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Perhaps used HD5850 can be found at those price idk...btw warranty cover is still there if the 1st owner doesn't flash the card or do any modding on it.

For me, if money is not a concern plus physX and tessellation power is important to you then go for GTX470, though higher electrical bill for sure. But for money/power consumption/heating wise, HD5850 is the best choice ever... I said HD5850 is the best graphic cards ever made by Ati/AMD :).

HI guys, Here's my score : i7 930 @4.4GHz with HT, Trifire 3xSapphire HD5850 @ 1015/1250, Asus Rampage II Extreme.

Every games run smoothly except crysis, warhead, metro2033. Maybe some other games soon enough. Actually I am not greed for power, just that I usually do upgrades in 3 years and for this upgrade, i want something that can at least last around 2-3 years and I dont care whatever new GPUs will come...

I am also in the same boat as OP. dont know whether to choose 5970 or 5870CF or 5850CF for my new upgrade, i already own one 5850 atm. according to guru3d review on 5970 overclocking guide, the performance boost already outperformed 5870CF and 5850CF in most of the tested games including Vantage...

well yes i do like to have the latest tech available, but it must've been proven that it is worth to purchased. USB 3.0 and sata 6Gbps not so much important in gaming i guess. maybe just a little bit on loading time etc... Most important thing is Power and Performance of the graphics/system...

Thank you for your kind advice, i already thought about that..since my current P35 mobo only support x16 & x4 pcie1.1, it is really a let down for me if i want to add another HD5850. And there is no point to upgrade to P45/X48 mobo either...so i just thinking why not just upgrade to the latest...

Thanks, i think corsair dominator should be fine. Happy to know that TX850 is a very good PSU and capable of running CFX 5850/5870. Thanks again :).

If I am grabbing another 5850 then I can save alot of cash and save trouble to sell back my sapphire HD5850 one. I think you're right about GPU. Then I decided to grap one more sapphire HD5850(normal). CPU: for sure i7 930, DDR3: I really dont know if 1600MHz not much of a difference to...

to all TE Gurus, My current gaming Rig is stated below and I am going to upgrade my Gaming system to a core i7 930/DDR3/socket 1366 mobo/crossfire GPU and most importantly a good/stable overclocking system. probably latest by next 2 weeks for upgrading. My concerns here are: 1. What brands...

@Asingh Thanks for the links...btw, you can follow this link for my Vantage result: Vantage result on Win 7 64-bit

I am getting 12.9k CPU score @ only 3.71GHz in 64bit platform. while using 32bit platform, maximum CPU score i am getting is about 12k @ 3.75GHz. Seems weird isnt it? Maybe 3DMark Vantage was built purposedly and are optimized for 64bit system? Or maybe there has something to do with system...

Guys, I just installed Win 7 64bit and ran 3D Vantage and my GPU score is around 14900 which is clearly explains that 32bit system are holding back my CPU/MEM(system overall). after upgraded to 64bit, my Q6600 score in vantage also increase nearly 1000 score. So, an easy answer is that the...

Yes I am testing both gametest 1 and gametest 2 in 3DMark Vantage Gametest. I think the names should be "Jane Nash" and "New Calico". These two are internal default Gametests in Vantage benchmark to bench our GPU performance. If anyone know about the GPU score, was it depends on CPU speed? I...

Re: Helps needed! My 5850 underperformed..:( I'm perfectly fine if it is 300-500 GPU marks but I am talking about 2000+ GPU marks here. You might not understand how much fps I lost from 2000 Vantage marks. if you divide 2000/14000 and calculate the FPS I might've lost around 10fps over 70fps on...