cross or not to cross

[N. Chapman]

for my new rig that i'm going to be building soon i was thinking of either doing the 4870 X2 or 2 4870s in crossfire. i have seen in various games that the crossfire is better to have but by a small margin (5-8FPS)

i was just wondering which would be better for FSX because of the whole no support for dual cards and all but will FSX use the second GPU on the X2?

[rikm12345]

You'll be wasting your money, FSX doesn't support SLI etc..

Better off with a Good single card for FSX

[N. Chapman]

ok but the X2 is a "single" card but it has 2 cores. will FSX use both or just the one?

[homebrewer]

FSX doesn't or can't use two videocards? Looks like I'm screwed...

[N. Chapman]

and the PC isn't going to be just FS. its going to have a bunch of games that I've looked at but didn't get due to the system requirements  :-[ Like Crysis, COD4, grid, and a couple of others

[rikm12345]

Most of todays games will take advantage of dual cards, but FSX will not, unless using Very high Monitor resolutions, probably higher than most people's monitors go up to.

[N. Chapman]

ok so we have established that FSX doesn't use dual card setups.

what if the single card has 2 cores? will FSX use the second core is what I'm getting at.

[AMDDDA]

Well, you won't need either of those for a good COD4 comp, I'm running it at my max resolution (x1050) with max settings and I'm getting a healthy 60 FPS with my 9800 GTX+, which is between the 4850 and 4870

[rikm12345]

FSX should use the second core of a single card, just doesnt utilise SLI, crossfire etc.

Check this link below

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvi ... 53-15.html

Rik

[N. Chapman]

alright thanks for finally clearing that up

Now i just need to wait for the rest of the components to get on the market