Quote Originally Posted by jaredpace View Post
nascasho: that is a sweet looking rig! :o How does 5870 CF compare to 260 SLi? What brand are your radeons?
I'll tell you this, compared to my 2-way setup, performance to performance I say they feel about the same, which in my opinion... is freaking awesome! Especially for a SIngle GPU!

Also, the game feel sooooo smooth, and I can promise I'm not lying. I never saw any "microstutter" with my 2-way, but playing with this card makes me think other wise, lol.

I absolutley love the temps too, when these things idle, they seriously idle. At load the fans do a great job of keeping a good noise to heat ratio. I tried putting the fan up to 80% though... seriously... hair dryer alert. Ever seen that Nvidia video on the tube where they make fun of how the card sounds like a blower and hair dryier... well, it sounds like that, lol. But best thing is at full load your temps drop soooooo fast if you kick em' up. I dropped to 70C once in like 5sec from 85C!

I'm going to give it some lean way, but X-fire first impressions = fail. But i'm positive it's because the drivers aren't mature... and I need to stop using Crysis as a benchmark... lol. L4D, UT3 all run great, but I may pick up some more games to bench later like STALKER:CS and GTA:IV which seem to be good benchers.

I ran the benches for Crysis and the numbers were waaaaaaay off. Crysis "r-displayinfo 1" reported fps's that were way off and everything looked the be running 20fps.... not smooth compared to 1 GPU, actually worse. But the benches don't lie, min and max along with avg increased, but it was like 20% - 40% at most.

I still love these cards to death so far, even with one GPU. Will hope for better drivers or just find a game that'll take advantage of X-fire.