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Exactly, I almost bought 9600gt sli I was so impressed.I disagree. 4770 CF is awesome bang/buck and will stay ahead of the 4890 in nearly all situations for some time to come.
I mean 9600GT cards are midrange yet in SLI they are still up there with the top dogs like the 280 in some situations...and they are pretty old cards now.
Your saving money. Your getting more performance.They are pretty much exactly the same. Both are low fifties at idle and mid 70's at load. Well besides more heat and power and obviously support, there isn't much else to consider, but those alone are enough to turn me away from crossfire unless I'm using high end cards becuase i'm loaded with cash. I really just don't see the point in crossfiring these mid end( your right, the 4770 etc should not be classified low end) cards when you can get single solutions for not much more that are nearly as good.
Stop exaggerating. It's not really low end in a year. Most people with a 9600gt, 3870, 3850, 8800gt can play games just fine and it's approaching a year. And even if they were... that is how technology is. You would also have 1 low end card after a while as well with one single powerful card.What i was trying to say before was that your going to be left with two really old low end cards in about a year.
The 9800gtx+ gets spanked by the 4850 512mb, let alone 4870 in most games, while the 9600gt's in sli still carry on as great cards.TThis is the same situation as the 9600gt sli vs 9800gtx+ situation, many people went for 9600gt sli over the single card, are not to say many people were happy, but if you look back now, i would rather have had a 9800gtx+ at this time then two9600gt's. This is just my opinion i guess, it's fair for us here to agree to disagree.
Actually, I see the opposite with the 4870x2's. People try out gtx280/285 and say "hmm not for me" and go back to 4870x2. At least that is what I have seen when looking for deals on used gtx280's.I did not say that 4850x2 is worse then the other cards i said in my eyes, its a bad choice because mainly it's high power consumption, heat and driver problems that it used to have/may have. (as far as these problems go i know there were a lot of people unhappy with both 4870x2 and 50x2's who ended up gettin different cards).
And I know a lot of people who love the 4850x2. They are simply thrilled at the performance for it's price. And now there are not any major driver problems that I am aware of, if there ever were any. The only problem originally was that you had to get late drivers through sapphire.
validAssuming you don't care about power consumption,
Not valid, what old game do you know that doesn't support crossfire can't be maxed out with a single 4830? Newer games are the ones your getting that 2nd card for. And you can FORCE crossfire in games that don't support it.older games
temperatures (or have a w/c setup or something planned) then it is a good card for 270, but i would take a gtx 280 over that card for the same price anyday.
Only reason I would take a gtx 280 over a crossfire setup is for folding. Which is exactly why I sold one of my 4850's. I already played all the newest games I wanted to play with excellent performance. Now it's folding time until the newer games and cards come out. I'm just waiting for a good deal to come along.
Not trying to attack you, but I think you are wrong. Multi gpu setups are getting better and better.