Best Performance - 2x ATI 5870s or GTX 295

A single 5870 is almost as good as a gtx295, so two are clearly a long way better.







Unless you play Last Remnant exclusively.

dual 5870 - period

jennyh   you are so affected I see

Relax, I don't believe in Toms benchmarks long time ago  . They are either idiots or biased. I leave this to them to choose  

I am looking at just ordering a system from Alienware instead of building it myself... they are charging $550 to go from a single 5870 to dual 5870s which seems like a big markup.

Is there anything tricky I am missing or can I just pick up a second 5870 myself and install it?

I know THG is biased, it always has been. I'm just getting increasingly annoyed at it lol.  

$550 does seem a lot. These parts are in high demand, but yes I'm sure you can just get a second 5870 and install it yourself.

Um.. a single 5870 performs on par with a gtx295.

I had a hard time finding a direct comparison of the GTX295 and the 5870, so just wanted to confirm.

Now I just have to figure out what to do about slots on the motherboard... the alienware comps only support 2 slots, so if I dual the graphics cards I have to use the onboard sound, which is annoying.

Alienware has a HUGE markup. I'd go with another brand to be honest. Even a Dell XPS, even though they own Alienware. Asus makes some sweet machines.

can 5870 run crysis on very high setting on 19" lcd

on a 19" lcd you will need a strong cpu