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Upgrading question - new 7950 or buy second 5850 for CF?

Same here although I paid $120 in November. Very happy with BF3 performance now. I'm guessing the op has to decide just how much money he wants to spend. 7950 is the better option in the long run but at least 3 times the price of a going a second 5850. Personally I would go with a 7970 over a...
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- Post #23
- Feb 6, 2012
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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HD5850 owners, roll call!

Bought myself a second 5850 for $125 four months ago to tide myself over to a 79XX with BF3. With the 79XX prices atm, I think my second 5850 was a great buy. Wish ATi would support the 5XXX series properly. Get 25 fps in Skyrim with both cards in crossfire, 60 fps with only one card :( I'm...
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- Post #52
- Feb 1, 2012
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Least favorite video card of all time?

Yep, also got one of these. Was my first 3D card and I had to specially order it from overseas. Despite matrox's hype, it rendered slightly less frames than my cpu could on its own in Quake 1. Total disappointment.
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- Post #24
- Nov 9, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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ASUS HD5670 OC 900/1100-Benchmark[UPDATED]

Every now and then... lol. Single player maybe... try multiplayer. BC2 want's a highly overclocked quad core to get its frame rates up at 1080p with all the eye candy turned on (assuming you have the gfx card for it). My minimium frame rate went from 30 to 50, when I oc'd my Q9400 from 2.66 to...
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- Post #47
- Nov 25, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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catalyst 10.8 posted

I'm also keen to hear how BC2 runs with the new ones. I've stuck with 10.4a preview for a while now as it is/was the best BC2 driver. I play competitively with up to 3 matches a week, so I don't have much time to risk trying out a new driver based on how poor the ones since 10.4a preview have been.
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- Post #31
- Aug 26, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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BFBC2: 20fps drop after moving to Windows 7

hawtdawg, read my post again. My first three comments were clearly directed at you. My last comment was directed towards the op's problem.
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- Post #31
- Jul 30, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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BFBC2: 20fps drop after moving to Windows 7

I'm afraid you are wrong. There are tons of threads, all over the net, about quad cores making a big difference over dual cores for BC2. Even people with 4Ghz dual cores complaining that the newer stock speed quad cores perform better. The advice to upgrade to a quad core has also resulted in...
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- Post #29
- Jul 30, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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can i turn 5850 to 5870

Set your 5850 to 930 core and 1200 mem and it will perform the same (if not a tiny unnoticable bit faster) as a 5870. Pretty much all reference design 5850's can achieve a 930 overclock on stock cooling. Memory speed doesn't matter nearly as much as core to performance over 1000 on the 58XX series.
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- Post #13
- Jul 17, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Of game engines, CPU cores and threading...

Yes, your right. I could of been core bound. I personally suspect BC2 needs at least 3 cores to run well and a high clock speed to really shine, because I'm guessing there is only one thread (thus on one core) thats ultimately feeding the graphics card. In this specfic case, the games 30 odd...
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- Post #34
- Jul 9, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Of game engines, CPU cores and threading...

They whole point I was making, if you take everything I said in context and don't cherry pick what to dispute and then present strawman arguments and trying to read things into what I said that I didn't say, is that the article is trying to see if more cores make a difference. And if so, how...
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- Post #30
- Jul 9, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Of game engines, CPU cores and threading...

I think the article posted by the op suffers from a very major flaw. They use only one graphics card at a high resolution, hence they could easily end up gpu bound and not cpu bound in the test. Pretty much makes the article and the results somewhat pointless. Test should of been down with...
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- Post #22
- Jul 9, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cheap Video Card to play GTA 4 on maximum settings?

You will want a gfx card with at least 1Gb of memory to turn all the gfx options on.
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- Post #8
- Jul 7, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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multi-LCD support in Win7 x64 - is UltraMon the one to go with?

I've used Ultramon for a long time. Great program. But since Windows 7 came out, I switched to DisplayFusion. Both applications have been pretty robust in my experiance. Reason being, the developer of Ultramon doesn't seem to be putting much effort into Ultramon anymore. The DisplayFusion...
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- Post #12
- Jul 1, 2010
- Forum: Displays
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CPU bound with 5870/GTX 480

BC2 loves quads, you'll see a decent fps improvement even with your 4870 if you get an quad core and overclock it. Empire TW is single threaded though, so more cores won't help you there at all. I don't play the other games you listed, so I can't comment there. I'd personally go with a 5850...
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- Post #2
- Jun 20, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Suggestions for a video card upgrade.

I'd agree with some of the other posters in this thread that a 5770 would better suit your pc than a 5850. You'd just be spending a lot more on the 5850 and the rest of your rig would hold it back a lot. If you want to go to 5850 performance levels... you need to consider upgrading your cpu as...
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- Post #13
- Jun 15, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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chosing gpu and cpu

tdog43, the only game I play out of your list is BC2 so I can only comment on what BC2 needs. BC2 reallys likes decent quad core cpus. So don't skimp on the cpu too much. If you get a decent quad core cpu, a 5850 will play BC2 online with everything on high at 1920x1080 with 40 to 60 fps. The...
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- Post #8
- Jun 15, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Building Gaming PC.. Need some input with Video card

I also fully agree with taltamir. I've learnt that I get the most out of my pc if I upgrade at least part of my pc every year, so I no longer buy the best once, but rather stick to a regular upgrade of decent spec (not the best) parts. Buying a super duper pc only ends up in two years that the...
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- Post #21
- May 29, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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How fast will the GTX 480 be?

Poll lacks options. We hear the rumours of 5-10%, and the only benchmarks we have seen have been green team provided. I'd like to see independent benchmarks in a wide list of games. So with 5-10% being the best the green team can do, I wouldn't be suprised to see fermi actually end up being...
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- Post #9
- Mar 23, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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4860 OCed to 4890 speeds having problems with Bad Company 2

Its not. If you read through the ea bfbc2 beta forums, you'll see lots of nvidia and ati people struggling for fps in bfbc2. I'll say it again, the game runs best with quad core. The game runs best with a 58XX ati card (not sure what level nvidia card you need). It's a heavy game.
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- Post #29
- Mar 5, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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4860 OCed to 4890 speeds having problems with Bad Company 2

Quad (or even tri) cores work at lot better with BFBC2 than dual cores. Thats why the game doesnt seem to run as well on your machine, as other games. DX10 also doesn't seem to run as well as DX11 or DX9 for BFBC2.
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- Post #2
- Mar 4, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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What do you need to play STALKER Clear Sky maxxed out?

Until earlier this week I had a 4850 1Gb card and Clear Skies was very jerky for me at 1920x1200. I got a 5850 this week and now its smooth. I have sun settings on medium, haven't tried them on high.
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- Post #10
- Feb 25, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards

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