Xfired 4870/4890...

[Cheesepie]

I'm building a setup for a friend. I have a few things I would like to ask:

1. Would this max out Battlefield 3, Crysis and Skyrim at highest possible settings at 1280x1024?

2. Would a 600 watt power supply be enough for this and a Phenom II X2 560 overclocked to 4 ghz and unlocked cores?

3. Would Xfiring a 4870 and a 4890 be possible? If so, what's the performance decrease going to one 4890 and one 4870 from just plain 2x 4890s.

 

[lavaheadache]

1. I would assume yes
2. yes, as long as iit is a quality non abused psu
3. I think it is possible, and the decrease would be minimal. less than 5% depending on the clock speed of the 4890

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

I'm building a setup for a friend. I have a few things I would like to ask:

1. Would this max out Battlefield 3, Crysis and Skyrim at highest possible settings at 1280x1024?

2. Would a 600 watt power supply be enough for this and a Phenom II X2 560 overclocked to 4 ghz and unlocked cores?

3. Would Xfiring a 4870 and a 4890 be possible? If so, what's the performance decrease going to one 4890 and one 4870 from just plain 2x 4890s.

1. Easily max out Skyrim, Crysis and BF3 would play maxed with frame problems.

2. No, I recommend at least 750w.

3. Yes, it would perform just like two 4870s.

 

[SlowSpyder]

The only potential problem I see with that set up is that I doubt AMD is putting a ton of effort into driver improvements for the Radeon 4xxx cards. But at that resolution, I would give it a go, I wouldn't be shocked if even the single 4890 made games pretty playable at that resolution.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

I wouldn't be shocked if even the single 4890 made games pretty playable at that resolution.

+1

I know a single 4890 will run skyrim beautifully at that resolution

 

[bullbearish]

I've got xfired 4850s and I run BF3 at 35 FPS on high. Can't do ultra.