How about this?200 quid cheaper and will do the job just fine.You can also add another HD5770 later on.I consider this to be the better option.Plus you get a LED monitor
Motherboard doesn't support crossfire.
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Motherboard doesn't support crossfire.
wow barely uses a gpu though it was programmed at a time when a gpu was an graphics accelerator and not the main workhorse.
there was a time when the cpu did the bulk of the graphics and a gfx card just assisted
sorry, I should have quoted Ast3r in that post, saying a 5770 will play crysis at that res and settings.
Thanks for the feedback guys. I'll wait another 2 or 3 months before I purchase anything so I can wait for things to come down in price. I really don't want to pay for a 5870 when there is a refresh coming up (Or so I hear).
Thanks a lot, I'll still read through and get an idea of what to look for (First self build, I have build a few for friends but this is the first I've built for myself.)
/Johnathan
Thanks a lot, I'll still read through and get an idea of what to look for (First self build, I have build a few for friends but this is the first I've built for myself.)
/Johnathan
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yes its does, that the 790x chipset there. It doesnt support the full fat 16x/16x, but 8x/8x will certainly not bottleneck two 5770's, and i seem to recall the performance hit was something like 5% on a pair of 5870s
I need my eyes checked, swear it was the M4A785TD-V
The HD5770 does much more than what that review says.Plus he's playing WoW and Aion..these are not Crysis.Here's a review testing the HD5770 in WoW @ 1920x1200 4XAA Ultra High Details.http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,...eviewed-DirectX-11-Mid-Range/Reviews/?page=11
That review was made at the launch of the card....performance should be better now.Also asked around on the Aion website and they say it handles the game @ 1920x1200 High Details very well.
That review was made at the launch of the card....performance should be better now.Also asked around on the Aion website and they say it handles the game @ 1920x1200 High Details very well.
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Yeah if it is just for the mmos then running the 5770 would more than suffice, of the bunch aion is the most gpu intensive and that card should run it no problem, with the rest of the kit you have specced out.
Using the lower end card also makes it easier to think about going for the SSD, if thats what you want. Ive didnt really notice a difference on my main rig except for startup, on my lappy however i much prefer it.
Using the lower end card also makes it easier to think about going for the SSD, if thats what you want. Ive didnt really notice a difference on my main rig except for startup, on my lappy however i much prefer it.
That has convinced me a lot.
As everyone has been saying WOW is more of a CPU heavy game. That is why I am now leaning more towards the 3.20GHz AMD x6 OC'd to 4GHz as benchmarks show this is a much better performer than the x4.
Again I'll wait 3 months. It's likely I'll go with either the single 5770 with a crossfire ready board in game I want another or get 2 from the get go.
/Johnathan
thats not really that true, games havn't used the cpu for graphics processing in a long time.
last games that i know that did that would be the original half-life and unreal tournament, both you could switch to software mode (ie cpu processing)
they came out a long time before WoW.
the reason wow is more cpu limited, is because the cpu has plenty of other things to do as well, and the game isn't all that graphically intense to need a high card to run well