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Topic # 55652 7-Jan-2010 13:14
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Unsure which to get, thoughts please?

Thinking I5 750 atm.

ALSO


Single Sapphire ATI Radeon HD5850 or Cross fired?

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I will be using the system to run games such as gta 4 and such in high detail.

He is a rough idea of the system i have atm.


Intel Core i5 750 2.66Ghz Quad Core Processor 8MB LGA1156
APACER 2GB DDR3-1333MHz CL9 Lifetime Warranty X3
GIGABYTE P55-UD Intel P55 Chipset Socket 1156
Seagate 1TB Barracuda 32MB 7200.12 SATA
BenQ 22x Speed internal DVDRW SATA
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD5850 1GB GDD5 PCI-E Video card X2 Or not?
THERMALTAKE Element G GAMING CASE
Gigabyte ODIN PRO 800W PSU 140mm FAN

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  Reply # 287798 7-Jan-2010 14:52
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Need more information in order to give useful advice... what's the rest of the system, budget, what are you going to be using it for etc.



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  Reply # 287802 7-Jan-2010 15:02
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Ragnor: Need more information in order to give useful advice... what's the rest of the system, budget, what are you going to be using it for etc.


Thanks.

Edited main post.

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  Reply # 288926 11-Jan-2010 11:40
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What resoloution is your monitor? Unless it's 2560x1600 then one 5850 should do just fine for all of todays games.
However if you want some future proofing the x58 platform has measurable benefits over x55 once you start SLI/crossfiring.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/p55-pci-express-scaling,2517.html
Up to you, does your budget allow for crossfire and an extra $200 or so on a processor and mobo.
If it does then x58 is top dog and is the best soloution atm for multiple GPUs but otherwise the extra expense is harder to justify assuming gaming is all you're interested in.




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