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2x 5870s now or wait for Fermi

One 5870, wait for Fermi, [buy Second 5870]/[Sell 5870 and buy Fermi]?

That's an option. You could just stick with the 4890s because they have fair power to them. People aren't expecting much from Fermi but it's worth the wait just to see how things play out.
 
2x 5870, fermi isn't supposed to be much better than a single 5870, and the power usage and price is nearly twice that of one.
If you really want to wait, it might make the 5870 price go down.

(Or as stated above - one now one in the future)

Ps. Why are you selling your 4890 CF? Don't they blow away every single modern game?
 
Ps. Why are you selling your 4890 CF? Don't they blow away every single modern game?

These baby's do rock! They have 54fps on that Crysis bench thread. I guess I feel I am missing out with no DX11 support. With Metro 2033 out soon, AVP already 'supporting' DX11 as well as DIRT2. I have a bit of extra cash and it's burning a hole... hmmmm

Thanks for the comments guys
 
Dx11 is backwards compatible with Dx10, Dx10 graphics cards should run Dx11 just fine.

In my humble opinion, wait for the Dx11 games to come out and if they drop your fps below ~55, upgrade.
 
Wikipedia said:
The Direct3D 11 runtime will be able to run on Direct3D 9 and 10.x-class hardware and drivers, using the D3D10_FEATURE_LEVEL1 functionality first introduced in Direct3D 10.1 runtime.

Other than that I don't think they'll produce eyefinity (if you have more than 4 monitors you'd need to upgrade), but tessellation works fine in the DirectX11 techdemo from Microsoft on my HD4890. (Need confirmation on that)

Well, if it can't play the game at all I guess that falls in the "below 55 fps" category. ;)

Edit: Judging from Metro 2033's reviews it seems their effects only work on actual Dx11 cards.
In that case, I suggest the following course of action:

Keep current cards until Metro 2033 comes out.
If Metro 2033 is playable, keep cards until fermi comes out, then upgrade.
If Metro 2033 isn't playable, either wait 10 days longer or upgrade right away, depending on your itch.
If NVidia bails out on their so-called release date, upgrade either way 8)
 
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If you're interested, here's a screenshot:

dx11z.png


Don't sue me if it doesn't work ingame though! :(
 
Dx11 is backwards compatible with Dx10, Dx10 graphics cards should run Dx11 just fine.

In my humble opinion, wait for the Dx11 games to come out and if they drop your fps below ~55, upgrade.

Not its not..... A DX10 card will play DX11 games at DX10. Your card does have a tessellator, just not a DX11 tessellator, which unfortunately in games this means it won't be used AT ALL.
 
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