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Do you think i'm stupid

drunkenmaster said:
You do realise I just picked that out of the review YOU LISTED< on the page you linked to.
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We said the other issue was performance, and here you can see why. Just like SLI dropped the ball in Civ 5, in Dead Rising 2 it is CrossFireX that is dropping the ball. It seems to us that ATI CrossFireX is simply not working in Dead Rising 2 and we are only receiving the performance of one Radeon HD 5870 in this game.
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Neither SLI or Xfire is perfect. As for the OP IMO it's aways best to go powerful single GPU root when priced similar to a xfire/ SLI system. Anandtech have the right idea.

If you have a board capable of supporting a pair of 6870s and don’t mind the extra power it’s hard to go wrong, but only if you’re willing to put up with the limitations of a multi-GPU setup. It’s a very personal choice – we’d be willing to trade the performance for the simplicity of avoiding a multi-GPU setup, but we can’t speak for everyone.
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If you can sell your two 5770's for decent £ then I dont see why not.

But I would also wait for the 6900 series to appear first.

At £400 I must say its a average/decent price from Nvidia.
 
Skip the GTX580 and get two GTX470s and stick them in SLI, considering how low the prices of GTX470s are at the moment (£165!), and especially considering that the 5870 is still £300, the GTX480 is still £330 and the GTX580 £400! Crazy prices!
 
No, I don't think you're stupid because the 5770 is a budget card at best. I think you're more silly for buying a 5770 when you could have bought a GTX 460 for little more.

By the way, if your motherboard supports full crossfire then just get another 5770, should give you performance on par with a 5870.
 
franco_22 said:
No, I don't think you're stupid because the 5770 is a budget card at best. I think you're more silly for buying a 5770 when you could have bought a GTX 460 for little more.

By the way, if your motherboard supports full crossfire then just get another 5770, should give you performance on par with a 5870.
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He already has 5770 crossfire.
 
stulid said:
remember, attack the argument-not the man!!!!
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"crossfire scales poorly" #2

"thought it was common knowledge that 5 series crossfire scales poorly? where have you been hiding too?" #10

"more crossfire scaling poorly with 5770, terrible minimum framerates!!!!!!!" #37

"5770 in crossfire is poor" #41

"so are you going to provide any evidence to the contrary about the poor 5 series crossfire scaling?" #46



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stulid said:
all facts dear boy, you got anything to post?
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>Big.Wayne

I'm asking only out of curiousity...but from what I recall, multi-GPU would tend to need 10fps above the frame rate of the single GPU card in order to deliver same smoothness...?

For example, Crossfire would need 40fps in order to deliver same smoothness as a single GPU at 30fps because of the need to compensate for micro-stuttering...?
 
stulid said:
more crossfire scaling poorly with 5770, terrible minimum framerates!!!!!!!
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Having owned 2x5770's in crossfire, I wouldn't have said it scaled poorly, when I was getting on average 5870 performance for, at the time, £80 less.

How is slightly above or below a 5870's min fps a bad thing ? Esp 11 months ago when that review was written ?

Plus, with the 5xxx cards in crossfire, the results you get all depend on what driver you use unfortunately.

10.4a/b or 10.5 hotfix were regarded the best for quite a while. 10.6 & 10.7 were poor. Can't comment on later releases as I sold them due to not needing the performance anymore.

Tomtom3989

Wait and see what the 69xx series brings at the end of the month.

Then check the GTX 460, GTX 470 SLI reviews & 6850 XFire reviews & make a choice.

The 460, 470 & 6850 in sli/xfire are all faster than the 580, but cheaper to buy atm. I doubt the 6950 & 6970 will be as quick as the above cards either but we'll just need to wait & see.

NV might drop the price due to the 69xx releases, so even if you do decide to go with the 580, you might get it for a few £££'s less.
 
Yes because which games require more power and which on the horizon actually will ?
 
stulid said:
looks worse than I first thought!! cheers for the backup.
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stulid,

those five statements that you quoted are all "factually" incorrect . . . all the clues you need to correct your statements are there in that post . . . take your time and hopefully you can learn something! :)
 
stulid said:
looks worse than I first thought!! cheers for the backup.
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Unless I'm missing something Stulid the CF mins of the 5770 beats the 5850 mins 7\8 games and the 5870 5\8 games. Oh and I had CF5770 and had no problems at all. In fact I remember the poor 'min frame rate' argument was used by 5870\5850 owners who were clearly annoyed that CF5770 beat or matched both cards when in fact there was little evidence to support it.

Oh and I currently have a 470GTX in case you accuse me of fanboyism.;) Oh and to the OP, its your cash buy what you want, personally there's no need for a 580\6970 for gaming and probably wont be for at least 12 months, best current bang for buck is the 470 in my opinion.;)
 
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Big.Wayne said:
stulid,

those five statements that you quoted are all "factually" incorrect . . . all the clues you need to correct your statements are there in that post . . . take your time and hopefully you can learn something! :)
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Hes the only one that can't see that at least on 50% of the time the 5770 crossfire mins are above or match a card that cost £80 more. The average frames are also higher around 95% of the time, he keeps kicking himself in the balls with every peice of evidence he wants to post as his backup the guy is clearly drunk lol.
 
Quite a read this thread. What was the question again? Some people... This is why I swerve asking GPU related stuff here.

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Just ignore stulid, he is an nvidia trolling fanboy, who won't accept that he is wrong about the 5770 crossfire and most of his posts since the 580 release have been useless troll/fanboy comments.

So just discuss and help the original poster and ignore stulid, hopefully the mods will sort something out soon.
 
d_brennen said:
Quite a read this thread. What was the question again? Some people... This is why I swerve asking GPU related stuff here.

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It is quite a read but people have answered the op as best as they can along with trying to show the op he still has a good setup with stulid trying to show otherwise. As i have said in my original post the op can wait to see how things pan out because he already has a decent gpu setup. Prices may fall because amd's new card may be fast enough to bring prices on the gtx580 down.
 
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Easyrider does have a damn good point - 6870 Crossfire is going to give better performance for less money (although you'll need to shop around for the cheap cards).
 
Tute said:
Easyrider does have a damn good point - 6870 Crossfire is going to give better performance for less money (although you'll need to shop around for the cheap cards).
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Pity the 6870 is £20-£25 more than it should be. The 470 is faster and cheaper and I cant understand Amd pricing on this, unless its price gouging.:confused:
 
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