Game_boy said:
What made you spend $1,100+ on a CPU and then put two midrange graphics cards worth a fifth of that each in Crossfire? Crossfire is unpredictable: it might increase or decrease performance, but never double it. Graphics > CPU, especially as most games barely utilise a second core never mind a fourth. One GeForce 8800GTX > Two Radeon 3870 for a similar price Also, why Vista Ultimate? At this point, XP is about 10% faster on most games than Vista, and DirectX 10 is always optional and in every game so far adds very little to graphics quality while reducing framerates by a third. When you got 4GB RAM, did you buy an AMD64-compatible OS? If not, about 1GB of that is wasted, and indeed on Vista (not XP) every 1MB of graphics memory you have directly removes 1MB from your system RAM. You probably end up with 2.5GB of usable RAM. |
I'm guessing someone wanted to make a powerhouse, and fell for all the marketing gimmicks like numbers and brand names without properly researching...
Yeah, I finally have a sig.
