Im actually impressed with AMD/ATi! I think I will purchase 2 3870's and a maximus formula motherboard to have them both @ 16x speeds, and still retain my DDR2...... Should be a nice improvement from my single 8800GTS 640
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Im actually impressed with AMD/ATi! I think I will purchase 2 3870's and a maximus formula motherboard to have them both @ 16x speeds, and still retain my DDR2...... Should be a nice improvement from my single 8800GTS 640
cookerjc you are my new hero :) ok, maybe a touch o.t.t but that is interesting information.
I've been torn between keeping my GT or getting CF, this pretty much swayed me as I'm finally moving to vista in the near future and the cards are pretty even.
Now where to find 3870's in stock and not overpriced...
nice comparison, thx :toast:
How about in crysis does crossfire also scale better?
Great review, I would love to see some O/Ced 3850's match the stock 3870's. At 179$ for two it would be a steal. Also would be great to throw in a single 8800Ultra as well.
a single 3870 is an improvement over an 8800gtsQuote:
Originally Posted by newls1
Great review bro, thanks! :up:
I'm really excited to see cf performing so nicely as I am NEVER buying another Nvidia chipset.
I tried a single 3870 and boy was this card crap, my 8800GT trounced it in every game.....cant speak for crossfire as i havn't tried it yet.
LMFAO,,, wow bro. Don't think I've ever seen anyone soQuote:
Originally Posted by GAR
emotionally attached to defending his video card choice
as you have been since these 38XX's arrived.
You must really be fighting that feeling of buyer's remorse
each time you see a tiny bit more of the huge untapped
potential these ATI cards have :rofl: :ROTF: :rofl:
EBL
Ati scales very well in crossfire how about at a lower res will it scale there too?
nice test. thanks for ur info m8
I'd like to see 8800GT 256 in SLI v. HD3850 CF. That would also be interesting.
Anyways--nice review.
sorry guys no crysis comparison is because at first we run a small test and find out there's about 20% boost with 8800GTX SLI.
http://en.expreview.com/?p=19
here is the 20% boost :(
But while we runing this comparison in both SLI and CF there is not boost at all. We can not figure out it is a game/hardware/driver problem so we just drop this game.
hmm... thats unfortunate. hopefully with patches/new drivers, cf and sli will work. do you know if cf works with 2900xt? if it does, then maybe its a driver issue.
wow....great comparison....didnt think they'd be that close
you know it wont. This is just unfortunatly going to be seen by us insiders :(, unless of course ATI makes this into a big lathering deal (which they should), but they wont.Quote:
Originally Posted by Demo
yeah! well i mean Im thinkin the same thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by newls1
I love my 680i board (edit: sorry at [H] my system specs are in sig but not here, so here they are: EVGA 680i A1, E6300 @ 3.52GHz, 2 Gigs DDR2 ballistix @ 1006Mhz, 8800GTS 640mb) but the heat management is REALLY becoming an issue! Im sure thins thing can do 2050 FSB stable (it posts under 2150 for christs sake!) except for the simply MASSIVE amount of heat the NB puts off when I run those speeds at the voltages needed! fook! I really wanna WC cept for the $$$ needed! (edit: also im runnig P29... i cant find a mofoin new floppy to run the damn bios flasher... and the softwares horribad, like hell ima use that).
X38/P35 looks to be able to put out simply insane speeds, while running that memory controller [nb] at a reasonable temp. that, coupled with the fact that the HD 3870 performs on par with my 8800GTS 640mb (yeah I know I havn't looked at it that way but I should) and comes at a much lower price point means I could jump to X38, and two HD3870s with minimal cost included. I would get the higher OC, and more GPU performance!
Should I pull the trigger? what do you guys think, as an X-mas present to myself: Water Cooling or swap for a P35 (I DONT like this whole 4 and 16 pcie crossfire but asus has that crosslinx) or X38 and two HD 3870s?
If you don't like anti-aliasing. :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by hstuehmeyer2000
yo cookerjc
your not some raving ATI fanboy are you? because Im still shell shocked by this.
cookerjc could you do crysis on all high and all veryhigh to see which cards scale better in this game.
You might want to read the driverheaven review if you are contemplating using CF... Pay special attention to 'The Bad' and 'The Ugly' section - usual driver issues with multi gpu configurations.
A single GT will deliver consistent performance and is better than the 3870 (but costs a little more).
Crossfire doesn't seem to be as supported as sli. I cancelled my 3870's, I want hassle free gaming without having to wait for drivers to take advantage of CF...
Both decent cards it really depends on your needs.
Roll on '08 and the D9E...
cookerjc,
Could you test crysis crossfire performance on XP with Crysis hotfix drivers (uninstall previous cat's first!) and retail crysis? There should be big boost compared to single card setup or SLI according to this: http://www.forumdeluxx.de/forum/show...postcount=1255
Nice review CookerJc,
this answers alot of the questions i had when i purchased these cards..
you just made me feel good bout my 3870 x 2 purchase =)
will do after our current jobs' done..Quote:
Originally Posted by L7R
got some interesting cards in hand and make us very busy..
Was this tested in Vista or XP? There are serious issues with SLI and CF in vista....