3870x2

[waspiflab]

Got this coming Tuesday
anyone here use one??
Great price

[Mictheslik]

So, need to get rid of your old card??

.mic

[waspiflab]

Got 2 3870's but had issues with crossfire but still great cards.
Purchased a Asus Rampage Formula S775 X48 board for

[waspiflab]

So, need to get rid of your old card??

.mic

If you want it is yours for

[Flying Mouse]

I use the Asus version.

My first decent card ever.

[waspiflab]

I use the Asus version.

My first decent card ever.

Look forward to giving it a blast

[Flying Mouse]

One of the Utilities on the disk is used to monitor the cards temp. and I must say I hardly ever go above 50 degrees celcius. Some nice others aswell, one I got is called "GamersOD". Allows FPS to be toggled on and off in any game, allows making game movies and capture screenshots. Donno if saphire has similar types.

My PSU has a 140mm fan, 2 120mm in the box, the card itself has a small fan. Most reviews posted high temps for this card. This card is really cool and quite.

Over and above that I just find it hard to get settings in Catalyst Manager right. Some setting like Catalyst AI set on on cause some games like Kane and lynch not to run at all.

So I am still adjusting in there to get max. performance.

I also find the drivers immature, I have problems running most DX10 games, severe shadow flikering etc... but smooth in dx9, infact it runs all app's in dx9 mode in style.

Only exeption is Gears of war. DX10, full settings with 60+ FPS. This card  loves this game.

Only thing I dont understand is why did you ditch thet 2 3870's and paid so much for the HD3870X2? Performance wise there aint much of a difference.

I wouldint mind to have 2xHD3870X2 in crossfire, but again the $ hurts. These HD3870X2 aint cheap

[waspiflab]

Thats the plan to get another x2 this month or maybe Junes pay packet.
Cheers for the info
Waspi
would this board be ok for 2 x2's- Asus Rampage Formula S775 X48? it supports crossfire.

[Flying Mouse]

Thats the plan to get another x2 this month or maybe Junes pay packet.
Cheers for the info
Waspi
would this board be ok for 2 x2's- Asus Rampage Formula S775 X48? it supports crossfire.

I never tried crossfire so I wont be able to comment on the above

[NickN]

Crossfire for the 3870x2 requires the AMD 7xx series and above chipset motherboards. if you do not have that motherboard, you can not quadfire those cards


ATi/AMD designed the dual card CrossfireX support to only work on thier chipset motherboards until such time as Intel secures a license for the use of the technology in their chipsets.

Even with that, the drivers that support true quadfire were just released and its still in a dev cycle

[waspiflab]

Crossfire for the 3870x2 requires the AMD 7xx series and above chipset motherboards. if you do not have that motherboard, you can not quadfire those cards


ATi/AMD designed the dual card CrossfireX support to only work on thier chipset motherboards until such time as Intel secures a license for the use of the technology in their chipsets.

Even with that, the drivers that support true quadfire were just released and its still in a dev cycle

Thanks Nick and Mouse

[Si_Combat]

I'm currently home-working component choices for my new rig to be able to comfortably run FSX... the only thing I cant decide on is what graphics card configeration to implement... Does this 3870 x2 manage reasonable FPS on its own or would X-fire or SLi be a better route to follow...?

I'm asking because I can buy two 512mb HD 3870 cards and crossfire them at a cheaper cost to buying one single Phat HD 3870 x2...

Any comments or thoughts would be welcome... Thanks in advance...

Si

[Flying Mouse]

Crossfire for the 3870x2 requires the AMD 7xx series and above chipset motherboards. if you do not have that motherboard, you can not quadfire those cards


ATi/AMD designed the dual card CrossfireX support to only work on thier chipset motherboards until such time as Intel secures a license for the use of the technology in their chipsets.

Even with that, the drivers that support true quadfire were just released and its still in a dev cycle

Mine is a AMD 770 / SB600 Chipset. Glad I bought this board. Just a pitty I am too broke for new PSU and another 3870x2  :-[

Combat, Waspiflab use to have 2 3870's in crossfire, he will be able to comment on that.

However, I prefer the HD3870x2 based on some benchmarking in most reviews, reflecting it to outperform most applications in comparison with 2xHD3870's.

[NickN]

the only downside to any of the ATi cards in FSX is CLOUDS

They do not play nice with FSX rendered clouds. Nvidia does much better with them and only the 8800 series and up.. and even then you have to watch out for what you are buying

With all the BS Nv cards on the market, the original 8800GTX is still the best bang for the buck when it comes to performance. The memory bandwidth and sharder clock handles FSX weather better than any of them for the price

[Si_Combat]

Hello there Nick N... I remember you from ages ago sir... you helped with a fantastic improvement in both my FS9 FPS and PC performance ages ago and I've still carried your advice to this day... I've had a few issues since then but aside from those things are cool...

I've been bustin' to try the nVidia direction... I've stuck with Ati for too long through FS9 and other games that I have... I'm still confused, though, as to whether or not one GOOD card is better than two lesser running in SLi...

I was Considering x2 'HIS ATI HD 3870 512MB' Cards in X-Fire...