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a 5970 is two chips on one card, so instead of buying two 5870, you get one of them.

there's a few speed differences, but that's it.

it saves occupying two of the motherboard slots.
 
stulid said:
a 5970 is two chips on one card, so instead of buying two 5870, you get one of them.

there's a few speed differences, but that's it.

it saves occupying two of the motherboard slots.
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So it's there way of saying why take two slots when you can take one and install a 5970 instead of 2 x 5870?
 
I just think your going to struggle putting it together.

then the bios is going to twist your head up.
 
PraxxtorCruel said:
So it's there way of saying why take two slots when you can take one and install a 5970 instead of 2 x 5870?
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Yes and no. Crossfiring two cards allows you to combine the power of two cards or two GPUs to attain higher performance in terms of framerates and graphical detail.

The 5970 contains two GPUs on one pcb unlike the 5870, 5770, Nvidia 480/470 etc which are single GPU cards.

Nvidia cards run in SLI which is exactly the same principle as ATI's Crossfire. The two technologies are not cross compatible strictly speaking although some have found ways round this.

The 5970 will occupy a single PCIE slot so you are right in saying that.
 
I just have this feeling, if I don't go for quality components I'll end up regretting it somehow lol. I have a 24" The reason I chose such an expensive mobo was for its upgrading capabilities, I was maybe hoping a couple of months down the line the extreme processors might drop to around the £350 mark and then would go about grabbing one. I just really want a pc that has great upgrading features, I chose that case as it is massive Im talking 63cm(l) x 61cm(h) x 22(w) can fit upto quad graphics etc has 10 extension slots or whatever, don't even know what they are used for lol. Let's just put it like this I want a pc I can upgrade a bit by bit, not something where I want to upgrade a certain component only to find out I have to upgrade everything else to upgrade that certain part lol.
 
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The Asus P6T7 uses Nvidia NF200 x 2, am I right In thinking this card is mainly for nvidia? What exactly are these NF200 x 2 parts? Okay I've decided to make some changes, should I go for an ssd which would be this one http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-008-KS&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat= and keep the 5850 vga or scrap the ssd and upgrade to a 5970 graphics card? I think I'll be going with the Asus Rampage extreme III as it supports quad at pci-e x16 and as it supports usb 3.0 whils the one I chose doesn't and for the fact that you can't run more then 4vga anyway.
 
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if you have never built a pc before (just assuming:p) why dont you build a cheap rig first get some experience and go from there. I know some people prefer a steep learning curve and jump in at the deep end but its a pritty expensive hobby to make mistakes on.

On another note if you do get your spec sorted here with the sound advice your being given in previous posts i wish you luck:D

btw an ssd and the 5850 for your resolution would be fine the 5970 is a little overkill:)
 
Thanks for that Jimmy, I'll be sure to knock on your door with my computer parts, I'm good at making cuppas :P.

Tell me what you guys think of this. This is at a steep budget for me heh.

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Jimmy23 said:
do you already have the cpu and cpu cooler?
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What?! Looool! I need extra coolers for those? Don't worry I'm not thinking of over-clocking. You wanna kill me? My family will be throwing lectures at me for the next 25 years for spending that much on a pc lol. Oh damn I also need one of those 2.5" brackets to put into a 3.5" drive right?
 
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