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tonizito
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 Posted: Mon, 21st Feb 2011 16:10 Post subject: HD5850: Which to buy? |
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So it seems that my 4890 went tits up with the Crysis 2 beta(not the beta itself, it the final nail in it's coffin  ).
I looked around and I can find some 5850 at 169€, but I'm wondering which should I buy.
I'll be checking some reviews, but I'd like to now what you guys think about these:
- Asus EAH5850 DirectCU
- MSI R5850 Twin Frozr II
- PowerColor PCS+ HD5850 1GB GDDR5
So, opinions?
BTW, a GTX460 isn't out of the question, but I'm seeing those only 5-10€ cheaper than these 5850's.
I'm not planning to use eyefinity but even then the 5850 is slightly better, right? RIGHT?
Or should I go with the 460 for the 1337 PhysX effects?
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Werelds
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| Posted: Mon, 21st Feb 2011 16:41 Post subject: |
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No Sapphire Vapor-X around you? I'm seeing that at €160 here in NL, and as far as I know that's still #1 when it comes to cooling and noise 
And yes, the 5850 is ahead of the 460.
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| Posted: Mon, 21st Feb 2011 16:47 Post subject: |
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why not go for the 6870 instead, the sapphire one with custom cooling is like 180 euros
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tonizito
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| Posted: Mon, 21st Feb 2011 17:37 Post subject: |
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| Werelds wrote: | No Sapphire Vapor-X around you? I'm seeing that at €160 here in NL, and as far as I know that's still #1 when it comes to cooling and noise
And yes, the 5850 is ahead of the 460. |
Long card is long. 
| Paintface wrote: | | why not go for the 6870 instead, the sapphire one with custom cooling is like 180 euros |
Can you mail me one?
Cause the cheapest 6870 I'm seeing here is 210€.
If it was at that price it would be a no-brainer.
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tonizito
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| Posted: Mon, 21st Feb 2011 19:04 Post subject: |
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| tonizito wrote: | | Long card is long. |
Fucking hell, the same goes for the Powercolor PCS+ apparently.
The MSI model seems like the logical choice, if you bring add msi afterburner to the picture and the fact that of the three it is the most readily available.
But it's cooling solution will probably raise my ambient temps a bit... 
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tonizito
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| Posted: Mon, 21st Feb 2011 21:55 Post subject: |
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| Werelds wrote: | | Don't confuse it with the TOXIC edition, that's an overclocked card and is like 0.75 inches longer or so! |
According to AnandTech, both the Vapor-X and the Toxic have a custom PCB:
| Quote: | | Today Sapphire is launching a pair of Radeon HD 5850 cards: the 5850 Vapor-X and the 5850 Toxic Edition. Both of these cards use a new custom design – a custom PCB, custom chokes, and of course a custom cooler – making the set of them the first custom 5850 on the market. |
They could be wrong on this, though.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
Turns out that I have something like ~80€ on my bank account and that this 4890 is still within the 2 year warranty period so I'll send it back.
Meanwhile, I'll be rocking it with my old 8800GTS 320Mb. 
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| Posted: Mon, 21st Feb 2011 21:59 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Feb 2011 02:33 Post subject: |
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Turns out it isn't from the GPU.
Had the same issue just now with my 8800GTS.
RAM?
Yay memtest.
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Feb 2011 02:35 Post subject: |
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take the test with one ramstick , then again with the other ramstick
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Feb 2011 02:42 Post subject: |
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| Paintface wrote: | | take the test with one ramstick , then again with the other ramstick |
Yeah, I know the drill.
Not my first memtest and I was hoping to never have to use it again.
I probably should try running the game at my default CPU speed before using memtest (or before running memtest at all), but I'll do all that tomorrow.
Or even pulling out the sticks, cleaning the contacts with a soft eraser and placing them back again.
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| Posted: Wed, 23rd Feb 2011 08:40 Post subject: |
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Going back to stock would be step one, to rule out issues with the IMC and/or voltages
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tonizito
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Feb 2011 00:25 Post subject: |
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Turns out it IS from the 4890.
From the 4890 and from something else since with the 8800GTS the game did crash, only in a different way.
Going to try running it with everything at stock speeds and with a couple of different memory sticks now.
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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ixigia
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Feb 2011 01:02 Post subject: |
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It's time to throw the PC out of the window, buy a cheap xbox and become a dirty console gaming peasant
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Feb 2011 14:59 Post subject: |
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| human_steel wrote: | | ixigia wrote: | | It's time to throw the PC out of the window, buy a cheap xbox and become a dirty console gaming peasant |
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It was sarcasm btw.  |
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ixigia
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Feb 2011 18:34 Post subject: |
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Your gif suggested otherwise but nevermind, this is definitely a useless "discussion" for the OP.
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tonizito
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| Posted: Wed, 30th Mar 2011 16:37 Post subject: |
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YEAH BABY I IS GLAD!!11!!1
ASUS fucked up with my 4890 so the store sent me one of these.
Seems to be running Crysis 2 at the high preset better than my old 4890, although the 4890 was running the beta.
BTW, is there any way to improve image sharpness via Catalyst?
2D is looking blurrier than with my 8800GTS.
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| Posted: Wed, 30th Mar 2011 16:46 Post subject: |
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Maximum deal! ...congratz Toni 
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| Posted: Wed, 30th Mar 2011 18:56 Post subject: |
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| tonizito wrote: | Dunno much about DVI, poor people use VGA monitors anyway.  |
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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