AzuShika Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 (edited) Aye guys, my dad's told me that he'll give me $200 for my b-day and I wanna get new graphics cards (currently have 2x 8800Gt's in SLI) Anyway, I'm thinking of going for 2 of these 5770's and chucking them on crossfire. Hopefully I'll be ordering these tomorrow night, unless someone reckons that something else (for around the same price) would be better. Edit: I myself have around $200 to play with ontop of what dad's giving me. Lolol, sorry, wasn't really thinking when I posted this, can a mod move this to hardware section? Cheers. Edited March 10, 2010 by AzuShika Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!Chuck4Abuck Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 nice! you could allways get a 5870 and after get 2th one ? it sounds better to me , u still would get the fastest single gpu out right now and would def out preform your 2 8800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzuShika Posted March 10, 2010 Author Share Posted March 10, 2010 nice! you could allways get a 5870 and after get 2th one ? it sounds better to me , u still would get the fastest single gpu out right now and would def out preform your 2 8800 Interesting point, I should be able to throw another 100 or so at it, but I'm not sure whether a single 5870 will out perform 2x5770s.. Seems I got more reading to do :3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
<Jose> Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 id get the 5870, and maybe chuck in another 1 later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnionKnight Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 Interesting point, I should be able to throw another 100 or so at it, but I'm not sure whether a single 5870 will out perform 2x5770s.. Seems I got more reading to do :3 The 2x5770's will have higher performance and will be cheaper by $100 ($339 for 2 XFX 5770's, $439 for 1 XFX 5870) but if you have the money, go for a 5870 if you can fit it in your case (11-12 inches long so its 2-3 inches longer than the normal video card) Advantages of 1 5870: won't obstruct airflow as much, less watage than using 2 vid cards, will be more quiet obviously and trust me 1 5870 can play absolutely anything for the 10 years easily. -also in the future when the 5870 reaches the point where it is struggling to play games, you can xfire for better performance and maybe even tri-crossfire. EDIT: Also Happy Birthday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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