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| Thread ID: 108067 | 2010-03-12 08:31:00 | New video card - HD5770, HD4890 or GTX260? | Agent_24 (57) | Press F1 |
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| 866656 | 2010-03-19 05:46:00 | CPU is FAR more important than it was 6 months to a year ago. Just hope your not selling your customers Dual cores and high end GPU's for gaming rigs lol Not putting an i7 in a rig doesn't preclude an i5, which for most if not all games will run like a dream AND save you a ton when you take the MoBo, CPU and triple channel RAM into account. Laughing at people based on an assumption makes you look like a fool. Also, Fermi is going to be an epic failure, the only thing to wait for will be any price drops that might happen to the ATI line. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 866657 | 2010-03-19 06:09:00 | I was waiting for enough information to make an informed decision.. once I had done that I was too late by a matter of hours to grab the last HD4890 in stock... So I have gone to the next best card, the HD5770 which I ordered today and will probably get by next Monday. My point is that the title Computer "Specialist" is a joke. I am not trying to say I know everything, I am saying that actually I don't know everything, despite having a large interest in computers and spending a lot of time with them etc. Thanks for the reply. You have now explained your title as being a joke and *I* did not know that for which I apologise without reserve. It looked ( To me ) that you were waiting too long to either poo or get off the pot as it were and you missed out on the card you had decided on because you missed an Email. I hope you have got a card, when it arrives, that suits you. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 866658 | 2010-03-19 07:18:00 | I guess I assumed that the Wikipedia article would explain the joke, I suppose it actually didn't. Sorry about that. If I came off as rude in post #64, I was tired and annoyed that I had missed out on that card. As you can see it was almost 2AM. Truth be told I was waiting for some extra cash so I could get the HD4890, I ordered it Thursday morning and then went out. Came back in the afternoon to find an email sent at 10AM saying that there was one card left but two other people were interested, and did I still want it, by the time I replied, I was told that it had already been sold. As I said earlier, I have now ordered a HD5770 instead. If it's not good enough I'll probably sell it on Trademe and try to find a second-hand HD4890 somewhere, or maybe save some more money and get a HD5850... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 866659 | 2010-03-19 07:58:00 | If you get it and don't like it, let me know. I'm probably going to buy one once nvidia let their new cards out. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 866660 | 2010-03-19 09:29:00 | If the price of 720 and 1000+ for the 470 and 480 is set, and the performance of the former is between 5850 and 5870, and the latter only ~10% more than the 5870 I doubt the ATI cards will drop in price. Only time will tell I guess. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 866661 | 2010-03-19 09:36:00 | Thanks Agent_24. All explained. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 866662 | 2010-03-19 22:14:00 | Not putting an i7 in a rig doesn't preclude an i5, which for most if not all games will run like a dream AND save you a ton when you take the MoBo, CPU and triple channel RAM into account. Laughing at people based on an assumption makes you look like a fool. Also, Fermi is going to be an epic failure, the only thing to wait for will be any price drops that might happen to the ATI line. woa where did I say that?? The I5 and the Higher end AMD quads are good value and will do nicely. Dual cores are the issue now with these latest ports, the bottom line is CPU grunt is more important in recent releases. Yea I tend to agree on Fermi, but the problem is even on my last Gen card everything I play never dips below 50FPS @ 1920x1200 so there is no rush, hence waiting to see before a upgrade, seems very sensible to me no? Did you read fully back b4 making an ass of yourself? |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 866663 | 2010-03-19 23:55:00 | Did you read fully back b4 making an ass of yourself? I was talking about your response to PCTek saying that i7 is overkill for a gaming rig unless you're relieving one hell of a 5970 bottleneck or something . You said that this was 6 months old and behind the times . I said it wasn't and that you lol-ing at her made you look like a fool . I'm not trying to get into a war with you (not a worthwhile subject to argue about) . All I was saying is it's bad form to laugh at senior members with fairly good track records . |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 866664 | 2010-03-20 04:53:00 | All I was saying is it's bad form to laugh at senior members with fairly good track records. Self grandeur much? Not trying to make a war either here, but saying that makes you look so arrogant. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 866665 | 2010-03-20 11:46:00 | Self grandeur much? Not trying to make a war either here, but saying that makes you look so arrogant. I wasn't referring to myself, more to PCTek, Wainui, Speedy and the other stalwarts of this site. I meant knowledge, not just post count. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
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