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"With Great Price Comes Great Quality" {Classic Spider-Man Dialogue}

Im going for dual 5870's..

Do they win?

Havent you seen 5970 prices?

I reckon the GT460 will start around £300 and GTX480 start at £400.

i'm using 2 GTX295s. i don't regret it one bit...not even the price. nvidia drivers r easy to install..un-install or update. so i'm good. if u have a full tower atx..then it should fit nicely. i think its about 11 inches in length...the 5970 is about 13 inches or maybe a bit more. one other thing...i buy only XFX.

[Edited by saurabhfzd, 2/19/2010 9:18:18 PM] if u're going to use 1 GTX295 then i think a 850W psu with a operating efficiency of about 85% should be more than adequate. u should also have a branded full-tower atx because it gives really good cooling which a gaming rig definitely needs.

[Edited by saurabhfzd, 2/19/2010 9:23:46 PM]

[Edited by saurabhfzd, 2/19/2010 9:25:02 PM]

very sorry for the double post. yes..5970 is very expensive and very fast too but not easily available..its a lot bigger too..probably the biggest gfx card out there. GTX480 is eagerly awaited..these r Fermi cards...but no release date as yet.

Fermi, What Does That Do Anyway???.

well..nVidia hasn't released much detail about its GTX470/480 cards except that its Fermi based. 'Fermi' is the code name for the NextGen CUDA architecture from nVidia. as nVidia likes to put it: 'the soul of a super computer in the body of a gpu'. according to nVidia it is the most advanced gpu computing architecture ever built with over 3-billion transistors and featuring upto 512 CUDA cores. and senior industry analysts have gone on record to say that it surpasses anything announced by AMD-ATI and that does include the '5970' too.

I would say if you plan on buying a huge PCI-e card and your going to buy a case, always buy a E-ATX case, it has more width and length to accomodate the cards without them being pressed closed to HD's.