jack_of_java Posted November 8, 2009 Posted November 8, 2009 (edited) So here is the other question that I think a lot of people are forgetting about. Not only ask yourself if you really need CF, but does the rest of your gaming rig require a crossfire setup? Take myself for instance. When the 4850's came out, I immediately went crossfire because I'm pushing AA to max on my 30" Dell HD monitor. But, if you're running games at or below 1680x1050 (which i think is the cut off...correct me if I'm wrong), then why pay more for a very minimal FPS increase? As someone said before, unless games really take the potential of a crossfire setup, it isn't worth it. The games I happen to play are 50/50 with using crossfire. That being said, I've contemplated if I still need CF with my 30" monitors. I haven't been gaming much lately due to school, and haven't really looked at the newer games to see if there really is improvements that I'll see with crossfire. I'd definitely do more research on it before I went and spent more money for the cards if you don't have to. I'd start by reading up on more articles written here by the staff - they are very knowledgeable about the products and typically have a broad array of test banks to stress the hardware on. NEVER go by the reviews from Newegg or any other place you may buy the card from. Edited November 8, 2009 by jack_of_java Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puck Posted November 8, 2009 Posted November 8, 2009 (edited) Man I must be missing something. I have two 4850's running in crossfire in my x48 board and and moved my 4870's in crossfire to my new x58 board. Have not had a single problem running crossfire yet. I sometimes wonder around this place if the people giving advice have ever actually tried the things they speak of. +1 I have been running multi-GPU setups for years and have not run into these rampant problems people speak of with ATi cards, although SLI gave me problems both times I tried it(on rigs built for friends, since I do not use Nvidia graphics cards on my builds). Worst thing that ever happened with my multi ATi setups was that they acted like only one card, and the next driver fixed it. The only scalability issues encountered are usually going passed dual cards and into tri and quad-fire. Even tri-fire has some decent gains to be had though. As soon as I find a deal on a 4870X2 I will be going quad-fire...just to try it out *shrugs*. I think people are just still scared of multiple GPUs since when they started making their appearance a few years ago some situations had negative performance and poor compatibility...but things are a lot better now for both camps. **EDIT** PS: BTW crossfire 4850s spank a single 4890. Edited November 8, 2009 by Puck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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