Two weaker Crossfire video cards or one better one?

Well, do you play games often? If you do, you certainly want a powerful graphics card.

 

Not extremely often, but I get the FIFA game every year, for example.

 

FIFA probably isn't that demanding, so a relatively basic card like a 5670 will probably do.

 

You can buy the most expensive video card on the market, but that bloatware is going to be using RAM not the video card so it isnt going to make a difference.

TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 works better then Nero imo with out the bloat ware.

 

Oh, I'm sure it will do right now, but how about in 5 years?
(On the (old) computer I am currently using for gaming, I tried to install the latest FIFA. The game installed without complaints, but when I tried to play it... black screen, nothing would happen. And the game exits okay, too, so it wasn't frozen. All these game franchises, when they see people are buying, seem to always attempt to increase the system requirements of their games exponentially. But enough complaining!)

Yeah, I'm trying to think a little about the future, too.
When do you think FIFA makers might decide a 5850 is obsolete?

Thank you very much for the suggestion.

I've been using TMPGEnc Xpress for a couple of years now, and I am very satisfied. (The sizes of the files it outputs are a little big, but other than that...)

I was, in fairness, curious about their new Authoring Works package. I'm probably going to give it a try on the new PC.

 

I couldn't say, but a 5850 should do for FIFA for, I would say maybe 4-5 years. It's impossible to futureproof a system any more than that, no matter how much you spend.

 

Oh, okay, cool.

Thank you very much. I like the sound of that estimate. Thanks.