Hello all!
Long time viewer of the forums but always found my answers with no need to start a new post until now. Ive looked all over the net but cant find much. Any help would be much apprechiated.
Tax time is right around the corner and Im looking to upgrade my Power Supply to something over the 700 watt range for a little headroom and to pick up another Video card to crossfire for that much needed gaming performance. My question is...
Can I Crossfire my Radeon 5850 with the newest 6870? If so would it be better with this configuration as opposed to X2 5850's? The 6870's are cheaper and a little bit better performer than the 5850's from all my research so I would rather buy a 6870, if it would be a good configuration. I just haven't ever crossfired, so im not sure the best way to set it up.
Another question would be...
I also thought about updating the CPU instead at a Phenom II X6 1090T and would be paying around the same for the second video card. Would it still be better to get the second card instead of the CPU as far as pure gaming performance? Or would I hit a bottleneck and would I see better performance gains with the new CPU instead. From what ive gathered, the CPU difference although quite better will not give me as much as a performance gain than buying a 6870 and setting up crossfire. Any thoughts?
Thank you for any information that will help me
Long time viewer of the forums but always found my answers with no need to start a new post until now. Ive looked all over the net but cant find much. Any help would be much apprechiated.
Tax time is right around the corner and Im looking to upgrade my Power Supply to something over the 700 watt range for a little headroom and to pick up another Video card to crossfire for that much needed gaming performance. My question is...
Can I Crossfire my Radeon 5850 with the newest 6870? If so would it be better with this configuration as opposed to X2 5850's? The 6870's are cheaper and a little bit better performer than the 5850's from all my research so I would rather buy a 6870, if it would be a good configuration. I just haven't ever crossfired, so im not sure the best way to set it up.
Another question would be...
I also thought about updating the CPU instead at a Phenom II X6 1090T and would be paying around the same for the second video card. Would it still be better to get the second card instead of the CPU as far as pure gaming performance? Or would I hit a bottleneck and would I see better performance gains with the new CPU instead. From what ive gathered, the CPU difference although quite better will not give me as much as a performance gain than buying a 6870 and setting up crossfire. Any thoughts?
Thank you for any information that will help me