Do i need crossfire bridge?

[silverjay928]

Hello I am buying a second HD 5770 for my system and i was wondering if I NEED the crossfire bridge to connect and make them work together or not i cant find a clear statment on that jus a plain yes or no. Also a second question how would i go about setting it up with and/or without the bridge i can find the crossfire option in the Catalyst software? is there a specfic seperate software i need to run. Sorry if i seem like a noob this is my first time dealing with Dual GPU's i have checked my MOBO support and it does support Crossfire

[Imakuni]

Can you, like, NOT buy the second 5570 and instead sell the first one, sum with the money from the second and get a half decent GPU instead? Trust me, you won't get a very good experience with that setup...

[GreezyJeezy]

to crossfire them yes. but the real question is why do you want to crossfire them? its better to save up and buy a better GPU than crossfire, crossfire is sucky in alot of games same with SLI

[silverjay928]

4 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

Can you, like, NOT buy the second 5570 and instead sell the first one, sum with the money from the second and get a half decent GPU instead? Trust me, you won't get a very good experience with that setup...

OK, would a R9 270x be good or spend the extra and get a R9 380?

[Imakuni]

1 minute ago, silverjay928 said:

OK, would a R9 270x be good or spend the extra and get a R9 380?

Holly wow, can you actually afford such cards? I thought you were on the super tight budget category.... how much are you willing to spend on this?

[silverjay928]

1 minute ago, Imakuni said:

Holly wow, can you actually afford such cards? I thought you were on the super tight budget category.... how much are you willing to spend on this?

im not on a  budget per say just experimenting options and if i had to say my budget for buying a new single card is in the spot of 100-250

[Imakuni]

3 minutes ago, silverjay928 said:

im not on a  budget per say just experimenting options and if i had to say my budget for buying a new single card is in the spot of 100-250

That's a lot...

 

With such money, hunt for a used Gtx 970. If you look hard enough, you'll be able to find those in the 200$ range, now that people are flipping over the 1080 and rushing to sell their cards. Snag a deal on this awesome card while you still can!

[silverjay928]

7 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

That's a lot...

 

With such money, hunt for a used Gtx 970. If you look hard enough, you'll be able to find those in the 200$ range, now that people are flipping over the 1080 and rushing to sell their cards. Snag a deal on this awesome card while you still can!

ok i will do my best to find one

[LabRat]

back to the OP, doesn't crossfire work through the pci-e bus?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, silverjay928 said:

ok i will do my best to find one

http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=04G-P4-2972-RX

You can try waiting for pascal and see if the 970 prices drops even more. 

If not another good NVIDIA alternative

http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=02G-P4-2966-RX

[The Elder Smurf]

12 minutes ago, LabRat said:

back to the OP, doesn't crossfire work through the pci-e bus?

On Hawaii and newer yes, but the hd 5440 is an extremely old gpu

[The Elder Smurf]

25 minutes ago, silverjay928 said:

im not on a  budget per say just experimenting options and if i had to say my budget for buying a new single card is in the spot of 100-250

On newegg the 290x is currently 280 dollars. That card gives gtx 980 performance. That is the card I will recommend until sapphire runs out of stock

[LabRat]

26 minutes ago, The Elder Smurf said:

On newegg the 290x is currently 280 dollars. That card gives gtx 980 performance. That is the card I will recommend until sapphire runs out of stock

gtx970 performance.

[The Elder Smurf]

3 minutes ago, LabRat said:

gtx970 performance.

um the 390x is on par with the 980 and the 390x is a refresh of the 290x. Also the 290x actually has 4gb of high speed vram

[LabRat]

5 minutes ago, The Elder Smurf said:

um the 390x is on par with the 980 and the 390x is a refresh of the 290x. Also the 290x actually has 4gb of high speed vram

and the 290 and 970 share performance.

[The Elder Smurf]

1 minute ago, LabRat said:

and the 290 and 970 share performance.

 

yes, this is true, as I have both of those cards (dont ask) and the difference is negligible or within "margin of error" 

[ImBleu]

1 hour ago, silverjay928 said:

im not on a  budget per say just experimenting options and if i had to say my budget for buying a new single card is in the spot of 100-250

For that price range you have to go with the R9 380 or R9 270x / 280 / 280x depending on prices. Nvidia has their GTX950 and GTX960 in that price range too but even as an Nvidia fan I'd recommend sticking to AMD for sub-$350 budgets. If you want to push a lot more money towards a GPU, something like the GTX1070 for around $350 would be a very compelling option as it allegedly beats a GTX Titan X, a $1000 card.

[JamGorby]

I like how, through the course of this thread, it went from a 5770 to a 5570 to a 5440. 

LOL just an observation. 

Carry on.