5770 Crossfire or Upgrade?

well CF is one way to get better performance for a cheap price. 5770 in CF will equal if not a bit more powerful than 5870. if you can get something cheaper than a second 5770 but will perform better than 5770 in CF you might want to go for it. or if you particularly dislike multi-gpu setup just go straight for better card. btw i think you shouldn't replace your mobo if you don't want to change your platform. to me it doesn't make sense to replace something that aren't broken or will not gain you any performance advantage over the old one

Not true. If that's a stock processor, youll probablly be held back a little bit. Overclocking would do the trick, around 3.2ghz i guess

It is a stock processor..

Also, this may be stupid, but I got a new case and apparently my Dell XPS 420's mobo has a form factor of like btx or something which isn't really compatible with an 'after market' case. So I have a case with nothing to go in it because my current motherboard will not fit.

I am starting to feel that getting a new card over all would be the more efficient move. In the long term, that is. I don't like the sound of dropping 300 bucks for a new card that I don't really NEED... but I suppose it is def. worth the performance..

ps- I have absolutely no idea how to OC anything so that really isn't an option for me..

so far all dell mobo for dekstop part that i have encounter placed the mobo on the left side (from the front) of their case which is directly opposite to normal mobo we have. so if you try to put dell mobo after market cooler it will not fit correctly. regarding the OC most OEM mobo are not suited for overclocking. you're lucky if you can OC your cpu using OEM mobo because some OEM mobo does not have overclocking capability at all. btw did your mobo support multi gpu?

That was the other thing.. I honestly have no idea if it even does support multiple gpus...

Do the newer nvidia cards have multi monitor support? I have heard that Nvidia is the way to go.

normally OEM mobo does not support multi-gpu stuff. they reserve that for their gaming rig line up (such as Acer PREDATOR series for Acer).



if you mean something like ATI eyefinity, yes they have something similar. but you need to use 2 card to enable it since you can't use more than 2 monitor per card unlike ATI 5k series and above. regarding which one has better implementation both have their pro and cons so it depends which you like better.

Hmm... well i guess considering I do not have a second or third monitor to set up it really is not an issue yet. Though, I really would like to have a multi monitor setup in about two years.

I guess now the best thing to do is get a gpu that would last two years that I could sli or cf when the times comes to get another monitor. And I suppose I would need a mobo that fits my case and allows multiple gpu's.

any suggestions? I really don't care what type of mobo as long as it works..

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