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Power color 5770 119.99 shipped AR @ egg

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I was about to post this deal then I saw it was only the 512Mb version of this card.....the zipzoomfly deal that has the 1GB version for $124 is much better.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2060144


After looking at reviews of the new Nvidia video cards, crossfired 5770's is the best deal. For around $250, you get amazing performance about equal to a Radeon 5870, cool and quiet running video cards, and DX11 support.

I wish the Anandtech review of Fermi would have had crossfired 5770's in there so we could have a better perspective of how it compares, but if you look at Anand's old review of crossfired 5770's, it's right up there with a 4870X2 and 5870.
 
gigahertz20 said:
I was about to post this deal then I saw it was only the 512Mb version of this card.....the zipzoomfly deal that has the 1GB version for $124 is much better.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2060144


After looking at reviews of the new Nvidia video cards, crossfired 5770's is the best deal. For around $250, you get amazing performance about equal to a Radeon 5870, cool and quiet running video cards, and DX11 support.

I wish the Anandtech review of Fermi would have had crossfired 5770's in there so we could have a better perspective of how it compares, but if you look at Anand's old review of crossfired 5770's, it's right up there with a 4870X2 and 5870.
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Indeed many people are discovering the power and value of two...

There was a 250GTS for like $70 in here... two of those beat a 5850 by 10-20% for half price.
Two 5850's beat nV's new flagship/Thermi by 20-50%, now if we can get them back to $250 again - 50% faster for same price.
Two 5770s beat 5870s saving over a hundred bucks.

and so forth.

Another bonus is if your card goes out you still have one while other is being repaired.

Not a real fan of the x2 cards anymore. Each one I ever had had issues 7950 gx2 failed and I'm on my second 295. Turn around is painful. Next time I'll go two card route.
 
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Zebo said:
Indeed many people are discovering the power and value of two...
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There's a problem... not all computers can handle two.

Example: My LAN party rig is a socket 775 mATX setup with only one PCIe x16 slot. I picked up a mini ITX DFI P55 chipset board that's the same way. :awe: My wife's current rig is a P43 chipset board with only one slot. My HTPC is mATX with only one slot. The system I'm building to replace my wife's rig is P55 with two slots but no SLI support, only Xfire.

If it costs more to get a system that can handle the two cards, how much money do you really save?
 
I don't know about that. My itx mobo was hella expensive (i think $179) much more than your basic gigabtye overclocker which can handle xfire and sli. Some mATXs can handle it too.

...but yea takes some planning or luck on mobo part.
 
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Does the extra 512 mb even help?

Its so memory bandwidth limited and the extra 512 mb didn't help the 4850, which is a similar performing card.
 
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