Widescreen Gaming Forum

I just switched from 2 5870's in crossfire/eyefinity on three Dell 2410's to a pair of GTX 470's and its really a polished product, cudo's the the green boys. I realise both companies have their ups and downs and while the ATI setup worked well for the past nine months the never ending niggles with every driver release caused me to look elsewhere.....and Im glad I did. Just thought Id put this up in case someone else was on the fence like I was.

Yes, its a great surround solution.

I'm still on the fence because of a few things.

Bottlenecking the 1GB of VRAM when at 7680x1600.
HEAT, as my room is consistently hot now with my monitors and only 1 5870.
The fact I'd have to get hacked drivers to run SLI (my board isn't natively SLI'able)

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System Core: | Intel Core i5-2500K + ASUS P8Z68-V + 16GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333 MHz | Win7 x64 | MSI R7970 Lightning 3GB [1105/1400] |
Display: | 3 x Dell Ultrasharp 3007WFP-HC @ 7680x1600 | Dell u3011 |

I also switched too, tri-5870 to sli-480gtx. No more crashes since changing. No more ati purchases from now on for me.