A8-3850 Power a HD 5970?

[jacktesterson]

Well, can it?

 

[gmaster456]

It will hold up fine for most games. But you'll definitely see a lot more performance if you upgraded.

 

[happy medium]

It will push 1 of the 2 gpu's @ 1366x768. I would just turn crossfire off and save power.

 

[jacktesterson]

It will push 1 of the 2 gpu's @ 1366x768. I would just turn crossfire off and save power.

Meh

I will upgrade CPU/Motherboard in 2012 and probably upgrade to a 1080p 60" Plus TV... so I'll keep the 5970 for then and might even pick up a 5870 to throw in with it.

I'm not too concerned about power difference

I love big screen gaming

 

[happy medium]

Meh

I will upgrade CPU/Motherboard in 2012 and probably upgrade to a 1080p 60" Plus TV... so I'll keep the 5970 for then and might even pick up a 5870 to throw in with it.

I'm not too concerned about power difference

I love big screen gaming

BY then 1080p games will use more memory than your cards have ,and they will still run crappy unless you turn down the settings.
A 5970 and a 5870 in tri -fire are memory limited now and it will get worse.

Unless you got a 4gb 5970 and a 2gb 5870? Now that would be much better.:thumbsup:

 

[jacktesterson]

thanks for the info.

I'm not a hardcore gamer so the 1GB VRAM per GPU is totally fine.

I don't have money for any other upgrades for a while, so I'll leave the A8 and 5970 together. From what I've read, it seems to perform similar to a 1055T in Games (Stock)

 

[Arkadrel]

Some differnt CPUs + 6970.

You overclock that bad boy up to around 3.5ghz or so and it shouldnt be so bad. I mean you can still game on it, basically around Phenom 965 stock levels.

You overclock it, and I think you ll run most modern day games at 1920x resolution np.

 

[toyota]

Some differnt CPUs + 6970.

http://cdn5.tweaktown.com/content/4/1/4171_40_amd_a8_3850_llano_apu_and_a55_a75_chipset_review.png




You overclock that bad boy up to around 3.5ghz or so and it shouldnt be so bad. I mean you can still game on it, basically around Phenom 965 stock levels.

You overclock it, and I think you ll run most modern day games at 1920x resolution np.

I do not see how a 6970 is comparable to a 5970 at all. the 5970 is much faster and has two gpus to do deal with.

 

[jacktesterson]

My Biostar board's bios is terrible.

Its the most recent version too. I doubt I'm going to get much of an O/C out of this or else I would be all over it.

Its really flaky.

 

[Stuka87]

Most all new games perform the same provided you have a decently clocked quad core. CPU's are getting fast enough to not be the bottleneck. Almost all games are GPU bound. I think you will be fine.

Bummer you cant OC, as those chips do pretty well.

 

[RavenSEAL]

You'll be fine, just make sure you got the power necessary to run that baby.

inb4buy2500k bandwagon.

 

[sandorski]

Some differnt CPUs + 6970.

You overclock that bad boy up to around 3.5ghz or so and it shouldnt be so bad. I mean you can still game on it, basically around Phenom 965 stock levels.

You overclock it, and I think you ll run most modern day games at 1920x resolution np.

Looks to me that OCing doesn't have much affect.

 

[jacktesterson]

You'll be fine, just make sure you got the power necessary to run that baby.

inb4buy2500k bandwagon.

I'm thinking my Seasonic X660 will be fine with this setup...

 

[jacktesterson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQpfgiQd7WU&feature=youtube_gdata_player


6990 with A8 vs 6990 with 1100T

Just found on NCIX

Within 5-10% in 4 games, within 25% in 2 games.

Not bad.

 

[jacktesterson]

I caved in and bought a 2500k and Cheapest P67 board I could find.

I've used that board on other builds before for people and have hit 4.4-4.5 with it stable. Not bad for $85.00.

 

[Stuka87]

The question is, why? As far as gaming goes, you won't gain much. Unless you do video encoding and such, or you plan on an SLI/CF setup.

$85 is a nice price on the board, what did you pay for the CPU?

 

[Rhezuss]

You'll be fine, just make sure you got the power necessary to run that baby.

I'm with Raven on this one. You'll be fine for mostly everything you'll throw at it.

 

[Wuzup101]

The question is, why? As far as gaming goes, you won't gain much. Unless you do video encoding and such, or you plan on an SLI/CF setup.

$85 is a nice price on the board, what did you pay for the CPU?

5970 is Xfire (it's a pair of 5870 GPUs on a single card). He also mentioned possibly going tri-fire in the future (for what it's worth).

 

[hans030390]

Really depends on what you're playing. Most games will run great with it, especially if you can overclock it. Maybe not the absolutely highest settings in some games, but definitely very nice.

Some games are very CPU intensive, or heavily favor a particular brand or type of CPU over another. For example, the new SB i5/i7s are much better than even a highly clocked Phenom II X6 on Skyrim. I've seen both in person. Skyrim is noticeably more fluent on the new 2500k (stock clocks) vs a highly clocked Phenom II X6 (I don't remember the specifics). The GPUs in both computers themselves could pretty easily handle high or ultra settings (5970 should have no problem at all), and it was amazing how much smoother the 2500k was at all times. The graphics were even set higher on the 2500k machine. Of course, I've heard this is because Skyrim does a lot of the shadow work with the CPU. Still, there are times in which, yes, your AMD CPU will be a problem. But apparently you just upgraded! I think it will be worth it overall and in the long run.

 

[Arkadrel]

@Hans030390

thats true, skyrim only uses 2 cpu threads, so the 2500k > Phenom II x 6, by alot in that game due to IPC of each core. Because the game engine is really old, and cant make use of more threads in a cpu.

However skyrim isnt really that demanding a game, unless you start modding .ini files to have insanely far sight ect. Also its not a game that needs to have 60fps to be a enjoyable experiance (like a fast paced first person shooter does).

Id bet if he stays to like 1920x resolution, high settings, there would be like no noticeble (with naked eye) differnce between a A8-3850 and a 2500k, dureing gameplay.

 

[jacktesterson]

Yeah I picked up a dirt cheap cyber monday Board and a 2500k. Its a 16x-4x board but thats fine for now.

Temptations...

 

[jacktesterson]

Let this thread die

Its not valid anymore. I purchased a Used GTX 580 off Kijiji (Like Craigslist in Canada) for $260.00 from somebody who obviously needed the money (they were selling a long ass list of everything in there house)

I'm going to sell the 5970 or Return it.

If somebody wants the card let me know, I'll sell it for exactly what I paid for it with Tax/Shipping ($340 Canadian)

 

[skipsneeky2]

Let this thread die

Its not valid anymore. I purchased a Used GTX 580 off Kijiji (Like Craigslist in Canada) for $260.00 from somebody who obviously needed the money (they were selling a long ass list of everything in there house)

I'm going to sell the 5970 or Return it.

If somebody wants the card let me know, I'll sell it for exactly what I paid for it with Tax/Shipping ($340 Canadian)

Got rid of a gtx580 earlier this year myself after i lost interest in gaming.

Found it to be a bit overkill for BC2 and i figured BF3 wouldn't be that more demanding this was like in june of this year lol.

Boy i was wrong and was the stupidest thing iv'e done all year .

 

[sandorski]

Offtopic: Why the hell did you screw up this thread then start a new one? People may have been following this discussion or may one day have the same situation.

/slightly annoyed when people do this

 

[jacktesterson]

Offtopic: Why the hell did you screw up this thread then start a new one? People may have been following this discussion or may one day have the same situation.

/slightly annoyed when people do this

fixed. quit whining

Other thread is different topic too