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Just ordered a 6850.

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perrywilloughby

Junior Member
Hello, I just ordered a 6850 xfx video card. Will my cpu be a bottleneck or will it be just about the right combo?

System:
AMD Phenom 2 X4 965 3.4 ghz
16 gb gskill ram
2 tb hitachi drive
cant remember the motherboard asus micro bard.
lite on dvd burner

I want the current build with the xfx card to do ok for modern games?
 
Heck no that CPU is great for you card and will not bottleneck it at all. Also 6850 is a great card please post a full review of it along the lines of what I have done with my thread and Full review and then lets compare the results. GTX 560 ( SE ) Review: Mid Range Maddness
 
Should be fine, and you can always overclock the CPU.

6850 should run high settings in most current games, ultra in older games. The only games where mine really struggles would be Crysis and Skyrim (and with Skyrim I'm pretty sure it's more due to VRAM limitations than anything else).
 
I bought XFX for the warranty. I hope the card lasts me a long time. I have been wanting a good card. I haven't really bought any recent games because I didn't have a video card to play games. So now hopefully i can buy any game I want and not worry about not being able to play it.
 
T_Yamamoto said:
Custoner Reviews don't mean anything.
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As a whole, I think they have value.

But, if you look at that link you see a guy who had FIVE cards fail in a row. The odds of that happening have to be pretty astronomical. A good guess is that he or his system is the cause but he'll spout off in every forum/review that the manufacturer is garbage.

Largely though, a pattern of reviews does mean something.
 
WiseUp216 said:
As a whole, I think they have value.

But, if you look at that link you see a guy who had FIVE cards fail in a row. The odds of that happening have to be pretty astronomical. A good guess is that he or his system is the cause but he'll spout off in every forum/review that the manufacturer is garbage.

Largely though, a pattern of reviews does mean something.
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But Powercolor is junk
 
hyrule4927 said:
Should be fine, and you can always overclock the CPU.

6850 should run high settings in most current games, ultra in older games. The only games where mine really struggles would be Crysis and Skyrim (and with Skyrim I'm pretty sure it's more due to VRAM limitations than anything else).
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See one troll was trying to tell me that I should have bought a 6850 but in Skyrim my 560 SE has flawless performance after Bethesda patched up the game and the Nvidia 301.42 increase performance in Skyrim by 25%. In comparison my old GTX 275 choked in skyrim with 24fps in Riften for example but that was without the GTX 5xx series exclusive latest skyrim optimized drivers and the latest patched from Bethesda. Could you take the time to do a review on your 6850 please ?
 
Gordon Freemen said:
See one troll was trying to tell me that I should have bought a 6850 but in Skyrim my 560 SE has flawless performance after Bethesda patched up the game and the Nvidia 301.42 increase performance in Skyrim by 25%. In comparison my old GTX 275 choked in skyrim with 24fps in Riften for example but that was without the GTX 5xx series exclusive latest skyrim optimized drivers and the latest patched from Bethesda. Could you take the time to do a review on your 6850 please ?
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Haha, yeah. I've got finals this week, so I can't do a review in the immediate future, but I'll see if I can crank one out once summer break starts. Also, I play at 1920X1080, but I could get results at 1680x1050 as well if you want something directly comparable to yours. Only other complication would be that I'm running Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which might affect performance compared to what I'd get with Windows 7 (also makes it hard to use Afterburner's in-game hardware monitoring at times).
 
Gordon Freemen said:
See one troll was trying to tell me that I should have bought a 6850 but in Skyrim my 560 SE has flawless performance after Bethesda patched up the game and the Nvidia 301.42 increase performance in Skyrim by 25%. In comparison my old GTX 275 choked in skyrim with 24fps in Riften for example but that was without the GTX 5xx series exclusive latest skyrim optimized drivers and the latest patched from Bethesda. Could you take the time to do a review on your 6850 please ?
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You really should quote posts when you label people as trolls. I know I asked why someone wouldn't just buy a 6850. I sure wasn't trolling. The 6850 would be a faster card for about the same price. Unless simply disagreeing with you makes someone a troll?
 
perrywilloughby said:
I bought XFX for the warranty. I hope the card lasts me a long time. I have been wanting a good card. I haven't really bought any recent games because I didn't have a video card to play games. So now hopefully i can buy any game I want and not worry about not being able to play it.
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Make sure you register it, xfx doesnt do lifetime warranties anymore without it. I have a single fan xfx 6870 and coupled with my core i5 and 8 gigs of ram it is an admirable performer considering the price was only 159$ w/free shipping. But I do find that the xfx cooling solution on mine at least is not adequate and needs to run at 100% fan speeds to keep it at 85c, since summer has arrived here I have resorted to taking the side off my case and bought a 7 inch desk fan to blow air directly into it, stays cool now but not an ideal situation to say the least.
 
hyrule4927 said:
Haha, yeah. I've got finals this week, so I can't do a review in the immediate future, but I'll see if I can crank one out once summer break starts. Also, I play at 1920X1080, but I could get results at 1680x1050 as well if you want something directly comparable to yours. Only other complication would be that I'm running Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which might affect performance compared to what I'd get with Windows 7 (also makes it hard to use Afterburner's in-game hardware monitoring at times).
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Thanx man and I think really that Windows 8 would make the results somewhat tainted if you were to do a review unless is was a Windows 8 performance review or something along those lines.
 
3DVagabond said:
You really should quote posts when you label people as trolls. I know I asked why someone wouldn't just buy a 6850. I sure wasn't trolling. The 6850 would be a faster card for about the same price. Unless simply disagreeing with you makes someone a troll?
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Well in Skyrim the 6850 most defiantly is not as fast as the GTX 560 SE and really it would be on a per game bases where thy would trade blows in reality coming out right about even.
 
Rambusted said:
Make sure you register it, xfx doesnt do lifetime warranties anymore without it. I have a single fan xfx 6870 and coupled with my core i5 and 8 gigs of ram it is an admirable performer considering the price was only 159$ w/free shipping. But I do find that the xfx cooling solution on mine at least is not adequate and needs to run at 100% fan speeds to keep it at 85c, since summer has arrived here I have resorted to taking the side off my case and bought a 7 inch desk fan to blow air directly into it, stays cool now but not an ideal situation to say the least.
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That's real jankey and kinda of part of the reason I went with EVGA this time. In short the 6870 is a good card with what seems to be caveats but when i bought mine I had all the best intentions for it in the world to bad it was a dud.
 
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