crossfire or new graphics card?

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

Hmmmmm.....

So, I've got a 5870 that works just great. I've been thinking a bit down the road too.

I think you have many options with 5770 and I think you should wait unitil Crossfire comes out in this sim, so we can see what the "real" performance in a sim is.

The sim community is littered with "poor hardware" choices made by folks who have based their choices on FPS tested products. Several years ago (in fact I think it was 2007) - Tom's Hardware used to publish testing results of FSX and rank the cards. Il2 and other sims scaled very similar to FSX - and you could pretty much rely on the test. But not any longer.

One of the things we are missing is comparitive testing within the CoD community on how these systems all scale.

There are many choices:

1) Double up on your existing card (another 5770)
2) Buy a 6970 and sell your 5770 on ebay
3) Pick up a 5870 2 GB at a good price (kind of hard - I wonder why)
4) Go Nvidea (if you can find a 2GB - Single GPU solution).
5) Wait a few weeks if not less...... (recommended)

Right now in CoD, with todays software - I can smoke a 6970 with my 5870. Why? No artifacts, no underclocking and who knows whatever else. This is what I'm seeing a lot of from 6000 series owners on all boards.

If you wait just two or three weeks, I'm sure you won't be sorry. Then at least we should be able to get some benchmarks from Crossfire in either CoD or RoF as both developers have announced that Crossfire is coming soon.

S!

Gunny