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Best value silent SLI/Crossfire for £200?
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You can pick up a HD 6850 for around £120, two of these in CF scale very well and are pretty quiet cards (so long as you can keep some space between them).
This chart shows how they compare to a single HD 5870.
That said, if the whining on your 5870 is to do with the cooler then you could RMA it or buy a custom cooler (something from thermalright would be great).
This chart shows how they compare to a single HD 5870.
That said, if the whining on your 5870 is to do with the cooler then you could RMA it or buy a custom cooler (something from thermalright would be great).
Well TBH I am going by the benchmark link cmndr_andi posted as well.
But i look at the 6950 2GB model not 1GB, + it won't take into account the perfomance boost of the 6970 OC.
Any reason why you must have SLI/Crossfire?
I am going for more memory on the ATI due to the triple monitor setup I have (hence the need for 2 460's).
BUT like I said, just starting my reasearch now, shame the anandtech bench can't do anymore than 2 choices. 4 would be good in these cucumstances.
and +1 for a quiter cooler on the current card,
I am not bothered about noise as I always play games with the headphones on
But i look at the 6950 2GB model not 1GB, + it won't take into account the perfomance boost of the 6970 OC.
Any reason why you must have SLI/Crossfire?
I am going for more memory on the ATI due to the triple monitor setup I have (hence the need for 2 460's).
BUT like I said, just starting my reasearch now, shame the anandtech bench can't do anymore than 2 choices. 4 would be good in these cucumstances.
and +1 for a quiter cooler on the current card,
I am not bothered about noise as I always play games with the headphones on
I'm not THAT bothered about SLI/Crossfire!
It's just that I was seeing if I can get any better VALUE performance wise going SLI/Crossfire! And besides, there seems to be more quiet/silent lower end mid range GPU wise than at the higher top end of the GPU market.
This is likely to be built into my new PC setup. The ATI 5870 I will give to my wife/daughter (PC spec as my signature now below)...
The only other thing I failed to add is this, it's gonna be displayed on my NEW Dell UltraSharp U2711 27" monitor which has a 2550x1440 res!
Believe it or not I don't play too many 1st person shooters but I do like to try and stress the GPU on 3D intensive MAME arcade games.
It's just that I was seeing if I can get any better VALUE performance wise going SLI/Crossfire! And besides, there seems to be more quiet/silent lower end mid range GPU wise than at the higher top end of the GPU market.
This is likely to be built into my new PC setup. The ATI 5870 I will give to my wife/daughter (PC spec as my signature now below)...
The only other thing I failed to add is this, it's gonna be displayed on my NEW Dell UltraSharp U2711 27" monitor which has a 2550x1440 res!
Believe it or not I don't play too many 1st person shooters but I do like to try and stress the GPU on 3D intensive MAME arcade games.
The only other thing I failed to add is this, it's gonna be displayed on my NEW Dell UltraSharp U2711 27" monitor which has a 2550x1440 res!
I'm glad you mentioned the above. With this resolution, if you would be enabling most eye candy I would consider a two gpu set up.
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A flashable 6950 is a lot more than £200.
£260 at OcUK.
Price has gone from around £200 to £225 to £250 to £260 in a relatively short space of time
A full fat 6970 is only a few quid more.