2010-09-15, 05:58 PM
Ati 4870 is not old
It performs much better than its rival the 5770 which costs a bit more... I have the 4870 as of now and it runs great no worries. But for bang for buck its Ati and their respin should be out faster then nvidia respin..
FYI GTX 460 470 480 suck a lot more power just like the 280s. The only point when gtx 280s were good was when they were respin into 285s which fixed the power management and boosted performance..
Since the nvidia cards are generally new and Ati had the 5xxx series out for a year already expect a respin for them to out perform these cards..
Watercooling is not a fail but for budget builds like yours it costs 300 dollars alone for the basic stuff so better to put some awesome fans on a nice tower cooler.
Post more info later...
It performs much better than its rival the 5770 which costs a bit more... I have the 4870 as of now and it runs great no worries. But for bang for buck its Ati and their respin should be out faster then nvidia respin..
FYI GTX 460 470 480 suck a lot more power just like the 280s. The only point when gtx 280s were good was when they were respin into 285s which fixed the power management and boosted performance..
Since the nvidia cards are generally new and Ati had the 5xxx series out for a year already expect a respin for them to out perform these cards..
Watercooling is not a fail but for budget builds like yours it costs 300 dollars alone for the basic stuff so better to put some awesome fans on a nice tower cooler.
Post more info later...