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View Poll Results: Which cards should i double up on?
HD4850's 42 82.35%
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Old 10-20-08   #11 (permalink)
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Crossfire the 4850's.

I don't know who told you the 750i FTW overclocks quads better than the P5E. I've seen P5E's regularly hit 450 FSB on quads.

An alternative is of course a single 4870. You'll be within 15% of the GT's and you don't have to worry about the nasty issues that come with multi GPU solutions.
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450? ie 4ghz?

on a Q6600? jeez...

i would have gone for the 4870, but it's too much of a sidegrade from my 4850, even when taking into consideration the 1gb models floating around...
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450? ie 4ghz?

on a Q6600? jeez...

i would have gone for the 4870, but it's too much of a sidegrade from my 4850, even when taking into consideration the 1gb models floating around...
Asus makes really good X38/X48 boards. If i where you, i'd stick with a single 4850, throw an HR-03 GT on it, and then Voltmod it. You can almost match a 4870 but for ~$100 less.
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Asus makes really good X38/X48 boards. If i where you, i'd stick with a single 4850, throw an HR-03 GT on it, and then Voltmod it. You can almost match a 4870 but for ~$100 less.
An HR-03 GT alone is like $50 (Not including taxes and shipping)
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4850 CF would be better of coarse. But if you already have a 8800GT then get another to SLI. If you have both 8800GT and 4850 then get another 4850.

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4850 gets my vote. ATI is much more reliable and drivers are much better than nvidia based on news and experience.

but i have no idea on linux lol
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