bigmike84

The RAM I bought was rated for 1600, my BIOS automatically set it to 1333. From the looks of it I can just go in and change it to whatever I want, so if I were to go in and put it at like 1600, would I have to mess with any voltages or anything? Thanks

thx for the replies. I'll just use DVI, can make use of the HDMI cord for my PS3 or something.

Probably a pretty noob question, but would I use HDMI if my video card and monitor offers it, or should I be using DVI? I know for HDTV's and stuff, HDMI is the best possible connection, I don't know much about monitors, and I'm clueless on how good DVI is. Thanks

Thanks for all of the replies. Selling the card would yield me less money - because it would be considered used. I'm just going to keep it, and pick up a second for Crossfire. This way I'll have the power when I need it for hardcore games, and a single 5850, or 5870 would probably be overkill for games like WoW. Yet just picking up another 5770 will give me better performance than a single 5850, or even 5870 like others have said. Cousin of mine works at a Microcenter, and he can use his employee discount + gets them cheaper anyways. Doubt I could help ya out, even though I wish I could . Thanks again for all the responses, but this will be the cheapest route for me, and probably will give me the best results after reading more on the issue. You guys rock.

Sorry, forgot to mention, Resolution would be 1920x1080. Yeah, in my earlier post I was planning to buy the card, and if I can get it for $50 less than retail, I'm thinking it may be a wise thing to do - just to have the power for more powerful games you know?

I received a free Sapphire HD 5770, and since I'm going to be building a new computer (decided on an i7, all top-quality stuff) I thought I'd pick up another and run Crossfire. I mainly just play World of Warcraft, but I will be playing Aion, and the upcoming games such as Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, etc. I'm wondering if this card will be able to max out settings on those games, with what type of frame rates. I know people say WoW isn't much of a GPU game, more of a CPU, but with an i7-920 overclocked to over 3 Ghz and 6GB of ram I think I have that covered, but some say that WoW actually does take a decent card to max out shadows and AA, will I be able to do this? Should I buy another 5770 for $110 (I can get them cheap locally)? I've heard they scale extremely well in Crossfire, so I'm guessing if I need the extra horsepower, two of those should suit me quite well instead of spending over $200 or $300 for a 58xx series. Your thoughts, opinions? Thanks a bunch.

I'm going to be using Crossfire with two 5770's, and I've never used a dual GPU setup before. What card would I plug my monitor cable into? I'm guessing the first PCI-E x16 slot, and I'm assuming the second card will be going through the Crossfire bridge? Thanks for the answer and help.

I'm trying to decide to go with this setup: Board: ASUS Crosshair III CPU Phenom II x4 965 Black Edition GPU: Radeon HD 5870 RAM Corsair Dominator DDR3 (1600) HDD 640 WD Black I have a Corsair HX750W and Antec 1200 case already, and a DVD burner. I could go with that setup, or spend a bit more, and get less quality parts on an i5, or i7 on 1156 socket. I heard that AM3 is going to support the new AMD 6-Core CPU's though. So if I can spend less, and still be future proof without having to buy a 1366 socket, would that be the best route to go? I can pretty much make the best AMD platform, for a lot less money than a decent Intel rig. Only thing I see that I would lose is SLI support - but I plan to just use 1 card anyways. How does that build stand up? Also, does that RAM work with that board, can anyone confirm? thx