5850 Crossfire

i almost grabbed a second one last week to go crossfire, but got an H50 and a 60GB vertex instead. plus, mine are hard to find. XFX vanilla 5850 (not black, not xxx edition), and i'm not willing to pay more for my second card than i did for the first one. guess i will be waiting.
 
I most likely will be getting another 5850 for my new setup. Looks like same as you guys 2 xfx
 
I got two Powercolor 5850's going into a $4,000 gaming build for a customer. I am drooling like Steve at a bra factory to get this beast built!
 
ir0nw0lf said:
I got two Powercolor 5850's going into a $4,000 gaming build for a customer. I am drooling like Steve at a bra factory to get this beast built!
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Are monitors including? I assume that includes the price of an Eyefinity setup?
 
Running two 5850's here. One is an Asus and the other is a Sapphire. With a 3.3ghz i7-860, both cards score 23k in 3dmark06.
 
I am wanting to do an Eyefinity setup with 3 only of the DVI's but i have heard that I will need to wait for the driver to be updated for crossfire support
 
tollickd said:
I am wanting to do an Eyefinity setup with 3 only of the DVI's but i have heard that I will need to wait for the driver to be updated for crossfire support
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yea i am also waiting for eyefinity crossfire support before i buy my second card
 
veedubfreak said:
Mind if i ask why 2 5850s instead of a single 5870?
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Because 2 5850's are faster, by quite a bit. I also have 2x 5850's, though my second is currently in my girlfriends computer until eyefinity works in xfire and I can afford the third monitor :O
 
veedubfreak said:
Mind if i ask why 2 5850s instead of a single 5870?
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No choice. Would've gone 5870, because they were easier to find too! But my case setup and watercooling got in the way... So it's a good compromise. I seem to get consistent scaling on everything I've tried playing using 5850 xfire.
 
vjcsmoke said:
Are monitors including? I assume that includes the price of an Eyefinity setup?
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Nope on the Eyefinity. 26" WS LCD, i7 920, 12GB RAM, 2x1TB drives, 1000W modular PS, gaming KB, gaming mouse, Blu-Ray burner, $200 case, $100 sound card, $350 speakers, dual 5850's, liquid cooling on the CPU, $350 mobo, etc. etc. Was more around $3600 after rebates.
 
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