How much if anything would you be willing to pay to upgrade 4870 ct to 5870 on a free replacement ?

Dell is replacing my R-1 with a R-2 . Happy with the build except that they gave me 4870 in Crossfire instead of the 5870 in crossfire .I asked for the upgrade they said no but would be willing to do it for a price. I am still working on the price with them. I know a replacement should be totally free but feel Dell did ok with the specs on my new system. If you were given option would you spend money of free sysem to upgrade Video card .I have heard that as of now due to driver issues the 4870 in crossfire work better than the 5870 in crossfire. How much of a difference does it make real work Asuming about 20 percent .

 

I'd go for the 5870x2, any issues they have will get sorted out. And when they do the 4870s will be worth less then they are now. 5870s are the new stuff, shoot for those from the get go. Even if it costs ya a few bucks, I'd still do it.

 

I'm honestly split between the two. I think I had better gaming experiences and overall stability with the 4870 crossfire setup. Drivers just work instead of all these workarounds. One problem I noticed with my 5870 xfire setup is there are these horizontal flickering type lines. It's relieved by setting vsync, nver had that issue with 4870s.

 

I dont dissagree with Joker to much on this, but when they get the problems resolved with the 5870s, then its going to clearly be the winner. Also I got a new system with 5870s and its 'issue free' so I think they have it sorted out, but havent released the fix yet for all the previous versions/setups.

I say again, go for the 5870s, if its going to be a new build your golden, if its an older build, then for 'tried and true' comfort level, got for 4870.

 

I have also seen the horizontal flickering... i thought it might have been driver related but i saw that you managed to swap to 10.6 drivers. Did you see any change in the flickering when doing this?

 

Nope but if you want a solution for that nauseating flickering, check out this thread: Suffering crossfire flickering? See here! - techPowerUp! Forums

 

Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history with 7 copies of Windows 7 sold every second. Crysis 2 is the most anticipated game at E3. Microsoft is working with Crysis developers and will want to highlight the advantages of Windows 7 64 bit over 32 bit. Both Nvidia and ATI want to sell GPU's this Christmas which means at least some Dx11 support with Crysis 2. I could tell you all the technical merits of the 5870 but in the end I would base your decision on how important it is for you to play Crysis 2 in Dx11. Don't waste your time with Dx10 benchmarks as they are out of date, don't support Dx11 card features, and penalize ATI for not having PhysX support. Currently playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare, L4D2, and Metro 2033 on both machines listed below. Both systems play identical at the highest settings. One machine uses Catalyst 10.6 and the other Dell stock drivers.

 

well do game alot but mostly rolrplaying games like dragon age or rts like dawn of war 2

 

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Winows 7 is being adopted in a big way by enterprise and this will spill over into the gaming market and translate to many more games being developed to harness Dx11. Either way you have a new system and a great set of cards. Do to XP's popularity many game developers have stuck with Dx9. XP is still popular but 10 years old.