$150 for 6870 or wait?

[LagunaX]

If you are running less than 1920 x 1200 or 1920 x 1080 (smaller than a 23" or 24" monitor) then you are fine.

Prices will go down though in a month or two as more 7 series cards are released.

But there is no better or cheaper card for the money if you can buy it new for $150.

Good luck on getting that rebate - my luck in the past I'd say 50/50...

 

[kluu]

If you are running less than 1920 x 1200 or 1920 x 1080 (smaller than a 23" or 24" monitor) then you are fine.

Prices will go down though in a month or two as more 7 series cards are released.

But there is no better or cheaper card for the money if you can buy it new for $150.

Good luck on getting that rebate - my luck in the past I'd say 50/50...

Yeah I'm on 1920 x 1020 and a 24" acer

I'm not sure if this is the video cards problem but... theres a transparent green box that covers mostly the center of the screen in some movies I have on my computer. Its strange because this green transparent box never was there before

on this GPU gadget I have, shows im idling at 39c which seems really cool.

I've also noticed a bit of delay/lag when opening games, takes about 2-3s for things to start opening up. Again not sure if this is the card..

Ahhh this is difficult. I read and hear alot of DOA and artifacts and such...so just a bit worried

 

[LagunaX]

Make sure you uninstall any old drivers especially nvidia and then uninstall the current driver.
Grab the latest driver from AMD and reinstall.

If you are on a 32 bit OS, then going from a 512mb gpu to a 1gb gpu could really eat into your usable system ram especially if you are running 2 or 3 gb. Even with 4gb your available usable system ram would be 3.25gb minus the 1gb from the gpu so in effect 2.25gb on a 32 bit OS. 2gb with 3gb and 1gb with 2gb which could explain any lag.

However, artifacting could be a bad gpu or inadequate power supply to the gpu.

If you have a buddy, have him/her try your card in their rig (easy if they already have a similar AMD card - drivers should be fine) and see if it has any problems.

Then you'll figure it out pretty quickly.

 

[kluu]

Make sure you uninstall any old drivers especially nvidia and then uninstall the current driver.
Grab the latest driver from AMD and reinstall.

If you are on a 32 bit OS, then going from a 512mb gpu to a 1gb gpu could really eat into your usable system ram especially if you are running 2 or 3 gb. Even with 4gb your available usable system ram would be 3.25gb minus the 1gb from the gpu so in effect 2.25gb on a 32 bit OS. 2gb with 3gb and 1gb with 2gb which could explain any lag.

However, artifacting could be a bad gpu or inadequate power supply to the gpu.

If you have a buddy, have him/her try your card in their rig (easy if they already have a similar AMD card - drivers should be fine) and see if it has any problems.

Then you'll figure it out pretty quickly.

Definitely gonna try it out on a buddys computer just for assurance.

I'm on 64bit windows 7 with 6gigs of...800mhz ram? or pc 6400? i think its a bit outdated but not sure of the degree of outdatedness haha.

with a q6600 on top of that, which is probably also outdated. a p5k-e motherboard which is...outdated.

but gotta live with what i got!

 

[LagunaX]

Download the latest AMD driver for win 7 x64 for your card.
Download this: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/Driver-Cleaner.shtml
Clean out all the Nvidia AND Ati/Amd drivers.
Reboot into low res windows.
Reinstall the newest driver you downloaded earlier.

If that doesn't work then it sounds like it is your card.

 

[kluu]

BTw, I have to thank all you guys that helped me. A friend recommended me Anandtech for tech news and forum and I have a great impression so far. (I've had less success receiving help over at Toms Hardware)

Again, thanks alot

 

[LagunaX]

Welcome to the forums!

 

[Dark Shroud]

@Keys

thats one of the 560ti with only 384 cores though... isnt the one in that slide above one of the 448 ones? >_>

why does nvidia release 2 cards with same name, with differnt amount of shaders? confuseing.

The 448 cores where around 280$ on newegg (when I looked).... the 384 core version alot lower yes.

Found some cheaper 448 core version though:
EVGA 012-P3-2066-KR GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 448 Cores FTW ~260$ seem like a good deal.

The 560 TI 448 core card is using faulty 570 chips. Nvidia collected enough of them cut them down to 448 cores and released them as a special limited run GTX 560 TI instead of a GTX 565.

Because remember the GTX 465 was junk unless you could unlock it into a GTX 470.