Upgrade, worth it?

jack888

Here is my current build, have had no problems except the power supply fan. Started off dead silent but has been getting slightly louder lately, might RMA it to see if it makes difference. I like the machine to be dead silent when its not being pushed.

Anyway? do you think its worth putting another 6950 in?, to run on crossfire. Games run well at the moment but another 6950 could be worth it since I run 2560 x 1440.
Whats involved in getting crossfire to run?, do I have to buy the same make 6950?, or something specific?

Intel Core i5-2500K Box, LGA1155 €173.55
ASRock Z68 Extreme4 (B3), Sockel 1155, ATX €130.55
Sapphire HD 6950 Dirt2, 2GB GDDR5 PCI-Express €215
Crossair 750HX 750 watt €115
FRACTAL DESIGN Gehäuse DEFINE R3 Black Pearl €89.75
8GB-Kit G.Skill RipJaws-X PC3-10667U CL9 €54.98
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1000GB, SATA II (HD103SJ) €44.09
Samsung SH-222AB bare schwarz SATA €17.71
Scythe Mugen 2 Rev. B, CPU-Kühler, für alle Sockel geeignet €33.99
hCrucial M4 128GB SSD 6,4cm (2,5") €179

IrishMetalhead

might be a simple case of dust, should try dusting out the psu with a can of compressed air see if that makes a difference first.
also cf with is indeed worth it if your planning to run a res that high and yes you can just use any other 6950 to pair up with it.

Tea_Bag

any other 2gb model will be fine.

IrishMetalhead

i think this is actually one of these rare cases where dual gpu's is a necessary option and the only times i ever recommend dual gpu is when your looking to run high res or trip monitors like eyefinity because i do get some people with high budgets looking for a dual gpu set-up even tho there only running one 1920x1080 monitor... ¬.¬