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5850 or 5870?
- Thread starter reborn20
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Well what are the rest of your specs? There's no point in going for a 5870 unless you have a beefy CPU to back it up. Same applies to the 5850. If you have a dual core at something like 2.6GHz there's no point.
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Your best bet might be to just get a 5850. The 5870 will be about $100 more and if you aren't running above 1920 x 1080 resolution then you're wasting your money. XFX and Sapphire are two popular brands worth getting but make sure it's a reference card if you want to overclock it.
Thats completely false.If you choose 5870,the Asus 5870 matrix 2gb or Sapphire 5870 vapor X 2gb are best of the lot,that extra 1gb vram will come as extra GPU OC headroom
Extra Vram will not give you anymore overclocking headroom. Also, 1GB at 1680x1050 is PLENTY of vram, and even at 1920x1080 it is. Those 2GB cards are for eyefinity/multi monitor setups.
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For that resolution, the HD5850 will be plenty! It should even handle the 1920x1080 resolution fairly well on the vast majority of games. Unless you need crazy amounts of AA or anything, the 5850 will save you money too. Brand isn't as important, aftermarket coolers may help if you plan on overclocking. As long as the warranty is a couple of years or more then go for it, I doubt in 2 years you will have the card still if you're anything like me 
For that resolution, the HD5850 will be plenty! It should even handle the 1920x1080 resolution fairly well on the vast majority of games. Unless you need crazy amounts of AA or anything, the 5850 will save you money too. Brand isn't as important, aftermarket coolers may help if you plan on overclocking. As long as the warranty is a couple of years or more then go for it, I doubt in 2 years you will have the card still if you're anything like me
Agree ^ . The newer 5850's with the egg style coolers run quite cool and are pretty quiet if that is a concern.
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I would go with XFX and the 5850 for that resolution.
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Love my Sapphire HD 5850!!! Works great
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I would say ASUS Radeon 5850. You can clock it easy up to 5870
I got mine abit higher and it has a good temperature
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=ErDGsClHFAjcxY55&templete=2
And it gives you a really nice overclocking tool called SmartDoctor Designed to 5850
