i think im going to buy 4 5870's

hey guys hows it going since the 5870s are at such a great price and i want a quad setup would this be a good way to go or wait till the 6970's come out?

 

wait for the 6970s I'd rather get 4 6870s at the current prices (u say 5870s are priced wel??), oh and quad fire will be very problematic, I 100% discourage u from wasing ur money!!

 

i would go 3x6870 or 2x6970. atleast if u are in america though aus or uk prices are a little odd to me. 6870 are about the same pretty much as a 5870 and quad crossfire doesn't scale as good as 3 does. and the 6 series has awesome cf scaling so 2x6970 should be plenty

 

yup pretty sure 2x6970 xfire will be a much better setup

 

ok thanks guys

 

you'll have some problems with Quads trust me, three run great though.

 

lol 4 cards.. i really dont think you will need that much unless you want to run PS3 emulator on your pc.. which doesnt even exist as far as i know.

 

68xx series can only go in Crossfire, forget about quadfire because it only has 1 crossfire finger.

 

don't know the pricing of the 5870 in florida, but here in the uk they cost a £100 more than 6870. 6870 will more than likely scale better, run cooler, drain less power and cost a LOT less!!! Sure you can't run 4 of them, but what exactly do you need 4 top end cards in your rig? Unless you're going for some bench records? run cooler, drain less power and cost a LOT less!!! Also, are you planning to use them with the cpu in your specs?

 

Yo dude! I used to run 3 5870`s and it was megga powerful and will be for along time to come trust me. All I hear about quad fire is problems problems problems. TRI-FIRE allllllll the wayyyyyyy!

 

Yup firsthand experience here, Tri-Fire has worked great for me using a 5970 + 5870 setup. I am sure 3 5870's will work the same way, but for me I just over-clock the 5970 to 5870 speeds and higher depending what I want to do and, wallah there you have it !!

Also Please run the 3 card setup that you decide to get whether it be 5870,s or 6970,s on a high resolution monitor. I made the mistake of buying these cards and running them on a 21" monitor that only supported 1680x1050... >_>

It was like putting a Ferrari engine inside a GEO car... -_-

Now I have a 1080p 27" monitor so that is a little better but some day when the 2560x1600 resolution on the 30" monitors cost less money I will probably go that route.

Ok, enough of my jibber jabber for now.

 

I'd upgrade that CPU and ram to take advantage of them first.

 

i just bought 4 open box asus 5870's for a total of 800 bucks even from a local pc store that my father in law part owns he he says to come back because he is going to give me 12gbs of ocz gold ram and a case to fit everything:banana:all i need now is some hard drives and cooling and a dvd drive and im set

 

i do not have a camara but when my uncle comes over ill borrow his :banana:

 

^Awesome zoso, look forward to seeing pictures of this setup!

 

hell yeah man i look forward to getting the setup put together i love my i mac but i can wait to play crysis and metro on my tv

 

yeah pics please

 

that sounds totally awesome. bad analogy.

 

ill see if i can buy a camera quicki can take some photo's of my 11 week old son to=)

 

Grats! pics would be cool. If it were me though i'd go with 2x6970's, idk the price difference though.