I have the option to buy a 3rd 260 for tri sli or to sell my 260's and get 2 5850's for CF. I am running a i7 920 at 3.8 Ghz. Cost is no factor, what should I do if I want the best possible performance? Gaming on a 1920x1080 32" Panasonic Viera s1 TV.
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5850 CF vs. GTX 260c216 Tri SLI
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Michaelius
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Why don't you just buy single 5870 or 480 ?
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he has the cpu to back it up and its certainly not overkill for a few games if he wants to crank the settings.
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If cost is no factor, CF 5870s or buy a 5970. 
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5850s as i believe i remeber reading quite a bit that tri sli has alot of scaling issues along with driver issues. But again like somone else said if cost is no issue 5870's or a 5970 would be great. Imho the 2x260s should hold you over till later this year when "allegedly" new derivatives of Nvidias Fermi and Ati's evergreen are supposed to be coming about.
Don't quote me on that last part
Don't quote me on that last part
Does the water cool them or they boil the water?
and learn to read, the OP obviously said cost for 5850CF vs the cost for 260 tri sli is not a factor.
cost not being the deciding point here then the crossfire 5850. Going TRI GPU (any kind) is almost ALWAYS going to net you less then two better gpus, or even gpus of the same caliber. (its actually possible to reduce your performance by adding a third and forth card depending on the game and drivers)
What he said is quite clear. If he had said "which of these" then you might have an argument, but he didn't.
Are you ignorant about water cooling or is this a lame attempt at a joke?
Sorry I wasn't clear on the "cost is no factor" comment, I was referring to the two options only between tri sli and xfire 5850s. I just think 2 5870s might be overkill for mh resolution. I've decided on the 2 5850s I think, thanks for the advice!
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+1 to CF 5850s at that res
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get the CF setup, because then you can eve more 5850s... I plan on getting one myselft, though i just bought a SSD... and well dont want to talk about it hehehe
Dude calling one 5970 a 5850 is uncool and wrong since a 5970 has the same amount of shaders than a 2x5870
Dude calling one 5970 a 5850 is uncool and wrong since a 5970 has the same amount of shaders than a 2x5870
I think he was saying 2x 5850's in cross fire or 1x 5970 whichever can be found cheaper
Yes, this.
Ok well after receiving my two Gigabyte 5850 reference cards tonight I quickly installed them and updated the appropriate 10.3 drivers and installed CCC. Everything seems to run fine except for two glaring problems:
1. After setting screen res. to 1920x1080 the window does NOT fill the entire screen. I run a 32" TV and there is a 1/4" black border horizontally and a 1/2" border vertically.
2. Text is blurry. I am thinking this may be linked to my first problem....
I played a bit of BC2 and the framerates are much better than my 260's. But the horrible text and the lack of fullscreen are a problem. If anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated!
1. After setting screen res. to 1920x1080 the window does NOT fill the entire screen. I run a 32" TV and there is a 1/4" black border horizontally and a 1/2" border vertically.
2. Text is blurry. I am thinking this may be linked to my first problem....
I played a bit of BC2 and the framerates are much better than my 260's. But the horrible text and the lack of fullscreen are a problem. If anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated!
Manually add a custom resolution & refresh rate in CCC, or look for the overscan option.
Also try different connections DVI-DSUB DVI DP and lastly HDMI (problematic)