Crossfire - would I see much performance increase

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Hemps

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Dual Core 2.7
4GB DDR2 800
250GB Sata 2
2TB Sata 2
Asus motherboard with crossfire
RAdeon HD4850 512mb
32inch LCD

Would I see much of a performance increase if I buy another 4850 card before they dissapear altogether?
 
You would see around 50% increase in most games. I'd rather wait it out and get a 6000 series GPU (launch in November)
 
You would see an increase, but remember you won't have any dx11 support, which may or may not be important to you?
I'd rather try sell your current card and buy a gtx 460 1GB. You'll have to spend a little more overall, but that's the route I'd take...

EDIT: damn u Archer, beat me to it :p
 
Would the dual core setup not slow me down if I get a newer card?
Basically looking for an upgrade and not to spend too much cash.
 
I see the gtx 460 is around R2500 - that's a lot more than R1000+ for a quick upgrade.
 
Some games wont mind the dual core too much, and some will. The one that dont mind will love a new GPU of course. But I'd say your current system is fairly balanced right now, so rather stick with it, maybe try OC it a bit to get some more life out of it.
 
Hemps: could you post your motherboard, CPU & power supply models please?

The HD 5000 series scales a better than the 4000 series.
I would also rather wait for the 6000 series to arrive. Then the price on the 5000 series would hopefully drop or if you're lucky you can afford a 6000 series card.
 
But like I said does dx11 matter to you? What are the majority of the games you play? If you player the newest games, you going to have to wait for profiles to come out for each game, and/or driver updates.

I know it'll cost more, but if you sell your current card for R750 or so and get this http://www.landmarkpc.co.za/store/club-gtx460-overclocked-edition-nvidia-geforce-p-5289.html it's like R400 extra and you get an amazing card that will last you for another 2 years easy.. Given the 2 x 4850 will also be quite powerful but heat, noise and power draw will also be up, so it's a trade off really..

What does your upgrade cycle look like? 2? 3? 4years?
 
Makes sense - unfortunately not too many people here to sell it to.

I play mostly if not only first person shooters Unreal 3, modern warfare etc, I'm not the biggest gamer.

What I'll do is borrow some newer games and test them out, then add up all the sums etc.
Upgrade cycle is when I get pissed off from slow framerates.

Other option is to get a xbox 360 and borrow games from my buddies who have tone's

Thanks chaps
 
Ya if you jamming older games, then I'd just stay with 1 4850 for now, till you decide you want a full upgrade.
 
nakedpeanut said:
I know it'll cost more, but if you sell your current card for R750 or so and get this http://www.landmarkpc.co.za/store/club-gtx460-overclocked-edition-nvidia-geforce-p-5289.html it's like R400 extra and you get an amazing card that will last you for another 2 years easy.. Given the 2 x 4850 will also be quite powerful but heat, noise and power draw will also be up, so it's a trade off really..
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Also, don't forget that Crossfire scaling, particularly on the older cards, will never reach 100%. Hence a single-GPU card A with 2x the performance of card B will always outperform 2 units of card B in tandem.

As for your system, just telling us that your CPU runs at 2.7GHz isn't much help... a 2.7GHz Celeron is much much slower than a 2.7GHz Core 2 for example, and an AMD chip will usually be slower than its Intel counterpart.

Hemps, for selling second-hand computer hardware, have a look at http://www.carbonite.co.za/f14/ - just create an account, and post your stuff. If price is good it will go.
 
nakedpeanut said:
I know it'll cost more, but if you sell your current card for R750 or so and get this http://www.landmarkpc.co.za/store/club-gtx460-overclocked-edition-nvidia-geforce-p-5289.html it's like R400 extra and you get an amazing card that will last you for another 2 years easy.. Given the 2 x 4850 will also be quite powerful but heat, noise and power draw will also be up, so it's a trade off really..

What does your upgrade cycle look like? 2? 3? 4years?
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+1

Also, I have a buddy looking for a 4850 and R750 sounds about right. If you are serious about selling yours, pm me what make card you have and where you are located.
 
It depends on the resolution you play your games on.On low resolution you won't see much preformance boost if any at all. wat you really want with a sli or crossfire system is something like 30" dell ultrasharp lcd with 2560 x 1600 native resolution.
 
Pe-Killer said:
It depends on the resolution you play your games on.On low resolution you won't see much preformance boost if any at all. wat you really want with a sli or crossfire system is something like 30" dell ultrasharp lcd with 2560 x 1600 native resolution.
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I see you are running 2x 9800GTX's in SLI, so can we assume you have one of these screens? :D
 
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