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BUYING HELP!!! Radeon 6850 or 6790?
Hi everyone :) i wanna ask few questions and want some good advise and suggestions on buying a new Graphics Card. 3 weeks ago i sold out my XFX GeForce 9600GT 512MB DDR3 and i bought a MSI GTS 450 Cyclone 1GB and i installed the card and tried some games like AC: Brotherhood, Bulletstorm, NFS: Shift, Crysis and few more... overall it was a good card as compared to my old 9600GT but for some reason i was'nt satisfied with it's performance coz of it's Price (Here things are expensive) and when one of my online friend told me that he got XFX Radeon 6790 (Dual Fan Version) which is far better than GTS 450 in performance and even it easilly beats the GTX 550Ti in almost every Benchmark and Game which is slightly better than a GTS 450. So after 3 days i called the guy on store and told him about this and he asked me to use it for some days and as soon as the 6790 will be available at there store he will replace it without any problem. After a week i went back to the store and returned the product but the 6790 is'nt still available here at any store due to some shipments problem and i checked the whole market. Now the real confusion starts today when i bumped into some threads in other forums by googling and people are saying that the AMD 6850 is a better card than 6790 and also found out that 6850 uses less power under full-load than a 6790 (which uses 2 x 6pin for some reason and also it's based on with defective parts) and GTS 450 as well and beats both of them single handedly. Now i'd like to know should i put some more money and go for the Radeon 6850?
P.S. I'll be buying the card from XFX, HIS or Sapphire.
Here's a link showing Power Consumption of all cards... and yes GTX 550Ti, GTS 450, AMD 6790 are consuming more power than a 6850 under Loads
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/H..._Turbo/25.html