Best Card on the Market for CoD

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Originally Posted by Heliocon

No they dont - how many of these ATI cards can you link up? How much will it cost to cool them? Can I buy three or even four of these and have them in crossfire?

edit-made me lol: http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/03/08/ju...on-benchmarks/

I think that when talking about bang for buck, most of us don't mean multiple GPUs. For the majority of people what it translates to is "the cheapest single card solution for a given performance range or the fastest one for a given price range, preferably one that i won't have to upgrade again for the next year or more".

In that department, Ati have been ahead during the 4xxx and 5xxx series. Heck, the first time i bought an Ati card was when i got my current i7 rig almost two years ago. I initially bought a 4870 which was defective/damaged during shipping so when it died i used the 3 year warranty and exchanged it for a 4890 which i still have. I'm very pleased with it, it runs well and cool and has more vRAM than the more expensive nVidia GPUs of that generation. If i'm 10fps ahead in one game and 10fps behind in another, i don't care much about it. It does the same job overall for less money and that's good enough for me.


If you mean bang for your buck in regards to multi-GPU setups for expensive rigs to run every single new game at maximum detail then yes, i agree there's other variables in the mix, but it's not what most people have in mind when they are talking about building a well-rounded, capable system on a budget.