single 5770 vs crossfire 5770

[Magpie99]

Hi, I've recently purchased an XFX 5770 graphics card, upgraded from a BFG 8800 GT oc2 and I beleive I can see a difference.

However I have some spare cash this month and wondered if it was worth buynig a 2nd one of these cards to put into crossfire?

What I really want to know is will I notice any difference playing games such as MW2????

 

[Auraomega]

From pretty much everything I've seen, the 5770 scales amazingly well, most cases beating a 5850, occasionally trading blows with a 5870

So in short, yes worth getting one.

 

[Magpie99]

Thanks.

I'm torn at the moment between buying another XFX 5770 or replacing my Raptor drive with an Intel X25-M.

 

[hyperst]

if you like gaming, get the 5770, rather have faster smoother graphics than save a tiny amount of time that windows takes to loads

 

[Magpie99]

good point, I think you may have swayed me there

 

[arc@css]

Yeah, out of the two I'd grab the second card, better to have too much power than not enough!

 

[GoRedwings19]

There is a problem with crossfire 5770's and MW2. There is the thermal scope issue and the flashbang issue.

The frame rates is decent enough but the problems with the crossfire drivers for mw2 is seriously distracting.

 

[arc@css]

Yes, one improvement on one hand brings a potential downside on the other. Over all imo its been worth it.

 

[GoRedwings19]

Does it affect the 4870x2?

 

[arc@css]

Are you referring to MW2 (mp)? If so I haven't played the mp. Though there was ( a few drivers back) an issue where in cs:s you'd get the same effect with flash bangs, this I didn't mind, it made it easier to recover from the blindness, lol.

Regarding the 4870X2 I found that after quite a time the noise and heat began to irritate me where as to begin with it didn't, not sure why. The games that support dual gpu I have found on the whole very good. With some games I honestly wouldn't be without a dual gpu card, be it ATI or nvidia. I imagine that the high end single gpu cards like the 285gtx / 5850's and above are (over all) a little smoother and this also on the occasional game got on my mammaries as well. There are plus sides and down sides but I am glad I have tried it out.

Not sure if I'll grab a very high end single gpu card or anther dual gpu one in a couple of months or so, may even try two single gpu cards. Most probably will go for an nvidia dual gpu if I go down that route again, hopefully as long as its smooth since that is what made me buy an interim card in the first place.