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crossfire or better card.

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im wondering about wether my new biuld should have one good card or two medium cards that use crossfire. what gives cheapest results? what gives best results? presumably one good card is more upgradeable because i can crossfire it later and only buy one card not two? thanks
 
More often than not though, crossfiring is a false economy when compared with just selling your old card a year after purchase and buying the currently best value high end card.
 
bobert50 said:
More often than not though, crossfiring is a false economy when compared with just selling your old card a year after purchase and buying the currently best value high end card.
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Very true. Even when it is a good idea, you shouldn't build a system with 2 cards from the start. It's meant as a way to add to your system.
 
mame said:
Very true. Even when it is a good idea, you shouldn't build a system with 2 cards from the start. It's meant as a way to add to your system.
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Sorry to disagree here, i bought the system listed in my sig just before Christmas last year and did a lot of comparing before i made my decision, i game at a max resolution of 1600x1200 and the 2 4850's give me more performance than anything available for that price - even taking into account of the fact they were not the cheapest 4850's available.

Keeping within a budget i had set myself, going crossfire was the way to go for me to get the most performance for my money.
 
i was thinking of going for the nivida geforce 9800gtx+ but thats not deffinate. i just saw a video of someone playing crysis on absolute max settings with 4 crossfired cards. so i wondered if it was a good idea for preformance but presumably that would be a verry expensive way of doing things and a bad cost/effec tivness ratio?
 
Well you will not be going crossfire with two Nvidia 9800's or any other Nvidia card as they are not crossfire compatible.
You need two ATI cards and a motherboard that is capable of crossfire.
If you want Nvidia then it would be SLi with a SLi motherboard.
 
isnt sli and crossfire the same? do you need different moptherboards then? dose the same logic still aply? is that a decent card?
 
To be honest i have an nvidia geforce 9600 at 512MB and I can run crysis on high just fine so you would probs be better just going for a 1024MB geforce if youre wanting to run it on very high and then Sli that card later if you want, as long as your components are all sli compatable. if they are only crossfire compatable then youll need to go with ATI.
As far as im aware you may be better looking into 9600s rather than 9800 cards. As far as i was aware 9800 cards are essentially rebranded 9600 cards with a higher pricetag, but if you are going for a better single card obviously youll be looking more upmarket anyway.
 
You have to bear in mind that linking two cards via SLi/crossfire doesn't quite yield twice the performance so getting one 1024MB card would work slightly better than two linked 512MB cards. Plus, as you said, it means you can crossfire/sli that card in the future if you so wished.
 
Thanks. Ive heard lots about the 4870 HD so i migt go with that. Would it be cheaper in the future to sell the card and buy a new toprange card or to buy another 4870 when the price is down? And will they all work on an i7 rig? Thankd
 
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