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@honosuseri Cheers for the advice. I guess the main reason for 5770 in crossfire is that I can buy one card now at a reasonable price and when it no longer delivers what I need I can go ahead and crossfire. Does that logic hold water?
 
shanepg said:
@honosuseri Cheers for the advice. I guess the main reason for 5770 in crossfire is that I can buy one card now at a reasonable price and when it no longer delivers what I need I can go ahead and crossfire. Does that logic hold water?
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yep, buy the time the single 5770 is bugging you with its lack of power, a secondhand 5770 may very well be £50-60 in the members market.
 
You are welcome shane. As you are new to the forum, have you looked at any other threads? There have been plenty of good AMD gaming rigs spec'd and discussed in plenty of detail.

I would definately recommend owning a mobo that did xfire properly so it is available as an "upgrade" option....more strings to your bow if you will ;p What you need to bear in mind is that with xfire you dont need an identical gfx card just one in the same model range (5700s work together, 5800s work together). So a 5770 wont xfire with the 5870, if you buy the 5830 (price is very close to some 5770 models) it can be xfired to the 5850 or 5870. When you think you want an extra card, i imagine the 5870 will have depreciated in price heavily by then...Does that all make sense to you?

Oh another common piece of advice on the forum is some very basic overclocking. That 955 is basically a 965. What you can do is up the multiplier (BEs cpus are multi unlocked) by one and you step the 955 up inline with the 965, saving £10-20 odd quid for just a couple of button taps ;p
 
Gents, Thanks for all your help. I really appreciate it, you've pointed out some blunders and helped me with some little pointers. Just to re-cap this is where I'm at:

CC700D - Corsair Obsidian Series 700D, Black, Alu Front Panel, Full Tower Case, 3 x 140mm fans, w/o PSU £145
850W Corsair CMPSU-850TXUK, ATX, 4x PCI-E/ 8x SATA, PS/2 PSU, 5 Year Warranty £105
re-use existing monitor - AcerP223w Unfortunatley this wont snap to native res in DVI so I want to run it in VGA - unless you guys say this is a bad idea
re-use existing mouse (USB) keyboard P/S2 and speakers
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit, Single, - retail £112
ASRock 890GX Extreme3 AMD 890GX (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £100
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 CPU £112
4GB kit (2GBx2), 240-pin DIMM, DDR3 PC3-10600 memory module £72
1GB Asus HD 5770 CuCore, PCI-E 2.1(x16), 4800MHz GDDR5, GPU 850MHz, 800 Cores, DL DVI-I/ D-Sub/ HDMI £127
1TB Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black, SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 64MB Cache, 8 ms £68
Sony AD-5240S-0B 24x DVDR 12xDVDDL DVDRW x8/-RWx6 SATA Black £15
AKASA AK-All-02BK Black LCD Displ, Card Reader,Temp Controlled Fan Controller, Audio, USB, Firewire, £32

Total cost just shy of £900

Can keep the case, psu, monitor, peripherals, HDD and DVD R/W for ages. Can upgrade to 2 5770 in crossfire in 12months. Can up grade RAM if needs be. And can move up to a new board and chip when bulldozer is out and a good price.

Thanks

No doubt you'll here from me when I get stuck trying to get it all together!! ;-)
 
What you could do shane is bump the gfx card off for the mo as the mobo has an IGP. I understand its not much good for gaming but you can certainly get the rig built and running stable with it.

When she boots we can then see what the score is with these gfx cards. As the prices are so damn close i do think the 5830 would be better. Maybe just wait for one to be on offer if you want it all done in the one hit, i've seen them here for about £10ish more than the 5770.
 
I would drop the massive psu as it is gonna do nothing but twiddle its thumbs, unless you are looking at masssive upgrades, also jump ship to the 460 1gb, its a bargin for the price, and its a fermi done right. ALso can still upgrade later, Also you could drop the quad core for say the ph x2 555, still 3.2, still lots of scope to overclock, and its a gamble but you cab use a core unlocker, same price as what your looking Asus M4A89GTD PRO. Core unlocker done, lthis is by far the most reliable unlocker i have found. And i have found no negative replies to this board unlocking the 555 cpu.
Just a suggetion, depends what is important to you, media work etc or gaming
Hope this helps
 
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