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[Solved] 4850x2 or 4850 crossfire

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papereyes   09-22-2009 at 09:21:20 AM

Hi All

I have a 4850 1gb card at the moment, I just brought the LANPARTY JR P45-T2RS that enables me to crossfire my card.

Was thinking what do you guys think is best?

Option 1
Buy another 48501gb card and X fire on my motherboard
(although i read that with my motherboard it will share 16 lanes between the 2 cards (bear with me i'm a bit of a noobie on this) - Will there be any deterioration in performance?

Option 2
Ebay my existing 4850 1gb card then buy a 4850 X2 1 gb (price differential between that and a 4850 1gb is 30GBP (which I'm hoping will be made up by ebaying my old card)

Any preferences?

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Given those two alternatives, I'd probably run two separate cards to ensure I could run a single card if and when xfire problems arose.
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darkvine   09-22-2009 at 09:27:23 AM

4850x2 scales better, takes up less space and while a hot card doesn't pump out as much as 2 single cards.

So I would say 4850x2.

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Ehsan W   09-22-2009 at 09:37:24 AM

actually...since you already have one, I would think Xfire them
performance should be a little lower though, but it'll be cheaper
but if you have time and money, 4850x2 is the way to go


Message edited by Ehsan W on 09-22-2009 at 09:37:44 AM
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swifty_morgan   09-22-2009 at 09:48:47 AM

A friend of mine has that board with 2 1gig cards in cross fire... get the second 4850. It'll be fine.

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Twoboxer   09-22-2009 at 09:57:34 AM
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Given those two alternatives, I'd probably run two separate cards to ensure I could run a single card if and when xfire problems arose.

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moricon   09-22-2009 at 08:51:24 PM

sell 4850, then buy 5850 tomorrow!

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obsidian86   09-22-2009 at 09:02:31 PM

or use the 4850 with a 4850x2

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