Sli 260 gtx (216) or 5850/5870

Well... it looks like it's not looking so great for the GF100 aka gtx 470/480 card from what I have been reading so far. So I think I'm just going to jump ship and either buy a second 260 gtx for about 150 or get a 5850/5870 for 300-400. Which would you rather do? I have a board that supports sli only. Taking all things into consideration... I am a little hesitant to buy the 5850 due to having to pay double. Can I even expect double performance?

just get another gtx 260 /threadsmc91352

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[QUOTE="smc91352"]just get another gtx 260 /threadTezcatlipoca666

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+1 if you don't want dx11

Well you might as well just SLI the 260. you already own one 260 - so you saving $. Second of all most of real performance killer apps out there run better with Nvidia. Crysis, I think is about 30-40 fps avg with 260 sli. You're not going to get any more performance than that with a 5870.

I doubt DX 11 will be worth shelling out money for this year or next. From what's been shown so far of tessellation (uniengine/stalker/AvP) hurts performance for little gain in visual, seems over-hyped imo - but maybe that will change in the future. But probably not for a long time. I mean games need to be built from ground up with tessellation in mind. you add tessellation to a few models here and there and you're not going to get much effect at all from it - unless the model was built very badly and was a blocky mess to start off with.current gen consoles are not supporting DX 10 properly let alone DX 11 so very few games will probably be built ground up with tessellation.