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Just let me know if it will work or not. Trying to stay under $900, can go to $1000 but I prefer not too.
Spend a little less on the PSU..maybe a Corsair 550Watt. Then get n HD5850. This will put you at around $1000, but believe me, IT IS WORTH IT.
Also, unless you want a full-tower case, I'd get an Antec 600.
That's also a bad motherboard. It's 16/4 crossfire, you'd rather have 8/8 or 16/16. If you want crossfire, find a 790GX chipset for $100. Otherwise, go with a single-slot motherboard.
The build works fine, but I would make a couple of changes:
This case is cheaper and better:[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119216[/url]
Also since you can go a bit higher this GPU would definitely be worth the extra money: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150494[/url]
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[QUOTE=Shadow187(FP);22923317]Spend a little less on the PSU..maybe a Corsair 550Watt. Then get n HD5850. This will put you at around $1000, but believe me, IT IS WORTH IT.
Also, unless you want a full-tower case, I'd get an Antec 600.
That's also a bad motherboard. It's 16/4 crossfire, you'd rather have 8/8 or 16/16. If you want crossfire, find a 790GX chipset for $100. Otherwise, go with a single-slot motherboard.[/QUOTE]
He may as well pay the extra $10 for an extra 100W, he may use it eventually
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Hows this look?
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Not buying the 5850. I can easily get more power from 2 5770's. It puts me over $1000 which I am greatly trying to avoid.
Much better on the motherboard.
The PSU is fine. 52A on the 12v rail will support an HD5850 crossfire easily.
Kill the HD5770, get an HD5850. This is an extremely good HD5850 for the price; [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127500&cm_re=5850-_-14-127-500-_-Product[/url]
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That case isn't half-bad either.
Need a card compatible with 2 monitors. But I do not need a 5850 for a 1280x1024 monitor and a 1024x768 monitor.
1280x1024? Oh. An HD5770 will max Crysis on that. Also, an HD5770 or HD5850 is compatible with 3 monitors.
2 DVI's?
Nope. Only 1 DVI on the 5770.
Then you're fine with the build you have. IF you get a 1680x1050 or 1920x1080 monitor, crossfire another HD5770.
Found another one. Not a CuCore but it will have to do. Same price, but has a bit more features.
The build I have already had a 5770. Thats the problem I just noticed. I wouldn't be able to run both my monitors on that specific card. I found a new one though that will support two.
Both of your monitors are DVI?
Yeah. Both my LCD monitors are DVI.
I'd get the ASUS one and buy a $5 adapter, but only if you know how to overclock. ASUS cards are very well made, and you might be able to hit 950mhzcore/1250mhz memory.
Crap case
What kind of adapter? Also, I don't overclock because it burns the card out.
It does not burn the card out...and an HDMI -> DVI.
Thats not what I've read.
Then you've been reading wrong. Overclocking does not make your card go "poof" unless you set the voltage to 2v, core to 1337, and memory to 1337.
Last time I tried overclocking, the card almost burned out. At the chance I could do that again, I am not overclocking.
How do you know the card almost burned out?
Temp went up higher than it was supposed to. Started crashing, had to take the card out and cool it until we could use it again.
Well that's what happens when you overclock a card in a confined area. I have no idea which card, which case, what airflow you had. But for anecdotal reference, my HD4850 goes up an entire 5c when I up the core 75 and memory by 125. It hits 81c, which is perfectly fine.
The ASUS CuCore series uses copper heatpipes (that's what Cu stands for), as well as a better fan to cool the GPU better. Most HD5770s do not hit 78c, let alone burn out.
My monitors don't support HDMI or HDCP, so how is an HDMI to DVI adapter going to work?
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My VGA monitor which doesn't natively support DVI is working fine right now. I'd assume HDMI is the same.
I read that monitors that can't support HDCP can't use a HDMI to DVI adapter. Let me look around, but unless I can find if it will definitely work, I'm sticking with another 5770.
Um, I own a 5770 and they have 2 DVI's, I assure you.
Yep, a monitor that doesn't support HDCP cannot use HDMI. So I would have to use a different 5770 to have a dual monitor setup.
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[QUOTE=Hostel;22924614]Um, I own a 5770 and they have 2 DVI's, I assure you.[/QUOTE]
Not a CuCore I presume, the only CuCore I see has 1 DVI.
[QUOTE=Hostel;22924614]Um, I own a 5770 and they have 2 DVI's, I assure you.[/QUOTE]
There are different versions.
[url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125318&cm_re=5850-_-14-125-318-_-Product]5850 with 2 DVI's[/url]
EDIT: Get [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150494&cm_re=5850-_-14-150-494-_-Product]this[/url] instead.
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