NVIDIA GTX 260 or ATI 5770 or similar card

[Maniacal]

In most of those it is a few FPS difference. also this is the card I bought:

http://ncix.com/products/?sku=50775&vpn=N260GTX TwinFrozr OC&manufacture=MSI/MicroStar

I was probably thinking of the 4770 or something, whatever, I really don't care about the 4870. I still prefer NVIDIA although I would consider an ATI card but as many people whom I trust warn against them as other people promote them.

 

[Fëanor]

The Twin Frozr is pretty cool and i hope you enjoy your card.

 

[Maniacal]

The Twin Frozr is pretty cool and i hope you enjoy your card.

Oh I will, I will. Thanks for clearing up info about the 4870 for me.


Sorry if I have been a bit aggressive or a dick, I've had nothing to get out stress and a bit of anger from recent and ongoing events.

 

[candle86]

yea enjoy it. though a 4870 beats an 8800GT handidly lol. Its faster than my old 8800GTX, though slower than my current 9800GX2 lmao

 

[Genocidicbunny]

yea enjoy it. though a 4870 beats an 8800GT handidly lol. Its faster than my old 8800GTX, though slower than my current 9800GX2 lmao

Only when you can use SLi. When you cant, the 9800GX2 becomes a slightly overclocked 9800GT. It's a great card to Fold on, cus its 2 great GPU's in one PCIe slot, but for gaming there are much faster single-die cards.

 

[candle86]

Only when you can use SLi. When you cant, the 9800GX2 becomes a slightly overclocked 9800GT. It's a great card to Fold on, cus its 2 great GPU's in one PCIe slot, but for gaming there are much faster single-die cards.

the only modern games that dont use SLI either dont need it anyway or are so old it doesnt matter. Also its 2 9800GTX's in SLI not 9800GT's

 

[Fëanor]

Actually the 9800GX2 is more like 2 8800GTS 512 crippled to run on 8800GT clocks.

 

[candle86]

mine is an EVGA 9800GX2 that SC that i have OC'd even further to clocks faster than a 9800GTX+ so I think I have an idea of what my specfic card can do

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Actually the 9800GX2 is more like 2 8800GTS 512 crippled to run on 8800GT clocks.

Thats what a 9800GT is.

mine is an EVGA 9800GX2 that SC that i have OC'd even further to clocks faster than a 9800GTX+ so I think I have an idea of what my specfic card can do

As someone who has done heavy folding on a GX2, I know exactly the kind of performance it really gets and its comparison to other cards. Each of the cores by themselves reported lower numbers than a 9800GTX, and neither of them were underclocked.

I am also dubious that you got a 600/1500 part to 740/1840 without some overhaul on the cooling. My GX2 used to hit 90C pretty regularly, and it was using the nVidia reference cooler (which was a beast for that card). As far as I know, the EVGA SSC card uses a tested die, but the same reference cooler.

I would also like to point out that the GTX+ was a G92b die, unlike the GX2 which was a pair of G92 dies which are slightly slower. The 9800GTX+ is the same as the GTS250 (down to the clock speeds).

 

[candle86]

my 9800GX2 is on water using a DD block lol, as for G92 vs G92b no changes besides size where made lol its no faster per clock than G92, but my 9800GX2 is under water and voltmodded. Same as my 8800GTX was

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Water cooling alright. I can see that keeping temps in check enough to get a 740/1840 clock on the GX2. Since it was originally a SSC card, the die was already pretty overclockable, so that makes sense.

What does make little sense is why you spent nearly double the money that you would pay for a GTX 260 to get a fraction of it's performance. When the GX2 was released, the GTX 260 was already announced (March 2008 release for GX2, Late June 2008 release for GTX 260) and it was known quite well that core for core it would beat out the GX2. (And at that time, there werent a lot of games that saw a huge benefit from SLi)

Really, stop comparing the HD4870 and the like to your GX2. It may be faster in Sli applications, but those are fairly few and far between, and you have also spent enough money on it that you could have bought a pair of GTX 260+'s and run circles around your GX2.

 

[candle86]

umm besides the civilization series which will run fine on an intel IGP every other game I play is SLI. Crysis, Metro 2033, Stalker SoC ect. And its faster than a GTX260 and ties a GTX280 and thats at stock GX2 clocks, I have no idea where you get few and farbetween for SLI thats nonsense.