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jefforange89 on 16 November 2009
Soleron said:
So, Nvidia, where is Fermi? I want AMD's prices down!

This.  I really wanna pick up a 5870, but not at price that it's at right now.



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My comp, as shown to the right (click for fullsize pic)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.2 GHz
Video Card: XFX 1 GB Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 8 GB A-Data DDR3-1600
Motherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3
Primary Storage: OCZ Vertex 120 GB
Case: Cooler Master HAF-932
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64		 Extra Storage: WD Caviar Black 640 GB,
WD Caviar Black 750 GB, WD Caviar Black 1 TB
Display: Triple ASUS 25.5" 1920x1200 monitors
Sound: HT Omega Striker 7.1 sound card,
Logitech X-540 5.1 speakers
Input: Logitech G5 mouse,
Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 keyboard
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Soleron on 16 November 2009
haxxiy said:
It is actually rather cheap. Nvidia, for instance, usually releases their high-end single video cards for $649.

The 8800 Ultra launched at over $830.

They're now selling a chip of that level for $110. And their newest architecture is only 10-20% better than that per shader (with a lot more shaders due to die shrinks).



V-r0cK on 16 November 2009
jefforange89 said:
V-r0cK said:
You're going to need 3 jobs. 2 jobs just for the GPU, and the 3rd job to build the rest of the computer to utilize the graphics card lol jk. Graphics card are always pricey so im not really surprised.

Well, high-end ones, at least.

There are plenty of sub-100$ ones that are perfectly decent as well.

Yea i meant the high end ones are always that pricey.  I have a sub-ATI graphics card that's sufficient enough to play my Half-Life games =)  I wonder how long itll take for this graphics card to be like sub $200.



nightsurge on 16 November 2009

That makes sense. It's 2x 5870's basically, right? Man, why can't they make it so I can run games just off of the GPU?! My system is getting pretty old on the CPU (a 3.22GHz Athlon X2 5400+), but I have support for up to 8GB DDR2 1066 (already have 4GB) and I own an HD 4890 currently, but since my CPU sucks I can still barely play Crysis with some High settings. All other games run flawlessly, though.



Soleron on 16 November 2009
nightsurge said:
That makes sense. It's 2x 5870's basically, right? Man, why can't they make it so I can run games just off of the GPU?! My system is getting pretty old on the CPU (a 3.22GHz Athlon X2 5400+),

Could you put an Athlon II in there? An X2 245 (2.9GHz) for $66? You could get it to 3.5GHz or so stable.



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mike_intellivision on 16 November 2009

Technology like this is why computer gaming can outshine console gaming in certain areas.

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jefforange89 on 16 November 2009

Funny you bring up Crysis - one site compared Crysis' performance on an i7 975 (the one that costs a grand) to an older Athlon... and the difference was half a frame per second.

And also, you could go for one of the triple core Athlon IIs as well, nightsurge - the Athlon II 435's a great CPU for what it costs.



Wii/PC/DS Lite/PSP-2000 owner, shameless Nintendo and AMD fanboy.

My comp, as shown to the right (click for fullsize pic)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.2 GHz
Video Card: XFX 1 GB Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 8 GB A-Data DDR3-1600
Motherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3
Primary Storage: OCZ Vertex 120 GB
Case: Cooler Master HAF-932
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64		 Extra Storage: WD Caviar Black 640 GB,
WD Caviar Black 750 GB, WD Caviar Black 1 TB
Display: Triple ASUS 25.5" 1920x1200 monitors
Sound: HT Omega Striker 7.1 sound card,
Logitech X-540 5.1 speakers
Input: Logitech G5 mouse,
Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 keyboard
Wii Friend Code: 2772 8804 2626 5138 Steam: jefforange89
Lostplanet22 on 16 November 2009

If only it was not russian for me I could be excited about it.



 

nightsurge on 16 November 2009
Soleron said:
nightsurge said:
That makes sense. It's 2x 5870's basically, right? Man, why can't they make it so I can run games just off of the GPU?! My system is getting pretty old on the CPU (a 3.22GHz Athlon X2 5400+),

Could you put an Athlon II in there? An X2 245 (2.9GHz) for $66? You could get it to 3.5GHz or so stable.

I dunno.  I guess when I look at benchmarks all the Athlon II's are only a few FPS higher than the X2 5400+ I have.  I have considered getting a Phenom II X2, which seems to be better than the Athlon II since they have that L3 cache.  My board is thankfullly AM3 compatible if I do a BIOS flash, so any Phenom II would work.  I've been considering going quad, but at the same time I only have a 500W power supply, which is running a 250W GPU, a 65W CPU, and like 4 fans, 2 hard drives, and a DVD drive.  So going to a Phenom II X4 with 125W may be too much

I really need to get a volt meter and see how many watts I'm pulling with this system at full load.  Maybe I could spare another 60W, maybe not.



haxxiy on 16 November 2009
jefforange89 said:
Funny you bring up Crysis - one site compared Crysis' performance on an i7 975 (the one that costs a grand) to an older Athlon... and the difference was half a frame per second.

And also, you could go for one of the triple core Athlon IIs as well, nightsurge - the Athlon II 435's a great CPU for what it costs.

Crysis is CPU bottlenecked only by a low-frequency dual core or weaker. Most games actually CPU bottleneck at >70FPS even with a $100 tri-core, so that's why most people will recomend AMD processors for a band-for-the-buck gaming PC...