If I could justify spending $300 my personal choice would be an HD5850.
I'll never do Crossfire or SLI because to me it's just overkill unless
you have a 30" monitor and want the fastest FPS you can get. By the way,
by chopping my previous post you changed the meaning of what I
originally wrote.
On 2/18/2010 1:02 PM, Winterlight wrote:
At 07:20 AM 2/18/2010, you wrote:
I don't think it's the stability of the driver causing the need for
frequent reboots. The only time I've ever had difficulties like that
are from fold...@home GPU client misbehaving after my box has been
running for several days, overclocking the video HD5770 in my
experience.
Well, you may be right. I have disconnected my other monitors and
running just one 30 inch monitor off the second of the 4970s and it
is working OK. I might just have a bad video card. I have never seen a
video go out where they don't just die, but this one works and just
keeps crapping out the display requiring a reboot. I will be running
further tests to make sure... but right now I think one of my 4970s
went bad.
So what should I get to replace it? I run three monitors. I currently
have the two 4970s. one handles two 24 inch Dells and one handles a 30
inch Gateway. I need to replace the one that handles the 30 inch.
Would it be best to get another 4970? Or should I get a 5000 series
and forget about Crossfire?
Is there something I could get that would be crossfire in just one
card for the 30 inch. Even better is there a card that would work with
my existing 4970 to play games across all three monitors.
Any and all advice appreciated.
w
