min specs for SOW

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Oldschool61

Not to mention all the future driver issues with ATI cards, doesnt anyone remember all the problems with ATI cards and lack of driver updates??

Do that many people have money to burn on overpriced intel hardware??
Save a couple hundred bucks and get a quad core Phenom or hex core for much less and get basically the same performance.

Just finished AM3 conversion and bought

-MSI M65 mATX mobo
-955 BE
-4GB DDR3 (VR)

GPU is still a galaxy 260/216OC and I am very well aware I'll need a new one(Nvidia it will be) for SOW.
Took the mobo because it potentially could take 2GPUs, although they wouldn't fit in the current case I guess.
[Nvidia chipset would have been even cooler, but there are no mATX mobos on the market in this configuration]


Maybe s.o. can explain the advantages of an Itel CPU - because I really cant see any(other than mentioning it in the sig)

[hellbomber]

Radeon ATI HD5770 1 gig card is nothing to laugh at

i had a 5770 running eyefinity on 6000x1200 ... granted i could only have aa on in a few games and most games were at medium / low settings.... on a single screen it doesnt do bad, but you certainly wont be maxing the settings without some lag, depends whats important to you, if your short on cash then i would just stick with the 5770 and whenever you get a present or something maybe ask santa clause for a 5870, 5770 have good resale value i actually sold mine for more than i bought it for on ebay

[swiss]

Originally Posted by hellbomber

Radeon ATI HD5770 1 gig card is nothing to laugh at

It sure is.

Let me post this link from the SLI vs XfireX thread

http://techreport.com/articles.x/19404

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by hellbomber

Radeon ATI HD5770 1 gig card is nothing to laugh at

i had a 5770 running eyefinity on 6000x1200 ... granted i could only have aa on in a few games and most games were at medium / low settings.... on a single screen it doesnt do bad, but you certainly wont be maxing the settings without some lag, depends whats important to you, if your short on cash then i would just stick with the 5770 and whenever you get a present or something maybe ask santa clause for a 5870, 5770 have good resale value i actually sold mine for more than i bought it for on ebay

What are you going to do when SOW comes out and you have all sorts of graphical issues with your ATI card? Download the latest Nvidia drivers

[hellbomber]

Let me post this link from the SLI vs XfireX thread

http://techreport.com/articles.x/19404

ok your an idiot or a troll .. those tests are all with high aa and af... 5770 choke on high aa and af, if you put it at 2x aa and or 0 - 2 af.. the 5770 would be running up ALOT higher on frames probably double, find one card in the 5770 price range taht does anywehre near as good.... didnt think so.. not only does it give the most fps per dolalr it also gives the most fps per watt.. its an extremely efficient mid range card.. comparing it to high ends is doomed, ive never been a fan of crossfire, i dont use crossfire, i hear SLI is alot better, but comparing a mid range card to high ends? seriously what did you expect


the 460 does about 33% better than the 5770

it also costs $230 but you can pick up a 5770 for $150-160 230 / 155 = 33% price difference so if u dont have the money to spend on a 460 you wont fins anything better at that price point in DX11

[hellbomber]

What are you going to do when SOW comes out and you have all sorts of graphical issues with your ATI card? Download the latest Nvidia drivers

thats funny becasue i did have driver issues with my 5876 2GB, but a week later 10.5 betas came out havent had a single problem since then

[hellbomber]

It sure is.

Let me post this link from the SLI vs XfireX thread

http://techreport.com/articles.x/19404

these reviews that you all read are completely worthless to real world use.. what the reviews SHOULD DO is see how high settings they can get with each graphics card at 60FPS.. not force the mid range cards to choke on high settings and let the high ends win easily, if you lowered the aa and af for the 5770 it would be keeping up with the high ends on high aa and af, thats real world performance what you loose with a 5770 isnt frames as that review would have you believe, what you loose is graphics detail, 5770 can run any game out today at 60fps, just have to set graphics settings down a little

[hellbomber]

i will say that a 460 is one of the best cards out thier tohugh especially within price performance, but it does cost alot more than 5770, some cant afford that, what the 460 does do well is smacks the 5830 like a red headed stepchild