Is it worth the upgrade

[TeKEffect]

hey guys I have a core 2 Duo OC to 3.8ghz and a ati 5850. I was thinking of getting another one to crossfire. Do you think the cpu would bottleneck. Or is it fast enough to support 2 cards?

Thanks

 

[joelmartinez]

Are you running above 1920x1080? if not buying another card would be a waste of money, try overclocking with msi afterburner

 

[joelmartinez]

I think the GPUs won't be bottlenecked badly, but there certainly will be some bottleneck

 

[TeKEffect]

No 1680x1050. The price of the cards have come down I was thinking it would let enable AA and AF and get me ready for some next gen games

 

[joelmartinez]

Yeah there really cheap but I think an overclocked 5850 will be fine for even next-gen games, if you have to have the warranty buy now, but if not snatch up a 5850 from ebay once the 7000 series is released, they're only getting cheaper and you should be fine for now.

 

[TeKEffect]

That sounds good. I'll go for the OC now. And if a game comes out that wont run on ultra settings I'll get one then. Might end up only paying $100 for all that processing power.

thanks Joel

 

[joelmartinez]

Sounds Good

if any of your friends has a 5850 just buy their's in a year, friends tend to give you better prices