From my research the 5850 hits the sweet spot for performance vs price.
Granted that is a budget-driven decision.. and I'm a gamer and I want to
take advantage of the eye candy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Winterlight" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 17:01
Subject: Re: [H] 2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards
Equal?
At 04:42 PM 2/18/2010, you wrote:
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.
well I do have a 30 inch monitor, but crossfire in a multi monitor setup
has proved to be very annoying.
I was thinking of a HD 5770. Wouldn't this, on it's own, be faster then my
two 4870s in Crossfire?... (correction from my calling them 4970s
originally.)
If I popped for the 5850 would it be a benefit in a multi monitor setup
where the monitors differ in size?
By the way, by chopping my previous post you changed the meaning of what
I originally wrote.
Sorry, it was unintentional. I was just trying to clean things up so it
was easier to follow, I should of just left the first sentence.
Thanks for the help, I don't really know video cards.. I have no idea what
is what.
w
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
