omg!! need help

d_brennen said:
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IMO multi card set ups are a bit of a waste of money. Buy the best single GPU your budget will allow. The size of your screen has a lot to do with this too. You have a screen already?

Some of the i7 bundles on here are mighty tempting, though nothing is pushing my E8400 too hard at the mo ;)
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soz guys i got all my repliys all in the wrong place lol and then y is it b better to get a single core gpu than a 2 core or a crossfire setup wots better haveing like one x2 card from ati or 1 single core or 2 single cores in crossfirre i just dnt get :(
 
i think it's always best to get the best one card you can afford - and then later if you want you can upgrade to crossfire / sli etc

other people may feel different to me though :)
 
stokecity_m said:
one i picked - comes to £640.95 - but you could always get a cheaper board etc.
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kool man im deffo gunna do my resherch before i fink about buying my gear. ive sent a email to overclockers to ask them if they do a custom setup and overclock it as well wait and see what they say. at first i fort that mb from gigabyte was gd u knw the extreame one with the air/watercooled south and northbridge heatsinks but tbh do i wanna spend all that money for just that i dunno im finding this all too pussling sorry if i making this sounds all too confussing i just need sum adivce on every thing lol
 
At this point in time multi GPU systems don't scale performance/price wise. 2 x 4780s won't be twice as fast as a single 4870 card for 99% of uses.

Single high performance cards give better bang per buck if you like, certainly in your price range.
 
i have heard that sum were i fink it was on a crysis form i here that many users have trouble gettin crysis to use both gpu's in dual mode in the game and conqetly dnt get what they paid for knw wether theres a simple way round like a update or bios tweak i dunno but u prob sound right the best single core card ive seen from the 4790 series is the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4890 Atomic 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card which is also the derest but i fink bloody gd lol. now unfortonly i dunno what frames id get if i got this card in my intel setup thats the thing my new rig has to be made for crysis its gotta be able to kick sum ass. any forts :)
 
Most games won't use the full power of i7 so you'd not notice much of a difference by going down the Phenom II route. Video encoding is owned by i7 at the mo, but for games it is overkill.

In my honest opinion get an AM3 CPU/Motherboard and use the change to treat yourself to the best GPU you can afford, lots of fast DDR3 RAM and a copy of Windows 7 64bit.

There are people who will disagree i'm sure, I'm no AMD fanboy, flame on!
 
hmm yeh but why shud i go 4 second best i knw if i have another amd setup its goin to be a lot cheper and i cud prob get mroe 4 my money but thres not a gd choice of quard corse motherboards with ddr3 surrport and has 3 or more pci expree 16 with true speed in sli or crossfire running at x16 is there?
 
Multi GPU is all well and good, not the be all and end all it should be.

Phenom II or Core 2 Duo/Quad and single card for gaming
i7 and tri sli/Crossfire for posing lol
 
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err u lost methere lol. here ive got a amd setup here what do u fink would it be better if i slaped 4 4850 1gb (single core) in or just have 2 (single core)4870 1gb ?

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail

MSI 790FX-GD70 AMD 790FX (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard

OCZ Platinum 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C7 1333MHz Dual Channel (OCZ3P13334GK)
 
i fink u lost me there guys lol. here what u fink i got a amd setup here what would be better having two 4870's (1gb Single core) or 4 yes! 4 4850's (1gb single core) in crossfire what would be better remembering this is to be able to run crysis wars online :)
 
sowa616 said:
i fink u lost me there guys lol. here what u fink i got a amd setup here what would be better having two 4870's (1gb Single core) or 4 yes! 4 4850's (1gb single core) in crossfire what would be better remembering this is to be able to run crysis wars online :)
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Do many people still play this? To be honest I'd rather play CSS and my laptop can run that at 1680x1050 maxed lol :)
 
right well ive now come to a cimple conclusion if i wanna get more for my money i gunna have to have a amd setup this is one of them what u fink guys i fort by having all 4 4850s in crossfire will give me a lot of headroom for furture gaming or would i just better off with 2 4870's i dnt fink i can offord two 4890's ill have to price them all up but out the two what is best either having 4 (4850s in crossfire) or 2 (4870's) in crofire what do u preferre what would be better

this is what i got so far

(1x) MSI 790FX-GD70 AMD 790FX (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard

(4x) Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4850 1GB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) -Retail

(1x) AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 250 3.00GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail

(1set) OCZ Platinum 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C7 1333MHz Dual Channel (OCZ3P13334GK)
 
Your post's make my head hurt, a little grammar and punctuation wouldn't go a miss.

Good not gud
Thought not fort
Think not fink.

Thank you. :)
 
4 x 4850s seems like a huge waste of money imo, have a look for some multi gpu benchmarks. X number more cards don't give X times the power.

Single (or dual gpu on one PCB, like the x2 ATI cards) high power card ***

4890 1GB, two in crossfire if you must. Anything else is good money wasted imo
 
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