Another ATI 5770 to Xfire

[baron02]

Sorry another thread on ATI 5770 crossfire, currently got a MSI 5770 ATI card at the moment, Would it be worth getting another 5770 card to crossfire or wait it out till the refresh range comes in ? or get a 5850 /70 card ?

I currently game @ 1920 by 1080

Cheers

 

[gurusan]

Another 5770 in CF will be faster than a 5850, and also have twice the tesselation power as the 5770,5850, and 5870 all use the same tesselator

 

[baron02]

so before I go ahead and get another card to crossfire can it be any model or does it have to be the same brand etc ?

 

[gurusan]

any 5770 will do

 

[D1ngd0ng]

It wonn't have dbl the memory bandwidth though but doubt you will be saturating that

 

[baron02]

It wonn't have dbl the memory bandwidth though but doubt you will be saturating that

How you mean ?

 

[D1ngd0ng]

the cards are 128bit mem bus where as 5800 cards are 256bit

 

[baron02]

I see sorry thinking cap not on this morning

 

[baron02]

what the reliability like of the club3d cards ? or would it worth getting a XFX range / saphire ?

 

[D1ngd0ng]

Like I said I don't think it will make the slightest difference (I have a pair of the asus cards for voltage tweak, which I cannot use as fallout3 hates it) and certainly have no trouble running my games with all the bells and whistles. I was most intersted in the xfire setup for large sandbox games like GTA4 which benefit from the additional 1g of memory

 

[gurusan]

2 5770s still have 1GB of video memory.

and club3d is fine, but I think they have crappy coolers.