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Radeon HD 3870 X2 Launch On Jan 23rd, Costs US$449

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Radeon HD 3870 X2 Launch On Jan 23rd, Costs US$449

AMD has informed their partners that Radeon HD 3870 X2 (R680) launch has been pushed forward to 23rd January instead of 28th. Therefore, it will now be launched together with Radeon HD 3650 (RV635), HD 3450 (RV620) and 780G (RS780). The price point for Radeon is US$449 and stocks will hit the retail market by next week.
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Would have been nice if you posted under the "x2 to be released early" thread :p

Thanks for the link though.. checking now to see if they are rechurning out old info.

Matthew
 
SS-89 said:
should retail here for around £270 then which is mighty tempting.
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Hopefully cheaper! May as well get 2 3870's if it costs more than 2. At least you can sell the cards seperately which would probably net more money than the depreciation on this card.

Matthew
 
Sounds a lot better than $700+ :p, and there will be absolutely stacks in stock, as they could have been released last year, they've just been holding them back to get the driver sorted, im looking forward to these, gona be interesting to see how 2x GPU's on the 1x board does. :)
 
Well $449 converts to about £228 here, now we know it wont be that, but i reckon we could be looking around £280, which won't be bad at all. :p
 
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What it would be nice to know is how these work, for example do these cards need a Crossfire board?
 
rippling said:
if you buy one then no , buy 2 and yes you need a crossfirex capable board ie x38 as your playing with 4 gpu`s
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Okay, although I did hear that the X38 is not a CrossfireX board, just a regular Crossfire board, and that for a pair of these you need 790FX or X38/P45.

I don't know if there's any truth to that though.
 
Tute said:
Okay, although I did hear that the X38 is not a CrossfireX board, just a regular Crossfire board, and that for a pair of these you need 790FX or X38/P45.

I don't know if there's any truth to that though.
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basicly crossfirex = 4 pcie's/graphic cards , crossfire = 2 pcie's/graphic cards..

so if u buy 2 of the 3870x2 you'll only need a crossfire motherboard.
 
Since the release of the codenamed Spider desktop platform from AMD on November 19, 2007, the CrossFire setup has been updated with support for a maximum of four video cards with the 790FX chipset; the CrossFire branding was then changed to "ATI CrossFire X".
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Now correct me if i'm wrong, but i'm pretty sure X38 came before 790FX, and therefore before CrossfireX?

I don't want to sound like i'm trying to rain on anyone's parade, but I think P35/X38 owners will at least need a BIOS flash to use a pair of these. :)
 
Tute said:
What it would be nice to know is how these work, for example do these cards need a Crossfire board?
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They dont mate, both GPU's run off the 16x PCi-E Slot @ 8x + 8x speed! And on ATi Cards this does not have that big an impact. This is how it all works, just splits the slot on two :)
 
jrodga2k5 said:
They dont mate, both GPU's run off the 16x PCi-E Slot @ 8x + 8x speed! And on ATi Cards this does not have that big an impact. This is how it all works, just splits the slot on two :)
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Good stuff. Will be ordering one of these as soon as I can. :D
 
I think I read it on one of the forums links, someone explained how it operated! Its all down to that magical chip on the board between the GPU though that lets it all happen! :) Hopefully it pulls off some impressive number like the x1950pro DUAL did, unfortunately for that card it was old tech and expensive tech at that! The time would appear to be right for this DUAL GPU Strike :)
 
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