5750 Budget Crossfire....Decent performance

[Zenduri]

Sat here at half past silly in the morning when on the new products list for ocuk i see the xfx 5750 for £92.99, a very reasonable price.

So I start to think 1 card wont be much cop but what about 2 in crossfire for a budget dx11 gaming rig. So i started a search and came accross this

Single and crossfire 5750's Guru3d
Motherboards.org (not overly familiar with them)

It seems that 2 of these at stock perform slap bang in the middle of the 5850 (just below or equal to)and gtx 285 (above)

So consider this:
The cheapest roughest 285 is the ocuk value one at £219 (branded ones being £269)
The cheapest 5850 is £240 from VTX

Yet you can get similar performance to a 5850, and something thats better than a 285 with dx 11 for a meer £185 (2 x £92.99 XFX 5750)

For a low-mid end budget gaming rig you can get nice performance for £55 less that a 5850

Guru3d clocked ther samples to 836mhz core and 5312mhz memory so the benchmarks shown in there review could be improved upon!

Thoughts an opinions?

 

[xGaffner]

To be honest i'd rather have have a single GPU for the extra £40 more.

 

[Toastor]

They are a very good card for the price, but bear in mind that the 512MB of memory will hold them back at higher resolutions, even in crossfire.

 

[pieman109]

Plus you gotta have a Xfire mobo thast does at least x8 + x8 on the pci-e bus. Also the 5770 with 1gb ram being not that much more expensive, offer better value I'd have thought. Would still appear to be exceptional value for money though.

 

[Zenduri]

consider that the 5750 comes with collin mcraie dirt 2 which you can sell for £20 each so you can recoup £40.

So £185 costs -£40 brings it down to £145.. 5850 performance for £145 is a steal to be honest.

Yes the mobo with crossfire is an issue for some but 75% of boards seem to accomodate crossfire.

 

[Greebo]

I still think you will regret having only 512mb memory tbh. Two 5770 giving better than 5870 performance is a better deal. Same thing there, you can sell your two dirt 2 and recoup £40.

 

[OCP]

just get a 5850 for under 200 when u can.

 

[Geckovich]

I'd rather have 2 5770s for £220 to be honest.

 

[muppetkiller]

I got 2 5750. I was not going to wait for the 5850 and i also got the 5750 after selling my old cards for next to noting. Have them overclocked to 800/1300 each and are doing fine at the screen res i play at 1680x1050.

 

[Zenduri]

At the end of the day im talking about a budget rig thats available to be purchased today and offers decent performance at a decent price.
£185 without selling the 2 copies of dirt2
£145 after selling the 2 copies fo dirt 2 is a good price IMO