Should i get another 4890 for xfire?

[BS Dave]

I'd be buying it for Bad Company 2 which i'd be playing at 1680x1050

Currently i get ok framerates with everything on high except shadows on medium, aa x2, af x8, and hbos off

I plan to overclock my i750.

I've seen a sapphire 4890 exactly like the one i have for 125 notes.

I absoluetly love the game and expect to be playing loads of it - whenever the girlfriend is away...

Oh and i have a enermax 625 power supply.

I've seen people complaining about the x-fire not working on BC2 yet - is this true?

If i can play it at everything high, hbos on, aax4 and afx16 plus get better framerates i'm gonna be interested...will i notice a difference?

Any experiences/opinions welcome.

Thanks

 

[BS Dave]

This is the power supply i have atm

http://www.enermax.co.uk/products/power-supply/modu82.html it's the 625 one...

i'm currently running 3 hdd - 1 is a 74gb raptor, 4x80mm case fans, 1 x 120mm case fan, plus 2 pwms on the heatsink and a soundcard xtreme gamer i think...

Anyone else running xfire 4890s...what power supplies are you running...i don't really wanna have to buy a new one - i might as well get a 5870 then...

If i got one and the power supply wasn't enough it's wouldn't blow up right...? Don't wanna kill anything

 

[BS Dave]

ok so i can get cpu usage from task manager - gpu usage...???

 

[BS Dave]

thanks for all the replies fellas. I will overclock the cpu before i do anything else, and i think see what a mild overclock on the gpu will do - in CCC probably.

Yeah performance with 4890 is good in game - i'm just enjoying playing it so much i wondered how much better it would look with all the bells and whistles on.

Will download speedfan and afterburner as well thanks Marine.

C64 - thanks but no thanks - kinda see the 5770 as a bit of fail for ati - don't understand why they nerfed the memory bandwidth - just my opinion.

I've had house costs come in anyhow so will almost certainly wait until later in the year/ next year now anyhow...

 

[BS Dave]

sorry to annoy you rolypoly - i said it was just my opinion.

One 5770 just didn't have the performance i wanted... and i just can't help but think how much better they would have been if it had the extra memory bandwidth of a 256 bit memory interface. they were out when i bought my 4890 but i got the later for the extra fps i would get.

I'm sure your pair of 5770s are great, but this is way off topic.

 

[BS Dave]

Looking again at the benchies...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2856/1

5770 crossfire IS great, but one on it's own doesn't do quite so well...