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Currently i have Two 4870x2 cards in Crossfire

I have a BFG GTX 295 I can swap for 1 4870x2 card and sell the extra card.


I only play WOW, im running a 30" monitor



Im going to test the 295 tonight to make sure it can run 2560x1600 max everything like the crossfire does (oddly enough if i pull one 4870x2 card my frames drops from 60 solid to under 30 quite often)

I have an X48 board so crossfire is the only dual card option so i cant add another 295 down the road right now, but i highly doubt id need to only playing wow

the crossfire is very nice power its very power hungry, quite noisy unles syou override the fans, and it will heat up my office from 14 deg C when i get home to 21 deg C during a wow raid, lol
 
Does WOW seriously need a GTX 295 or let alone two 4870X2's to run at max at 2560x1600? Can't a single GTX 280 or even a GTX 260 do that no problem?
 
exlink said:
Does WOW seriously need a GTX 295 or let alone two 4870X2's to run at max at 2560x1600? Can't a single GTX 280 or even a GTX 260 do that no problem?
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no of course not that's just what i have available to me.

but oddly enough at max everything, if i yank one of the 4870x2 card its almost unplayable at max settings for some reason the fps goes to hell and i need to drop my settings a bit


id just like to go back to a single card that doesn't eat up so much juice and make so much heat, im assuming the 295 is similar to a 4870x2 in power/heat

and running multiple windows for dual boxing usually crashes the wow clients with crossfire enabled which doesnt help :)
 
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