Something I seen,need an answer to..

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Dave65

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A friend of mine,his 16 year old son is building a computer for gaming,X58 board,all the good stuff,except he had one ATI 5850 and one 5870,he said for crossfire,I asked why two different cards he said they only had one 5870 so he got a 5850 to go with it..I don't want to sound stupid in case there was something I wasn't sure about,but can he use these two cards in crossfire?
 
Yes it works, but its not the ideal situation....he would be better off selling his 5870 and buying another 5850 as the performance has shown to be better that way

One thing that shocked me was that the CrossFire gaming performance of a Radeon HD 5870 + 5850 was lower than that of a pair of Radeon HD 5850 video cards in CrossFire in all of our testing with the exception of one game. I would assume it is because the higher capacity card (the Radeon HD 5870) gets brought down to the lower one (the Raeon HD 5850) plus some overhead. This basically goes to show that while mixing and matching video cards to run CrossFire works for better performance it isn't the route to take for peak performance. If you want the most from a CrossFire configuration it is clear that you should pair two identical cards together
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I sent him this info,will see if he takes the advice..And ty for the responses,I never would have thunk it:)
 
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