yeah in the majority of cases that is true. there will be a few games that will still have a fairly low minimum speed in some scenarios though. If the 5770 cards were about 30 bucks cheaper I might would give crossfire a chance.
yeah the 5830 will certainly not be 128bit. what does the rest of your system look like and what res will you be playing at?
a single 5850 is good for 1920x1080 especially when you overclock it. I would probably go with a quad core cpu before I would get something like 5850 crossfire though. I am running into a few games where my cpu is causing the bottleneck and thats just with a much slower gtx260. what I mean by that is games like Red Faction Guerrilla, Ghostbusters, and GTA 4 are causing just as much grief for my cpu as STALKER Clear Sky and Crysis are for my gpu.
3.8 and it still tanks in spots in those games. at stock 3.16 GTA 4 was too sluggish in many spots with the settings I was using. overclocking the cpu gave me 6 more fps in the benchmark and helped quite a bit though. Red Faction is demanding when the shit hits the fan and all that physics is getting done on the cpu. Ghostbusters will use 75-80% of a fast quad so there will be times that no dual core will keep the framerate out of the 20s with highest settings. besides those 3 games everything else I play is pretty much limited by the gpu if there is a limitation at all.
well I cant really decide at the moment but GTA 4 is way faster on an i5/i7 than a Core 2 Quad. I dont really want to change mobo/cpu/ram at the moment though because the overall cost is too hard to justify for just a few games. at the same time the Q9550 is not a really good deal at over 250 bucks either. I got through Ghostbusters already and the main story in Red Faction so I may just wait until I see a better quad core solution before going back to GTA 4. I was hoping to get a 32nm quad but it looks like those will only be Xeon cpus.
well it doesnt really play poorly but I cant run the settings at what I want to run them at though. I am not too far from maxing out the game but my cpu that will have me in mid to low 20s for minimums if I start turning things up. with a few things turned down it is fine at 3.8 and will usually not drop below 30fps too often.
