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ATI vs nVidia !! Need some advice PLZ !!

Post Date: 2008-07-27
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    Posted: 27 Jul 2008 at 2:18am
I was looking at some laptops and there two graphic cards i was looking and im not realy a pro at this so i was wondering if you guys could help me out figure witch one is the best.Thx alot. i dont know if this can help but im going to play mostly games on it.

2x crossfire dual (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 512Mb)

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SLI ENABLED DUAL(2) 512MB PCI-Express nVidia Geforce 9800gt

thx. Big%20smile
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Isn't there a large price disparity between these choices? The Geforce 9800gt SLI should provide better performance. I don't know enough about laptops to be certain. 
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Originally posted by harleyman

SLI ENABLED DUAL(2) 512MB PCI-Express nVidia Geforce 9800gt
That would be my guess....
 
 
Guess being the key work here........I really am in the dark about ATI...
 
But I wouldn't think you could go wrong with that Nvidia set up.....Smile


Basically, in the past, ATI has focused more on providing picture quality over performance as well as giving the consumer the most for their money. They've been willing to take performance hits in order to get better color and shading. What this means is, if you can find an ATI that performs close to an nVidia, it will look better to the eye. At least marginally so. With movies and photography, the difference can be more noticeable.
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Thx alot, i knew that the sli would do realy well but i dint know alot about ATI so i was wondering .. But should it be able to run games like crysis and every thing on high ( or course considering that all the others pieces could) ?
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From experiencing from both not exactly from my compy  because i dont have it yet lol, but just from friends laptops and PC's. If i were you i would go with the Nvidia because i know they deliver
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Originally posted by Brx

Thx alot, i knew that the sli would do realy well but i dint know alot about ATI so i was wondering .. But should it be able to run games like crysis and every thing on high ( or course considering that all the others pieces could) ?
 
Depends, IMHO, id just ditch the laptop scene and go desktop. You wont be able to get much time or kick out of your laptop for gaming because of heat issues.  But for about 2 hours or so i think you should be fine playing crysis on probably high settings depending on your CPU.
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Yea Levi has a point i was going mention that his best bet was going desktop but other ppl have other point of views so i figured i would honor that and just give him my opinion on what i knew
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any word on what dso will charge for the ati 4870X2?
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Great, but nowhere near the performance of a 4870X2 lol....Your graphic card is old!!!!!!
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I mean the 4870X2...two 4870s on one card coming out next month...I doubt it will go for 300. I hope I am wrong. Apparently it competes with the gtx 280 on crysis, beats it on everything else and runs cooler.
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