What do you mean, more than enough for any game at 1920x1200? I'm not going to be just sitting around and playing last years games or anything, for stuff that is out now and stuff coming out soon, the 5850 isn't always enough, and the difference between it and the 2 4890s going off of that benchmark (I won't say the 4890 is at a disadvantage just because maybe the 58xx series is disadvantaged due to early drivers as well) are 37% for Crysis, 49% for STALKER and a whopping 70% in World In Conflict, and in none of them does the 5850 pull 60FPS or more.
I mean I don't know, purely based on power, the 4890 CF beats the 5850 by quite a bit, and unless there's some crazy twist of events in the future, they're going to beat them in more games that come out that can push hardware.
As far as people not wanting them, they go for $150 each on ebay these days, how far could prices really drop?
On the other hand, I guess you have a point, in most games it won't matter, and with new drivers that put more life into the 58xx series along with the ability to overclock the 5850, I could probably push for decent FPS in even the crazier games.
I guess a 5850 is a better option than a 5870, right? I believe I had this discussion in a thread I made a while ago, where it showed that a 5850 is a better deal because when they're both overclocked, the gap in performance is smaller.
How about this for justification? I can probably safely overclock the 5850s to higher than I can overclock the 4890s due to less heat and power usage, right?
And the 5870 costs too much for the smaller performance increase, I'd be paying 30% more for 10%-15% more power.
Damn, and I was so happy with 2 cards and all that and excited I finally came to a conclusion in my search. Well I suppose I am now as well.
How's Sapphire? 5870 is from XFX with lifetime warranty but Sapphire only gives out 2 years for the 5850, but oh well, that's not too bad.