Another Card or not??

drilldriver

drilldriver

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Hello All
I have upgraded old PC with:
Gigabyte 970A-DS3 Motherboard
AMD FX 3.1GHz 8 core CPU
Corsair 16GB Ram
Windows 7 64bit

My question is my motherboard will take 2 graphic cards i bought a ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB and i was wondering would i see an advantage with 2 of these or is my PC maxed out with just one?
 
No, you only have one x16 PCI slot. You could upgrade either the motherboard for one with two slots, or sell the card and get a single, powerful one.

What power supply do you have, also? Make and model.
 
using 2 would definitely improve performance, but for gaming, that is now a lower end card, they are 2 generations old and not very strong compared to cards priced only a little more, but 2 together would still be very strong.
 
jonnyp11 said:
using 2 would definitely improve performance, but for gaming, that is now a lower end card, they are 2 generations old and not very strong compared to cards priced only a little more, but 2 together would still be very strong.
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It would be useless, since he has no 2nd slot. You would be better off selling your card and get an hd6870 or hd7850...
 
Okay I think i will get another one they are only $100.00 used and i have a cheap 750 watt psu.

one more question I was thinking of taking an old hard drive out of old PC and make it a slave but it will be full of other windows and drivers what can i expect when i start PC to try and format
 
drilldriver said:
Okay I think i will get another one they are only $100.00 used and i have a cheap 750 watt psu.

one more question I was thinking of taking an old hard drive out of old PC and make it a slave but it will be full of other windows and drivers what can i expect when i start PC to try and format
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putting them on a cheap 750w may not be smart and 100 is way overpriced compared to a faster newer card that costs the same brand new (7750)! and it's especially overpriced when you can get them new for under that!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127599&name=Desktop-Graphics-Cards
 
jonnyp11 said:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128553

that's 2 slots and for a 5770, 2.0 at x4 won't loose too much performance, is only it would drop to x8/x8 which would be better for those 2.
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Wrong. A x4 slot is a x4 slot. It does not magically go to x8. Only boards that have a x8 second slot will run x8/x8. It's either x16/0 or x8/x8.

The x4 slot on the bottom is also driven by the south bridge. So while x4 speed from the north bridge would not be a bottleneck, x4 from the south bridge is crap.

The only thing that x4 slot is good for is a sound card or something like that. Graphics cards require entirely too much bandwidth to support that.

FWIW, I thoroughly tested this. I had an ASRock P55 extreme, which has 3 slots. I tested a 5850 on the x16 slot, the x8 slot, and then also the lower x4 slot driven by the south bridge. The x8 slot only lost like 150 or so points in 3dmark06, but the x4 slot lost a couple thousand points. I forget the exact results as this was years ago.

With all that said, I agree with claptonman he should just upgrade to a stronger single card. A 6850 is a good choice, and they are going for just a hair over $100 now.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PowerColor-...271?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item4608f68897

Or a 6870 would be even better if you can swing it for $123.50 shipped-

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ATI-RADEON-...376?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item3f1d547300


But honestly, if you want the best deal it's a 5850 right now for under $100, which is about 10% stronger than a 6850 anyway-

http://www.ebay.com/itm/XFX-Radeon-...477?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item416d2dae1d
 
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If you have a CEX store close by trade youe hd 5770 in and get a gtx 560ti. Theyre only £120 and are very. very good performers, especially for that price.
 
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