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10-16-2009, 02:05 PM
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Newb Techie Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9
|  which video card scenario would be best?
Which Video card should i get?
a HIS Radeon HD 5850 (1GB) --or-- 2 separate HIS Radeon HD 5770 (1GB) linked together in crossfire? looking for best mmorpg experience
does running in a crossfire configuration make the speed twice as fast?
price wise, a 5850 will cost only a few bucks less than the 2 5770s, and both scenarios will require both of my 6 pin power adapters. | 
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10-16-2009, 02:23 PM
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Theg Ame Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Oxfordshire, UK, waving our red white and blue. Posts: 1,964
| Re: which video card scenario would be best?
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does running in a crossfire configuration make the speed twice as fast?
| It's not quite as good as that, but you usually get at least 80-90% more speed with the second card.
And personally I'd go for the 5850, as crossfired 5770s is just unnecessary. And not all games support multi-GPU. | 
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10-16-2009, 02:28 PM
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Master Techie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In Gov't Regulated Cubical Posts: 2,767
| Re: which video card scenario would be best?
As Yam said, its not quite as good, Also x-fire and sli are best at huge resolutions...
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10-16-2009, 02:40 PM
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Newb Techie Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9
| Re: which video card scenario would be best?
yeah, i was leaning towards just the one 5850, but seeing how this is gonna run me about $260 (approx), i wanna get some knowledgeable support on the situation. another issue is that my MB has PCI-E, not PCI-E 2.0. i don't know if its gonna be a "got too much bad-*** card for my MB" situation.
Here's what i'm working with:
Vista 64
Ultra LSP550 550-Watt Power Supply
AMD Phenom 9500 Processor HD9500WCGDBOX - 2.20GHz, 4 x 512KB Cache, 1800MHz (3600 MT/s) FSB, Agena, Quad-Core, Retail, Socket AM2+, Processor with Fan
Corsair Dual Channel TWINX 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory (4 x 2048MB) 8 gigs total
Asus M2N-SLI Motherboard - NVIDIA nForce 560 SLI, Socket AM2/AM2+, ATX, Audio, PCI Express, Gigabit LAN, S/PDIF, USB 2.0, Firewire, Serial ATA, RAID
my current video card:
Sparkle GeForce 9600 GT Video Card - 1024MB DDR3, PCI Express 2.0, (2) Dual Link DVI, HDTV, VGA Support.......
.............seems to be going out on me and i wanna get some gaming in that's not choppy
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10-16-2009, 02:50 PM
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Theg Ame Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Oxfordshire, UK, waving our red white and blue. Posts: 1,964
| Re: which video card scenario would be best?
That motherboard as far as I can tell doesn't do Crossfire (I don't see why it would, seeing as it's a nVidia chipset).
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10-16-2009, 02:53 PM
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Newb Techie Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9
| Re: which video card scenario would be best?
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Originally Posted by Yamikotai  That motherboard as far as I can tell doesn't do Crossfire (I don't see why it would, seeing as it's a nVidia chipset). | so do you think that it would have problems with Radeon in general? | |
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10-16-2009, 02:55 PM
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Theg Ame Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Oxfordshire, UK, waving our red white and blue. Posts: 1,964
| Re: which video card scenario would be best?
Nah, single ATi would work fine.
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10-16-2009, 03:06 PM
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Newb Techie Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9
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very good, thanks
i will post my hopefully happy results
the only other question i have is: could you recommend a subsidiary company?
SFX, Gigabyte, Sapphire, Diamond, MSI.....or does it matter?
they all offer this card
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10-16-2009, 03:40 PM
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Theg Ame Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Oxfordshire, UK, waving our red white and blue. Posts: 1,964
| Re: which video card scenario would be best?
XFX, EVGA, Gigabyte are the great ones, then you get Sapphire, Diamond, MSI, who are also great but not AS great. Personally I'd recommend XFX or EVGA.
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10-16-2009, 04:49 PM
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Master Techie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In Gov't Regulated Cubical Posts: 2,767
| Re: which video card scenario would be best?
Its more the company offers than the boards... xfx will give double lifetime warrentee.
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