5870 and 5850 crossfire

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Sat, 02/12/2011 - 07:17
S-G
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hey, i have one asus 5870. now i have a super deal itis a xfx 5850.

would it work good with these two cards in crossfire?

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Sat, 02/12/2011 - 12:11
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Tivon
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Maybe this will answer your question.
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1107/1/

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Sat, 02/12/2011 - 17:05
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:)

Reviews are kinda as expected though.. highest card downclocks to the lower, so a bit of a waste of the higher one.

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Sat, 02/12/2011 - 20:31
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Both contain the same GPU so it shouldn't be a problem but the faster card will always bottleneck the slower one in CF or SLI.

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Sun, 02/13/2011 - 15:08
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>>the faster card will always bottleneck the slower one in CF or SLI

I think you got that backwards, or am I missing something? CF 5870/5850 performs the same as CF 5850, and it's the CF software that slows the faster one down to the slower one, isn't it?

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