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1x 5850 would be fine for anything really. I have a 4870 and I can pretty much max out any game.

With the money you'd save buying 1x 5850, you could upgrade to an i7 instead of 1156 :D
 
uhh if your trying to go the cheap rout and cross fire cards to get to 5870 performance you need to go with 2x 5770's.

2x 5850 would kick some serious *** though, probally MUCH beyond a single 5870
 
X58 can use triple channel RAM and it's better in multi-GPU setups since it isn't limited to x8/x8. The difference isn't much between x8/x8 and x16/x16, but there is <10% increase in performance.
 
MattNo5ss said:
X58 can use triple channel RAM and it's better in multi-GPU setups since it isn't limited to x8/x8. The difference isn't much between x8/x8 and x16/x16, but there is <10% increase in performance.
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they make 16 x 16 now btw, it'll cost you though:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130259
and
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130258

Msi is the only one i know of so far

and triple vs dual ram isnt that great of an increase
 
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