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Originally Posted by Flyby
I am leaning towards a single GPU solution to start things off. Coincidentally I just read the review of the GTX-570 over at Tom's before coming here. Nicely priced, but for $30.00 more one can go with two Radeon 6850s in Xfire. Thing is sometimes the 570 outperforms that combo, like in Hawx2: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ce,2806-4.html
and sometimes it loses to that combo, as in Battlefield_Bad Company2: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...e,2806-11.html
So, with the cost being relatively close (Red = $380.00, Green = $350.00) it seems to me be be important to know if SoW will favor one GPU architecture over the other (if one GPU holds a significant performance advantage over it's competitor; if it's close I'd be for diverting the money savings to a better PC component).
I suppose that unless Oleg or Luthier is willing to chime in this is just a useless thread. I hope someone can see where I was trying to go with this.
Flyby out |
Well, if u get 2x6850 your pretty much at a dead end after that (lets face it, who runs 3 or 4 gpus)
If u get 570 u can later on upgrade to sli when they get cheaper, and like u say 570 sometimes beats 2x6850, costing less. In my book that makes the choice pretty obviouse.
1 gpu solution ALWAYS beats a 2 gpu solution of equal or slightly better power imo. Especially when the 1 gpu solution is cheaper.
In this instance 2x6850 has nothing going for it, nada, silch, zero.
Lol, dont know in how many other ways i can give u hints.
As far as wich brand will run SoW better (if any) i would guess Nvidia for reason given in earlier posts.