Card advice for a 30" display

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I'm trying to put together a new system soon, investing the majority of my budget into the older 30" Dell (3007) first, and need advice on a video cards that will allow me to run at it's max resolution for a decent frame rate for games (currently just playing AoC). Not concerned with playing Crysis, or using max AA really, just high frame rates at max resolution.

Does SLI offer a huge advantage at this resolution? Would a pair of 4850s or 9800GTX be my best bet? Could I get by with a single 4850/9800GTX? Any advice is much appreciated.
 
4870 crossfire is the most powerful high end solution right now. You could get a crossfire capable motherboard and a 4870 and see if that's enough for your needs. If not, just add another 4870.
 
dochmbi said:
4870 crossfire is the most powerful high end solution right now. You could get a crossfire capable motherboard and a 4870 and see if that's enough for your needs. If not, just add another 4870.
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no, the gtx280 trisli is the most powerful high end solution right now

but that will cost you roughly $2000 ...

the 4870 times two is a good idea, at about $600

another good idea is the 9800gx2 - i saw one on here for $400 shipped and it should do you fine for gaming at your native [it was nib]

what i'd do is look over the last few [H] video card reviews - they do a fair amount of comparisons at 25x16 with different card configs - you should be able to gather all you need
 
hell a 9800gtx will do fine for most games you just cannot go total max eye candy and that is what i was using until the gtx 280
 
Going CF 4850 for my 30 inch 3007wfp-hc and 2x Dell 2007wfps. The 4870 requires two 6 pin connectors which would mean upgrading to probably a 1000W or 850W PSU when I really don't need to.
 
jamhamm said:
no, the gtx280 trisli is the most powerful high end solution right now

but that will cost you roughly $2000 ...

the 4870 times two is a good idea, at about $600

another good idea is the 9800gx2 - i saw one on here for $400 shipped and it should do you fine for gaming at your native [it was nib]

what i'd do is look over the last few [H] video card reviews - they do a fair amount of comparisons at 25x16 with different card configs - you should be able to gather all you need
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Two 4870s isn't the max. You think three GTX280s will beat four 4870s?

We just don't have a board that can fit four cards with dual slot coolers in them. If you watercooled they'd fit.
 
I've just preorderd 2 4870's for xfire, along with a new Q9450, a 1600mhz FSB Asus x38 mobo and 4gb of PC2-8500 ram

Oh theres going to be some overclocking going on this weekend.
 
soulesschild said:
Going CF 4850 for my 30 inch 3007wfp-hc and 2x Dell 2007wfps. The 4870 requires two 6 pin connectors which would mean upgrading to probably a 1000W or 850W PSU when I really don't need to.
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Hey, can you let me know how things turn out? I have a similar setup and have been contemplating getting ATI CFx because it is supposed to support multimon.

Also if you use SoftTH at all please let me know if that works with 2 4850s in CF.

Man, if it does, i would love to get 2 4970s in CFx.

Regards.
 
MrMike said:
Two 4870s isn't the max. You think three GTX280s will beat four 4870s?

We just don't have a board that can fit four cards with dual slot coolers in them. If you watercooled they'd fit.
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now you're just being silly ;)
 
MrMike said:
Two 4870s isn't the max. You think three GTX280s will beat four 4870s?

We just don't have a board that can fit four cards with dual slot coolers in them. If you watercooled they'd fit.
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HD4890 or 4870x2 will have two times the perf. of 4870 on a dual slot board. That card in cf will be "teh shit" in about august.
 
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