| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 104528 | 2009-10-30 10:16:00 | Geforce | DeSade (984) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 825668 | 2009-10-30 10:16:00 | I decided that the CPU Board ram combo in my machine is more than enough for now and will get a I7 mid 2010 ish. So I am only looking a a new graphics card right now. Is the GeForce GTX 295 worth the money? Any recommendations welcomed, not really keen on the Radeon thou. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 825669 | 2009-10-30 11:02:00 | Why are you not keen on the Radeons? | Blam (54) | ||
| 825670 | 2009-10-30 19:37:00 | I dislike .net installations a lot and installing drivers through .net concerns me a little. Also I have many many games that say best with Nvidia, and seen many games that say the same, I don't think I have ever seen a game say best with Radeon. Although that said because I had so much trouble with the ASUS motherboard last upgrade I ditched it for a Gigabyte and the Gig has Crossfire rather than SLI so I could be persuaded I guess to a couple of Radeons, they are certainly cheaper than GeForce. Not sure what would be enough to convince me though |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 825671 | 2009-10-30 20:04:00 | The 5870 beats the GTX 295 in almost every benchmark. Cheaper and supports DX11. Review: www.gameplanet.co.nz Hope this convinces you |
whellington (15030) | ||
| 825672 | 2009-10-30 20:42:00 | Unless I'm reading the 3D Mark benchmarks wrong the GTX 295 is the better card. I'm an Nvidia man myself. Been using Nvidia based cards for 10 years. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 825673 | 2009-10-30 20:43:00 | So you mean to say you don't have .NET installed on your PC at all? What exactly about .NET worries you... so you won't install anything that requires .NET or do you just feel this way towards device drivers? Just had a look at Pricespy and the cheapest 295GTX I could find was NZ$741.00!!! The latest Radeon HD5870 is not much better at NZ$674.00!!! Whilst they both perform well there is no way I would pay that much for a graphics card right now. |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 825674 | 2009-10-30 22:04:00 | The 5870 beats the GTX 295 in almost every benchmark. Cheaper and supports DX11. Review: www.gameplanet.co.nz Hope this convinces you I have to say the review does not paint the 5870 in a great light. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 825675 | 2009-10-30 22:09:00 | So you mean to say you don't have .NET installed on your PC at all? What exactly about .NET worries you... so you won't install anything that requires .NET or do you just feel this way towards device drivers? Just had a look at Pricespy and the cheapest 295GTX I could find was NZ$741.00!!! The latest Radeon HD5870 is not much better at NZ$674.00!!! Whilst they both perform well there is no way I would pay that much for a graphics card right now. Its time to upgrade the graphics, I work in a sort of cycle, new games are coming and I want a new card. I buy the best I can afford at the time and right now I have a bit to throw around. Some software I work with a lot has a .net installation as part of it and its caused nothing but problems. I have little faith in .net, although I have the framework installed here as most people do I am sure, just gun-shy with it. The cost is well within my budget right now so that is not a issue, that review that was posted looks like the 4890 in Crossfire might be worth a 2nd look, but the 5870 did not impress me. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 825676 | 2009-10-30 22:42:00 | Unless I'm reading the 3D Mark benchmarks wrong the GTX 295 is the better card. I'm an Nvidia man myself. Been using Nvidia based cards for 10 years. :) Does it have physx enabled? Remember that a GTX295 is two cards - 260 and 275 |
whellington (15030) | ||
| 825677 | 2009-10-30 23:13:00 | The other thing to remember here is that the 295GTX is a dual GPU board, it has 2 cores, where as the 5870 Radeon only has one core... I think they will be releasing a dual core variant of the 5870 series card right about now possibly mid November codenamed Hemlock XT along with cutdown versions of the 5870 Juniper XT and Juniper LE. Early next year AMD/ATi are looking to start production of its 32nm wafer as it introduces Redwood XT (HD5670), Redwood PRO (HD5650) and Cedar XT (HD5550) these cards are rumoured to consume very little power and the latter 2 are expected to cost less than US$100.00. So exciting things happening in the world of GPU's. cheers, |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 1 2 3 | |||||