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purkkafin

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i have brand new sapphire 4870x2 coming up. i still have my old gigabyte gtx260 192sp(not the newer216sp) . i found out here that gtx260 sli really beats 4870x2 in most game tests. power usage seems same in both cases. so have 4870x2 bad microstuttering etc below40fps or is the gtx260sli still better choice
 
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Nvidia usually does better in benchmarks then ati

I haven't seen any microstuttering on mine
I say keep the 4870x2 its an awesome card especially when oced!

Btw I have 2x 4870x2
 
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I would suggest the GTX260 SLi,
but it would be better to wait for DX11
 
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he already got the 4870x2 might aswell keep it
 
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Benchmark Scores They're pretty good, nothing crazy.
gtx 260 SLI is better, OC'd its about the same as the gtx 295, which is on average faster than 4870x2.
 
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i can vouch for GTX260 SLi, fantastic experience :)
 
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yes gtx260 sli is same speed than gtx295. this article shows it too. its real wonder how good those nvidia sli scale so well. but which is better in general gaming usage. imean ati has micro stuttering etc. nvidia got have something too. id got buy sli mobo too because now i have crossfire only mb

heres article:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/16681/12
 
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purkkafin said:
yes gtx260 sli is same speed than gtx295. this article shows it too. its real wonder how good those nvidia sli scale so well. but which is better in general gaming usage. imean ati has micro stuttering etc. nvidia got have something too. id got buy sli mobo too because now i have crossfire only mb

heres article:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/16681/12
Click to expand...

yeah the downside to nvidia is that you have to get an SLI motherboard... theyre usually not very good with OCing quads. I have the 750i, and its not a terribly strong OC'er.

For games SLI is a good setup to have though, the power of dual cards is at the mercy of drivers and nvidia> ATI in terms of driver updates IMO. Hopefully ATI can change in the future.
 
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