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Selling my 5850 card
OK i want a quick opinion im selling my 5850 black edition card for $180 becuase i do not like ati at all and i want to go back to nvidia so i was thinking about going to buy the nvidia 560 ti card
i dislike the ati cards now after swapping this card with my old 460 card, the setting thing with ati is pure dumb and annoying.
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to bad its wows fault not ati fault wows engine just doesnt use the card very good. but its not a big deal i love my 5850 except the first 1 died after 6 months lol got a free replacmeant tho
Ya but thats really the only game i play, plus id still rather have a nvidia card
yea thats cool just dont think ati has bads cards cause they dont thats all im saying bud : )
I don't possibly see how there could be a problem, either way.
WoW isn't that intensive. It's more so than people sometimes give credit for, but my G80 based 8800GTS ran the WOTLK at almost the highest settngs you could attain (I had to choose between a bit of anti-aliasin and dynamic shadow quality).
My Radeon HD 4870, which was roughly twice as powerful, ran the game perfectly, regardless of graphical settings or zone. I don't think it ever went down past 30-40fps or so, and even that was only in very extreme cases.
A 5850 is somewhere between 50%-100% more powerful than my 4870, and I was also only using an overclocked C2D E8400 at the time, so how could there possibly be problems playing with a more powerful card and what's probably a much more powerful CPU?
well i just sold it so its not my problem anymore i just dont like how u have to config settings to make the game run right. so im picking between 560's on tiger direct there having a sale right now
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7191453&Sku=E145-0562
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7191450&Sku=E145-0560
doesnt tell me any info to tell which ones better :0
UMM i have a 5850 and i can run WOW at max settings and it never dips below 60 fps. I never had to configure anything out of the game aswell....
Guy probably doesnt know how to update graphic drivers.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7191453&Sku=E145-0562
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7191450&Sku=E145-0560
doesnt tell me any info to tell which ones better :0
One is overclocked, thats why you probably pay more.
It looks like those are the same thing, except possibly with different clock speeds. They're both rather overpriced for a GeForce GTX 560 Ti, though. If you want a GeForce GTX 560 Ti, then try this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500190
Or if you want a premium cooling system, this will work:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127594
newegg FTW!
Well i actually do know how to upgrade i didnt read it....not really familiar with tiger direct but i just bought
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7191453&Sku=E145-0562
$15 off right away and then a $30 rebate better then the newegg deal so totally will be $215 for it.
So you just paid 5$ because you dont want to set clocks yourself?
That cooler looks really bad.
Plastic and cooling doesnt fit.
Btw why did you make this thread in the first place if you pretty much ignored every suggestion.
+1
A plastic shroud that surrounds an aluminum heatsink with copper heatpipes is pretty common, and shouldn't be a problem. That's commohly done to route hot air in a particular direction, and it looks like the card that the original poster bought tries to exhaust a substantial fraction of the heat from the card out the back of the card, and hence out of the case. It doesn't do enough of that to be an external exhaust card, but I don't think it will be a problem. It's not nearly as good of a cooler as the MSI Twin Frozr that he could have had on New Egg for basically the same price, but oh well. It's his money.
Indeed, it is the OP's money, and the OP's choice, including the part about selling a perfectly good 5850 that is easily capable of running WoW at any setting and resolution imaginable with nothing but proper drivers, probably selling it at a loss, and picking up a new card for a net loss of money that probably won't yield any substantiable increase in performance.
I'm sure a significant amount of money was spent to net what is probably only a ~20% or so increase in GPU performance in general, if that (it seemed to be a decent rough average based on a quick scan of reviews), and 0% in WoW, since a 5850 will not bottleneck WoW at any settings (unless you use it in a calamitously wrong fashion).
If it wasn't evident in his other two threads, clear case of PEBKAC on this one.
At least he didn't link something from Best Buy, I have to give him credit for that...
If he got someone to pay $180 for it, then that's hardly selling at a loss. You can get a better card than that new for less than $180.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121418
Indeed, the Radeon HD 5850 itself was selling new at $140 for a while a couple of months ago.
Oh that twin frozer is SEX!!
If he paid only $140 for it, then that isn't a loss if he pockets it.
I think it is, however, when you consider that he still probably spent about 33% more than that buying a card that will net maybe 20% more in perfomance (unless I missed something, the cards linked seemed to be in the $240 range, and that seemed to be the average gap in reviews I read for the 560 vs 5850). It will also yield 0% increase in the one game the OP plays, unless the OP really was just using his 5850 in some calamitously wrong fashion, which, admittedly, does seem to be the case.
So I'd still call it a loss, especially for his situation.
Well i know were to buy things i usually go on newegg and tigerdirect to build my computers or buy stuff....other then that the card was a peice of shit honestly prolly just the card, cuz without touching any settings id login to wow and get a good rate of 60 fps then id turn off my pc come on later and get 25/30 fps it was annoying so i sold it for $40 more then the new value and just bought a nvidia card for $214 not much of a lose. Was thinking about getting the 480 but it runs to hot as i read so it was a no go