What is crossfire?

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tman2damax11

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I'm looking to build a gaming pc with a low budget so i'm trying to save as much money on every component. My question is would it be better to crossfire say 2 cards with one gb of ddr5 memory and about $100 each or to buy just one $200 card with 2 gbs of ddr5 memory. My biggest questions is does crossfire only work with 2 displays or can it be used with just one? If you know anything about this please feel free to post!
 
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I would always choose the single biggest card if possible myself. If you can afford it go the single route rather than crossfire. Nowadays a lot of games will run up over 1 gb of memory on the card depending on your gaming resolution. As well crossfire works with one monitor or multimonitors. And, you can run multiple displays off of one card with no crossfire if you so desire. This being said though if you gave some more info on what kind of system you are putting together and what cards you are looking at it would be a little more helpful.
 
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Your best bet is to buy the best single card you can afford. Crossfire is great for high end systems. For a basic gaming rig it's better to get one good card. 2 cards in crossfire with 1gb each is just like one card with 1gb not 2gb. The amount of ram you need is based on the resolution of your monitor. For hi-res monitors or multiple monitors you need more ram.
 
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I'm debating weather to build a budget pc or get a next gen console because i'd have to give at leaat 1000$ for a new pc and just 500$ for a next gen console and for everyone wondering heres my current pc specks.

i5 2500k

radeon hd 6770 1gb ddr5 800 stream processors

8gb ddr3
 
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crossfire is something you shouldn't use until AMD fixes the problems with frame latency, dropped frames, runt frames, stuttering, etc. Google "Crossfire FCAT", and you will see this new method of testing measures pretty much what you will see as the images hit the monitor, which reveals these issues with crossfire. fraps fps measurements and benchmarks that use these don't represent real world performance so you will see, although crossfire improves fps measured with fraps, it doesn't translate into a smooth gaming experience and can often make the game run rougher than a single card, despite the fps being high.
 
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