Hi,
I currently have a 6790 in my system but was wondering what would be better either a 7850 or 2 6790's in crossfire, I can't find any benchmarks online which is why I amcoming here as I know, well hope I can get some answers.
Thanks,
ackel006
If you buy a second 6970 it will for SURE be faster BUT you have to toss up if you think it is worth your time because of driver issues and games not wanting to work with two GPU's, also you have to make sure you have AMAZING airflow in your case to keep the two beasts cool. Also make sure you have the most beastely CPU possible as you dont want to have my experience of a MAJOR bottlenck. (my CPU is an i5 2320).
I am kinda talking from experience as I own a HD 6990.
How well do you think a 4.5Ghz 2500k will cope? I wrekon it can take it.
he is talking 6790 not 6970 i would try to get a7870 if you can
That's the thing over here in the UK as you can guess everything is rather expensive compared to over in the US despite the pound being worth more. I would cost me a good £170+ for a 7870 and I could pick up a 6790 by Sapphire for maybe £90.
if all you can do is 7850 then thats how i would go. crossfire/sli will give you a headache...
I would reccomend getting a 7850 which you can crossfire later.
The 7850 2gb version plays games nicely and overclocks nicely as well
if your motherboard supports it... and your powersupply can handle it. get the 6790. you'll get more fps then the 7850. the crossfire headache isnt that big of a deal people -.- all major games have excelent crossfire support and the ones that dont arent even worth using both GPUs anyways. if he was asking "should i get 7950 or 6790 crossfire?" then yes get the single card. but against the 7850 the 6790s will do significantly better.