Radeon 5770 or GTX 260?

[DallasDad]

DallasDad wrote

- No I use Intel with ATI (click my spec), Personally out of the two GPUs you are looking at I believe and would suggest the ATI Radeon HD 5770 its a great card and you wont be sorry

Veedaz you were right......I went with the 5770 and I'm NOT SORRY! It's a great card.
Thanks to you and everybody else for the advice. :five:

 

[Thrax]

The 5770 is a faster card that is technological superior to the GTX 260. If games matter to you, it is the only logical decision amongst your two choices.

 

[Veedaz]

Glad your happy with your 5770 , I have being a ATI fan for some time now and please don't get me wrong nVidia have come out with some great cards (eg) a few years ago I purchased a GT6600 for my wifes computer and I was so impressed that I got two more and ran them SLI in my rig, the 6600gt was a 128mb card but performed like a 256mb, anyway things have changed a bit now and we are talking dual chips and GBs for graphics cards. ATI / AMD are producing some stunning hardware today (and in my opinion) the best :top:

 

[TrainableMan]

DallasDad, If you are running any intense games you will want to look into overclocking the 5770 with ATI Catalyst because otherwise you spent money on up to 20% more juice that is locked inside the bottle.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-5770-overclocking,2473-3.html

 

[Veedaz]

If you do decide to OC your 5770 via Overdrive in CCC DallasDad only use small increments and do watch your temps

 

[Mychael]

As we are on the subject of video cards,the shop I'm been in discussion with was recommending an XFX Radeon HD5750. Any thoughts about them?

 

[TrainableMan]

The 5750 is the slightly slower brother to the 5770 with prices within $20 and the most expensive 50s overlapping the bottom price 70s I don't see why you would go slower. The 4870s and the GTX 260 are faster than the 5750 although the 5750 supports the newer DirectX, 4870 doesn't.

The POWERCOLOR PCS+ AX5770 1GBD5-PPG Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card $145US (after rebate) right now is the one I own.

 

[Nibiru2012]

Personal opinion here... I feel that ASUS, Gigabyte and Sapphire make about the best ATI cards out there. But then this is just an opinion too. They all have to follow standards that are similar, but each one will have different tweaks, etc.