Hello everyone,
I was hoping you can help make my mind up for me.
For the price of ONE ATI 4890, I can get TWO 4850 which I can use in CrossFire. Looking at the benchmarks, two 4850's in CrossFire destroy an ATI 4890 (even when overclocked to 1GHz), nVidia GTX 260, 280, 275 and 285.
I have a 512MB 4870 at this moment in time and see no point in upgraded to a 4890 for a 10% performance increase when Crossfire 4850 can give me about 40% performance increase, at the SAME price as a single ATI 4890.
My problem is that I have heard so many nightmare stories about CrossFire regarding installation and in game problems. With this in mind, I want to stay with a single card solution. Would buying a 4870X2 bypass ALL CrossFire software? Is it seen as a single card in Windows and so eliminate ALL CrossFire related issues?
Ideally, I liked the Crossfire 4850 as Idle and Load power consumption is reasonable, whereas Crossfire 4870 and 4870X2 consume a bit too much power for me. Hence, why I am NOT going 4870 Crossife.
Any help is appreciated as I am looking to order asap.
Thanks.
I was hoping you can help make my mind up for me.
For the price of ONE ATI 4890, I can get TWO 4850 which I can use in CrossFire. Looking at the benchmarks, two 4850's in CrossFire destroy an ATI 4890 (even when overclocked to 1GHz), nVidia GTX 260, 280, 275 and 285.
I have a 512MB 4870 at this moment in time and see no point in upgraded to a 4890 for a 10% performance increase when Crossfire 4850 can give me about 40% performance increase, at the SAME price as a single ATI 4890.
My problem is that I have heard so many nightmare stories about CrossFire regarding installation and in game problems. With this in mind, I want to stay with a single card solution. Would buying a 4870X2 bypass ALL CrossFire software? Is it seen as a single card in Windows and so eliminate ALL CrossFire related issues?
Ideally, I liked the Crossfire 4850 as Idle and Load power consumption is reasonable, whereas Crossfire 4870 and 4870X2 consume a bit too much power for me. Hence, why I am NOT going 4870 Crossife.
Any help is appreciated as I am looking to order asap.
Thanks.