Advice needed on upgrade....

[TimInIreland]

This might be a silly question, but my system currently has two MSI R6870 OC AMD cards running in Crossfire. I was thinking of selling them both, to buy a Geforce GTX 590 card.

Question is, will i see that much difference to justify the cost?

Will the answer be, Hell yeah, like day and night.. Or hmmm maybe a little bit better.. lol

I play Xplane 10.. and need all the power I can get lol

Cheers.

TiM

 

[beejjacobs]

Get this instead:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-144-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=938

590 is old now and very expensive really. With a single card you'll have no SLI or crossfire problems.

7970vs590:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/516?vs=508

 

[Woden]

Hold out a little longer, the new nVidia offeringsa re due at the end of the month

 

[notthemilkybark]

Hold out a little longer, the new nVidia offeringsa re due at the end of the month

Only the midrange stuff initially though. The high end will be a longer wait.

 

[ALXAndy]

You're better off with regular SLI than getting a 590. It would probably work out cheaper and faster.

 

[TimInIreland]

Not sure what to do at the moment... Thought i would benchmark this just out of curiosity...
I just ran Cinebench and got a score of 64fps... Then i disabled crossfire, and got the same score !
So either my crossfire isnt actually working.. or Cinebench only tests single cards?

 

[Doomedspeed]

Not sure what to do at the moment... Thought i would benchmark this just out of curiosity...
I just ran Cinebench and got a score of 64fps... Then i disabled crossfire, and got the same score !
So either my crossfire isnt actually working.. or Cinebench only tests single cards?

Have you got GPU-Z? It will tell you whether Xfire is running or not.

 

[TimInIreland]

Downloaded it, and yes its running in Crossfire. I have another question tho, I had a look inside the PC, and they have one card installed in the x16 PCI slot, and the other in a x8 slot... there is a spare x16 slot inbetween them... Wouldnt it be better to have both cards in x16 PCI slots?

 

[beejjacobs]

If it's crossfire they will both be running at 8x anyway, so it's for better air flow having them apart.

 

[Doomedspeed]

As above, it shouldn't effect how it's running though it may be worth trying it in the other slot. I doubt thats the issue though. Unless its a motherboard that Runs X16 X16.

What motherboard is it out of interest?

 

[TimInIreland]

As above, it shouldn't effect how it's running though it may be worth trying it in the other slot. I doubt thats the issue though. Unless its a motherboard that Runs X16 X16.

What motherboard is it out of interest?

Its a Gigabyte G1 Sniper