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crossfired 4770's??? worth it?

Badgersaurus

Badgersaurus

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Hi,

So i just found out that crossfired 4770's for £150 more or less destroy all single gfx card solutions under £220 at 1900X1200 resolution. So i want to upgrade my 8800gtx to them, but i currently have a asus P5Q pro motherboard that can only do 8x 8x pci express. I wonder if the effect of the slower pci express will take away much of the performance? the review i read about the crossfired 4770's was on (bleh i cant say just google it ;), im not going to upgrade my motherboard! also any idea what performance 4770's would give for crysis at 1900X1200? would they still outperform a geforce 275?

These crossfired 4770's seem to give the best bang for buck :)
 
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kewl, pretty much sold now, i doubt that 8x pci express bus will make that much of a difference? i think i spring a little extra cash and get the asus 4770's for £170 since you can fiddle the voltage on them and get a better overclock
 
8x pci wont make any diffrence on these cards, it doesnt really effect any of the current gen of cards as they all too slow :p

Crossfire 4770's are the best bang for buck atm.
 
Don't you just love, how when someone asks about a card or cards, someone always posts a single screenshot from a review, and guess what the bugger is, yup its a screen shot of the ******* Crapsis scores, when will everyone realises that ******* games years old, and is not the only ******* one out!!!.

Can't go wrong with 4770's in Xfire, probs faster than the £320+ 285.
 
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i'd still go for a 4890 if you can get one for £160-170 because for a very similar price you get pretty similar performance, less issues, one slot, etc, etc.

But if you can't get a 4890 that cheap and crossfire isn't an issue, the 4770 is superb value for really great performance.
 
I would just get a single 4890, single card and the performance differance is not going to be noticeable.

I don't see the point in using 4 slots instead of 2 for a gain of ~2 FPS.
 
I do wonder how the 512mb frame buffer affects the performance @ 1920x1200. I nearly went for two 4770s except for that reason.
 
Badgersaurus said:
also any idea what performance 4770's would give for crysis at 1900X1200? would they still outperform a geforce 275?
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LoadsaMoney said:
Don't you just love, how when someone asks about a card or cards, someone always posts a single screenshot from a review, and guess what the bugger is, yup its a screen shot of the ******* Crapsis scores, when will everyone realises that ******* games years old, and is not the only ******* one out!!!.

Can't go wrong with 4770's in Xfire, probs faster than the £320+ 285.
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Don't you just love, how when someone comes into a thread to rage and doesn't actually read the OP they look stupid?

I did post a pic of the Crysis scores.

BECAUSE HE ASKED FOR IT.

:rolleyes:
 
Ease said:
I guess LoadsaMoney lacks loadsasense...
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Crysis appears to be the only real benchmark of any curiousity at the moment, because even cheap stuff will do a very good job of running pretty much anything out there at the moment. Crysis is the onyl thing that brings current hardware to its knees.

Personally, I'd buy a second-hand 280GTX as they're dirt cheap for the performance to be had.
 
reflux said:
I do wonder how the 512mb frame buffer affects the performance @ 1920x1200. I nearly went for two 4770s except for that reason.
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well after a little more research it seems that at 1900X1200 without any aa or af the framebuffer is fine, but once you put AA and AF on it seems to suffer in games like crysis and company of heros. In that situation it seems that the 4890 is a better buy. I think ill hold out for a while and see what develops, my 8800gtx can last a little longer :(
 
I hate trying to decode opinion, hardware reviews and just my general nubery when it comes to these things but wtf.

This Review of recent GFX cards shows SLI, or XFire obliterating most single card options, especially at 1920*1200 with a ~30 FPS lead.

Would you still choose a single <=£350 card over XFire 4870 or SLI GTX 260?
 
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