Best Card on the Market for CoD

[blampars]

I have 2x gtx 460s sli with an amd x4 955 processor which I over clocked to 3.8ghz. I have yet to run into any problems playing any games at a resolution of 1920x1080 . Even with games that don't utilize both cards like rise of flight, I can still run at max graphics with good frame rates. I don't think I'll have any problems running cliffs of dover with my setup. At least I hope not.
If I had the money to spare, I might spring for a new card from nvidia or amd but at that point I might as well build a new machine. Especially since mine is going on 3 years old now. Thank god for upgrades!

[Heliocon]

Card is mediocre - they just pulled the old trick and making glueing together two lesser cards to make a better single unit at a lower price. It has limited top end upgrade ability - I will stick with my current 580, and in a years time add an additiona 2 580s for 3 way sli.

Plus AMD/ATI drivers are a nightmare.
-also as others have mentioned, the card apparently has heating problems. I also dont know how well (or if you even could) rig it for water cooling. That limits OC ability also.

[Sven]

Plus AMD/ATI drivers are a nightmare.

BS. That story gets old. Also a typical Nvidia owner response towards newer 'competing' AMD cards.

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by Sven

BS. That story gets old. Also a typical Nvidia owner response towards newer 'competing' AMD cards.

I can confirm that the AMD Linux drivers are a proper dogs' dinner, haha. As for Windows ones, never had a problem at all, except for the Catalyst Control Centre being a real heap of crap. Oh yeah, and the big phase where Il-2 had various visual artifacts and the like, but hey, 10 year old game.

[Widowmaker214]

Well, considering I have machines running both Nvidia and ATI cards...
I'll never buy another AMD/ATI video card. Nothing but troubles.. and I hear the same thing from my flight sim friends with ATI. They are fine if you just want to tinker with Office applications... wont have one for gaming. My nvidia cards/drivers never seem to have an issue... but always running into little "things" with ATI.
And I know my way around a computer as well.. not like I buy compaq gaming rigs. I build my own.
Will be building a new machine just for COD.. and she'll be running Nvidia.

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by Sven

BS. That story gets old. Also a typical Nvidia owner response towards newer 'competing' AMD cards.

Maybe, I just remember a personal nightmare with them from a few years ago. They may of improved them alot since then, I have not tried them out so I am just going from older experience and what people are saying.
Also I am not bashing them for the sake of it, nvidia does plenty of things wrong too.

[=GI=Joel]

I went for an ati 6950. Will try for the bios tweak to unlock the extra shaders when i have cod.

[Codex]

Seems the 590 will have lower power consumption, but also lower performance than the 6990, still has to be confirmed though

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/l...-gtx-590/11875

[Codex]

No offence to anyone but do people actually read the articles?

Card is mediocre - they just pulled the old trick and making glueing together two lesser cards to make a better single unit at a lower price.

They've used the Cayman XT GPU's not the Bart GPU's for this card, so they've broken with tradition.

The latest series from AMD is a flop - overheats like GTX 480 used to and can be used for heating purposes. A real shame on AMD's part that they can't take the lead and produce the proper card.

Huh? The 5800 and 6800 series of cards use less power and are quieter than the 480, even the 580 uses less than a 480. As for power load and temps on the 6990, this new card uses less than a 580 in SLI and produces more performance, and will no doubt cost less than a 580x2 SLI set up.

Everyone must remember that this card is not for everyone, hell I'd even recommend lower spec'd cards for CoD. But if you've got a multi monitor set up and want nothing but ALL the highest settings to be displayed then this is the card you'd want to get.

[Baron]

Originally Posted by Codex

No offence to anyone but do people actually read the articles?


They've used the Cayman XT GPU's not the Bart GPU's for this card, so they've broken with tradition.


Huh? The 5800 and 6800 series of cards use less power and are quieter than the 480, even the 580 uses less than a 480. As for power load and temps on the 6990, this new card uses less than a 580 in SLI and produces more performance, and will no doubt cost less than a 580x2 SLI set up.

Everyone must remember that this card is not for everyone, hell I'd even recommend lower spec'd cards for CoD. But if you've got a multi monitor set up and want nothing but ALL the highest settings to be displayed then this is the card you'd want to get.

6990 does NOT perform better or even as 2x580, period. It doesnt even perform like 2x6970 but more like 2x6950 + its hotter, a fair chunk louder and more powerhungry, but hey, at least its more expensive.

Temps are high but would be even higher if the the fan wasnt working overtime to keep the heat at bay. Its the loudest card ever produced, hence, in extension the hottest (the stock cooler is a complete waste of space.)

The fact that many sites doing the tests got errors, black screens, refusal to even start applications etc, is just icing on the cake.(apparently)

Typical AMD cut and paste hope for the best dont worry about the driver, that we can fix in a month or two, maby approach.

The point of this card is beyond me and i feel for those suckered into buying it.