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5850 Crossfire or upgrade?

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March 2, 2011 11:30:20 PM

Hello forum! wanted to shoot you all a question about setting up crossfire 5850's or updating to a new card. Built this rig about a year ago and would appreciate some input my specs are as follows.

Diamond 5850 1gb

Corsair 750w
Gskill ripjaws 8 gigs 1600
I-5-750 2.6 (Overclocked 3.2)
Asus p7p55d-e pro

card was $314 when i bought it currently retailing for about $195
Considering another upgrade I do some decent amount of gaming

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March 3, 2011 12:48:42 AM

Well, if it's about $195 like you've said above then get another one and CF them, I think that's more budget-wise... :) 
But if you want a longer term then you can sell that HD5850 and get a new card like 69xx series...
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March 3, 2011 3:31:00 AM

was considering it but the crossfire wouldn't really up the performance really at all? and what am i looking at bottleneck wise? cpu possibly?
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March 3, 2011 1:00:52 PM

Nope, your current CPU speed (3.2GHz) is already fast enough without bottlenecking dual cards, don't worry about that.

6xxx series are scaled better on CF mode than 5xxx series card.
If I were you, I would sell that Diamond HD5850 and get a new card like HD6950.
A single card will gives you less problem, less heat, noise, and power consumption.
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March 4, 2011 12:15:54 PM

If you have a microcenter nearby, there are Diamond 5850s for $169 after rebates. This is a heck of a deal for the added crossfire framerates.

Though part of me agrees with wa1's take. The reason I quit AMD graphics cards on my multi-card setups is due to ever-changing driver issues in crossfire. A single AMD card works great. If you can get a single card with comparable output to two, it's always best to go with the single AMD card.
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