Choosing between these three

[wanderson95]

Just about to purchase my 2 new Corsair Force SSDs for RAID0 on an AMD Phenom x4 9850 OC'd to 3.0 GHz currently using a ATI 5670 and am wondering what you guys think, should I crossfire the 5670 with a new 5830 here, or switch over to this nVidia card. All benches point to the nVidia just barely outpushing the ATI but I'm just interested if anyone has any personal experience/input.

Thanks in advance,
wanderson95

Oh and BTW, my 28" monitor runs at 1920x1200, so preferably which one could do non-intensive gaming at that res + be better for hardware accelerated Premiere Pro/After Effects.

 

[mactronix]

Just about to purchase my 2 new Corsair Force SSDs for RAID0 on an AMD Phenom x4 9600 OC'd to 3.1 GHz currently using a ATI 5670 and am wondering what you guys think, should I crossfire the 5670 with a new 5830 here, or switch over to this nVidia card. All benches point to the nVidia just barely outpushing the ATI but I'm just interested if anyone has any personal experience/input.

Thanks in advance,
wanderson95

Oh and BTW, my 28" monitor runs at 1920x1200, so preferably which one could do non-intensive gaming at that res + be better for hardware accelerated Premiere Pro/After Effects.

Hi wanderson95, welcome to the forums.
First off you cant Crossfire a 5670 with a 5830, the first and second numbers need to match. So a 58xx with any other 58xx or 56xx with anyother 56xx.

The 460 will be a night and day differance from your 5670 in games but i couldnt say about the hardware accelerated Premiere Pro/After Effects, as i have no experiance with it.

Mactronix

 

[Gamer-girl]

I would recommend this card it is factory overclocked and has a better cooler
I don't really know about Premiere Pro/After Effects either but if it benefits from CUDA then more reason to go with nvidia.

I have the 5830 that I brought before the GTX 460 came out, but I would have gotten the 460 if the ATI card didn't come with modern warfare 2.

The 460 is more power efficient too.

 

[yesitsmario]

here's a 5850 for $170

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131386&cm_re=hd_5850-_-14-131-386-_-Product

 

[wanderson95]

Hi wanderson95, welcome to the forums.
First off you cant Crossfire a 5670 with a 5830, the first and second numbers need to match. So a 58xx with any other 58xx or 56xx with anyother 56xx.

The 460 will be a night and day differance from your 5670 in games but i couldnt say about the hardware accelerated Premiere Pro/After Effects, as i have no experiance with it.

Mactronix

Thanks Mactronix,
Didn't know about the Crossfire specs (I guess they've changed since back in the 3000 series when I last crossfired haha). Anyways I was looking around some more and came across this which I think may also very well be my card as I would have way more than enough airflow onto the card to OC the hell out of it. I don't know, I'll come to a decision some time within this week and post back with how it ended up going.

 

[wanderson95]

I would recommend this card it is factory overclocked and has a better cooler
I don't really know about Premiere Pro/After Effects either but if it benefits from CUDA then more reason to go with nvidia.

I have the 5830 that I brought before the GTX 460 came out, but I would have gotten the 460 if the ATI card didn't come with modern warfare 2.

The 460 is more power efficient too.

I'll definitely look into it, thank you.

 

[wanderson95]

here's a 5850 for $170

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131386&cm_re=hd_5850-_-14-131-386-_-Product

Just a litttttttle bit out of my price range, if it happens to come up with a rebate this week/drop a little bit I just may.

 

[4745454b]

You couldn't crossfire a 2600XT with a 2900pro back then either. Double check that those SSDs work well in AID0. You usually lose TRIM support in RAID, which will slow down the drives. And how in the hell did you get a first gen phenom up over 3GHz?

 

[okini55]

you cant xfire two completely diffrent cards mate. You can Xfire 2 HD 5670 though but id go for a single HD 5830 instead if I were you. However if you want way better performance for pretty much the same price go for the GTX 460.

 

[wanderson95]

You couldn't crossfire a 2600XT with a 2900pro back then either. Double check that those SSDs work well in AID0. You usually lose TRIM support in RAID, which will slow down the drives. And how in the hell did you get a first gen phenom up over 3GHz?

I was referring back to when I crossfired the integrated HD3300 with a 3870, which worked. Overclocked my AMD Phenom 9850 BE (stock 2.5) with a slightly shaved back Thor's Hammer to make it fit, great for heat dissipation. Yeah, I have a friend who is using my same config on SSDs who reports 500 mb/s read and write in ATTO after he put them in RAID (Gotta love those Sandforce controllers).

 

[ghnader hsmithot]

You couldn't crossfire a 2600XT with a 2900pro back then either. Double check that those SSDs work well in AID0. You usually lose TRIM support in RAID, which will slow down the drives. And how in the hell did you get a first gen phenom up over 3GHz?

If i remember there should have been some exceptions to crossfiring.Such that a chip would have the same basic design but different numbering.

 

[4745454b]

You can't CF a 3300 and 38xx either. Like Malmental my BS detector is starting to go off hard.

Not wishing to start anything yet, If the GTX460 is in your price range then get it.

 

[wanderson95]

You guys were right, my graphics card was a 3450 with the 3300 running in hybrid-crossfire. Anyways you can Google potential overclocks on a 9850 (guys have hit 3.7!), I'll post a screenshot once I'm back home from my in-laws.

PS, back on the topic that started this thread, I shelled out the extra money for a 1GB 460

 

[4745454b]

Good choice, good card.

2.8-3.0 was pretty much the max for the first phenom on air. If you or anyone else got it above 3.0 you were pretty lucky.