5850. The 5770s 128-bit memory bandwidth will come into play at higher resolutions and the 5850 is much faster than the 5770 in most cases.
yeah in the majority of cases that is true. there will be a few games that will still have a fairly low minimum speed in some scenarios though. If the 5770 cards were about 30 bucks cheaper I might would give crossfire a chance.No it doesn't. Two 5770's in Xfire kicks the crap out of the 5850 and is even faster then the 5870
No it doesn't. Two 5770's in Xfire kicks the crap out of the 5850 and is even faster then the 5870
We are to expect the HD 5830 to come in at about $220.00 right? Is it supposed to have 256 or 128 bit memory interface? I'm guessing 256 since it is a 58xx.
I guess I can wait two weeks... but maybe the 5770 x 2 is the best price point right now. I have almost ignored SLI and Crossfire since it came out so I don't know how it works at all.
128bit memory interface going to hamper things much?
My doctor usually says "Lets handle one thing at a time" right about now. Sorry, lol
yeah the 5830 will certainly not be 128bit. what does the rest of your system look like and what res will you be playing at?We are to expect the HD 5830 to come in at about $220.00 right? Is it supposed to have 256 or 128 bit memory interface? I'm guessing 256 since it is a 58xx.
I guess I can wait two weeks... but maybe the 5770 x 2 is the best price point right now. I have almost ignored SLI and Crossfire since it came out so I don't know how it works at all.
128bit memory interface going to hamper things much?
My doctor usually says "Lets handle one thing at a time" right about now. Sorry, lol
Yes but we cal all find it for at least 8% off and free shipping I'll wager. $211.00 ...not too bad there.
Yes but we can all find it for at least 8% off and free shipping I'll wager. $211.00 ...not too bad there.
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a single 5850 is good for 1920x1080 especially when you overclock it. I would probably go with a quad core cpu before I would get something like 5850 crossfire though. I am running into a few games where my cpu is causing the bottleneck and thats just with a much slower gtx260. what I mean by that is games like Red Faction Guerrilla, Ghostbusters, and GTA 4 are causing just as much grief for my cpu as STALKER Clear Sky and Crysis are for my gpu.I can get HD 5850's for $276.00 each with shipping paid and no tax right now. I Won'e be paying close to that for my second or I won't buy a second, unfortunatly.
a single 5850 is good for 1920x1080 especially when you overclock it. I would probably go with a quad core cpu before I would get something like 5850 crossfire though. I am running into a few games where my cpu is causing the bottleneck and thats just with a much slower gtx260. what I mean by that is games like Red Faction Guerrilla, Ghostbusters, and GTA 4 are causing just as much grief for my cpu as STALKER Clear Sky and Crysis are for my gpu.
3.8 and it still tanks in spots in those games. at stock 3.16 GTA 4 was too sluggish in many spots with the settings I was using. overclocking the cpu gave me 6 more fps in the benchmark and helped quite a bit though. Red Faction is demanding when the shit hits the fan and all that physics is getting done on the cpu. Ghostbusters will use 75-80% of a fast quad so there will be times that no dual core will keep the framerate out of the 20s with highest settings. besides those 3 games everything else I play is pretty much limited by the gpu if there is a limitation at all.Toyota what speed is your E8500 clocked at?
well I cant really decide at the moment but GTA 4 is way faster on an i5/i7 than a Core 2 Quad. I dont really want to change mobo/cpu/ram at the moment though because the overall cost is too hard to justify for just a few games. at the same time the Q9550 is not a really good deal at over 250 bucks either. I got through Ghostbusters already and the main story in Red Faction so I may just wait until I see a better quad core solution before going back to GTA 4. I was hoping to get a 32nm quad but it looks like those will only be Xeon cpus.Ah okay. I take it those games multithreaded. Are they? What is the quadcore equivelant of our CPU or better? I want to stay in my 775 socket and DDR2 a while longer.
I'll go a single 5850 maybe but not sure there is enough multicore support in games yet. I'll have to look into it. I'm pretty sure the 5850 crossfire will bottleneck even a quadcore socket 775 but that is expected until I upgrade.
What CPU you planning to get?
well it doesnt really play poorly but I cant run the settings at what I want to run them at though. I am not too far from maxing out the game but my cpu that will have me in mid to low 20s for minimums if I start turning things up. with a few things turned down it is fine at 3.8 and will usually not drop below 30fps too often.I've played GTA 4 on my current system and I can't say it was lagging or slow. No jitters or anything. I'm at 4GHz and run it on that 8800GT so... not sure, sounds odd it plays that poorly for you. I have seen games lately eating past 4GB RAM when i had all of my Radline installed (8GB). I just did a random check and the game was gobbling up RAM like crazy. It was past 4Gb total system usage. Don't recal what game. Maybe it's RAM??