3870 X2 Reviews

[STaRGaZeR]

can i run a 3870x2 on a 680i no problems both gpus recognised?

Yes. No problem. But if you don't want to run SLI you may consider an Intel chipset, not that 680i nFarce crap.

[disruptfam]

no not interested in sli or x-fire at the moment just interested in the fastest single slot gfx card available

i may change to a asus maximus if 3870x2 perform well in x-fire

[eric66]

atomic from sapphire

[Eastcoasthandle]

GDDR4 variant can't come fast enough IMO

[DilTech]

no not interested in sli or x-fire at the moment just interested in the fastest single slot gfx card available

i may change to a asus maximus if 3870x2 perform well in x-fire

If you're presently on a GTX you likely won't get much gain out of a 3870...

[disruptfam]

so i should keep my gtx?

I've seen some good results from the 3870x2 especially in crysis as my gtx can't handle crysis w/aa @ a decent res

[Eastcoasthandle]

so i should keep my gtx?

I've seen some good results from the 3870x2 especially in crysis as my gtx can't handle crysis w/aa @ a decent res

You'll see even better with GDDR4
Lets hope we only see 1 Gig

[Unbornchild]

Lets hope we only see 1 Gig

Why? Lets hope we get to see a 2 Gig (2x1).

[DilTech]

so i should keep my gtx?

I've seen some good results from the 3870x2 especially in crysis as my gtx can't handle crysis w/aa @ a decent res

I'd keep the GTX for now and wait for the true next gen parts to show up.

Nothing on the market presently can handle crysis with AA at a decent resolution... Absolutely nothing.

[malik22]

I'd keep the GTX for now and wait for the true next gen parts to show up.

Nothing on the market presently can handle crysis with AA at a decent resolution... Absolutely nothing.

Crossfire X or Quad Sli might maybe not at those very high res but maybe at 1600 1200.

[T_M]

My 3870X2 LN2 mounting mod

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=176230

[mascaras]

HD3870X2 : first problems

AMD proud to see his toy in the first place would he forgot to correct some problems of incompatibility with its HD3870 X2? In any case it would appear that that was the case.

AMD has just recognize compatibility problems with certain chipsets for motherboards hosting the flagship of the brand. The chipsets are i915G, i925X, P965, i975X, with the X38 and ATI Xpress 200 (lol). The problem is easily recognizable with displaying a black screen at boot due to the incompatibility of some BIOS.

To solve this problem an updated BIOS should suffice, except for older chipsets (i915G and i925X), which will perhaps never a chance to see their BIOS to be updated.

http://www.59hardware.net/Actualites...robleme_!.html

regards

[Zytek_Fan]

I think the X38 problems are isolated incidents.
Although I'm sure it's easy to name a few problematic X38 boards that would be the reason X38 is on that list...

[ChaosMinionX]

No problems here with 2 HD3870 X2's both work (not in crossfire of course, separately tried) on Asus Maximus Formula.

[Face]

Fudzilla Tests 'Hybrid CrossFire', Gets Powerful Results

HD3870 and HD3850 mix tested in Crossfire

The current drivers available from ATI (Catalyst 8.1) support an interesting new mode: interoperability between an HD3870 and an HD3850 in CrossFire mode. Fudzilla had both the time and resources to test this out, so they did. Before the test results are considered, please remember that these are just initial drivers. Both Catalyst 8.2 and 8.3 will offer more impressive CrossFire results. To make a long story short, and to sum up a lot of bar charts, AMD is well on their way to making Hybrid CrossFire a feasible solution for a lot of people, especially once more graphics cards can be mixed-and-matched. Please check out Fudzilla for all the benchmarks.

The most notable increase was 50% in Half Life 2. NVIDIA does not have anything comparable to Hybrid CrossFire.

Source: Fudzilla via techPowerUp

[wittekakker]

Would be really great if you could add next gen videocards to the current models, in CrossFire or SLI.

[Eastcoasthandle]

Video review of 3870X2

[Origin_Unknown]

i do want one of these tbh.... im almost ready to take the plunge but i want a better air cooler for now before watercooling

[Face]

Another Radeon HD3870 with HD3850 Crossfire How to and tests.

http://www.cpu3d.com/index.php?optio...mid=16&limit=1

[whocaresbg]

ATI Catalyst 8.2 "Release Notes" released :

http://game.amd.com/us-en/content/pdf/Catalyst_82.pdf

[oc_junkY]

Which driver to get for best Crysis Performance at the moment?
I have tried the "8-2_xp32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_58128.exe" and the "Sample_R680_xp_vista_8-45a.exe" drivers, but in Crysis i got very low min fps. Even less than i got with a 8800 GTS. Also i have those lags, but i think others have them too.
I don't expect that you suggest me a driver and everything will be perfect, i just want to know the best thing one can do with a HD3870X2 at the moment.
Big thanks

[ATI-RaWpOwEr]

Great....overclocking with utilities which aren't available.

I have yet to see one of these cards above 875Mhz which most topping out at 855-865Mhz.

Dude u got it all wrong first of all i would suggest to anyone in usa or canada to purchase the 3870 x2 from extreme-pc.ca they work with diamond to make them the sell an overclocked version and a stock one but what makes them so special from other vendors is that they have unlocked BIOS up to 1000/3000! on both the stock an trhe overclocked one so no need for 3rd party applications overclocking straight from the BIOS

link for stock:http://www.extreme-pc.ca/showproduct...=99&menu3id=39


link for overclocked:http://www.extreme-pc.ca/showproduct...=99&menu3id=39

[bluehaze]

Which driver to get for best Crysis Performance at the moment?
I have tried the "8-2_xp32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_58128.exe" and the "Sample_R680_xp_vista_8-45a.exe" drivers, but in Crysis i got very low min fps. Even less than i got with a 8800 GTS. Also i have those lags, but i think others have them too.
I don't expect that you suggest me a driver and everything will be perfect, i just want to know the best thing one can do with a HD3870X2 at the moment.
Big thanks

Best driver for me in Crysis is the new 8.2 Catalyst, I use the ones from Sapphires site because I bought a Sapphire card but I am pretty sure they are the same as the ones from ATI. I get 40-45FPS 1920x1200 object detail and texture detail on Very High and everything else a mix of mostly medium and some high on a q6600@3.8ghz Vista 64.

Only problem i have is with overclocking, nothing seems to work under Vista 64 I get worse performance when I overclock the card even using that bios editor to overclock it...seems to run best when i do a clean install of 8.2 and don't enable Overdrive.

[initialised]

Trusted Reviews have reviews of the Saphire card and the ASUS 4x HDCP DVI version.

Testing setup of the former:

Test setup for the latter is not listed but can be assumed to be the same.

[eric66]

weird i thought that cf worked great in quack wars