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4890 xfire vs 5970

Jacky60

Jacky60

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I'm upgrading from 4890's at 900/1025 to 5970 and wondering if I'll see significant gains. Playing Arma 2, Crysis and Fallout 3 etc but Arma 2 is beating up my system.
If not would tri-fire with o/c 5970 and 5870 be best solution?

i7 920@4GHZ, xfire 4890@900/1025, Enermaw 1250 PSU, GB UD5 X58 mobo, 6gb Corsair DDR3, HAF 932, HANNS 5 28" Monitor
 
Quadfire is the most silicon horsepower you can practically stuff into a system today (2x5970). Tri-fire would be the second choice. If that much computing firepower won't do it for you at 1920x1200, nothing will.

At least for now.
 
You will see some performance gains, as a 5970 is about on par with 2x 5850 CrossFire, and obviously 5850 > 4890. Though at your resolution, I think even the 2x 4890s are perfectly fine.
 
Already committed to 5970 but with 4890 crossfire in Arma 2 get real slow downs (10-15 fps) and at 1920/1200 with 'normal aa and very high everything (xcept post processing normal) hovers between 20 and 40 fps mostly and just not quite there-i.e. drops to 20-27/29 too often. Also annoying microstutter -I'd call it pis poor fluctuating frame rate myself but whatever. Think we need a generation in GPU more before I'll get 60 fps all high and 4xAA
 
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