5670 --> 6850. what kind of improvement?

[Cantii]

I've got an i7 920 with an HD5850 running at 1920*1080 with MSAA at 8x and even in 25man raids with all the lovely spell effects my pc doesn't have a problem.
HD5850 and 6850 are close in performance so threadstarter should be fine

@ayako :
WoW never strains my cpu...

The 5850 is more powerful than that 6850, considering the 6850 is meant to replace the 5830 (6870 replaces the 5850), so I should hope you can use 8xMSAA with your 5850 and still achieve good framerates, because I can as well with my 6870. 6850 will be a bottleneck at 8xMSAA, unfortunately. 4xMSAA MIGHT be pushing it with the 6850, though I don't know.

When you say that in reality i cant put 8x multisamplimg, could i know why? What would be the bottleneck? My cpu or the 6850?

The 6850 will be your bottleneck at 8x MSAA. You could go for a 6870 or a GTX 460 1GB, both would do 8xMSAA @ 1920x1080 on Ultra w/ "good" or "fair" shadows.

[Moropo]

I don't care for shadows. If I keep shadows on low like they currently are, will I then be able to put 8x AA, because for me AA is more important (I hate the rugged lines) than is having shadows?

Also, the reviews and comparisons I have read, while true that the 5850 and the 460 have an edge on the 6850, the differenceis marginal. Like by at most 5% or something if I remember correctly.

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The 5850 is more powerful than that 6850, considering the 6850 is meant to replace the 5830 (6870 replaces the 5850), so I should hope you can use 8xMSAA with your 5850 and still achieve good framerates, because I can as well with my 6870. 6850 will be a bottleneck at 8xMSAA, unfortunately. 4xMSAA MIGHT be pushing it with the 6850, though I don't know.

I keep forgetting about the number "jump" from 5 to 6 series
Everything maxed out and flying around in uldum lowest fps I got so far was 40 and I guess that's pretty good

As for the cpu strain... vsync off & everything maxed out (they were already) my cpu load per core doesn't go over 25% and core 0 & 1 fluctuate around 5%

Dropping shadow quality to good bumps fps from 40 to 50 so that should help the 6850 too

[Cantii]

I don't care for shadows. If I keep shadows on low like they currently are, will I then be able to put 8x AA, because for me AA is more important (I hate the rugged lines) than is having shadows?

Also, the reviews and comparisons I have read, while true that the 5850 and the 460 have an edge on the 6850, the differenceis marginal. Like by at most 5% or something if I remember correctly.

Not to mention, the 6850 is still $200+, GTX 460 is just now coming down in price, however, compared to those two cards, the 6850 outperforms them both in terms of price/performance ratio. Not to mention, there're deals going on all the time with the 6850. You can get them usually for $159 after mail in rebate, and I believe right now there's a sale going on to get one for like $130.

Here it is: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102908 The deal gets you a $10 newegg gift card, which I'm assuming can be used towards that purchase, on top of the $15 mail-in-rebate, total comes to $133 after all's said and done. You really can't beat that price

Edit: BTW, if no one knows of this website yet, you need to get on it: www.slickdeals.net.

[Moropo]

6850 for $200+?

I bought mine off superbiiz.com for $174 with an instant rebate of $15 leaving it at $159 paid price. Reason i didnt get it at newegg is i never buy anything with mail-in rebates.

[Cantii]

6850 for $200+?

I bought mine off superbiiz.com for $174 with an instant rebate of $15 leaving it at $159 paid price. Reason i didnt get it at newegg is i never buy anything with mail-in rebates.

Errr... I could have sworn I put that the 5850 is still $200.. guess I didn't. I meant the 5850 =V