Just make sure your power supply is good enough, I would recommend at least a 600w power supply (the card requires at least a 500w). This gives room for additions/upgrades as well as capacitor age.
Yeah it will run games fine, I do see an upcoming issue with anti-aliasing... but AMD's new anti-aliasing technology does basically "double video ram" per-say. That is what it is fore pretty much, that and textures. But no game is expected to go beyond that. But if you play in high res then yes... you will slow down.
My only suggestion is to upgrade your power-supply to something of quality, if it does not have an official 80 Efficiency badge, then it is not quality, and expect it to short real quick.
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2gig cards are useless unless your using eyefinity or a really high resolution monitor. At 1080p they offer no performance boost.
If your talking about the new morphological anti aliasing its pretty much crap most of the time it makes text unreadable or just makes everything slightly blurry. If it does work it does so with little performance hit compared to other forms of antialsing.
It is actually quite excellent. While it is not smart... it will do great in first person shooters. One... you don't need to read crap and half the time you are looking at the colors of the text over someones name. Two blobby graphics in a fps adds depth surprisingly, it looks like mud clumps on the glass some time which I do love. Three... who cares? It makes things look nice with little performance hit, and no extra purchase of proprietary junk is needed. -Cough- Nvidia -Cough-
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Why hello there sir... look into my eyes, and then... you shall see... the end. ~ Quote from Enderman.
It is actually quite excellent. While it is not smart... it will do great in first person shooters. One... you don't need to read crap and half the time you are looking at the colors of the text over someones name. Two blobby graphics in a fps adds depth surprisingly, it looks like mud clumps on the glass some time which I do love. Three... who cares? It makes things look nice with little performance hit, and no extra purchase of proprietary junk is needed. -Cough- Nvidia -Cough-
I hate minor blurness like that i prefer things look crisp and sharp.
I have never seen nvidia charge for proprietary junk for Anti Aliasing. There proprietary 3D has been around for a while and is of good quality.
Good quality and horrificly expensive. You have to buy a 3D kit which is a fourth of the price of your rig, get a Nvidia3D approved GPU, and a monitor that is able to go to 120ghz. THEN you may have to buy another GPU of the same kind to boost performance because it cuts your fps in half. But yes... they do have more propriety junk then you can imagine. Nparticles... a library for nvidia GPU only for amazing particles, that so far has only been used in one game. Nphysx... Physics on the GPU, which is never used BECAUSE it means that the game would need to be for that game only if the engine allowed such a thing, only Dark Night used it. Quite frankly not everyone is willing to pay for an Nvidia GPU.
AMD does it different, it allows what ever 3D equipment you can throw at it. Physics? Meh... they aren't worried about it. They focused on graphic and hardware acceleration on a massive multitude of apps on an open standard.
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Why hello there sir... look into my eyes, and then... you shall see... the end. ~ Quote from Enderman.
Good quality and horrificly expensive. You have to buy a 3D kit which is a fourth of the price of your rig, get a Nvidia3D approved GPU, and a monitor that is able to go to 120ghz. THEN you may have to buy another GPU of the same kind to boost performance because it cuts your fps in half. But yes... they do have more propriety junk then you can imagine. Nparticles... a library for nvidia GPU only for amazing particles, that so far has only been used in one game. Nphysx... Physics on the GPU, which is never used BECAUSE it means that the game would need to be for that game only if the engine allowed such a thing, only Dark Night used it. Quite frankly not everyone is willing to pay for an Nvidia GPU.
AMD does it different, it allows what ever 3D equipment you can throw at it. Physics? Meh... they aren't worried about it. They focused on graphic and hardware acceleration on a massive multitude of apps on an open standard.
Yes 3D is expensive so is Samsung so is Nvida and you forget Nvidia 3D was out in 2008 before AMD even had support for 3D. Nvidia cards can cost more but allot of the time they do performance better compared tessellation performance between Nvidia and AMD gpus.
AMD has also done proprietary stuff too.
3Dnow!
ATI steam was basicly CUDA for ATI cards before they switch to open standard
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Offloading physics onto a GPU was not a terrible idea but today with the large multi core cpus we have its kinda useless.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125353
I was looking for something under 200.
Just make sure your power supply is good enough, I would recommend at least a 600w power supply (the card requires at least a 500w). This gives room for additions/upgrades as well as capacitor age.
Yeah, just make sure it won't overload you powersupply or get bottlenecked by your motherboard/processor.
I doubt you're still here but could you post the rest of your build?
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The performance difference between the 6850 and the 6870 is extremely small and it definitely isn't worth it for the price.
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6870 comes in 2gb, 6850 doesn't
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Also the memory does matter, but not a whole lot. Still, 6850 performs better in a lot of tasks and I stand by what I said earlier.
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My only suggestion is to upgrade your power-supply to something of quality, if it does not have an official 80 Efficiency badge, then it is not quality, and expect it to short real quick.
If your talking about the new morphological anti aliasing its pretty much crap most of the time it makes text unreadable or just makes everything slightly blurry. If it does work it does so with little performance hit compared to other forms of antialsing.
I hate minor blurness like that i prefer things look crisp and sharp.
I have never seen nvidia charge for proprietary junk for Anti Aliasing. There proprietary 3D has been around for a while and is of good quality.
AMD does it different, it allows what ever 3D equipment you can throw at it. Physics? Meh... they aren't worried about it. They focused on graphic and hardware acceleration on a massive multitude of apps on an open standard.
Yes 3D is expensive so is Samsung so is Nvida and you forget Nvidia 3D was out in 2008 before AMD even had support for 3D. Nvidia cards can cost more but allot of the time they do performance better compared tessellation performance between Nvidia and AMD gpus.
AMD has also done proprietary stuff too.
3Dnow!
ATI steam was basicly CUDA for ATI cards before they switch to open standard
Avivo video converter
Offloading physics onto a GPU was not a terrible idea but today with the large multi core cpus we have its kinda useless.