4850 Crossfire or 4870?

[shinester184]

For today's gaming, if I were playing on a 32" monitor, do you think an XFX Radeon 4870 will run games at high settings ok? Or do you think it would be worth spending the extra £40 on getting two 4850's for crossfire? Will be playing high-end games like FC2, Crysis, CoD etc.

 

[Chong Warrior]

The size of the monitor doesn't mean anything it's the resolution that matters. You wouldn't need a very powerful card to run at 720p

 

[shinester184]

Will be running at max. 1920 x 1080 (p)

 

[Chong Warrior]

Then a 4870 would be enough, for what little extra they cost I'd go for the 1gb flavour at that res.

 

[explicit4u]

you dont need a powerful card to run 1080p, i have a ATI Radeon X1650 in my current computer im using and i can run 1080p (tried Transformers in 1080p).

at 32" im presuming a 1080p TV, a 4870 1GB should handle that OK, might see a slight drop with Crysis but i highly doubt it.

 

[Jon1818]

Then a 4870 would be enough, for what little extra they cost I'd go for the 1gb flavour at that res.

Agreed, im really glad i got this over a 4850/gtx 260.