Graphic Cards a very serious dilemma

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Well, I have a Powercolor 4870 and it is just ok. Nothing great, but nothing negative either. I havent really used it though. Damn things been in and out of RMA. That has only 2 years warranty though.

Do find out about the warranty for 5870..
 
i wud say get the palit GTX295.
the 5870 will be giving lower perf as compared to a GTX295, so why downgrade????
 
abbY said:
buy 2 X EVGA GTX 275 with the credit note, sell it in the market and get one HD5870, sli is not a very good idea cause u would have to invest on your motherboard (assuming u don't bhave an sli board) + extra power + sli scaling issues at times.
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See his siggy he has an EX58-UD5. It supports both Crossfire and SLI
 
The deciding factors:

PhysX - GTX 295

DX11 - HD5870

Performance - GTX 295

Power consumption - HD5870

Choice is yours.

Personal opinion:

Since you are running 1680x1050 res, HD5870 performance ~ GTX 295 performance. So HD5870 is better.
 
any chance that the driver improvement for hd5870 will improve its performance? since as of now 5870 is behind 295...
 
mjumrani said:
any chance that the driver improvement for hd5870 will improve its performance? since as of now 5870 is behind 295...
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That's a possibility and I would vouch for 5870 anyday since it's DX11. It's more future proof and performance for DX11 games would be better than GTX 295.
 
Icon_211 said:
Palit is a crap brand nothing near to EVGA quality,
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Check my siggy. My Palit vanilla 9600GT (the cheapest) version could OC upto 780MHz.

mjumrani said:
so basically unless palit releases 5870 in the very near future, i should get the palit gtx 295?
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Palit stopped producing ATI cards.

And since you're running/gaming 1680x1050, even a 5850 would be overkill. If I were you I would take a 5850 for 17K and for the rest I'd buy something else useful from them.
 
dvijaydev46 said:
Check my siggy. My Palit vanilla 9600GT (the cheapest) version could OC upto 780MHz.
Palit stopped producing ATI cards.

And since you're running/gaming 1680x1050, even a 5850 would be overkill. If I were you I would take a 5850 for 17K and for the rest I'd buy something else useful from them.
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how abt u see my siggy. do you think im concerned about overkill???
 
The truth is HD 5870 is more advanced than 295 in technology , that would mean the known facts - Lesser Heat , Power consumption & more OC.

At the resolution you sure can lay back and take on a HD 5870.
 
EVGA just rma'd a 3 year old card for me.... no problems. I was blown away by their limited lifetime warranty.. as long as you still have a receipt and it is covered by this warranty they should replace it...... I would get the credit note from EVGA
 
PiXeLpUsHeR said:
EVGA just rma'd a 3 year old card for me.... no problems. I was blown away by their limited lifetime warranty.. as long as you still have a receipt and it is covered by this warranty they should replace it...... I would get the credit note from EVGA
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you bought that card in india???
 
nothing less than a 5870 will make you happy. Get one now add another later. By march there would be a few DX11 titles out. Today a 5870 runs DX10 stuff in 1680x1050 tomorrow (DX11) it will be just about playable at that rez with FULL eyecandy.

One option you have is to exchange that credit note with someone (maybe a online dealer who deals with them regularly) and buy the 5870 of the brand you want.
 
Dude the Gtx295 is dual cards on one card i mean x2 version some games don't scale well with dual cards. But the 5870 is a single card and is bound to perform at optimum levels in all games as long as there are updated drivers. I think hd 5870 would be a good choice over the 295 and it also supports dx11 so you don't have to worry about selling your card as you can see not many people are interested in the 295 at 18k also. you are lucky that you are getting the 5870 in exchange i would never refuse the offer personally.
 
any idea when nvidia plans to release its dx11 cards?

dvijaydev46 said:
Yep that explains everything except for why you are having that monitor.
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have you ever seen the colour reproduction on an ips panel?
 
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