Just be carefull what you put in your mouth overthere or you'll turn into a lizard.
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yep , but thats normal because the CF its internal
but in Games i think CF support its still required .............. at least looking At This tests @ 1680x1050 @ Bioshock max fps = 75 Fps (i dont think its 2 Gpus result)
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As you know, on the board ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 is two graphics processor. According to the information available at the reference motherboard ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 will be installed 1 GB of memory GDDR3, which operates at a frequency of 2 GHz processors and related 256 - bit tyres. The product is meant for connecting to the bus PCI Express 2.0, which interact with the responsibility of the special chip-bridge. The truth seems to be in this role will not be used PEX6347 ,as expected but PEX8548. At the given scheme, the bridge is at the centre of charges between the two processors. Near each processor can be found on four chip memory.
The following illustration shows that the transition from PCI Express 1.1 for PCI Express 2.0 provides a noticeable increase in productivity - around 20-30%, depending on the application and the screen resolution.
http://www.pczilla.net/upload/200801211916224385.jpg
that's the real it can get.... it still will performe like 2 3870 in CF and it will have "problems" on "non CF frendly games".... but it will be good for mobos singles pciex16 and it will be good for cross-fire (4xgpu) but it all will depende on drivers suport.... ATI HELP US WITH GOOD DRIVERS.... DAMMIT :D
Wow, so PCI-e 2.0 will show improvements sooner than people expected. I was about to buy a P35. This might change my decision.
VR-Zone already found/got a review up.
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=228355
Meh. 30W extra power consumption for an average of 12.6% real life performance gain. :down:Quote:
Originally Posted by Member on VR-Zone
Let's hope for some driver improvements and some better reviews.
ATI just took your crown Nvidia (barely). Time to get pissed and show us what ya got.
and dont forget the much lower idle-consumption.
3870x2 is pretty much same as single 3870 in idle as you can turn off 1 core.
It just seems more relevant to point out the wattage. I could of mentioned percent but there was only one variable. With the performance increase there were multiple variables averaged. Plus I was just quoting the guy from VR-Zone.
At any rate, 12% increase is poop. I don't care what anyone says. Hopefully the review is wrong or something... :)
First Review online:
http://img3.pconline.com.cn/pconline...k064aa2560.jpg
http://img3.pconline.com.cn/pconline...680_SS2Haa.jpg
http://img3.pconline.com.cn/pconline...00U_080120.jpg
http://www.pconline.com.cn/diy/graph...1/1210234.html
Cant wait to see the HD3870 CF VS HD3870 X2 results. And compared to 8800 GT in SLi mode. The tested board has 1ns Sansung memory. Way better then that crappy Qimonda memory on the 8800 GT and GTS cards.
No one else notice this? (repost maybe?)
AMD HD 3870 X2 launch now Jan 28
http://www.techpowerup.com/?50385
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/8837/index.html
http://images.tweaktown.com/imageban...2_04s_full.JPG
This card is sweet. It has four DVI outputs, two six-pin power connectors and the cooling seems more than adequate :)
wow this looks awesome! Zalman-alike cooler with four DVI's and ordinary 6-pin plugins for power... if it's stock OC'ed, this has become my favorite 3870 X2...
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it's a shame that they didn't call it 3890... this X2 doesn't fit in in the policy of removing XT, XTX, XL... suffiXes!
love it , and the PCB seems different too !!
any clues about Clocks and Ram???
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ATI pushed the date back to the 28th. The reason why going around is so the card can launch with its new driver that has fixes and performance increases. Its possible it might be the quad crossfire driver too. NDA was also pushed back to the 28th.
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/show...4&postcount=28
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I suppose if you have good case airflow it shouldn't be a problem, but if you feel the exhaust air coming from an 8800 series card you would realize just how much that could potentially affect case temperature, and in return CPU temp.