ATK Benchmark Competition

**Colonel Mitch** · 2nd March 2010, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by Phantom

The 4870x2 is better than the GTX280. *golfclap*

im sure when u got your 280s they were more expensive than a 4870x2 :P

Also the difference between an i7 920 and Core 2 E8500 in cpu tests is lol....

**Calneon** · 2nd March 2010, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by Colonel Mitch

im sure when u got your 280s they were more expensive than a 4870x2 :P

Also the difference between an i7 920 and Core 2 E8500 in cpu tests is lol....

My GTX280 was £210 1.5 years ago. I also do lots of rendering and encoding so an i7 makes sense.

**VoX** · 3rd March 2010, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by Colonel Mitch

im sure when u got your 280s they were more expensive than a 4870x2 :P

Also the difference between an i7 920 and Core 2 E8500 in cpu tests is lol....

Like Phantom, my GTX280 was £210 just under a year ago, wheras 4870X2's were going for around £250-260.