5770 Xfire

[nothingspecial]

Speccing a new rig, and I'm pondering this:

is it worth getting another 5770 to run in xfire with the one I have in the current rig, or should I leave it in there and just get a 6870 for about the same price (100-120 quid)?

Any opinions/thoughts/experiences?

 

[dugdiamond]

get the 6870 - major step up

 

[Matthias2437]

I 2nd the 6870, that way you wont have a super outdated card and if you want you can pick up another in the future for Xfire.

 

[nothingspecial]

Figured as much. Cheers folks :thumbsup:

 

[Mr Muggles]

Speccing a new rig, and I'm pondering this:

is it worth getting another 5770 to run in xfire with the one I have in the current rig, or should I leave it in there and just get a 6870 for about the same price (100-120 quid)?

Any opinions/thoughts/experiences?

I'm gald you asked mate because I was thinking the same thing. Should I get another 5770? I paid £160 for my MSI HAWK only last year from ebuyer, then they crush my card with the 6 series.....getting annoying when they bring out new stuff EVERY DAMB YEAR and people can't keep up, most of us can't anyway.

Point taken about the 6870 though,

ta very much

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

If you wanted to run xfire i would sell the 5770 you have now and get a 6950. I think 2 5770s will beat one 6870 in most benchmarks.

 

[I Hunta x]

2x 5770's depending if there overclocked or not is in the range of between the 5850 and 5870 in 99% of tests i saw when they were the "new" cards,the 6850 and 6870 performs within +/-5% depending on the test as the 5850 and 5870 respectively, so your looking at about the same performance in games that have reasonable crossfire performance with 2x 5770's as you would be with 1x 6870, if it was me id sell the 5770 and get an xfx 6950 for around £165, its only £20 more than the 6870 and has a worth while performance boost over 2x 5770's

TLDR; 2x 5770 = 5850/5870 = 6850/6870 = not worth it just get a 6950 for £20-£25 more

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

2x 5770s = 6930 if that existed. It's definately more powerful than the 6870 - that card is pointless.

For the record, I used to use 5770 crossfire

 

[Mr Muggles]

If two GPU's (5770) perform worse then a 6870 etc why should people spend there money on these cards knowing that they will release something in 6 months that will render those cards obsolete! This is exploitation.

This really is quite disgusting from the manufacturers.

I spent £160 on my card only last year, you guys are telling me it's basically crap withing a year and I agree given the 6 series cards.

I don't like having the piss taken out of me, I doubt you do too.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

If two GPU's (5770) perform worse then a 6870 etc why should people spend there money on these cards knowing that they will release something in 6 months that will render those cards obsolete! This is exploitation.

This really is quite disgusting from the manufacturers.

I spent £160 on my card only last year, you guys are telling me it's basically crap withing a year and I agree given the 6 series cards.

I don't like having the piss taken out of me, I doubt you do too.

That's how technology works man, always has been. Your card hasn't lost any performance though, you still get the same image quality - use the new technology to your advantage by getting a beefy psu and truck load of old gen cards for half the price which usually beats the new gen. For example these two 5870s are better than a 5970 yet it's only £20 more than a 6970.

 

[Mr Muggles]

That's how technology works man, always has been. Your card hasn't lost any performance though, you still get the same image quality - use the new technology to your advantage by getting a beefy psu and truck load of old gen cards for half the price which usually beats the new gen. For example these two 5870s are better than a 5970 yet it's only £20 more than a 6970.

Where will it stop though? It's all very exciting hearing about new tech until you realise your hard earned money on the product you bought 6 months ago is now worthless.

Am I wrong?

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Where will it stop though? It's all very exciting hearing about new tech until you realise your hard earned money on the product you bought 6 months ago is now worthless.

Am I wrong?

It's not worthless, just not worth as much. Pentium 4s still run Windows XP the same way they've always done, they don't magicly become slower with new cpu releases, they stay _the same_ and everything else moves foreward.

Imagine you were 6 months in the past, you'd be saying "bargain!".

NES still looks good for what it was. A lot of games stand the test of time, hardware is like that too. If you are still using it to run the same software it's not going to lose any performance.

Without going too much deeper, coz this is the internet, every company is just out for the money, most people are just out for themselves - it's a rare marvel that you get small pockets of people giving freely like on forums etc - my brother was telling me how when he was speaking to an Intel agent back in year 2000 they had already made a 14 - 15Ghz cpu. Anyway, nuff said

 

[Mr Muggles]

It's not worthless, just not worth as much. Pentium 4s still run Windows XP the same way they've always done, they don't magicly become slower with new cpu releases, they stay _the same_ and everything else moves foreward.

Imagine you were 6 months in the past, you'd be saying "bargain!".

NES still looks good for what it was. A lot of games stand the test of time, hardware is like that too. If you are still using it to run the same software it's not going to lose any performance.

Without going too much deeper, coz this is the internet, every company is just out for the money, most people are just out for themselves - it's a rare marvel that you get small pockets of people giving freely like on forums etc - my brother was telling me how when he was speaking to an Intel agent back in year 2000 they had already made a 14 - 15Ghz cpu. Anyway, nuff said

You don't sound bothered at all. Money to burn?

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

You don't sound bothered at all. Money to burn?

Very few things bother me.

I don't care about any material thing really. Yeah sure if the house burns down it'd be dissapointing but one has to learn there are 'treasures on Earth where moth and rust consume'.

I didn't buy my hardware with loose change, I saved up £40 a month for two years

 

[I Hunta x]

my brother was telling me how when he was speaking to an Intel agent back in year 2000 they had already made a 14 - 15Ghz cpu. Anyway, nuff said

I HIGHLY doubt that, and even if they did it wouldn't have been worth the effort, after a certain point raw MHZ means very very little due to the physical capability of the core on the cpu,

Ill use SuperPi as an example as it only uses 1 core (atleast im 95% sure it only uses 1 core), a 7ghz Pentium 4 manages superpi 1M in 19 seconds, yet my core2 duo at just 4ghz does it in 11 seconds, why? because of the better core architecture.

You don't sound bothered at all. Money to burn?

Spending what your willing to spend on the latest tech is allways gonna leave you out of pocket very quickly but if you buy mid to high end parts they will last you for years.

Im still running on a core2duo and the low end version of the 8800gt(256mb vram) because i havent NEEDED to upgrade, the only reason im planning on upgrading now is because more games are actually needing the extra cores on the cpu and are needing extra vram on the gpu's for higher quality textures/models.

I can still play 99% of new games that come out with reasonable settings and the average age of the kit in my machine is probably around 3 years or so, yet i can still live with the performance and probably would do if i had to, the upgrade im doing will be high end parts and will hopefuly last me longer than my current machine has.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

The fastest CPU i know of is the IBM z196 at 5.2ghz.