You care about MPG in NASCAR?
If powerconsumption, not performance, is your thing...go mid/lowrange....and quit whining
Faster is faster....get over it
You're not an enthusiast with only a 650w PSU.
No one is going to care about the power consumption of the card. It's been discussed already. Power consumption isn't an issue, that's what a certain group of people tried to argue.
I OC to really high levels and buy the best that I can afford on a teacher's salary, and I'm not an enthusiast? A Corsair HX650 is on par with any "mainstream" 850W PSU. Or, do you mean that I can't game or enjoy PCs because I'm not wealthy? Here's a news flash for you, PC lovers are in every salary bracket. Just like not all of us are elitist jerks.
You're likely one of those who was advising people to get a 1000W PSU for GTX 275 SLI, am I right?
He is being ironic mate.
IDK, @ 101C, these things could boil water.
Crysis and BF:BC2 weren't so good. Honestly, I expected for it to be faster here.
In everything else, the 5870 got a beating of its life (+20% faster if not more). See Far Cry 2 and Dirt 2 with 8AA GTX480 came pretty close to 5970 in some of these titles. Thing is though, those titles don't stress a 5870 <1920x1200. So we really needed a boost in the heaviest games, where it didnt deliver.
Otherwise, good performance, but horrible power consumption. 150+W more power at load....which is more than 2x the difference in TDP of 188 vs. 250 (other reason why TDP specs are full of cr*p).
You care about MPG in NASCAR?
If powerconsumption, not performance, is your thing...go mid/lowrange....and quit whining
Faster is faster....get over it
Does this remind anyone of the old Riva TNT launch? Later, slower and hotter?
Still was a nice card to have - had a Canopus Pure3D II and Spectra TNT
You care about MPG in NASCAR?
If powerconsumption, not performance, is your thing...go mid/lowrange....and quit whining
Faster is faster....get over it
Than intended. It was supposed to match the Voodoo 2's performance (@ 110MHz) but came late clocked at 90MHz instead and running hotter than expected. The Riva TNT2 is what the TNT should have beenSlower? :hmm:
You're not an enthusiast with only a 650w PSU.
No one is going to care about the power consumption of the card. It's been discussed already. Power consumption isn't an issue, that's what a certain group of people tried to argue.
It would never hit 101c on water.
You can fry an egg on an old athlon tbird easily with no fan on it and it puts out a LOT less heat.
Than intended. It was supposed to match the Voodoo 2's performance (@ 110MHz) but came late clocked at 90MHz instead and running hotter than expected. The Riva TNT2 is what the TNT should have been
I could only get Creative's Graphic Blaster biggrin. So sad that Canopus stopped making cards thenAh, the TNT2
my first real graphics card back in the day
It was a Diamond Viper V770.. I'll never forget it, it was like $350
afaik the 5970 still gets raped in tesellation by the 480?
Like has been mentioned before, those Dirt benchies are interesting because they run it at ultra and show the 295 which has no DX11 on the same graph so for all we know they weren't running it on DX11.
You care about MPG in NASCAR?
If powerconsumption, not performance, is your thing...go mid/lowrange....and quit whining
Faster is faster....get over it
An irony, too, that rarely gets a nod from those who assert that all motorsport is profligate, is that a good racing car is an efficient racing car
Why are people comparing a single gpu to a dual gpu?.....dual gpu's have issues single gpu's do not for starters....and as afaik the 5970 still gets raped in tesellation by the 480?