Epoch on 09 February 2010
| Squilliam said: http://www.guru3d.com/article/vga-charts-december-2009/2 I would suggest you take a good look, especially taking note of the relative positions of the 5850 and 4890 in games where the graphs are steep as this indicates the game has a graphics bottleneck. Also two things to take note of: 1. HD 5xxx series are DX11 which means more efficiency, better image quality etc. 2. HD 5xxx series support Eyefinity (you can use up to 6 monitors as if they are one panel) and display port for future connectivity. |
Yea I keep going back to that and looking at the differences. It is awfully tempting to just pay out the extra $100 for the card, but I'm trying to keep it under $1500 with taxes and shipping. The current list totals $1450, taxes and shipping inclusive.
However, some components appear cheaper on this the Canada Computers site. Can someone tell me the difference between these three cards?
MSI (R5850-PM2D1G-OC) ATI Radeon HD 5850 Chipset (765Mhz) 1GB GDDR5
HIS (H585F1GDG) ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB GDDR5
Asus EAH5850/2DIS/1GD5/A ATI Radeon HD 5850 Chipset (725MHz )
Other than the manufacturer, obviously.
Some of the other components are cheaper as well, but not the CPU =(. Might have to buy from 2 different sites to save a bit
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