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PostPosted: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:32:17    Post Subject: Gtx 285 Sli or Ati 4890 Crossfire Reply with quote View Single Post
i want to know what will be better, people with one will you tell me how well they work.
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PostPosted: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:29:28    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
Hi - Do you have a motherboard that can do SLI and CrossFire? If not, what are you building up with these cards?
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PostPosted: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:58:53    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
Jason wrote:
Hi - Do you have a motherboard that can do SLI and CrossFire? If not, what are you building up with these cards?


I have the specs here
Case- Antec 1200
Mobo-Evga x58 3 Sli or 3 crossfire
Ram- 6gb OCZ 1600
Processor- Core i7 920
Psu- Bfg Tech. 1200 Watt ex
Gpu- Deciding
etc.
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PostPosted: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:06:42    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
There's a huge price difference in the price of the 2 different cards. ATi 4890 go for less than $250 each and last I checked the 285's are still upwards of 350.

So I would go ATi if you're lookinng at more than 2 cards.
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PostPosted: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:11:22    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
sbrehm72255 wrote:
There's a huge price difference in the price of the 2 different cards. ATi 4890 go for less than $250 each and last I checked the 285's are still upwards of 350.

So I would go ATi if you're lookinng at more than 2 cards.


thanks. is there any brand that will cover overclocking in the warrenty?
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PostPosted: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:47:41    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
s1ck psycho wrote:
sbrehm72255 wrote:
There's a huge price difference in the price of the 2 different cards. ATi 4890 go for less than $250 each and last I checked the 285's are still upwards of 350.

So I would go ATi if you're lookinng at more than 2 cards.


thanks. is there any brand that will cover overclocking in the warrenty?


VisionTek has lifetime warranty, 2 285 would surely beat 2 4890 but 4890 is ALOT cheaper.
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PostPosted: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:23:08    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
uNeec wrote:
s1ck psycho wrote:
sbrehm72255 wrote:
There's a huge price difference in the price of the 2 different cards. ATi 4890 go for less than $250 each and last I checked the 285's are still upwards of 350.

So I would go ATi if you're lookinng at more than 2 cards.


thanks. is there any brand that will cover overclocking in the warrenty?


VisionTek has lifetime warranty, 2 285 would surely beat 2 4890 but 4890 is ALOT cheaper.


also im pretty sure you can overclock 4890's to be as fast as 285's
but XFX has double lifetime and covers ocing, i think ill pick those up. Thanks for the input guys.
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uNeec
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PostPosted: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:12:01    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
s1ck psycho wrote:
uNeec wrote:
s1ck psycho wrote:
sbrehm72255 wrote:
There's a huge price difference in the price of the 2 different cards. ATi 4890 go for less than $250 each and last I checked the 285's are still upwards of 350.

So I would go ATi if you're lookinng at more than 2 cards.


thanks. is there any brand that will cover overclocking in the warrenty?


VisionTek has lifetime warranty, 2 285 would surely beat 2 4890 but 4890 is ALOT cheaper.


also im pretty sure you can overclock 4890's to be as fast as 285's
but XFX has double lifetime and covers ocing, i think ill pick those up. Thanks for the input guys.

If you're talking about overclocking the cards, 285 can be overclocked to amazing speeds. 4890 are pretty much overvolted 4870's with better overclocking ability and I guess a die shirnk(I might be wrong on this). Look at my 4870; http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/4aq6x/.
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PostPosted: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:27:03    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
No die shrink on the 4890's, but they do Oc like a beast, I've seen the cores over the magic 1000 mark, and that's on a card that's a $100 less than the 285's..................Grin
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PostPosted: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:08:52    Post Subject: Reply with quote View Single Post
I would just get two 4870 if you wanted to save money and 4870 clock really high after volt mods.
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