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Is this sensible?

davedudes

davedudes

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Im looking to get a new high end rig sometime in september, just would like your view? Im thinking of selling my 5870 and go for maybe a 470 in SLI, maxed out total i can spend (includes everything) would be about £1,700, any views would be great.;)

Id love to play BFBC2 maxed out, so quad is essensial :P
 
No, it is not sensible. Once you get your CPU sorted you'll be able to run the game at max no trouble at all even with -one- 5870. Really, why would you replace your card with 2 inferior ones ? Mate, once you're sure to need more power just buy another 5870 at that future point, with bargain prices and all.


In short, your idea makes no sense, as far as GPUs go. Good luck with planning the build though, I'm looking at building a new rig of my own at around the same time. However, I'm aiming at getting the ATI refresh most likely. 470s in September, in a 1.7k quid build, really ? Perish the thought !



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With my old [email protected] and a single overclocked 5850 (had 2x5770 but sold them), I have maxed out the gfx at 1080p on BF:BC2.

You need new CPU though, since BC2 pushes the it to the limits due to the Havoc engine and few more bits. Better to invest on a 6 core AMD or an i7 or a Q9650 and a H50 for huge overclocking, just to keep it cheap.
(Since you have the mobo).

You will see big improvements with the 5870 you currently have.

Also don't forget BC2, has such frentic multiplay that you barely see anything from the smoke on many maps. (which is CPU).
If you try to see the scenery, you are probably dead and you cannot see it either way. :D
 
Panos said:
With my old [email protected] and a single overclocked 5850 (had 2x5770 but sold them), I have maxed out the gfx at 1080p on BF:BC2.

You need new CPU though, since BC2 pushes the it to the limits due to the Havoc engine and few more bits. Better to invest on a 6 core AMD or an i7 or a Q9650 and a H50 for huge overclocking, just to keep it cheap.
(Since you have the mobo).

You will see big improvements with the 5870 you currently have.

Also don't forget BC2, has such frentic multiplay that you barely see anything from the smoke on many maps. (which is CPU).
If you try to see the scenery, you are probably dead and you cannot see it either way. :D
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You see a lot more going on if you turn off 'Bloom' but then, that does defeat the purpose when you want it to look as nice as possible. Though they did go a bit overboard with the bloom effect on some level's and in vehicles.
 
davedudes said:
Im looking to get a new high end rig sometime in september, just would like your view? Im thinking of selling my 5870 and go for maybe a 470 in SLI, maxed out total i can spend (includes everything) would be about £1,700, any views would be great.;)

Id love to play BFBC2 maxed out, so quad is essensial :P
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Just spent £1300 on a new rig (building it today) of which £550 spent on i7 930 /Gigabyte UDR3mobo/6gb DDR3 RAM, and £393 on GTX 480 - from what I understand from benchmarks the 5870 is virtually as good as a 480GTX and wouldn't be worth an upgrade. Admittedly SLi has great scaling now and 2x470s do outperform a 480 but for about £200 more.

Will let you know what performance gains there are from system and GPU upgrade as I will be benching with old and new GPU in both rigs. I have a feeling you should either get a i7 bundle on its own (the OCUK overclocked one below is ace) or add in a second 5870 in crossfire as well (which will be nearly as good / better than 2 GTX 470s depending on what game you play.) The second 5870 will be £320 rather than £600 for 2x GTX470s. :)

i7 4Ghz bundle: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-046-OE&groupid=43&catid=339&subcat=

second 5870: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-214-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1502
 
davedudes said:
Im looking to get a new high end rig sometime in september, just would like your view? Im thinking of selling my 5870 and go for maybe a 470 in SLI, maxed out total i can spend (includes everything) would be about £1,700, any views would be great.;)

Id love to play BFBC2 maxed out, so quad is essensial :P
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You can max BFBC2 with one 5780 unless your running at eyefinity resolutions.
 
Err, I wouldn't advise you to go down the crossfire route on a P45 as it's will only disappoint you based on reviews (and here) I've read and anecdotal evidence as well.

Despite what the authors of those reviews have said the x8/x8 isn't an issue (P55 crossfire works just fine with little or no drop in performane) but the chipset is for some reason it just doesn't handle multiple video cards very well compared to it's bigger brother X48.
 
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Does he really need a quad core? The guy has a huge overclock on his E8400, yes Battlefield 2 Bad Company can use all 4 cores of a CPU but all the game does is spread the work load across all 4 cores and there nowhere near to being maxed out.

Heres a screen shot of of stock Core i7 920 with two cores and HT disabled paired with HD5850. Even here BF2:BC isn't maxing out the CPU, this game is GPU bottlenecked as are most top games but I can't see how he can't max out this game with a HD5870 unless he is just being greedy.
 
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