Graphics card Advice

[Garcian Smith]

yanamaster said:

NEVER!!!!!   .........    ...... ;(

Well 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$ :/.

Sadly, Crossfire probably just won't work. The technology involves having two different video cards alternate rendering frames, except getting two video cards to communicate with that level of precision creates a whole host of problems, mostly related to microstuttering. Microstuttering can actually cause a 60 FPS game to play like a 30 FPS game, complete with increased input lag, so there's really no point to it; it's just a higher framerate without any of the benefits of a higher framerate.

If you really want to max out games at any common resolution lower than 2560x1600, a single 5850 will do you just fine.

And don't worry about Crysis 2. Even today, the first Crysis brings even a 5970 to its knees at max settings/AA/resolution. And that game was released in 2007. I don't expect that anything lower than a 5850 will even be able to run Crysis 2 at playable framerates on high settings.