Crossfire

Yeah, a minor 4 percent, maybe I will just get a 5850. What do you think the frame rate difference would be. Do you know anything about how the drivers are right now(I know ATI's drivers are horrible) also, how many games support crossfire?
 
Theblackoutow said:
Yeah, a minor 4 percent, maybe I will just get a 5850. What do you think the frame rate difference would be. Do you know anything about how the drivers are right now(I know ATI's drivers are horrible) also, how many games support crossfire?
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Well, 10.1 Just came out, But I'd stick with 9.12 I rolled mine back because 10.1 are not very good. Games that I know of that support Dual GPU are Crysis, Empire total war, call of duty MW 1 and 2 probabyl WaW, Dirt 2 i believe there is a Dual GPU hotfix to make it work. Far Cry 2 I think L4D2 does as well. Bioshock does. Those are just some off the top of my head. I am sure most new games coming out will support multigpus. Crysis 2 will, hopefully supreme commander 2 does. But yea, I like CF. Hope that helps.
 
I don't actually play many new games, I do have Dirt 2, and Crysis but I don't know. I don't want to spend 300 dollars for nothing xD
 
lubo4444 said:
Wow .... look at the gtx 295 and tell me that's not expensive. I'm talking about high end cards.

Well for some people i guess that's not expensive. :) For me it is.
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I know. I was joking. The GTX 295 is very overpriced. You can get a 5870 cheaper and it runs just as good and better in games that only support single gpu.
 
lubo4444 said:
Yeah but the 5970 will downclock to the 5850. :)
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no it won't, on any setup the clocks can be different on each card. Memory will reduce, say one is 1GB, the ohter is 512mb, then you will have 2 cards iwth 512mb, rather than 1 with 1024mb, one with 512mb...if that makes sense :P

to OP though:

Stick with a single card, and stick with your 5850. There really is no point in upgrading at all. A 5970 would give better performance, but I personally wouldn't be able to justify upgrading a card that can play any game on full, to a card that can play any game on full, and pay a small fortune to have the pleasure of having no difference, except for maybe an extra few fps in games, but with fps being high anyway, it isn't worth it.

Wait for fermi to come out and see how they are priced, or, see if ATi cards drop in price, then it may be worth getting a 5970, but at the moment, no, I wouldn't recomend doing it
 
Aastii said:
no it won't, on any setup the clocks can be different on each card. Memory will reduce, say one is 1GB, the ohter is 512mb, then you will have 2 cards iwth 512mb, rather than 1 with 1024mb, one with 512mb...if that makes sense :P

to OP though:

Stick with a single card, and stick with your 5850. There really is no point in upgrading at all. A 5970 would give better performance, but I personally wouldn't be able to justify upgrading a card that can play any game on full, to a card that can play any game on full, and pay a small fortune to have the pleasure of having no difference, except for maybe an extra few fps in games, but with fps being high anyway, it isn't worth it.

Wait for fermi to come out and see how they are priced, or, see if ATi cards drop in price, then it may be worth getting a 5970, but at the moment, no, I wouldn't recomend doing it
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Yup it makes sense now. :P
 
Aastii said:
no it won't, on any setup the clocks can be different on each card. Memory will reduce, say one is 1GB, the ohter is 512mb, then you will have 2 cards iwth 512mb, rather than 1 with 1024mb, one with 512mb...if that makes sense :P

to OP though:

Stick with a single card, and stick with your 5850. There really is no point in upgrading at all. A 5970 would give better performance, but I personally wouldn't be able to justify upgrading a card that can play any game on full, to a card that can play any game on full, and pay a small fortune to have the pleasure of having no difference, except for maybe an extra few fps in games, but with fps being high anyway, it isn't worth it.

Wait for fermi to come out and see how they are priced, or, see if ATi cards drop in price, then it may be worth getting a 5970, but at the moment, no, I wouldn't recomend doing it
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+1

It wouldnt justify

Any gpu will lag when recording with fraps
 
Aastii said:
no it won't, on any setup the clocks can be different on each card. Memory will reduce, say one is 1GB, the ohter is 512mb, then you will have 2 cards iwth 512mb, rather than 1 with 1024mb, one with 512mb...if that makes sense :P

to OP though:

Stick with a single card, and stick with your 5850. There really is no point in upgrading at all. A 5970 would give better performance, but I personally wouldn't be able to justify upgrading a card that can play any game on full, to a card that can play any game on full, and pay a small fortune to have the pleasure of having no difference, except for maybe an extra few fps in games, but with fps being high anyway, it isn't worth it.

Wait for fermi to come out and see how they are priced, or, see if ATi cards drop in price, then it may be worth getting a 5970, but at the moment, no, I wouldn't recomend doing it
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This is true, however the performance usually winds up being about 2 x 5850s rather than in between 5850s and 5870s.
 
Oh, I was going to say... I want to OC my system but I'm such a sissy, I'm afraid I'll mess something up :(. Maybe I could try to OC my little dell sitting on the floor...
 
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