I was wondering if dual 7850s were a good idea for the games I play I like to play fps games and shooters Like Battlefield Cod and Minecraft. I looked around and found some benchmark and it seemed that the 7850s beat a 7970 in all these games
Yeah, I think dual 7850s is worth having for FPS games and Minecraft. Providing you are not using lots of mods for games like Skyrim, you will have plenty of performance with that setup.
I had two xfx 7850's (1gb vram) and in the end swapped them for a single 7970, best thing I ever did.
In the instances where crossfire compatability sucked (e.g the only option was to turn off one of the cards) one card on its own didnt have enough grunt for good gaming at the res i wanted.
Since then we now have better drivers so it might be a different story today.
well I was looking at Msi 7850s wit 2gb with vram each
I thought you had a 7850 currently? I would advise grabbing a 7950 and overclocking it. A single card will give you plenty of performance.
With graphics cards, it doesn't come down to FPS results. Having a high performing card with 3GB of Vram would prove much more useful. If you wanted to run mods and such.
Crossfire and SLI setups can have problems. Not all games support dual GPUs.
If you do not allready have a HD7850 dont even consider it lots of games do not support crossfire a lot of them dont work well with crossfire and there is allso waiting for new crossfire profiles on new games it can be a minefield of disappointment.
Right now HD7950's are on fire sale and can overclock to 2-3fps away from a overclocked 7970Ghz (you can find them cheaper than two hd7850's)