Card for Eyefinity

[Aman]

Thinking of upgrading to an Eyefinity setup, but after some reading it looks like my current card(5770) won't perform that grade.

Looking for opinions on if i should get another 5770 and use them in crossfire or just replace the 5770 with something else. Budget is around £150-250, i'll mostly be wanting to use the eyefinity setup with racing sims(iracing in particular).

 

[zebedeee]

if your current card doesn't support eyefinity and you have a budget of £150-£250 then i suggest you sell the current card and just go get an outstanding 6950 and then flash it to a 6970, you can get a brand spanker for 250 or a 2nd hand for 150-200

 

[Aman]

It does support eyefinity it's just from what i've read it doesn't perform particularly well. That brings me onto my next issue of space, an antec 300 case should fit the 6950 fine?

 

[zebedeee]

It does support eyefinity it's just from what i've read it doesn't perform particularly well. That brings me onto my next issue of space, an antec 300 case should fit the 6950 fine?

the measurements are fine but it depends on how the antec 300 internals are arranged, i don't know what the internals are like tho so i can't comment on the antec 300, it's not just space to fit the components you need to think about tho, you need to think about air flow restrictions such as wires been trailed thru to each of your components or where hard drives sit etc etc...
I can suggest another case that costs £30 more than the antec 300 and is an astounding case for wire tidyness, air-flow, capacity for all gcards available, space for all upgrades/expansions and even has the option to have your pcu draw it's air from the under-carrage of the chassis rather than drawing the air from within the case, the case i'm refferring to is the HAF 922.

i've written a review on this case already somewhere on this site but it was within another post, maybe you can find it by doing a search for the HAF 922, it really is a great chassis and highly silent too with high air flow

 

[Cleeecooo]

I thin k it would be better value for money if you got another 5770 (maybe even two!)

 

[zebedeee]

I thin k it would be better value for money if you got another 5770 (maybe even two!)

guess thats also another way to go about it,
but here's a few things to take into consideration if you go that way:-

will the motherboard accommodate more Gcards?
also will the pcu sustain more gcards?
has the chassis got room for expansion?

 

[Cleeecooo]

guess thats also another way to go about it,
but here's a few things to take into consideration if you go that way:-

will the motherboard accommodate more Gcards?
also will the pcu sustain more gcards?
has the chassis got room for expansion?

Oh, yeah,
Obviously if your mobo and PSU can support it, i'd go for x fire.
What mobo and PSU do you have?
if possible i'd get 2 of THESE

 

[Aman]

Motherboard is Gigabyte m68m-s2p

Will need to check psu in the morning.

 

[zebedeee]

pointless continuing the topic of crossfire then, only got 1 pciEx16 and 1 pciEx1...
motherboard can't accommodate crossfire

 

[Cleeecooo]

In that case get 6950 if ur PSU is good enough

 

[Aman]

Just to ressurect this, PSU is 500w OCZ, abit on the low side i think. Will it be enough for a 6950?

 

[zebedeee]

yes ofc it will