Topic: I need convincing, lol.

[[MAF]falky]

What should I get?

2 Inno3d Geforce GTS 250 512MB cards to run in SLI

or

1 Palit Radeon HD 4870 1GB Sonic Dual Edition card




I've read/watched every review on both and I still need some convincing.



These should probably help you help me decide:


Inno3d Geforce GTS 250 512MB (Remember, if I choose this I'll be getting 2 of these to run in SLI)



Specs:
- Graphics Clock (MHz): 738
- Processor Clock (MHz): 1836Mhz
- Memory Clock (MHz): 2200Mhz (1100 * 2)
- Memory Amount: 512MB GDDR3
- Memory Interface: 256-bit
- Stream Processors: 128 Stream Processors


Palit Radeon HD 4870 1GB Sonic Dual Edition



Specs:
- Core/Stream Clock (Normal/Turbo): 750MHz/775Mhz
- Memory Clock (Normal/Turbo): 3800MHz/4000MHz (950/1000 * 4)
- Memory Amount: 1GB GDDR5
- Memory Interface: 256-bit
- Stream Processors: 160 Processors (800 Stream processing units)



---
IMO it's close, the price of buying the HD 4870 is $16 cheaper than buying 2 GTS 250 cards but I wouldn't mind it that much if the later is a better option.

So what do you guys think?

[[MAF]Aj_Lajk_Bir]

GeForce is best!

[ﱡ קּﻰﺢ Love]

My head slides to the Ati's one.

Guess they might give out same performance, or maybe differ quite a lot.Ati was bad at driver coding when i was following news and shit.If theyre still same at it... Get Nvidia.

[[MAF]mooman]

4870 looks better, IMO

[[2F2F]SNiKeRiS]

Only ATI, you won't be disappointed 

[[FSR]Ush]

Ask snoopy what he thinks about ATI lol

[[MAF]Snoopy]

ati suck, i can assure you that it gives low fps on san andreas, my 9600gt pwns the shit out of my 4850, and that card was meant to be a beast.

[[MAF]Aj_Lajk_Bir]

^
pure true

[[MAF]falky]

What if I pair the HD4870 with a Phenom X4 9950 (2.6GHz and I plan on installing a CM Hyper Z600 heatsink to overclock it to around 3.5GHz) ?

[[MAF]Snoopy]

i really dont know tbh, iv'e lost all faith in ati, your call lol

[[FSR]Michal]

I think you should take 2 X GTS 250 and when you run them on SLI, this config can be fast as 9800GX2 ~ GTX 280(single), and in most of games faster than HD 4870, 4890 .

[[MAF]falky]

I think I'm in now favor of buying the 2 GTS 250 cards after reading this:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/gf-gts250-sli_14.html#sect1






As you can see, running 2 GTS 250 cards in SLI is actually almost better (and cheaper) than buying even a GTX 285.

[[MAF]Cthulhu]

nice hehe

[[FSR]Michal]

yep You can think also about one GTX 260 (216 core in 55nm) and overclock it, or buy even 2 used 9800GTX cuz its same card as GTS 250, but much cheaper

[ivanduk]

ati suck, i can assure you that it gives low fps on san andreas, my 9600gt pwns the shit out of my 4850, and that card was meant to be a beast.

*gives Snoopy a cookie