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Marauder lvl 3 vs 4?!

Post Date: 2012-12-11
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    Posted: 11 Dec 2012 at 7:56pm
Alright, so I've been aiming to get a Marauder level 4, but after doing some thinking I was wondering if getting the level 3 with a Radeon 7870 would be a better idea. The motherboard on the Marauder does not support SLI but it DOES support CrossFire. Yes, a single 660ti performs great, but if I got a 7870 and a couple of months later bought another 7870 and crossfired them, the performance would be VERY good. Only con would be that in SOME cases CrossFire can cause problems. I looked at benchmarks of Crossfired 7870's and they perform fantastically. What are your opinions? Level 3 or Level 4?
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The biggest concern I would have with Marauder 3 with CF 7870 is the 600w psu.    It is listed as the minimum psu for cf 7870 and might work but too close for me personally.   When a psu struggles you'll get BSOD, re-boots, crashes etc. that are tough to troubleshoot to the psu.     

Will it work?   Probably.    But then you could also swap the psu to a 750w psu if you have issues and still be a good cost to performance system.

Also the second card is in a Pciex4 bandwidth electrical slot.     You might take a performance hit but not alot.    Just something else to consider.   
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