Quote Originally Posted by Danger30Q View Post
I have to agree with you completely with this statement about BC2. It's the only game I plan on playing for the next 6 months so I have only focused on reviews that include BC2. About half of the reviews show the 5870 on top and the other half have the 480 on top. There is also the same variability when looking at SLI/Crossfire. All reviews are using i7 in the range of 3.2-3.8ghz. Its so damn odd that there is so much variability between reviews in BC2.
My guess is some reviews are using boards which sadly have the PCI-E Gen 2.0 compliance bug where nVidia cards fall back to PCI-E 1.1.

The only boards I know off the top of my head which do not have this issue are the Intel own brand boards (DX38BT, DX48BT2, DX58SO) none of those have this bug.

Gigabyte P45 and P55 do not have this bug, but practically all ASUS boards do, Biostar's X58 suffers from this bug.

IMHO all board vendors need to get this sorted out with a BIOS update ASAP, the crippling of the GT200 and newer cards using PCI-E 1.1 really does show when you are playing games which use a lot of textures and/or playing at high resolution.

I just thought I'd mention this as the review results do seem erratic in places and as you can see, this here does not look right.


John