Upgrade build gfx advice

[skyjawa]

Building a new rig and just waiting now for the IB CPUs to come out. I'll be going with a 3770.

My existing system has a powercolor pcs+ 5850 and I was thinking of picking up a cheap 2nd card for around £90 to run in xfire. I thought this would give me the best bang for buck.

However I could probably sell mine for around 100 and with the 100 I'd have spent on another card is there anything out there that would give me noticeably better performance? I suppose I could stretch to a max limit of 250 but rather stay around 200... Or should I just go with the xfire 5850's?

Thanks
Neil

 

[rolypolyman]

'However I could probably sell mine for around 100 and with the 100 I'd have spent on another card is there anything out there that would give me noticeably better performance?'

No

 

[DazQ87]

I used to run 5850s in crossfire, it was a powerful setup, probably just a behind a 5970 I would say in terms of performance.

 

[skyjawa]

Ah so pretty much what I assumed then that £90 ish to get me to Xfire 5850 is the best bang for budget

 

[jkkc313]

xfire 5850 sounds a good idea...