ATI 5870 or 6970?

SlackerITGuy said:

Thornton said:

i am upgrading my fraphix from an ATI 5770 HD and i am wondering which is better to upgrade to, i want a faster, more powerful, higher performance, better quality graphics card, the 6970 is what imm looking at now and its pushing my budget a little, i am also looking into the 5870, i would ammagine a newer modle like the 6970 would be better but their arent many reviews out there, so please vote in the pole for your opinion and help me out, please only answer if you consistantly use or have seen one of the 2 in action or know of some reviews.

I was going to recommend going NVIDIA here (which is the best move IMO [the GeForce GTX 570 is a f#%cking monster.]).... But... Considering you have an AMD CPU, It wouldn't be smart at all.

Now, between the HD 5870 and HD 6970.... I'd say.... Neither. The best choice?:

• Radeon HD 6950

Those GPUs can be flashed to HD 6970s quite easily. So, you'll end up getting HD 6970 performance for ~$70 bucks less.

i chose the ATi stough because of eyefinity, more games support it than Nvidea 3d vison and the 6970 supports 3-4 monitors and hd3d should i get a 3d capable monitor which you have to buy anyways, plus amd is taking over the market and nvidea is losing their status for graphix cards and going back to processors, eyefinity rules the market now.

Phone Man said:

I would think that would void your warranty.

Jim

The chances of companies actually checking is almost negligible.

Plus with the dual bios option, flashing back to stock is a simple enough way of 'hiding' that action. (Dependant of course of how badly damaged / the actual cause of failure)