Here's what Im stuggling with: The Gigabyte UD7 is an ATX board, but a quick Google of the layout show's I'll still need a stupidly big case. This is it in situ: http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/2476/20091223123817.jpg Now in a Tri-Fire or Tri Sli setup the bottom card will hang off the board, meaning a case with 8 back plates is needed. * The PCA70 only has 7 * The PCA77F has 8 but isn't out yet * The P50 has 8, but the length of a 5870 is 11.1 inches or 281 cm, the length of the P50 is only 290, and I dont really want things that cosy Which looks like it leaves me with an armor suit, which is fooking enormous. I mean I can't be the only person who want's Tri cards, what are other people using?
always love a good 2.5 k build...ill build you a rig for 65% of the price that will have 90% of the performance. we'll split the rest of your budget and i'll go buy me a nice new mountain bike...how does that sound? edit: actually, on here, you probably are. sli and crossfire, forget tri-sli or quad-fire, is so buggy that many games will actually suffer in performance. the position by most on this forum is one card (to rule them all)
God damn it, you people and your sensible spending I was reading an apparently CrossFire scales exceptionally well. http://benchmarkextreme.com/Articles/HD 5870 TriFire/P1.html In all those games benched there was a sizable jump in FPS, enough to satisfy me anyway Hurrrm will keep looking
lol you game on a 22 inch monitor... absolutely NO need for 3 cards. Get two 5870's, and your gonna have all the performance you could ever need in the current card gen.
lol, yeah. damn us. that article is a good read, but a little misleading. sure it may give 3+ times the performance of a gtx 285, which is no slouch. but not 3+ times performance against itself, which is the real measure of how it scales. many times you see a pretty decent jump in from single to a dual setup, like 65% or better, and a few triple card setups i thought showed another 50% or better over a dual. no it's not the best bang for buck, but if all i played was those couple of games, i might be in on that. but the majority of those scenarios showed a 25-40% or so gain single to dual and even smaller gain dual to triple. i persoanlly just cant stand the thought of spending $1200 + to get a 70 fps when 50 fps for $400 will do just fine.
