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5970 or 2*5850?

Snakedoctor

Snakedoctor

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I am going to be changing my 5770s for one of the above. I am leaning towards the 5970 as it can be over volted. Should I get the XFX black, Asus or should I get 2 5850s?

Thanks
 
Evening Snake, I would go with 5970 as its similar performance as the 5850 crossfire but with the bonus of being a smidge quicker in a few things due to the extra 320 SPs and the fact its clocked identically to a 5850. Issue is it wont OC quite as far but you will find that with a res of 1920x1200, a stock 5970 is just a beast anyway and anything quicker is pretty much pointless.


Andy
 
Andrew Moore said:
Evening Snake, I would go with 5970 as its similar performance as the 5850 crossfire but with the bonus of being a smidge quicker in a few things due to the extra 320 SPs and the fact its clocked identically to a 5850. Issue is it wont OC quite as far but you will find that with a res of 1920x1200, a stock 5970 is just a beast anyway and anything quicker is pretty much pointless.


Andy
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Hey mate. I am so tempted by the 5970 hopefully Gibbo will have a great price.

Oh Mod for hire BTW ;)
 
I wouldnt advise upgrading a 5770 crossfire to a 5970, as they dont have much better Tesselation performance. While you will see much better FPS in current games, once games start using tesselation they wont have been that good a choice.

I've been looking to upgrade mine too, and were deciding to wait for the next ATI range after looking at the HD 5000 Tesselation performance numbers, but then got convinced by GTX 460 reviews to buy two of those instead :).
 
Andrew Moore said:
Evening Snake, I would go with 5970 as its similar performance as the 5850 crossfire but with the bonus of being a smidge quicker in a few things due to the extra 320 SPs and the fact its clocked identically to a 5850. Issue is it wont OC quite as far but you will find that with a res of 1920x1200, a stock 5970 is just a beast anyway and anything quicker is pretty much pointless.


Andy
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A ref 5970 can do 1000/1300 easy
 
It's going to be a tight squeeze in my case, Antec 902. I am prepared to slide a drive bay forward a touch. It will be encroaching on this. Wont look as "pretty" from the front, but the Antec is hardly a thing of beauty anyway. :P
 
One often omitted benefit of separate cards is that if one fails you still have a graphics card...

Also could be quieter (not certain on that).
 
This is true, however I have had a single GPU config since 1994 unless you count Voodoo cards! Its only the last year or so that I have run crossfire. I did have a 4870 go on me last year in single gpu config and it was very painful waiting for it to be RMAd. I borrowed a 6200 from work just so I could go online.
 
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