Crossfire

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Hi All

New to the forum, just got my new machine from OCuK

I went for the simple sapphire 4850 512mb card, and it runs everything I want to but im was thinking about getting another one for cross fire.

Not being an expert I was wondering whether it was worth it, Thing that worry me is compatibility with older games

Thanks
Dan

 

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Cheers for replies.

Mobo is the Abit Pro35XE , Memory 4gb of OCZ 1066mhz DDR 2, Q6600 running at 3.1Ghz.
Resolution is 1600x1200 from a 20inch Viewsonic Professional Studio Monitor

Old games I have had an issue with were Swat 4, (always love that game) and Train Sim 1, even with the spec of the system It has some framerate issues, but monitoring the card show its not working hard, I know its a direct x7 title so maybe that holds it back, but still like to use it.

The price of the card is currently around £110 so may go for another, crysis runs at 1600x1200 at 4x aa but any higher it begins to slow,

I just dont want to leave it too long to wait for more powerful games, and cannot find the card to match

 

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Ahhh you see, plain advice, i might have to wait and see what comes out in the future, and replace, altho I can see the 4850 doing well (well, when the system comes back from RMA)

 

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Yeah, looks like some new ATi' Cards to come soon, see if my overtime comes through

 

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Looks like it, lets see how they are priced with the lower value of the pound tho,

 

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Ha ha ha, I tried to stay away, but unfortunaly my new system had a faulty stick of ram, and the sapphire card has corruption, It was only 2 days old but I thought ill send the whole system back rather than the bits of there own as I cannot use it without it, so I am now stuck on my Old homebuilt MiTac laptop which is all good but the geforce go6200 didnt allow me to install CoD5 which puzzled me a bit

Admittedly its a very good card, and so far played everything I threw at it, I was looking towards the future. Infact reading this forum has put me off to be honest, what happens when Windows 7 arrives, will be it a new Directx 10. whatever or even 11, so Ill stay with this card until it comes home. The card is the 512 version and only single deck.

Only things I am purchasing for this machine is additions, such as new Joystick keyboard and mouse and so on.

 

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Cheers for that Graph, thats very handy to see actually. And I just realised I have the blue slot Hoover as you called it, just looked at a picture I took of inside the case. At the end of the day I got the PC as it was a month where I claimed a lot of overtime, and the ThisWeekOnly (RIP) deal was on the page, I had to grab it as the cost to build it was only an extra 40 quid, and seemed a great deal. The ATi Overdrive looks a good feature altho all it did was cause my current card to crash so hopefully the replacement will work a lot better

Cheers