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&gt; Power costs, and the required system complexity and cost to run multi GPU over a single one is also a factor. If price is really important, you should be looking at the costs that are not being included in that "cheap" $75 upgrade.

Difference in power costs will favor the crossfire.  The 7850 draws 125W, the R9 290 draws closer to 300W.  System complexity doesn't have a dollar cost associated with it, because once it's installed it's done.

I get it.  You don't like Crossfire.  Good for you.  I didn't actually ask what your opinion of it was, I asked for benchmarks on single card 7850 versus Crossfire 7850.  If you have a good source to point me at then I'd love to see it.  Otherwise you're boring me.  You're not going to persuade me that an inexpensive Crossfire setup is going to be a pain in the ass.  Performance and cost the chief considerations here, and I'm more than willing to live with a little complexity to save money.
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