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Originally Posted by Xyvik

Which is "Holy Extortion, Batman!" expensive. The 860 is a good card but you've already got everything set up for an AMD build. Your choice.

Just remember that when you want to go 5870 CrossFire, it works significantly better with AMD's own boards ;)


Woo-boy is that 5870 a beautiful piece of machinery! The 5870X2 is supposed to be coming out before year's-end as well. Mmm

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Well I was about to purchase the AMD 790GX mobo but my bro said wait with money a month or two and when I saw the reviews

http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i...r-review-test/

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon...0-review-test/

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon...x-test-review/
I thought "now this is something I will be going for".

I will wait till december since I need to pay for my house a bit more for two or three months

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Originally Posted by Xyvik

Which is "Holy Extortion, Batman!" expensive. The 860 is a good card but you've already got everything set up for an AMD build. Your choice.

Just remember that when you want to go 5870 CrossFire, it works significantly better with AMD's own boards ;)


Woo-boy is that 5870 a beautiful piece of machinery! The 5870X2 is supposed to be coming out before year's-end as well. Mmm

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Ah. Good point. I don't know if I'm going CrossFire though since I think one graphics card is enough for me. I'll have to see how much money I can spend when my money comes in and how much it will cost me for each system respectively.

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Originally Posted by spychi

Well I was about to purchase the AMD 790GX mobo but my bro said wait with money a month or two and when I saw the reviews

http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i...r-review-test/

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon...0-review-test/

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon...x-test-review/
I thought "now this is something I will be going for".

I will wait till december since I need to pay for my house a bit more for two or three months

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I didn't have a lot of time to read it but I did read some of the first two. They are very big articles so I'll have to read them completely, or at least mostly, some other time.

Originally, I wanted an Intel computer because that was what I'm more comfortable with. Then people start telling me AMD is better. I have no idea what to pick and am now stuck between the two of them. I'll have to do research though and that will take a while.

It comes down to personal preference and what you're using it for. Intel's i7s are currently the most powerful processors in the world, but a lot of that power is wasted on games. When it comes to games the i7 only pushed out a little bit more performance and you end up paying a lot of extra money for it.

If, however, you have that money to spend then it's not so much of an issue. I simply recommend AMD because Intel already has enough of a market share, often through illegal means (thank you EU, for helping fix that!). What you end up putting in your machine is really up to you and your budget. If you can afford the i7, and their more expensive motherboards, then by all means go for it. You won't regret it. If, however, you want to save a little money, sacrifice a few frames per second, and go AMD, you won't regret that either.

At the moment, however, there is absolutely no doubt that ATi (owned by AMD) have the best graphics card on the market. The 5870 is a beautiful piece of machinery.

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Originally Posted by Xyvik

It comes down to personal preference and what you're using it for. Intel's i7s are currently the most powerful processors in the world, but a lot of that power is wasted on games. When it comes to games the i7 only pushed out a little bit more performance and you end up paying a lot of extra money for it.

If, however, you have that money to spend then it's not so much of an issue. I simply recommend AMD because Intel already has enough of a market share, often through illegal means (thank you EU, for helping fix that!). What you end up putting in your machine is really up to you and your budget. If you can afford the i7, and their more expensive motherboards, then by all means go for it. You won't regret it. If, however, you want to save a little money, sacrifice a few frames per second, and go AMD, you won't regret that either.

At the moment, however, there is absolutely no doubt that ATi (owned by AMD) have the best graphics card on the market. The 5870 is a beautiful piece of machinery.

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Yeah. I don't mind either one but I am more familiar with the Intel processors. But if the ATI graphics cards are the best in the market, there is a large chance that I would go for one of them. I guess it really depends on how much money I have to spend on a computer but I also have to figure in the cost of a good tablet which will be at least $1500 with tax. If I have the money to afford on an Intel computer I will probably go with that and since I probably will be able to I might go with that. Well, I'll just have to see - my money hasn't come in as of yet.

Quick question: Can you use ATI graphics cards with an Intel computer?

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Originally Posted by Sarov

Yeah. I don't mind either one but I am more familiar with the Intel processors. But if the ATI graphics cards are the best in the market, there is a large chance that I would go for one of them. I guess it really depends on how much money I have to spend on a computer but I also have to figure in the cost of a good tablet which will be at least $1500 with tax. If I have the money to afford on an Intel computer I will probably go with that and since I probably will be able to I might go with that. Well, I'll just have to see - my money hasn't come in as of yet.

Quick question: Can you use ATI graphics cards with an Intel computer?

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Sure can. Wonderful thing about PCs compared to Macs and consoles is that you can mix and match all sorts of things. In my professional experience Intel motherboards don't push ATI graphics cards as fast as ATI's own boards, but it's been awhile since I tried that. All of the recent benchmarks showing the 5870 to be the fastest single-GPU card on the market have been doing so with i7 setups, so you have nothing to worry about.

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Originally Posted by Xyvik

Sure can. Wonderful thing about PCs compared to Macs and consoles is that you can mix and match all sorts of things. In my professional experience Intel motherboards don't push ATI graphics cards as fast as ATI's own boards, but it's been awhile since I tried that. All of the recent benchmarks showing the 5870 to be the fastest single-GPU card on the market have been doing so with i7 setups, so you have nothing to worry about.

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Good. I would have been disappointed if I couldn't. Now that I think of it, I believe my friend actually has an ATI graphics card in his Intel machine. Besides, I don't like Macs. I think they are very overpriced or expensive, take your pick.

Why did you thought that you can't use intel and ATI?
Hell you can make CrosssSLI combos, for example HD 4870 + GTX260 on a mobo that supports crossfire or sli.

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Originally Posted by spychi

Why did you thought that you can't use intel and ATI?
Hell you can make CrosssSLI combos, for example HD 4870 + GTX260 on a mobo that supports crossfire or sli.

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I don't know. I guess it was because I thought that companies might make them exclusively for their own computers. Besides, I had never found an Intel computer that used an ATI graphics card.

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Originally Posted by Sarov

I don't know. I guess it was because I thought that companies might make them exclusively for their own computers. Besides, I had never found an Intel computer that used an ATI graphics card.

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well my rig... Q6600 Intel c2q + HD 4870 1GB

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Originally Posted by spychi

well my rig... Q6600 Intel c2q + HD 4870 1GB

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Ah. Now I see. But I don't recognize video cards by the numbers but rather the names - nVidia etc.