Graphics card Advice

[yanamaster]

Soleron said:

yanamaster said:

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Well when it comes to computers i prefer to have all my settings changed to high/ultra high and like to have minimum 60 fps. So i get upset when i have a good rig and games like Mass Effect 2 don't run properly when i apply AA above 8x. Or when i have to scale down draw distance in GTA 4 (yes, i know that the pc version is broken and not optimized, just like the force unleashed, but still). Oh wait, i want to play future games without hiccups, like crysis 2, that's why i'm thinking about crossfire.

Right now i have a very old monitor that cannot go above 1024x768 res but i plan on buying a new moniter with a tv tuner (why have two seperate when you can have 2-in-1 with all the bells and whistles?) that goes to full HD

Don't use Crossfire. Buy a single card with twice the performance whereever possible, there are numerous disadvantages of CF (power consumption, microstuttering, CF drivers not scaling with new/obscure games, and poor scaling in most cases anyway (only about +50% instead of +100% theoretically for a second card).

A 5850 would be a huge jump from a 4850 and allow you to turn all the settings right up even on high resolutions.

(Also, nothing you can reasonably do can improve GTAIV, just give up on that.)

NEVER!!!!!   .........    ...... ;(

 

Well i initially wanted to only upgrademy 4850 to another single card but the thing is that a 5850 card costs like >500$ for me in Poland and a 5870 is more like >700$ so you understand why i thought of using crossfire with two 5770 which would cost  about 450$ :/.