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

You could prolly get away with 3870X2 + 3870XT for 3 x GPU goodness.
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Ah I see, i guess that is possible - anyone has any links to performance beach marks? I am currently running a single GTX which is overclocked, so I guess there is no point in upgrading if there is very little difference.

I am perhaps looking at getting the Abit IX38 QuadGT Intel X38 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard in order to be able to x-fire sometime in the future.

Or would you guys recommend going for a DDR3 version for future proofing. Any advice welcome!
 
LoadsaMoney said:
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. :)
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the whole 2 gpus in 1 pcb has been done before with 7800gt cores. i think it will be all down to drivers as it might have the same problem as the GX2 when the games were not using sli.
 
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Im not interested in this card now until I see a list of supported mobos.

I would lmao if it was only amd mobos that supported crossfirex, because tbh there are no intel crossfirex mobos on ocuk lol and if there are I really hope ocuk update their descriptions because things like this are only going to confuse the consumer
 
psychas said:
i see no point to get one of these if you not using more then 22" screen
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I would disagree, but only for one reason. Unfortunately that reason is Crysis. Even at 1280*1024, the average frame rate is massively improved with this game, as it seems to be heavily GPU limited and no CPU limited like the developers claim. For that reason and that reason alone would I want to get this. Not because Crysis is the best game etc, but because that is the level of quality (graphically) we can hopefully expect from future games
where even lower resolutions are gpu challenged.

Normally, I would say "Don't bother unless above 1680 res" or something similar, but that game has changed my outlook slightly, to it not being a black/white situation anymore.

Matthew
 
stevenazari1 said:
Im not interested in this card now until I see a list of supported mobos.

I would lmao if it was only amd mobos that supported crossfirex, because tbh there are no intel crossfirex mobos on ocuk lol and if there are I really hope ocuk update their descriptions because things like this are only going to confuse the consumer
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This is the new P35 DS4 i mentioned previously, OCUK are generally pretty good with updating descriptions of products. Is needed in this case as only the 2.1 rev will have xfirex.

Is similar to the situation with the 965 DS3,where only rev 3.3 natively supported 1333 FSB, so the description needs to state the rev number
 
i would like to see a list as i have a badaxe 2 and i would be seriously looking at 2 of these if i cant put 2 of these in my rig i prolly leave them alone
cheers
 
AMD/ATi need this to work on Crossfire mobos, which include the 975x / P35 / x38 et all, as it's a nice easy upgrade option. if it's their piddly Spider platform ONLY, then it'll be another Phailure. ;)
 
It'll work on X38/X48 boards with 2x 3870x2's (for 4 GPUs). You only need a CrossfireX (ie AMD) board if you want to run >2 cards together, so eg:4x3870 in which case you're limited to an AMD processor as well
 
im guessing that 2 3870x2 would be fine in a 580x crossfire board, no?

i have the msi k9a platinum with 2 pci-e 16x slots. if these cards are splitting that into 2 lots of 8x then it should work, right?

well, thats my understanding anyway
 
damn i just ordered 2x 3870 with my setup.
Do you reckon i'd get better result with two cards or this new one?
What ocuk return policy on unopened products?

Ta
 
dangerousmouse said:
im guessing that 2 3870x2 would be fine in a 580x crossfire board, no?

i have the msi k9a platinum with 2 pci-e 16x slots. if these cards are splitting that into 2 lots of 8x then it should work, right?

well, thats my understanding anyway
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Funnily enough I was wondering the same thing, having an asus a8r32 mvp myself. However, I think the issue with "old" boards is not going to be whether they can take 2 3970x2's, but if they support a cpu fast enough to do them justice? I'm kinda limited now as its a socket 939 board... :confused:
 
i upgraded from 939 to am2 summer last year. i currently had the 6000+ x2, but if needed i will be able to put a phenom in there.

dont really want to be having to buy a am2+ board if i can help it.
 
TheOtherOption said:
SLI needs the game to support it whereas from what I understand xfire does not ... so in theory it should work quite nicely as if it were just one card ?
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Not quite true, Nvidia has a number of profiles built into the drivers as does ATI. ATI you can use a fallback mode to for AFR if the drivers don't have a profile in them already, Nvidia you use Nhancer to build a profile which is then applied to the game.

Steve
 
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