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Second 5970, or 5870

snedie

snedie

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Okays, so I just started my season work on a farm that gets me my money to splash out on new goodies and I thinking to go for a GPU upgrade.

My current rig:

GPU1 - HSI 5970
GPU2 - EVGA GTX280
CPU - i5 @ 4Ghz
RAM - 4GB @ 1600Mhz
PSU - 950Watt Corsair (Yes, enough juice to run dual 5970's)
MB - P55-GD80 (Three full x16 PCI-E lanes)

Now I'm not exactly fussed on cost here so please try and keep any budget ideas refrained :cool:......But I don't want to just waste my money. Now I generally just impulse buy everything, but I've had a quadfire set-up in the past (Dual 4870x2's) and know that scaling in games isn't exactly brilliant but it is usually better overall in min-fps than Tri-Fire (4870x2+4890) which i why I haven't come to a conclusion yet.

Would Dual 5970's prove to be more flexible in the year or two to come when drivers are optimised (And BSOD fixed.....:mad:) and more DX11 tessellation games appear.....or would a Tri-Fire 5970+5870 prove better now?

Thanks for any input:rolleyes:
 
depends on ur resolution you use still i think 3 fire is better choice as it scales better.


edit: there is somewhere review made how quad fire trifire scares in games u should look in to that.
 
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My current basket:

1)HIS ATI Radeon HD 5970 + Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
2)OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB
3)Corsair H50-1 (My big ass ugly Ninja looks ugly)

Total (Inc Del): £676.85
 
I would expect that quadfire and perhaps even the trifire setup would be bottlenecked by the CPU anyway?
Might I ask why you want to upgrade the GPU? You've already got possibly the best card around, are you really desperate for a little more power for a lot of money?
Why not spend some of that dosh on a nifty little SSD or watercooled setup?
 
Already lasshing out on both......and at 5760x1080 even the 5970 bottoms out. It cant even launch Metro 2033 in DX11 with more than 12fps.
 
tri-fire is the sweetspot, quadfire is no faster than 3 and often slower. Add a 5870 if ur struggling. Sell the GTX280 while it's still worth something and if u must have physx replace it with a 9800GT or 9800GTX.

Or sell all ur current gfx cards and buy 2 GTX470s for nvidia surround vision.
 
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creed said:
tri-fire is the sweetspot, quadfire is no faster than 3 and often slower.
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Its is sometimes no faster & slower because if what you say was the case then there would be very little reason at all for people to go quad fire if there was never any gain.
 
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Final8y said:
Its is sometimes no faster & slower because if what you say was the case then there would be very little reason at all for people to go quad fire if there was never any gain.
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Agreed. With my Dual 4870x2 rig I was seeing a solid 14fps ~min higher in Crysis 1 than with a 4870x2 + 4890. But, in some games a higher average fps.
 
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