3 cards 1 choice, Please help

I am asking this for a friend who is getting a computer and he has a choice between 3 cards, They are :

SLi, Dual nVidia GeForce 9800GT 512MB

ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB

ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB

Which one would be the best choice for him, Also please do not suggest a different card that is the same price. He only has these options so in some detail please tell me which one is the best. I would really appreciate it.

I would go with the 4870 1 gig, because you could push AA further and at 1680x1050 you could pretty much max every game except crysis you could run high and get really good frames. Plus in the future crossfire will be an option with any 4800 series card.

dont deal with microstutter; get the 4870Mr_NoName111

dont deal with microstutter; get the 4870Mr_NoName111

good point, you may see some in some games.

[QUOTE="Mr_NoName111"]dont deal with microstutter; get the 4870chris24l

good point, you may see some in some games.

[QUOTE="chris24l"]

[QUOTE="Mr_NoName111"]dont deal with microstutter; get the 4870Munkyman587

good point, you may see some in some games.

no, I haven't used SLI, but with my crossfire I notice maybe just a slight hint of microstutter only when playing crysis but no other games. I don't even know if is microstutter and its on rare occasions, it may be because the frames fluctuate from 100FPS to 30FPS and its this. I was just suggesting it may be seen but maybe not, but any way the 4870 1 gig does perform very well on its own. If microstutter is guaranteed not to happen then the SLI would be the way to go.

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[QUOTE="Mr_NoName111"]dont deal with microstutter; get the 4870Munkyman587

good point, you may see some in some games.