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post #31 of 43
11/16/10 at 5:36pm
The 470 smokes the 6870 in real world situations.The drivers arent all jacked up.Theres heavy tesselation,phys-x,and they can overclock very well and atm are 249.99.I thinki smell a nvidia fan boy here.....




used ati in the past drivers have always SUCKEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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post #32 of 43
11/16/10 at 5:41pm
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Competitive gaming where fps = smoothness = advantage in the game. No one wants to play competitively with 20fps
no one wants to play competitively at 800x 600, am I wrong?
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post #33 of 43
11/16/10 at 5:50pm
If its what he wants to do let him do it...maybe the switch to resolutions will make him a worse player, you get used to somethign its hard to change and be as good, have to adapt.And maybe he doesnt want to have to adapt.
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post #34 of 43
11/16/10 at 6:16pm
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no one wants to play competitively at 800x 600, am I wrong?
Yes, you are. Things on screen appear larger in the real-world than if you were at a higher res. This would be an advantage that should be used in competitive play.

In regular and practice play native res should/probably will be used.

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...atm are 249.99...
Even though it uses a lot more power and will output more heat, that's competitvely priced enough where that might be a good choice. OP's choices are more expensive by quite a bit. If he could find one @ that price range I'd be OK in reccomending that in this case.
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post #35 of 43
11/16/10 at 6:24pm
Bro 800 X 600?
Cmon now!

I got a watch out of a quarter toy machine at wal-mart that had a higher res then that.



Quote:
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The 470 smokes the 6870 in real world situations.
Actually its about even one on one.
The kicker is, CrossfireX 6870's faceroll SLi GTX 470's.
Better min/max frames most the time.

Fermi scales well. Radeons scale better.


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The drivers arent all jacked up.
What?


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Theres heavy tesselation,phys-x,
Well PhysX doesn't really do much right now that impresses much (its got a start) and the Radeon 6XXX's handles tessellation well.

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.I thinki smell a nvidia fan boy here.....
Put on some deodorant.



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used ati in the past drivers have always SUCKEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
My 10.5's have been great.
16/18 games play perfectly
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post #36 of 43
11/16/10 at 6:26pm
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im only after those two models due to their cooling, thats why i picked $300 470's. and the 460s due to their oc. counter-strike 1.6 is not ment to be played at high res.
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11/16/10 at 6:32pm
LOL ati sucks plain and simple ,like you said 16/18 why not just go for the 18/18, i owned both ,and nvidia wins and what results that a 6870 cfx smokes a 470 sli? i think its the other way around ,sli scales way better than cfx also in every and i mean every review ive read, and seeing as how i have both in diff rigs same other parts the 470 win.
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post #38 of 43
11/16/10 at 6:34pm
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im only after those two models due to their cooling, thats why i picked $300 470's. and the 460s due to their oc. counter-strike 1.6 is not ment to be played at high res.
Well if this helps or not i unno but.My sli gtx 470's run at 40c idle, and peak at 68c while heavy gaming, bfbc2 and metro 2033 to name a couple, there also very overclocked ,and there the reference cooler i think, its the v2 of the asus gtx 470.
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post #39 of 43
11/16/10 at 6:34pm
Both the GTX 460 and the 6870 are great cards! Cannot go wrong either way! Just go with the GTX 460 1GB if you go that route.
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11/16/10 at 6:37pm
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Both the GTX 460 and the 6870 are great cards! Cannot go wrong either way! Just go with the GTX 460 1GB if you go that route.
The GTX 460 1GB and GTX 580 are easily Nvidia's best cards now, they are darn nice.
It's fun watching the price wars go back and forth...
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