Building a new pc

[cycoextreme]

eh i give it 3 months and that system will be outta date, if he spending that much just get a lower cost system, just look at going one step lower and you will only spend half the money, go for 6970s instead and you will save half the cost, and get a little bit more performance, or just get 1 6990 either way its the same

 

[superstar911]

How about if he uses the sector 5 ive heard alot of great reviews and recommendations on those im putting that in my next computer.

 

[Warmonger]

eh i give it 3 months and that system will be outta date, if he spending that much just get a lower cost system, just look at going one step lower and you will only spend half the money, go for 6950s instead and you will save half the cost, and get a little bit more performance, or just get 1 6990 either way its the same

No sense in blowing an extra $100 for a few more streams.

 

[cycoextreme]

no, i meant 6970s, not 50s, do not correct me

6990
Manufacturer: AMD
Series: Radeon HD 6k
GPU: Antilles x 2
Release Date: 2011-03-08
Interface: PCI-E 2.0 x16
Core Clock: 830 MHz
Shader Clock: 830 MHz
Memory Clock: 2500 MHz (5000 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth: 320 GB/sec
FLOPS: 5099.52 GFLOPS
Pixel Fill Rate: 53120 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 159360 MTexels/sec

DUAL 6970s
Manufacturer: AMD
Series: Radeon HD 6k
GPU: Cayman
Release Date: 2010-12-14
Interface: PCI-E 2.0 x16
Core Clock: 880 MHz
Shader Clock: 880 MHz
Memory Clock: 2750 MHz (5500 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth: 352 GB/sec
FLOPS: 2703.36 GFLOPS
Pixel Fill Rate: 56320 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 168960 MTexels/sec

and even at the most expensive the 6970 only gets to $386.00 a piece, x2 = $763.00 = just less than one card of the 6990, now if he wants to get the 6990 id say get one card now, and then when they make games that it cant handle, get a second 6990 to boost it

 

[Warmonger]

no, i meant 6970s, not 50s, do not correct me




and even at the most expensive the 6970 only gets to $386.00 a piece, x2 = $763.00 = just less than one card of the 6990, now if he wants to get the 6990 id say get one card now, and then when they make games that it cant handle, get a second 6990 to boost it

I will correct you when your blowing extra money for no performance gain. The 6970 is only the 6950 with a few extra streams. If you were smart enough you would of known the 6950 can be unlocked into a 6970 easily. Two 6950's will cost about 1/3 less then two 6970's and you will see no gain in gaming performance vs the dual 6970's. Dual 6950's in CrossfireX is more then enough to run any title maxed out for the next year or so. So why blow the extra money?

 

[cycoextreme]

yea, but then i would reccomend for him to just get ONE 6990 and then just get another when they make games he cant run at max, which i dont see for a while, specially if he gets a good OC on em

 

[Alfons]

He should just go with one 6990, beastly performance as it is already. If he needs more performance in the future he can throw in another one.

 

[themasher]

im going for 3x 1080p at 120hz and want all the eye candy. would 1 6990 really suffice?

 

[Warmonger]

im going for 3x 1080p at 120hz and want all the eye candy. would 1 6990 really suffice?

You should be fine with Eyefinity. A single 6990 is about equal to dual 6970's in Crossfire. Except the 6990 can reap more performance due to overclocking headroom. Buy one see how it works. If it seems to be lacking get another.

 

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[Alfons]

It's Metro, what'd you expect? That game is so poorly optimized tbh.

 

[Sardaukar]

Just buy a MARS RoG, it will trounce that 6990, and you can afford it.

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[Alfons]

Just buy a MARS RoG, it will trounce that 6990, and you can afford it.

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So not worth it. The MARS series is THE most overpriced piece of poop there is to be honest. A normal 590 would be the better option. Where the MARS ROG is about 1200-1300 bucks, the 590 is 700-800. And the MARS ROG is only roughly 15% better. He'd even be better off with two 590's. Costs a little bit more then the MARS ROG but he'll see a much bigger performance increase.

I'd never suggest the MARS cards to anyone. Waaaaaaaay overpriced.

The 6990 is about the same as a 590 performance wise. 6990 scores better in ATI optimized games, and 590 scores better in NVIDIA optimized games. But that's quite obvious.

I'm a NVIDIA guy purely because of the drivers. I used to have a 4870x2 in my rig but that's lying around somewhere in it's box because I went with two 570's. The 4870x2 was a beastly card but back then ATI wasn't really on the ball driver wise. Where NVIDIA would bring out a new driver after a major game release, ATI would always release one driver per month, usually at the end of the month.

It's up to themasher though. If he prefers NVIDIA, go 590. If he prefers ATI, go 6990.

 

[themasher]

lol mars 2 no and 590 def not i dont want my card to burn out on me >.<

 

[Alfons]

lol mars 2 no and 590 def not i dont want my card to burn out on me >.<

That was because of certain drivers failing to kick in the power protection. It only happened with the 267.52 drivers and only when the card was OC'd in most cases. NVIDIA probably already sorted this out on their newer batches of 590's. You'll be absolutely fine if you use the latest drivers.

Also, nvidia surround > eyefinity. Eyefinity requires you to buy converter blocks to be able to hook up your monitors to the card(s), and they're pretty expensive too.

 

[Sardaukar]

AMD sucks all crap hole for multiple monitors. You have to spend abot ~150 on active USB links into the Mini-DP to be able to plug and recognize a monitor as being there.

 

[zaidH1]

Feeling slightly edgey on the PSU... I know it wont power it all lol. Its pretty much impossible. Get a bettet PSU with more Watts. Downsize on the pointless parts 8GB is usually considered slightly excessive in the current climate of gaming so the only real point in this rig is....wait there isn't you're just going to waste a lot of money :/.