Best and Cheapest Video Card

[rion]

may HD 5970 na sa PC hub * 32.5k



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[tidus1203]

Parang mali ata yang product na yan sa thread title... I would say the best bang for the buck GPU's are still the Radeon 4600 and 4700 series or kung maka Nvidia ka the 9600GT... May ibubuga pa even with the latest game at just P3000++ - P4000++

[rion]

medyo ot na nga. lol! mag post na suguro nalang tayo ng bagong thread.

[Jun aka Pekto]

$600 for an HD 5970. Gee that's the same price I paid for 2 Voodoo2's in 1998. I wonder what the equivalent of 1998's $600 would be today?

Still, $600? *sigh* I guess that's one advantage of being single. I could build a god-pc anytime I want.

Nah. I like being on a short leash.

[Jun aka Pekto]

For those with newer ATI cards. I'm just wondering how much AA AF do you use?

I'm guessing the drivers for my HD 5770 isn't mature yet since I can't get beyond 4xAA without graphical artifacts appearing. If you look at the tail shadow of the 747, you could see artifacts shaped like a "ll". This wasn't present with my X800XL or 8600GT.

The only time the artifacts disappear is if I leave AA at either 4x with FSX or 2x with most other games. I mean even 2xAA looks great. But, I'd like to push it to 4x/8x all the time.

[rion]

Ati 57XXX series just dropped prices yesterday.

the 5750 go as low as 6,600. The 5770 * 7,740 pesos from 8,200

natawa ako sa isang seller on his used 5770, he had to drop his price from 7,800 to 7,600. just a hundred forty pesos cheaper. hehe...

[Jun aka Pekto]

Ati 57XXX series just dropped prices yesterday.

the 5750 go as low as 6,600. The 5770 * 7,740 pesos from 8,200

natawa ako sa isang seller on his used 5770, he had to drop his price from 7,800 to 7,600. just a hundred forty pesos cheaper. hehe...

Here, newegg.com haven't dropped prices yet on the 5770. The 5850 minimum price has gone up by another $15 to $315. The 5870 has gone up by another $30 to $430. They're freaking nuts!

Just the same. As a heavy OpenGL user, you need to avoid ATI like it's got herpes or something.

[rion]

while waiting for gtx 3xxx, I would have gone for 5750 kung alam ko lang matakaw parin ang 4850 ko. lol

with my 9600gt, On Idle, I got a 3:13 secs per meter cycle on a 30% overclocked processor. now just 2:17 secs per meter cycle on a stock speed processor. =\

I'm hoping I can downclock the gpu manualy. and set it to stock or oc speed only when gaming.

if anyone can suggest how to save more power aside from turning it off, it would be great.

[Jun aka Pekto]

while waiting for gtx 3xxx, I would have gone for 5750 kung alam ko lang matakaw parin ang 4850 ko. lol

with my 9600gt, On Idle, I got a 3:13 secs per meter cycle on a 30% overclocked processor. now just 2:17 secs per meter cycle on a stock speed processor. =

I'm hoping I can downclock the gpu manualy. and set it to stock or oc speed only when gaming.

if anyone can suggest how to save more power aside from turning it off, it would be great.

Can't you downclock the thing to stock reference settings through the Catalyst ATI Overdrive?

[rion]

down to 500mhz only. the idle speed of the card. I'm hoping I could downclock it further. same with ati tray tools and ati tool does not run on my windows 7 32bit. weird, I was certain it was running back on my x1650.


on my 9600gt. was able to downclock it to 300mhz, even the mem to 350, while shader * 600. I added a profile to load low speed at start up while oc speed while gaming at back to low speed on game exit. as I understand downclocking started at gts 250 green and gtx260. so the 96060gt had to be manualy done by software.


Update: Riva tuner works fine now... 325mhz-gpu, 500mhz-mem. temperature drop, so as the fan speed from avg of 20% to 14%. measuring power consumption a little later.

[rion]

bleh...Inconclusive results, needs a real test equipment... =(

kanina stock gpu 2:17 sec

just now, downclocked: 3:21 sec
then stock again: 3:13 sec

perhaps the cpu eist and c1e factor, I should have disabled them before testing, to isolate gpu alone...

with my inconclusive results, I think there might be a little difference on the power consumption. but the temp is definitely better on downclocked. so downclocked ko na.

on my 9600gt, didn't notice a significant improvement on power consumption and temp. but sa 4850, noticable sa temp. hope this little findings will help others.

[Revenant]

The wife surprised me with a Palit GTX 275 last night. She didn't want to give it on Christmas night so I could set it up earlier and spend Christmas Eve "playing" with her instead of fooling around with my new toy. Damn, it's 10.5 inches long and has two fans. Arkham Asylum!

[Jun aka Pekto]

GTX 275

Oooooh. Nice card.

I'd buy one. But, I wanted an ATI card to pair with my AMD cpu.

[rion]

nice new toy! now that's a high-end card.

not so happy in my His 4850, more weird stuff with Ati... I get a lag when I open any image for the first time. the second time and the rest, it's fine though... Then, it lags when I press "printscreen" while playing Left 4 Dead 2" had more weirdness on both my x1650 pro pcie and agp. lags with custom skinned windows, specialy with windows blinds...

in fairness, His IceQ looks nice for a 5.4k card. hehe...

[Jun aka Pekto]

nice new toy! now that's a high-end card.

not so happy in my His 4850, more weird stuff with Ati... I get a lag when I open any image for the first time. the second time and the rest, it's fine though... Then, it lags when I press "printscreen" while playing Left 4 Dead 2" had more weirdness on both my x1650 pro pcie and agp. lags with custom skinned windows, specialy with windows blinds...

in fairness, His IceQ looks nice for a 5.4k card. hehe...

At least you can grab game images with PrtScn. Me? games like FSX and X-Plane 9 do fine with PrtScn (without any pauses). With some games like Crysis, I have to resort to FRAPS probably due to Windows 7 forcing blank images. But, I haven't seen any pauses with mine using either FRAPS or PrtScn.

The closest game I have to L4D2 is Half Life 2. Same thing. No pauses.

I get a momentary blink of the eye pause whenever I load an image. But, that's been the case with every Windows OS and every video card I've ever had.

How long of a pause are you talking about? It sounds like the image is pausing as it loads into memory and being loaded from a cache with subsequent openings of the image making load times quicker.

I don't see it on mine. Are you sure it's not from a tweak you made?

I mean there's such a thing about being overzealous with tweaking a system for efficiency. There's always a chance a tweak will improve one thing and then interfere with something else.

[rion]

it's not from my tweaks, I put it to stock when I play. and the pause thing is already there even before I made tweaks. =)