Official HD4870X2 (R700) Review Thread

[initialised]

Props to Hardware Canucks, they used a 3.9GHz Quad-core and recognised the need to pair the cards in a decent system! Some reviews have 4 GPUs on a 3GHz dual-core... it's not doing the cards the justice they seem to deserve?!

Yeah, like Guru3D's 3GHz C2D with 2GB DDR3 for crossfire testing with a 4GB framebuffer! When will they learn (or buy a Quad)

[cowie]

Yeah, like Guru3D's 3GHz C2D with 2GB DDR3 for crossfire testing with a 4GB framebuffer! When will they learn (or buy a Quad)

for what they need a quad?
i thuoght that this cards intended rez(over 1600x1200) will help the cpu bottlenecting no?

[zerazax]

for what they need a quad?
i thuoght that this cards intended rez(over 1600x1200) will help the cpu bottlenecting no?

From what I've seen, it doesn't matter what your CPU is unless you go way extreme, because nothing can feed the 2 GPUs fast enough, so you constantly get improvements