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For those in the market for a 5850....

opethdisciple

opethdisciple

opethdisciple

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The majority of you know this already, but for those in the market for a 5850, they should seriously consider buying two 5770's for crossfire.

From benchmarks the 5770's in crossfire consitently beat the 5850 and match the 5870.

Also generally 2x 5770's are nearly the same price compared to one 5850!
 
You all so get periodic dodgy xfire drivers, not 100% scaling in all games and maybe some micro stutter, single card is always the best bet IMO.
 
5850 will be easier to sell, works on more boards, safer drivers as mentioned, and if your board is symmetric crossfire. Gives you the option for 2 5850s. Better deal all round tbh
 
Judgeneo said:
5850 will be easier to sell, works on more boards, safer drivers as mentioned, and if your board is symmetric crossfire. Gives you the option for 2 5850s. Better deal all round tbh
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Actually yes Judgeneo is right, here. The 5850 being the same price, you can just crossfire that, and in effect have 4 way 5770!

:eek:

Stupid me. Since my 3870x2 Iv promised my self to never go crossfire, but a few people where saying that thr 5770 crossfire is something to consider... so I thought Id mention it.

It just seemed worth it, the performance of a 5870 for £260.
 
So it's nearly the same in every way. I'd take the one card solution thx. Less heat, less noise, less power, less complications, and I can crossfire later. IMO, dual card are worth as an upgrade, or if you go all out for face-melting performance. Just my $0.02
 
I'm thinking of picking up a pair of 5830's for £300 and clocking the knackers off them.

Reckon I could get close to a 5970 ?
 
so one second it's bad drivers and micro stutter and the next it's I am getting 2x5830 because it gets close to 5970 ? makes no sense to me.

Also where is the source that an overclocked 5850 beats a 5870 in games ?
 
Only the latest 10.6 drivers had problems for me, just rolled back to 10.5a and all is fine, have seen plenty of posts where single card users have had driver issues also. Not noticed any micro stutter either, this is something that is still banded about from early multi gpu setups and really doesn't apply to latest gen setups. I don't think you'd ever have any problems selling 5770's in fact 2 sold in the mm within a couple of hours of being listed, they are desirable cards with good performance and low power and noise. If you need any other info just ask :)
 
Always better to run one single card than two cheaper ones if you can. Two 5770s might be a good budget option but as others have said can be inconsistent, hot, noisy, power hungry etc.
 
ive had CF 5870's for 5 months and appart from cat 10.6 (bsod) ive had no problems with CF, but if my budget at the time had been much less i would have taken the 5850 over CF 5770 every time for the upgrade potential
 
From owners of 5770CF I've heard nothing but praise. Micro stutter? Maybe in 2006, only people who don't have multi-GPU setups complain about that!

Going to get 5770CF myself hopefully this fortnight, I'm benching/reviewing, so I'll confirm or deny any claims people put forward here.
 
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