I know there have been hundreds of these threads, but its a big decision. I keep coming back to wanting a 4870x2 - cheaper, quadfire, cheaper Mobo compared to tri-sli. GTX295 - saw this article http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/ [...] index.html espousing the brilliance of the 295, but again, I'm not sure. GTX280 - sli has great results, but to upgrade requires tri-sli mobo, and they are going to stop making these (replacing it with 285). Can't afford 285, in UK the price is insane, dont want to buy a 280 then find no others around for sli...
Please help, there is another thread in the forum about a guy having trouble with the AA on his 4870x2...http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/page-259663_15_0.html
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Message edited by faridakoi on 02-09-2009 at 03:24:07 PM
the 280(285)s will require a motherboard change, it doesn't need to be tri sli, but it does if you want to eventually put in 3.
If your computer matches the specs in your members configuration page, none of these card setups will work in your computer, and if it does, the CPU will be right there to bottleneck.
I would suggest either upgrading CPU first, or grabbing a less poweful card.
What resolution do you play at?
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And you'd go for the single card/sli, but if pushed for performance, ATI cause of the price/performance.
Also for a tri sli fun time, do you need a mobo that does true x16 on each lane, or will the reduced speeds as on MOST boards be ok (i.e. x16, x8,x8)???
There should be I mean I can lower the times on my old asus board, though I haven't tried it on my current 1 since it runs 3 16x slots, I'm sure it could.
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lol 295 GTX is only 10-15% faster...its not quite Price/performance, but I mean at 2560x1600 or 1920x1200 in general is def not a waste. Only thing I don't like about the 295 GTX is the low Vram count compared to a 6 month old card like the 4870 X2. 6 months later and still no dx 10.1 atleast if your not going to do 1 gig
Even in games with 1680x1050 if AA is killer like 16 x it could stress a card even like a 295 GTX (Crysis again, and stalker ahahaha)
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