• Give me a list of the best graphics cards on the market!
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I don't really have a price limit, so tell me the best cards on the market. The only demand is that it needs to be PCI-E express.
If you can Quad-SLI, 480
Well the two best single cards at the moment are the ATI 5970 and the NVidia 480. Although the 5970 is a fair bit better
But if he can Quad-SLI, 480 is better
Quad 5870x2 :downs:
480 Quad SLI > 5970 Quad Crossfire, because the [b]core[/b] in the 480 is better than the [b]cores[/b] in the 5970, I also think 480 scales better.
Quad SLI with the GTX 480 is not officially supported for anything other than benchmarking. From what I hear its still pretty unstable when gaming. Personally I have a GTX 480 and love it.
Crossfire asus ares
[QUOTE=thf;24962747]But if he can Quad-SLI, 480 is better[/QUOTE] if he has a 1500w+ psu then have fun. If not crossfire asus ares.
[QUOTE=gaboer;24971870]Crossfire asus ares[/QUOTE] $2600 for two overclocked 5970s
Uh, EVGA sells a rebadged and tweeked version of the Antec TPQ1200 OC that has all of the connections to run a quad 480 SR2 build, so no, he doesn't need that.
[QUOTE=Axiom :D;24971919]if he has a 1500w+ psu then have fun. If not crossfire asus ares.[/QUOTE] misinformed dumbass
as i recall, a 1200w+ psu is needed for quad sli OC'ed however, a silverstone 1500 would be nice
[QUOTE=Odellus;24971982]$2600 for two overclocked 5970s[/QUOTE] No The Asus Ares uses two 5870 chips per card
You must also take in to account that benchmarks aren't everything, Nvidia has superior technology such as CUDA and dedicated PhysX. Benchmark or general gaming wise. Here's a list of the best 5 in order. No #1 - ATi's 5970. No #2 - GeForce GTX480 No #3 - GeForce GTX295 No #4 - GeForce GTX285 No #5 - ATi's 5870 (As most games don't even support DX11, the 285 and 295 still rank high.)
What? Isn't the 5870 still better than the 285?
I don't know, i've seen far too many varied benchmark comparisons to say for definate which is superior. Those I have seen though just rank them at near enough the same, some saying GTX is superior whereas others say the 5870 is.
I thought 5870 was between 295 and 285 but closer to 295
[QUOTE=Odellus;24971982]$2600 for two overclocked 5970s[/QUOTE] Quad Asus ARES crossfire $5200 for eight 5870s. :smug:
GTX 295 <3 upgrading on the next nvidia series.
[QUOTE=Gishank;25018687]I don't know, i've seen far too many varied benchmark comparisons to say for definate which is superior. Those I have seen though just rank them at near enough the same, some saying GTX is superior whereas others say the 5870 is.[/QUOTE] uh you're an uninformed dumbass spouting bull shit
[QUOTE=Odellus;24971982]$2600 for two overclocked 5970s[/QUOTE] Price for (1) 5970 : ~$620 Price for (3) 5970: ~$1860 Price for (4)* 5970: ~$2480* * I thought Crossfire only supported up to 3 cards? Also; Doesn't the 5970 have a total watt requirement of 300W per card? So about 1.2KW of electricity is required for the computer. Not to mention additional wattage for your other components (ie CPU, RAM, HDD, Motherboard, Optical) Also the 5970 does outperform the 480 by a marginal amount. It being a dual-GPU card, its awfully poor in the performance gain it has over the single-GPU 480. Not to mention, its an additional $120 for that small performance boost. And Odellus, thank you for suggesting the "overclocked" cards. No one will ever notice that catalyst does offer you to overclock the card. Or download AOD if you have an AMD Chipset.
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;25023702]Price for (1) 5970 : ~$620 Price for (3) 5970: ~$1860 Price for (4)* 5970: ~$2480* * I thought Crossfire only supported up to 3 cards? Also; Doesn't the 5970 have a total watt requirement of 300W per card? So about 1.2KW of electricity is required for the computer. Not to mention additional wattage for your other components (ie CPU, RAM, HDD, Motherboard, Optical) Also the 5970 does outperform the 480 by a marginal amount. It being a dual-GPU card, its awfully poor in the performance gain it has over the single-GPU 480. Not to mention, its an additional $120 for that small performance boost. And Odellus, thank you for suggesting the "overclocked" cards. No one will ever notice that catalyst does offer you to overclock the card. Or download AOD if you have an AMD Chipset.[/QUOTE] what? he said two ASUS Ares, one is $1300 [editline]04:41PM[/editline] your post confuses me
Quad 480's
[QUOTE=Odellus;25024039]what? he said two ASUS Ares, one is $1300 [editline]04:41PM[/editline] your post confuses me[/QUOTE] What are you confused with? Its self explanatory (so I think) in the majority... if you're having trouble; please be use more exact on what you're having a hard time understanding. And for the Asus Ares, don't fucking bother. [editline]07:27PM[/editline] Seriously, who the hell needs 4GDDR5 on a single card for? This is made for a rendering environment.. which I am sure OP isn't in one.
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;25028370]What are you confused with? Its self explanatory (so I think) in the majority... if you're having trouble; please be use more exact on what you're having a hard time understanding. And for the Asus Ares, don't fucking bother. [editline]07:27PM[/editline] Seriously, who the hell needs 4GDDR5 on a single card for? This is made for a rendering environment.. which I am sure OP isn't in one.[/QUOTE] Just seemed like you were being sarcastic. Nevermind.
[QUOTE=Axiom :D;24971919]if he has a 1500w+ psu then have fun. If not crossfire asus ares.[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V13ZGIZgYY[/media]
Dat heat! Dat noise! They sound like a jet engine taking off.
not really, you should hear the reference 4890s, jesus christ [editline]09:32PM[/editline] just think 1.5x louder than that while [i]inside[/i] of a case
dual 480s if you've got no price limit at all
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