Quote Originally Posted by Shintai View Post
That depends how you see it. With 1 card? Maybe, sure!

But you could just aswell have 2 HD3870 or 8800GT cards. Because this card also comes with all the CF issues like any GX2 would inherit SLI issues.

Its amazing neither nVidia or AMD can even have a working multimonitor solution yet or complete game support. It just show how half baked CF/SLI is and will always be.

So I wouldnt say its better. Its perhaps just a cheaper CF solution from the start.
From what we have seen so far, it seems that one 3870 X2 is about to be as powerful (or lack of thereof depending on whether you are an Nvidia fanboy or not) as two 3870 in Crossfire. Results indicate approx. 90% of 3870 in CF or thereabout, which seems quite good given my previous experience.

Whether or not the 3870 X2 comes with the inherit SLI/CF related problems seems somewhat unclear yet and is still debated at various sites right now. Maybe our own Guru Mascaras can clear this out for us? Previous solutions from Nvidia, like the 7900 GX2 / 7950 GX2, did not have this syndrome as a “single card” solution but when connected to a second “single card” (as in Quad Sli) all hell was loose. Guess that we will know very shortly...

With regard to multimonitor solution from ATI, it seems like this will be supported with driver release 8.1 as it seems to be supported in the leaked 8.1 betas. Some fellow clanmembers that have installed the beta 8.1 driver are ecstatic over the solution provided but I guess it still remains to be seen for those of us those awaiting the final release. High hopes though. With the ty wheater around around here these days, one cannot do anything but hope for some good tech news...

Rob