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    Re: Reviews - Point of View GeForce GTX 260 - everything but the kitchen sink

    Quote Originally Posted by Perfectionist View Post
    the 4870x2 card tops even the GTX 280 from a benchmarking+review I read via google.
    well yes....

    because it is essentially 2 4870's glue together onto the 1 card...

    if you put 2 GTX280's on one card then it would be faster, quieter and cooler...
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    Re: Reviews - Point of View GeForce GTX 260 - everything but the kitchen sink

    Nice review goes to show that the 4870 1gb and gtx260 216core are pritty much neck and neck
    The main difference seems to be nvidia's far better stock cooler

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    Re: Reviews - Point of View GeForce GTX 260 - everything but the kitchen sink

    This is very interesting. It wasn't that long ago where people generally agreed that AMD was the better buy. I am surprised that the table changed (just about) with one refresh.

    I don't think it's just the cooler though. If there was one thing that the 48xx series did worse than the 2xx series, it was the idle power consumption.

    Is there a 48xx refresh on the horizon (I've been totally out of the loop in the past few months)?

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    Re: Reviews - Point of View GeForce GTX 260 - everything but the kitchen sink

    Quote Originally Posted by TooNice View Post
    This is very interesting. It wasn't that long ago where people generally agreed that AMD was the better buy. I am surprised that the table changed (just about) with one refresh.
    i never agree'd, the ATi was only better at certain Res'... the higher res' have fallen in Nvid's favour ever since they drop from the stupid price levels of first release...
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    Re: Reviews - Point of View GeForce GTX 260 - everything but the kitchen sink

    Quote Originally Posted by TooNice View Post
    I don't think it's just the cooler though. If there was one thing that the 48xx series did worse than the 2xx series, it was the idle power consumption.
    Which was shown through it's idle temps. I really wouldn't buy a card that idles 10-12c off it's load temperature.

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    Re: Reviews - Point of View GeForce GTX 260 - everything but the kitchen sink

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    Which was shown through it's idle temps. I really wouldn't buy a card that idles 10-12c off it's load temperature.
    unless the load temp is low
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    Re: Reviews - Point of View GeForce GTX 260 - everything but the kitchen sink

    Quote Originally Posted by TAKTAK View Post
    unless the load temp is low
    Yeap, I wouldn't mind that

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    Re: Reviews - Point of View GeForce GTX 260 - everything but the kitchen sink

    Quote Originally Posted by TAKTAK View Post
    i never agree'd, the ATi was only better at certain Res'... the higher res' have fallen in Nvid's favour ever since they drop from the stupid price levels of first release...
    'Better buy' takes cost into account the cost. I just double checked the figures on Anandtech to make sure that I did not imagine it, and as I remembered, the 4870 was quite consistently faster than the GTX260 up to and including 1900x1200 (hardly a 'low' resolution) and all while being cheaper.

    At 2560x1600 they trade wins, but it's hardly decisive for the, at the time, noticeably more expensive GTX260. I don't think anyone disputed that the GTX280 was overall faster but it was also priced toward a completely different segment (the fact that the 4870 still managed to steal a win here and there was a plus). Unless that review is quite different from every other ones, or nVidia managed to boost the 2xx series's performance considerably via driver updates, I'd say that the praise for the 48xx series was well deserved.
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