stuff then a ATI is your thing. If you're gonna be doing some hardcore tweaking then you should get a Nvidia.