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Crossfire Recomendation

Biohazard

Biohazard

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Hey, want to replace my 7300GT with two ATI cards..

I would like to keep the budget at around £150, new or second hand...

Still in the little card league, I ain't one for the eye candy games.

Anyone give any suggestions?

Last ATI I had was the ATi Rage Fury Maxx 64Mb two GPU thing, so as you can tell I am not up on their product lines.
 
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What screen resolution do you run, what games do you play and at what settings?

If you don't play at high res, dont play modern-ish games and at medium settings you are better off with one card.

One card is a better way to go than two as there are less problems with drivers and there is the problem of 1+1=1.7 when you use 2 gpu's.
 
Hardly, the 7300GT DDR3/7600GT/8600GT in SLI are decent options for midrange gaming systems. If you insist on Crossfire then you would do well with two of these. But when an extra fiver gets you one of these, it's difficult to recommend.
 
If you must go Crossfire then X1650XTs are the way - they're the slowest ATi X1*** series card that doesn't totally blow chunks.

Above that there's the X1950 Pro.
 
I think the guy does it for the fun of testing two cheaper cards in SLi/Crossfire rather than "best" performance.
 
I wouldn't say it's a complete waste of ones time, as Boogle proved in his Crossfire thread it can scale pretty well compared to SLi in games like Fear, where there really was near as damnit a doubling of fps using two cards :)

Of course its all budget budget budget ... if you can afford it then go for it ! It's your money after all ;)
 
Well yeah, If I had a meaty PSU, I'd maybe consider getting another X1900 as they can be had for so cheap now 2nd hand, but it would really muck up my carbon footprint :)
 
Tute said:
I think the guy does it for the fun of testing two cheaper cards in SLi/Crossfire rather than "best" performance.
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Pretty much.

Totally forgot about this thread.

Quite like your suggestions Crowze.

1280x1024, mainly CSS and Hidden (which can slow down), Civ 4 and a few others.

Also, am I correct in thinking that Crossfire does not require any sort of programming support?
 
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