Dual 580s in SLI or 2 5870s in crossfire

Heliocon · #1 02-19-2011, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

If I was upgrading solely for CoD I'ld wait till the game gets released till I made any major purchaces

Il-2 had issues with micro-stutters using SLI, I'm sure there are a few people around with SLI and crossfire rigs that can talk about any current issues

IF I was going to have the same computer for 5 years, I'ld want to find out about any performance quirks of the sim before getting it.

Also Bulldozer getting released in a month or so, so I heard, so it would be interesting to see the performance differences between the two main players.

I did a major upgrade a couple of years ago and locked myself into the socket 775 platform. A week later the i7's were released. Had I looked into it a bit further I'ld have waited.

Cheers and all the best!

Bulldozer is a CPU not GPU. But SLI and intel cpu's have better drivers and support than AMD tbh.

ghodan · #2 02-19-2011, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Heliocon

Bulldozer is a CPU not GPU. But SLI and intel cpu's have better drivers and support than AMD tbh.

Eyefinity menu's are better/more advanced then Nvidia surround view. Its like Nvidia implemented it only because ATI/AMD has Eyefinity. So like a after thought)
CPU's dont really need drivers as we know them for GPU's.

There is no game that will give you a problem/conflict with a AMD cpu.

Heliocon · #3 02-20-2011, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by ghodan

Eyefinity menu's are better/more advanced then Nvidia surround view. Its like Nvidia implemented it only because ATI/AMD has Eyefinity. So like a after thought)
CPU's dont really need drivers as we know them for GPU's.

There is no game that will give you a problem/conflict with a AMD cpu.

I havent used eyefinity myself, so I cannot comment on that.
CPU drivers I never said anything about. I was just saying the options were gpu's and I thought he misunderstood that.
2 580s can run 4 monitors and are muc more powerful cards, SLI is also more efficient then crossfire when you scale them (tomshardware).

Skoshi Tiger · #4 02-19-2011, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Heliocon

Bulldozer is a CPU not GPU. But SLI and intel cpu's have better drivers and support than AMD tbh.

Sorry for being holistic in my approach to upgrading hardware. If you reread He111's original text he says he is buying a new computer. Seeing how different sims vary between being CPU and GPU intensive and we have no idea how CoD will handle SLI/crossfire graphics (or CPU's for that matter) I would still make the same comments.

Cheers!