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Powercolor 5970 or 2 x Sapphire 5870

Just to throw it out there, I'd go for 2 5850s if that was my budget, will give great performance, when clocked will give the 5870s a run for their money but be a lot cheaper.
 
Same and if your unsure with pc building, ring or go into the ocuk shop and see if they'd put in 2x 5850s instead of 2x5870s into the first system and give you a quote for it. Business is business as they say! :P
 
.... i don't recall mentioning the 5850 ;)

cost really is not an issue i plan on putting this in a level 10
i know its insanely expensive but im addicted to the design and plan on using the case for the rest of my life!!!
 
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Schlangers said:
.... i don't recall mentioning the 5850 ;)

cost really is not an issue i plan on putting this in a level 10
i know its insanely expensive but im addicted to the design and plan on using the case for the rest of my life!!!
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2x 5970's if cost really is not an issue:).

Otherwise, 2x 5870's will be better than 1x 5970. The 5870's will be faster at stock speeds, overclock better, run cooler, and will each utilise thier own 16x PCI-E bus (rather than share a single bus). In the event that one card ever fails you also have a spare to keep you going.

But, 2x 5850's (or 3x 5850's if you mobo allows) will be the sensible option.
 
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Schlangers said:
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are the sapphire 5870 vapor x any good?
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Not if you want to get the best overclocks. They are non-reference design and do not allow GPU voltage adjustments. This will limit the card to between 900-950MHz on the core whereas reference voltage changeable boards should hit 1000MHz.

The Vapor-X's will however run a bit quieter.
 
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