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Nvidia 260 vs 4870x2

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I have been using my 260 for awhile, but a friend just replaced his 4870x2 and gave it to me but im a little reluctant to use it. I checked out the benchmarks and its not a huge improvement plus ive heard issues with the 4870x2 that may make it not worth the small improvement. I use 2x22 inch monitors at 1680x1050. I got an intel e6750 dual core 2.66ghz processor overclocked to 3.2ghz with 4 gigs of ram running vista 32bit and windows 7 64 bit beta. What do u guys think i should do? I also heard that the 2 GPUs in the 4870x2 arent able to communicate with each other yet? anyone know about that? and if its true does that mean it could potentially get a lot better than it is now? and also will that be any time soon? thx!

edit: i play world of warcraft windowed maximized mainly as well as other FPS games and mmos


Message edited by arktik on 01-30-2009 at 03:39:15 AM
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ok.... the 4870x2 is definitely better than the 260,, but since your only playing WOW i dnt think it will do anything..... u should switch them just for the hell of it. it will work better, and u can start to play more demanding games.
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Reply to mirob93

well if you want reliability get the gtx 260 since your playing wow....and you can get a second later on and two 260's would kill a 4870x2 in anything

Reply to salabarria

Well, if everything runs great now I wouldn't swap it out. If you do want faster frame rates than you currently get, there's no harm in trying it.

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