Looking for a vcard recommendation over my curent cards

Deathenger

Currently I have 2 5770's that were setup in crossfire until I realized both slots were not 16x (bought this pc 2nd hand). That was a real bummer for me, getting better performance with crossfire disabled.

I'm looking for an affordable card that would actually beat out my current cards if they were both using a 16x slot in crossfire. My cpu is an i5 750 oc'ed and I have 8 gigs ram. I forget the speed of the ram so lets assume its the good stuff. Also Windows 64 Ultimate Edition.

Eventually I plan on upgrading the mobo to one that will support duel cards that can run at their very best, but for now I'm just looking for a single card.

FF14 ARR is my newest game so it was a rude awakening when I had to turn things down.

 

Thanks!

 

Ridelynn

Hate to say this, but even if you had dual x16 slots you wouldn't get much different performance.

As you have found out - Crossfire (and SLI) is situational, varies between titles and drivers, and generally you only use it if you can't find a single card that's fast enough - so a pair of 780 TI's or R9 290's -- a pair of 5770's and by the time you spent the money on the motherboard and the bigger power supply and the bigger case, you could have bought a 5870 and have had more performance than even your dual 5770's if they scaled to 100%.

The 5770 is a great budget card, but it's a horrible card to build a Crossfire rig around. The modern equivalent to the 5770 is the R7 260X, (which is a rebadged 7790) - goes for around $140 US.If you were thinking seriously about Crossfiring those (along with a dual x16 motherboard) - why not spend $350 or so and go on up to a nVidia GTX 770 or a R9 280X and not have to fool with driver profiles, imperfect scaling, and various other issues.

I can't find a good comparison of the 7790/R7 260X to your 5770, as they are several generations apart, but it would compete favorably in games versus your Crossfire 5770's, once you take into account scaling issues.

jdnewell

What Ridelynn said

You are so much better off with a single top end gpu than two  low end cards. I tried SLI years back, and its just not worth it IMO. Unless you are building a top of the line uber rig and can xfire / sli top end GPUs. And then its more for the sake of spending money just because you can and its cool to have a $4k+ pc.

Spend the same money on a 780 or R9 290x and you will have better performance and much less hassle than spending the same $ for two cards for less performance and more hassle.

Trust me, buy a top end GPU and you wont look back, and if you do then pair it with another top end gpu if the two card itch must be scratched.