£135 Upgrade?

[mayebaza]

Come August I will have had my flashed 5850 for two years. I am thinking of picking up another 5850 for £135 and crossfire it. Or should I sell it and buy something newer for £230-£250?
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Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-UD5P, 955 BE(C2)@ 3.92GHz 1.52V, Geil Value 4GB DDR3-1600,
ATI 5850 1GB, CM90 II Advanced, 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black, 4 HDDs, XFX 850W
Black Edition, Asus Xonar Essence STX, Pinnacle PCTV 3010iX Dual Analogue + DVB-T.

 

[MoodyB]

A single card like the 6950/gtx 560 is going to be around 25-50% slower than 5850 crossfire, but it'll potentially be less hassle.

If you just want things to work, go single card. If you don't mind tweaking your pc, fiddling with drivers, etc... go crossfire.

At least with a newer single card you would have the ability to add another one later on.

 

[mayebaza]

A single card like the 6950/gtx 560 is going to be around 25-50% slower than 5850 crossfire, but it'll potentially be less hassle.

If you just want things to work, go single card. If you don't mind tweaking your pc, fiddling with drivers, etc... go crossfire.

At least with a newer single card you would have the ability to add another one later on.

Surely it's got to be easier than flashing the bios to overclock!

 

[MoodyB]

What's got to be easier ?

Getting Crossfire working ?

 

[mayebaza]

If you are saying that crossfire is easier then I will purchase another 5850

 

[VFM Addict]

A single card like the 6950/gtx 560 is going to be around 25-50% slower than 5850 crossfire, but it'll potentially be less hassle.

If you just want things to work, go single card. If you don't mind tweaking your pc, fiddling with drivers, etc... go crossfire.

At least with a newer single card you would have the ability to add another one later on.

Self-effacing Circular Logic !!!

On the one hand you argue against xFire saying why a single card is better and then you argue that the benefit of a single card is that it allows you to xfire later. (mega-fail)

 

[MoodyB]

That's why I also added " If you just want things to work, go single card. If you don't mind tweaking your pc, fiddling with drivers, etc... go crossfire " to my post.

Or did you choose to ignore that bit ?

 

[stylus pilot]

If you just want things to work, go single card. If you don't mind tweaking your pc, fiddling with drivers, etc... go crossfire.

This is crucial, imo - after trying SLI in the past, and having nothing but trouble with drivers, I swore to stick to single cards in the future.

I quickly grew tired of having to fiddle with drivers to get a new game working properly, and then discovering that doing so had broken an old favourite...