660 TI vs HD7970

[BoilerDown]

I hear this is a pretty rockin' price on this video card: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1719397 .  Since Newegg is OOS, check out Amazon, which matched Newegg's price earlier today, link towards the bottom of that thread.

[Debrody]

Now im jelous... in Hungary, the 7870s are sold for that price and the 7970 costs almost twice as much...   

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Now im jelous... in Hungary, the 7870s are sold for that price and the 7970 costs almost twice as much...   

Delivery from US costs only a few bucks so it may be worth while to have it shipped. If you can find a retailer that's willing to ship overseas that is.

[Charge]

I'm under the impression that some new cards do no necessarily handle DX9 games much better than older ones but they do better in DX10 and 11. I'm not sure what is the logic behind that.

I just upgraded to HD 7850 and there was not a massive improvement over HD 5850 in AH.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html#

-C+

[715]

I'm under the impression that some new cards do not necessarily handle DX9 games much better than older ones but they do better in DX10 and 11. I'm not sure what is the logic behind that.

I just upgraded to HD 7850 and there was not a massive improvement over HD 5850 in AH.
-C+

Same here.  I upgraded from a 4850 to a 7870 and saw only minor improvement, and, under some circumstances with a lot of planes in view, it actually got a tad worse.  I'm probably limited by my old E8400.  Of course, my luck with computer upgrades is not good.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Same here.  I upgraded from a 4850 to a 7870 and saw only minor improvement, and, under some circumstances with a lot of planes in view, it actually got a tad worse.  I'm probably limited by my old E8400.  Of course, my luck with computer upgrades is not good.

Yep, definately CPU limited there.

[715]

Yep, definitely CPU limited there.

True.  I found another problem: the new card has 2GB of memory vs 512M on the old.  This eats into my 32bit WinXP 4GB RAM max.  Every time a texture appears, like an explosion, there is I/O traffic.  This used to happen only when the texture was first used.  So I'm running out of addressable RAM and the only solution is 64bit Win7.

[guncrasher]

True.  I found another problem: the new card has 2GB of memory vs 512M on the old.  This eats into my 32bit WinXP 4GB RAM max.  Every time a texture appears, like an explosion, there is I/O traffic.  This used to happen only when the texture was first used.  So I'm running out of addressable RAM and the only solution is 64bit Win7.

for now yes. but next year new mobo and cpu .


semp

[LCADolby]

Benchmark of the GTX 480 shows it's the best performer for the least money 

[deadstikmac]

I have a 660ti & when your ready mobo wise you just go and buy another 660ti and run them sli2-way... SSSHHHAAAZZZZAAAAMMMMMM!!! dual video card with triple monitor pwnage.


This card runs triple monitor right out of the box if you have an adapter...

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I have a 660ti & when your ready mobo wise you just go and buy another 660ti and run them sli2-way... SSSHHHAAAZZZZAAAAMMMMMM!!! dual video card with triple monitor pwnage.


This card runs triple monitor right out of the box if you have an adapter...

I'd see SLI as potential 'sli profile problemage and flaky performance yield' instead. Especially AH2 has a poor SLI profile.