New video card recommendations

FreakingHell said:
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The capabilities of Fermi are amazing. The high end single chip card will probably cost you $450-$550 at launch, but the performance will be amazing(some estimate faster than 5970), in games and in CUDA, etc.
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wow....can't wait to see it then, i heard they might not be able to make a dual-chip card due to size constraints, but i definitely heard that their single chips were gonna be faster than ATI single chip cards.
 
PewPewBangBang said:
wow....can't wait to see it then, i heard they might not be able to make a dual-chip card due to size constraints, but i definitely heard that their single chips were gonna be faster than ATI single chip cards.
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I had my doubts, but Nvidia does claim they will be releasing a dual chip card a few weeks after the release of their single chip cards.
 
Actually, I probably won't get a Fermi, but once it comes out the 5K series ATI cards will probably drop in price.

And they're having way too much trouble with the architecture, so I don't think the first wave of Fermi cards will be all that stable.

Maybe I'll get a 275... I saw one on Amazon for $230.
 
PewPewBangBang said:
yes.....very few don't see improvements from multiple card solutions. A persons only threat is driver support if they are using multiple card solutions but driver support has gotten fairly good these days and even those benchmarks show promising signs considering the card just came out when they did those crossfire reviews and the scaling is phenomenal.

I would personally go with a single fast card also and CFX/SLI it but its pricier.

I hope to just get a 5970 when theres a huge price drop. The XFX 5970 Black Edition looks insanely sick!! Volt-modding software and all that, plus they are handpicked and the website says they are meant to get 1000mhz core clock and 6.0GBPS memory clock.

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/16486/34/

and

http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=233&threadid=123050
this guy said he talked to staff member and they are binned to overclock atleast 1050 core, 1450 memory with voltage increase that comes along in the software provided only for the black edition. Sapphire also has one that only works with the sapphire OC model supposedly so this voltage tuner seems to be exclusive.
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Too bad that overvolt tool does NOT work in 64 bit systems... totally a waste of 100 dollars extra for the black edition if your using an enthusiast board.
 
FiRESAUCE said:
Too bad that overvolt tool does NOT work in 64 bit systems... totally a waste of 100 dollars extra for the black edition if your using an enthusiast board.
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ehh they will definitely have a tool for 64 bit if this one doesn't work......the only thing i know of is that Sapphire redline program isn't working......idk, $100 more for 1000mhz core and 6Gbps memory clock??? seems pretty epic to me considering most 5970 only reach like 880 core and like 1200 memory or something

i wouldn't pay that much cuz i don't have the money to waste like that, im planning on just waiting until they drop in price after Fermi comes out or something
 
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