upgrade from 4890 crossfire?

[guadizba]

In one of my early builds I have 2 HIS oced 900mhz (default clock) 4890s in crossfire.

The rest of the rig consists of
Unknown chinese PSU 1000watt - but has worked really well
Asus p5q deluxe motherboard
4gb ocz platinum ddr2
Intel Q9650 - Oced @ 3.8ghz
H50 corsair cpu cooler.


Thinking of upgrading the GPUs for the DX11 generation. what would be the best route


1) 1 HD 5970 - but I dont think it would fit an antec 900

2) 1 gtx 480 - Hotter and maybe more power consuming than the above (esp if OCed) and very short supply - also may cost around the same - but good in tesselation

3) 1 x 2gb hd 5870 - unsure about price

4) 2 x hd 5870 - prob most expensive option (apart from SLI gtx 480)

5) 2 x hd 5850 - prob most reasonable - but future proof?

6) stick with 4890s and wait for DX11 to mature, or DX12

 

[guadizba]

2) and 4) and 5) are tempting

but at the moment going with 6) and looking also at possible new cpu

 

[guadizba]

Nothing wrong with your CPU.

No. It has grown a moustache, and looks at me in a funny way. Therefore must get rid of it.