the 4850 is a hell of a sexy card!
and it's as low as around 140 € here in germany. i'm definately on the verge of buying one - but on the other hand i can't estimate in which direction nvidia is heading with it's physx and cuda. :(
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the 4850 is a hell of a sexy card!
and it's as low as around 140 € here in germany. i'm definately on the verge of buying one - but on the other hand i can't estimate in which direction nvidia is heading with it's physx and cuda. :(
Why would a consumer need those? Buy ATI : DQuote:
Originally Posted by RaZz!
I don't think you will have to worry about that for at least another year and who knows how things will be by then.Quote:
Originally Posted by RaZz!
Does anyone know if the 4 mount holes at the side of the 4870 GPU are the same dimensions as the 1900XT
This is the block i am using on my 1900XT
http://www.komplett.no/img/p/200/325718.jpg
Same as 3870, i'm not sure about 1900XT, i never had one.Quote:
Originally Posted by maxxxxel
cf on p35? don't do it man. i'd recommend a 4870 and clock it like crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by ANP !!!
I'd do the same, CF on a P35 is severely limited by the fact that is has to use the 2nd card on a 4x PCIe gen 1 bus and this second bus is coupled to the southbridge which hampers latency and bandwidth even more. So get a 4870 and clock it like crazy or upgrade to a P45 or a X48/X38 board. I'd go for the former option, Nehalem is not too far from now....Quote:
Originally Posted by biohead
Don't..Quote:
Originally Posted by ANP !!!
Hey bro, i will be glad to help, i will have a full review up once my new ram arrives in about 3 hours from now, review will be up later tonight, i have all the games up and ready to be benched, i just need to get my memory stable. :up: P45 looks good for now as far as crossfire goes.Quote:
Originally Posted by MnM
I can tell you this, i got a little over 19k 3dmark 06 @ 1920x1200 with my cpu at 3.8ghz and my memory running at a horrible single channel, 1 dimm 2gb at 570mhz cas 7, they have a better cpu at 4ghz, and memory configuration, and scored 1,000 points less.......my results are with vista 64 also.Quote:
Originally Posted by MnM
4870 + some basic watercooling + hard vmod + OC LIKE A PSYCHO = win
Hmm I hoped I waited for the P45 :rolleyes:
Now I will get the 4870 and WC it with a EK.
But cant wait to see 4870x2 results.
any guides yet?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by annihilat0r
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Originally Posted by GAR
Thanks man!! Will search for your results when I wake up in the morning. If you gonna post them in a new thread please send me a PM with a link to it.
As you have already mentioned Asus P45 seems to give the expected performance. Maybe is only a Gigabyte thing with those weird results but then again the difference really becomes obvious in game tests. Vantage shows a bit of difference and then you can clearly see the difference in game tests. 3DMark06 shows little difference even in their tests.
Looking at the review again the difference is clealry visible when 4xAA/16xAF is used. So please make sure you test bench with those settings too.
nobody helps you with that avatar of yours! Repulsive + Ugly!Quote:
Originally Posted by flopper
:D
put on ur glasses:welcome:Quote:
Originally Posted by annihilat0r
when are they out?
Ok i have no idea what to buy a HD4850 CF setup or the HD4870. It will be used for gaming at 1680x1050, and it only has to last for 1 year max :D
Every new AMD/ATi generation 1 buy new cards. So any tips?
And yes i have seen all the reviews but just can't make up my mind about what is the right thing to pick.
well, if your on a tight budget and im assuming you are or you would consider 4870xfire, why dont you buy 1 4850 and see if that suits you and if it dont then you could always add another or a 4870.
Yes, no problem, it will fit. Since the x1xxx ATI has used the same mounting holes :woot:Quote:
Originally Posted by maxxxxel
I'd go with the 4870... 2 reasonsQuote:
Originally Posted by Apoc@
1.) In cf, adding a 4850 would slow your 4870 down to act almost like a 4850.. load balancing.
2.) In time, if the 4870 gets a bit slow for your requirements, a second will be cheaper then what you bought the first one for. Additionally, adding a 4870x2 may be a very viable option for a tri crossfirex setup. In a years time, they could also be quite cheap.
would this work well together?
http://www.motherboardpro.com/images...r.-P45-T3R.jpg
http://www.motherboardpro.com/DFI-LP...ard-p-660.html
with 2 x 4870 1gb cf
also is a e8400 @ 4ghz enough for no bottlenecking
Should work great together. 4ghz should be adequate, I'd doubt there would be any noticeable bottleneck at that clock with these cards.
Looks like R700 is in my future:
Article by CNET
Wow, if true then R700 is going to be incredible.Quote:
For ATI, the execution of this chip-ganging strategy is the key. And this is where ATI appears to have been successful. "The inter-processor communications. Getting that to work has been the trick. This is what ATI has done. They've come up with this stellar way of doing inter-processor communications so they can in fact get the scaling," according to Peddie.
...*snip*...
AMD-ATI's upcoming R700 (rumored to be called the 4870 X2) two-chip graphics board will be the ultimate test of this strategy.
"It's a new proprietary inter-processor communication technology. If they put these two chips on one board and it does scale properly, then they have pulled off a coup," he said.
"When you gang up graphics chips (using the traditional Scalable Link Interface or CrossFire technologies) they roll off pretty fast. ("Roll off" implies that performance doesn't scale up well.) "So when you put two boards in, you don't get twice the performance but you (only) get one and a half. You put four boards in and you (only) get about 1.7, 1.8. What ATI is saying is that with two chips using (their) proprietary inter-bus, they will get 1.8 (the performance) with two chips. If that's true, you can expect to see four of them giving you something around 2.5."
Getting 2.5 times the performance from four boards would be a masterstroke for ATI.
The previous ATI dual-chip solution was very different, Peddie said. "The HD 3870 X2 was not a proprietary bus but a CrossFire connection. The CrossFire connection and the SLI connection are at the very, very end of the pipeline. Not the most efficient place to do an inter-processor communication. That's one of the reasons ATI has abandoned it."
Of course. It was done before the card even launched. Would you expect any less?Quote:
Originally Posted by flopper
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=190990
It doesn't change the fact that scaling is hurt by the fact that 1 GPU stalls (adds frametime) while it waits for data from the other GPUs memory in the case where games are not coded with multi-gpu in mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by zerazax
This also has nothing to do with microstutter, but we'll see.