ATI HD 5770 vs. GeForce GTX 260
By
Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2009-11-30 14:49 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
I now have the Radeon HD 5770 on my system. Ended up paying $270 for it.
The card is 21cm, 8.25" deep. I had space on my case for a "brick" card, but I don't like how they look, so I'm happy about the size of this card.
It has a humongous fan, it's the bottom one in this picture:
I can't find the temperature sensor in the ATI control center though, and SpeedFan isn't displaying it for some reason. Little help figuring this out? I want to know how hot it runs.
Water effects in COH don't work, neither does FSAA. But I knew that would be a headache already. FSAA doesn't seem to work even enabling it from the Catalyst Control Center.
It's quieter than the 9800 GT was. Definitely much quieter than the GTX 260 I heard.
More on my experience with the card as I play with it.
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Did you get any software from XFX for overclocking/monitoring? It would probably be easier to find a temperature measurement in that.|
Originally Posted by Leandro
I can't find the temperature sensor in the ATI control center though, and SpeedFan isn't displaying it for some reason. Little help figuring this out? I want to know how hot it runs.
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(Oh and good choice on the card. That's supposed to be the quieter version, but trades off with dumping the air into your case rather than venting it out the back. I presume you have decent exhaust fans nearby.)
Ah ha, never mind, I found it. It's in the "ATI Overdrive" tab of the Catalyst Control Panel, where the overclocking settings are. I hadn't even looked at the CD that came with the card, I just installed the drivers from the website.
My case has an adequate fan in the back but no fan in the side panel. It has the space to put one on, but I didn't feel it was necessary so far.
The 5770 is sitting at 37°C idle. Running around in COH it doesn't seem to even reach 60°C, which is great. I'll have to find something to really stress the board with, but COH is 80% of my gaming, so if it runs at 60°C, I'm more than happy.
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How's the subjective noise level for you?
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Originally Posted by Leandro
The 5770 is sitting at 37°C idle. Running around in COH it doesn't seem to even reach 60°C, which is great. I'll have to find something to really stress the board with, but COH is 80% of my gaming, so if it runs at 60°C, I'm more than happy.
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It's quiet. If I concentrate on hearing it, I can hear the new fan; but during the weeks I had the 9800 GTs, I could hear the fan on that card spin up and make a whole lot of noise. Not this card; it makes about as much noise as a harddisk spinning.|
Originally Posted by Human_Being
How's the subjective noise level for you?
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The "low" temperature in COH may be caused by vsync being enabled; I don't like the occasional "tearing", so I enable vsync and my fps are capped to 60, which probably doesn't let the card get enough load to really get hot. But the NVIDIA jumped to 80°C under the same conditions.
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FSAA is disabled with Depth of Field Effects and Water Effects.| Water effects in COH don't work, neither does FSAA. But I knew that would be a headache already. FSAA doesn't seem to work even enabling it from the Catalyst Control Center. |
ShadowNate commented that these problems have been fixed on one of the development branches in post #14 of this thread : http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...3&postcount=14
When these changes will be pushed, nobody knows.
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Even with DOF and WE disabled, I still can't get FSAA to work. Either by selecting it ingame, or by leaving it disabled ingame and setting it from the CCC, the pixels remain as blocky as ever.
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Originally Posted by je_saist
FSAA is disabled with Depth of Field Effects and Water Effects.
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The HD 5970 is HUGE, topping out at 12.1" in length and that's still isn't the max length for the ATX standard.
It's just that most case manufacturers acknowledge the fact that cards of such length are rare. In the case (no pun intended) of long, very high end videocards the assumption is that if you can afford that, you can afford a large gamer case to install it in.
Considering the computer I upgraded from had a 5700 GT in it... that 260 GTX was massive. >_<
Its all about perspective.
But I always tell people about the size when I recommend it because sometimes it not even just the case as an issue. Sometimes there are things on the mobo that make the size a issue.
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