Upgrade - around £370

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I'm thinking of upgrading from an e6600 to possibly a phenom II 955 crossfire setup. I want to be able to get good frames etc... in the new titles that are coming out such as avp3 and bad company 2 etc...

I currently have a e6600, 2gb ram and a ati 4890 -

Thinking of buying an extra 4890 for crossfire

a Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD3P AMD 790X (Socket AM3/AM2+) mobo

a phenom II 955

2gb of extra ddr2 6400

and a coolermaster 212 for the cpu

Will this make quite abit of difference do you think?
 
Hi what res do you game at?

Crossfired 4890s are incredibly good yes but only really beneficial at 1920x1200 res or higher and also AVP is a DX11 game so you may want to consider selling your 4890 to get 5770's crossfired then go with the spec you suggested though i would go a single 5850 myself now they around £220 as that would be more than fine for a long while.

You should see quite a big performance increase whatever you decide, either if it's Crossfired 4890s/5770s or a single 5850 the leap will be quite massive since they about double fps(or near it haven't checked the benchmarks in a while) increase on most benchmarks from a single 4890 in comparison.
 
Sycho said:
Hi what res do you game at?

Crossfired 4890s are incredibly good yes but only really beneficial at 1920x1200 res or higher and also AVP is a DX11 game so you may want to consider selling your 4890 to get 5770's crossfired then go with the spec you suggested though i would go a single 5850 myself now they around £220 as that would be more than fine for a long while.

You should see quite a big performance increase whatever you decide, either if it's Crossfired 4890s/5770s or a single 5850 the leap will be quite massive since they about double fps(or near it haven't checked the benchmarks in a while) increase on most benchmarks from a single 4890 in comparison.
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I game at 1920x1200! Think im gonna go with this. The 4890's are faster than the 5770s, although not dx11 compatible, but this wont bother me too much. 4890's are faster than a 5870 too so i think im on to a winner - I mean the 4890 is only like 100 and odd quid now so seems like plenty of bangs for my hard earned bucks!
 
The only thing is DX11 is quite a big difference to DX10 judging by the video comparisons shown, i was considering to get a 2nd GTX275 for SLI but that's put me off a bit to now either get a 5850 or a Fermi when released.

However if you not fussed about it like i am then the 4890s will do extremely good for a nice while and that pc is pretty fine since the cpu sure as hell will not bottleneck their performance.:)
 
Simply hold off buying crossfire right now, nothing out there that will challenge your HD4890 really.

And later this year Nvidia might get it's act together, which should bring the prices down further allowing you get something more worth of your money.

I don't think the HD4890 will have any trouble with BC2 since it runs on the PS3 and xbox360.

But by all means got a quad core cpu, definitely a needed upgrade.
 
Well I got some more ram today and it's made a massive difference in crysis warhead - It used to jump before when the game had a lot of things going on and now it doesnt :D Say its added about 5-10 fps. Used to drop to 18fps but now only goes to a minimum of 25!
 
Remember not to use Crysis as the yard stick. Even today's High end GPU's struggle to have 3 figure FPS averages in that game.

Hopefully Crysis 2 will bring the Visuals without the torment ;)
 
Yes - Im just pretty surprised that an extra 2gb has made it playable now at high settings at 1920x1200, when before it would seriously lag when there was explosions and stuff! I didnt think it would make much difference
 
Don't bother with AA and it should be more like ~25 to 30. :D

Don't know why people don't like the actual game. I love the gameplay, and the sound is great too.

I think it's just let down by it's poor framerate and maybe some parts of the story.
 
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