Radeon HD 6850 & 6870 reviews...

[generics_user]

I ask about the software that will enable a product to run. Buying a corvette with a faulty engine isn't a value either. You really need to take a look in the mirror before you start calling people "ignorant or jerks". Asking Questions about something someone would buy isn't "stupid". Last time I checked it's being an educated consumer. Early adopters tend to run into this problem a lot. "Naive" is buying something without doing your research, not to mention "stupid". But call me what you want but I can tell you, you're the only one who's the face of all these labels. But name calling isn't what a "fanatic" would do now is it?

had no problems at all with amd drivers; every problem i found was fixed withina month or two (BFBC2 loading times; VLC support were the only problems i had in the last 2 years), the driver updates are very frequent and installation is quite easy: just run the installer and it will automatically remove the old driver; running tools like driver remover only cause headaches, last time i had install issues was on Vista 64bit when i ran regcleaner before the install.....

just go for it and give it a try; you won't be disappointed unless you start to play around with things like drivercleaner (if you take a look at the amd forums you'll notice every single person complaining that their driver install failed used something like driver "cleaner" or reg "healer after manually uninstalling the old driver)


To the Cards: ok at first 6850 was supposed to be slower than 460 768, then i t was on par and now it is more than 10%faster than the 1gb version while consuming even less power
and 6870 is a win too; GTS450 die size; GTX 460 price and power consumption; GTX 470 performance