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Dilemma.. What would YOU do?

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Gentlemen... Payday has arrived.

And it's time for a further upgrade. But i have a dilemma. My PC:

Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz @ 3.6Ghz / Biostar T-Power X58 / 6GB OCZ Reaper PC 1500 (1866Mhz) / XFX ATI Radeon HD 5970 Black Edition 2048MB GDDR5

Now, i was going to buy another 5970 for approx £560 for a nice quad fire rig to boost my framerates in eyefinity high res. Problem is, I've been reading recently that crossfire and eyefinity do NOT work correctly, meaning I'd have to use one monitor at 1920x1080 to have quad fire working correctly, with nice fps. Using eyefinity crossfire would **** fps right up.

So.. instead of the above, do i buy a Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB for a tri-fire config, with another 6 GB of ram (approx £480), and run 1920x1080 untill ati sort their bloody eyefinity crossfire out (I'd have to down-clock this card to my 5970 spec though..) and use eyefinity crossfire with that setup, or do i bite the bullet and buy a 5970 ...

What would you do???

Cheers.
 
With that much money - I'd get a Ferrari :)

If you haven't got enough fps already with that rig at whatever resolution you run at I can only think that the 5970 is going to help you further - downclocking the 5870 means you will just want to replace that with a 5970 once the drivers start working / you decide to buy another screen. Selling that at a loss will mean the 5970 will cost extra overall (with the money you lost buying and selling the 5870.)

Besides even if it doesn't work properly you will feel great knowing you have the most badass gaming rig on the planet if you have 2x 5970 - and that is probably what matters most. :D
 
I swear they got this sorted now? You should be able to run crossfire and eyefinity together, but all three screens must be on the primary card. I would say go for Trifire as it's more worth it over quad scaling wise.
 
Some interesting points. I currently have my 3 monitors setup ready to go but my fps drop to 60 or so at 5040x1080 and that just aint good enough for me.

I've read a lot online about people having literally 20 fps with 2 cards connected by quadfire with eyefinity.

Hm.. maybe it's 5970 time, that way i wont be disapointed with my downclocked 5870.. :\
 
Orcvader said:
I swear they got this sorted now? You should be able to run crossfire and eyefinity together, but all three screens must be on the primary card. I would say go for Trifire as it's more worth it over quad scaling wise.
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It will save me some more dollas.. plus i get 12gb's of ram.. :\
 
What's the point in another 6GB of RAM, for gaming there's no way you're maxing out your current 6GB of RAM since most games are still 32 bit which means they can at max use 3GB of RAM.
 
Metro on very high can use more than 6gb of RAM as well, 8gb + is recommended which I find quite disturbing lol. If your RAM is triple channel stuff I'd say go with the RAM first before looking at a second 5970 as jedifragger was right, they dont play well together in regards to CF and Eyefinity at the moment. You'll need to keep an eye on driver updates or even ask catalystmaker on twitter when you can expect such drivers to arrive (hes the manager of ATI drivers)
 
James J said:
Metro on very high can use more than 6gb of RAM as well, 8gb + is recommended which I find quite disturbing lol.
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I know that's what the optimal specs say but I didn't think Metro was using a 64 bit executable? If it isn't it isn't possible for it to use more than 3GB of RAM.
 
Broken Hope said:
I know that's what the optimal specs say but I didn't think Metro was using a 64 bit executable? If it isn't it isn't possible for it to use more than 3GB of RAM.
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aye just had a go on it (im using 64bit w7) and on dx11 very high at 1920x1080 my system is using 1.72gb of ram, including background processes
 
why would you want another card ! Go and blow it on a good night out ;) If i was getting 60frps out of one of them cards i would feel mugged !
 
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