ravemtech Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 Hi Guys I am building my new system for FSX and have ordered the GTX 285 1GB. However the Company I am buying from have suggested a Radeon HD5850 as being the better card and offering it for the same price. Any suggestions mostly appreciated. Anthony Rest of the system is: Intel Core i7 - 930 Quad-Core 2.8GHz 8MB Cache 4.8GT/s QPI overclocked to 4GHz (I hope) Intel X58 Express Chipset Mainboard - 3 x PCI-E 16x Slots 700 Watt SLI & Crossfire Certified Power Supply Thermalright ULTRA-120 eXtreme with 120mm Fan 6GB High Performance Low-Latency DDR3-1600MHz RAM 24X Dual Layer DVD Burner Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Matrox TripleHead2Go TrackIR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZ255 Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 Most people here (including JV, and others) praise the GTX 285....so I'd go with that. Other games....I'm not sure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 I have a 480GTX now, but the 285GTX is definitely the better choice versus the 5850. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravemtech Posted April 30, 2010 Author Share Posted April 30, 2010 Thanks guys. Descision made GTX 285 it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricclar Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Hey John How do you find the GTX 485 to the 285? Is it worth the upgrade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion Pilot Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 but the 285GTX is definitely the better choice versus the 5850. Curiosity has got the better of me......as I am in the process of building a similar system to ravemtech, and I have been told that the 5850 is on even par if not slightly better than the GTX285. So now I am completely confused!!! .....and I have also been advised (although not correctly I guess??) that GTX285's are hard to come buy now? Look I am a total novice when it come's to computers, but I am trying to learn - this is why I am building a system from the ground up - I know that there are people who swear by Nvida - and others who do the same by ATI - would it just boil down to a matter of choice? ...and are most of the components that make the card up the same? \ I would value anyone's input here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan Sandri Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 ATI's cards dont respond to AA as well as nvidida cards do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynchee Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Anthony, I don't know how far your budget goes but if you can spend the extra on the GTX 480 do so. I'm absolutely gob smacked with the performance increase . I had the GTX 275 because when I built my rig in November I couldn't buy a GTX285. I knew the 480 was commin out early this year so decided to wait. I can't comment on the 285 but the 480 is at least twice the card the 275 was and it was no slouch. 32x AA is unbelievable. Hope this info helps. Lynchie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravemtech Posted May 1, 2010 Author Share Posted May 1, 2010 Final desicion - spent the extra $310 and brought a GTX 480 Ravemtech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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