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    3870 x2 review

    http://www.pconline.com.cn/diy/graph...1/1210234.html

    if true, looks worth the money

    too bod there isnt a comparison with regular crossfire card
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    looks like we have a new king and this can game 3d render and play videos

    teh pic is of 1280x1024 the 3870 x2 dose alot better with higher rez ull see when u got to the link

    its not like having 2 gpus make it not count the gx2 counted


    what will this do in crossfire i bet it will break 30k without trying
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    Kinda dissapointed, it beats out the 8800Ultra on the older games, but not new games like Crysis where we need the performance boost. If it's $399 it would be a great deal, but at $449, I might as well get the 8800GTX and oc that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by awdrifter View Post
    Kinda dissapointed, it beats out the 8800Ultra on the older games, but not new games like Crysis where we need the performance boost. If it's $399 it would be a great deal, but at $449, I might as well get the 8800GTX and oc that.
    how can this be disapointed? its cheaper, performs better, and you can finally decode HD movies...

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    Quote Originally Posted by awdrifter View Post
    Kinda dissapointed, it beats out the 8800Ultra on the older games, but not new games like Crysis where we need the performance boost. If it's $399 it would be a great deal, but at $449, I might as well get the 8800GTX and oc that.
    it looses by less than 1fps at a reasonable resolution in crysis so i dont see that as real loss as that engine being programed terribly and not liking multi gpu and not being able to use more than 128 shaders
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    Quote Originally Posted by awdrifter View Post
    Kinda dissapointed, it beats out the 8800Ultra on the older games, but not new games like Crysis where we need the performance boost. If it's $399 it would be a great deal, but at $449, I might as well get the 8800GTX and oc that.
    its a issue with crossfire specific to crysis. future drivers should fix that though.

    the card does run rather hot, 79C gpu temp means to me = aftermarket cooler needed. also powerconsumption is 25W higher than with a 8800Ultra.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zanzabar View Post
    it looses by less than 1fps at a reasonable resolution in crysis so i dont see that as real loss as that engine being programed terribly and not liking multi gpu and not being able to use more than 128 shaders
    O'rly it can't use more than 128 shaders hmm....
    Since patch 1.1 one the game works well with CF too (or that is what I heard from CF users in this forum) but here is a review with the game performance 1.0 version and SLi so as you can see a 8800GT scores 27.3 FPS average in single and 45.2 in SLi and a 8800GTS 21.2 single and 38.8 in SLi I think that's quite a hefty boost...
    So it CAN use more than 128SP,it's not terrbly programed and quite likes multi GPU (or atleast the Nvidia version...)
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    Seems to be a roughly 10-20% increase in performance across the board vs. the 8800 Ultra, depending on the game and the level of multi-GPU support.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zerazax View Post
    looks wrong, gpu clock should be higher and mem clock should be lower
    and only 13k in 06??
    strange

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    Quote Originally Posted by GoThr3k View Post
    looks wrong, gpu clock should be higher and mem clock should be lower
    and only 13k in 06??
    strange
    Yeah, looks like they had CF troubles w/ 3dM06 but there are apparently two 3870X2 configs coming out: the 775 MHz clocked ones and the 825Mhz clocked ones. Might be up to the AIB to set their own clock speeds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GoThr3k View Post
    looks wrong, gpu clock should be higher and mem clock should be lower
    and only 13k in 06??
    strange
    u have to have a 3.6 ghz + cpu to get a good score theya re running a 2.8ghz quad so the scores are lower than the 1st review with a 3.6ghz

    fps also killed the bandwidth and used a 680i board so the test is scued towards NV with the extra bandwidth for teh NV cards but only a degraded 16 pci-e1 lane for the ati card (a pci-e2.0 card), the 1st reviewer used a dq6 x48 witch is neutral witha full bandwidth pci-e2 slots
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    if R680 have it +/- the same performance like Ultra, is comparable to GTS-512because difference between Ultra and GTS-512 is small ... GTS-512 is cheaper then this R680 ...

    You can choose : R680 - brutal heat, performance like Ultra (oced GTS-512), noisy cooler for 600USD! Or GTS-512 with oced the same performance, great cooler for 400USD ... what is better?

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    Quote Originally Posted by OBR View Post
    if R680 have it +/- the same performance like Ultra, is comparable to GTS-512because difference between Ultra and GTS-512 is small ... GTS-512 is cheaper then this R680 ...

    You can choose : R680 - brutal heat, performance like Ultra (oced GTS-512), noisy cooler for 600USD! Or GTS-512 with oced the same performance, great cooler for 400USD ... what is better?
    did you look at the numbers?
    3870x2 > ultra > g92 gts

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    oced gts can only touch gtx not ultra anyway great results from gpu like r600 they made new king pretty impressive

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    Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
    did you look at the numbers?
    3870x2 > ultra > g92 gts
    Ultra is discontinued product on EOL! Today NVIDIA has only GTS-512 difference between Ultra and GTS-512 is very small


    difference is few percent ...

    ... OK R680 in better then Ultra ... but 2x GT in SLI are better for the same price like R680 ...

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    At a msrp of $450us.It appears to be the card to own.OBR you need to put on spectacles .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Forsaken1 View Post
    At a msrp of $450us.It appears to be the card to own.OBR you need to put on spectacles .

    here in Europe costs 620 USD ... 420EUR ... maybe are spectacles better for you ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by OBR View Post
    Ultra is discontinued product on EOL! Today NVIDIA has only GTS-512 difference between Ultra and GTS-512 is very small


    difference is few percent ...

    ... OK R680 in better then Ultra ... but 2x GT in SLI are better for the same price like R680 ...
    Ultra isn't quite EOL yet - in fact, Nvidia still touts it as their performance king and toes the line that Ultra > GTX > GTS 512 > GT.

    As far as those prices go, EUR == USD prices with regards to video cards after you take taxes and all that account. Even w/ the US dollar falling, it's been fairly close to the trend. They're expecting the 3870X2 at $449 release so it'll be a great price, especially for people who don't have dual PCIE solutions.

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    R680 kickass

    Cheaper and way better then 8800 ultra.

    Next...
    Let come 8800GX2.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OBR View Post
    Today NVIDIA has only GTS-512 difference between Ultra and GTS-512 is very small
    yeah, ultra is only like 10-20% faster then new gts with AA and 3870x2 is only like 10-20% faster then ultra.

    Those 20-40% more is really not worth to mention


    Quote Originally Posted by OBR View Post
    here in Europe costs 620 USD ... 420EUR ... maybe are spectacles better for you ...
    wow, you found a shop who sells it for 420€... so what ?

    There is also one who already got it for 380€ and it's not even released !
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    I suppose they haven't read the " HD3870X2 = hardlaunch (available 24th January in Dutch shop for €399) ( 1 2 3 4 5) " thread...

    Anyway. Card looks promising (from the OP's review). I want to see more (correctly done on x38) reviews though.
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    Kickass card? Its CF on a card. Could just buy 2 HD3870..they would even be cheaper. And the heat..ouch...

    Its like adding 2 G92s on a card and call it kickass. It just aint. Living with all the CF/SLI bugs, specially with multi monitors is too horrible.

    Now give me a single GPU card instead. And not another R600 heatmonster.

    It needs to be same or cheaper than 2 HD3870 cards. Not more...
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