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second x2 review

I can't see it being in between £250-£300, i rekon £300 will be lowest, so ill say £300 - £350 :p

Im getting ready for it all going off when they finally revealed. :D
 
More then £260 and you can just buy 2 seperate 3870's and xfire them thats why i think it would be stupid to charge more then the cost of 2 seperatecards.
 
RizlaKing said:
More then £260 and you can just buy 2 seperate 3870's and xfire them thats why i think it would be stupid to charge more then the cost of 2 seperatecards.
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You are paying for the convinience of having a single card, the PCI-E spliter, and the built in crossfire bridge.
 
Definately doesn't sound good, it also says there that you can get 2x 3870's cheaper, yes the X2 is only single PCB, but if it sounds like a passing train (alledgedly), and sucks more power than 2x singles, then id get the 2x cheaper, less power hungry, quieter 3870's.
 
Doesn't sound to bad by them, and they even say its quieter than the 2900, but the price still looks wrong, €400, compared to the single 3870 which is €180, so that puts 2x 3870's (which the X2 is) at only €360, so your paying the extra to have less PCB's, as your getting 1x instead of 2x, wtf :confused:
 
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That review is stupid. For starters, it's compared to a 3870 and nothing else. Secondly, the guy can't write a review for ****, these snippets caught my eye.

First of all, the performance is simply phenomenal, but this card packs even more heat.

36 FPS in Crysis and 56 FPS in World in Conflict is apparantly what passes as phenomenal performance these days. Also..

[Crysis] 1600x1200 with details set to high, and everything was smooth as it could be. There was a stuttering issue here and there, but this is related to Crysis itself, not the card.

Everything was smooth as it could be? How is 36 FPS as smooth as it could be? That barely qualifies as playable let alone smooth. "As smooth as it could be" would be every setting maxed 60+ FPS. What a tool, I'm going to pretend that review doesn't exist.
 
ive just read on another forum saying that ti will run on pci-e 1.0 if thats true and the price is right ( i dont think it will be) I might fancy one of these

cheers
 
i'd take the figures with a grain of salt tbh as it should come out with similar performance to my setup now and it looks quite slower atm.

3870 in crossfire is a fair bit faster than a GTS in general, wait until it's actually released with final drivers.
 
MystaEB said:
That review is stupid. For starters, it's compared to a 3870 and nothing else. Secondly, the guy can't write a review for ****, these snippets caught my eye.

First of all, the performance is simply phenomenal, but this card packs even more heat.

36 FPS in Crysis and 56 FPS in World in Conflict is apparantly what passes as phenomenal performance these days. Also..

[Crysis] 1600x1200 with details set to high, and everything was smooth as it could be. There was a stuttering issue here and there, but this is related to Crysis itself, not the card.

Everything was smooth as it could be? How is 36 FPS as smooth as it could be? That barely qualifies as playable let alone smooth. "As smooth as it could be" would be every setting maxed 60+ FPS. What a tool, I'm going to pretend that review doesn't exist.
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there are several major reasons why there is a premium on this card.



1) it is being classed as a single card no? therefore, they have the fastest single card out (according to the reviews so far). Therefore there will be a premium on the fact that it is the fastest single card in the world.

2) production cost. although yes it uses less board etc, the production cost to make one of these cards is probably a fair bit more than the cost to make 2 seperate 3870's. there will be a premium on this as they need to recover a fair amount of production costs, compared to the massive loss they experienced with cards like the 2900GT.

i think the top branded version of this card will be close to £400, if not touching £400.

also forgot, the final premium. we are in the UK. everything costs more.
 
It has its peaks, but these are far and few. As for the overclocking, we neither had time nor wanted to torture the card with that as well. Why would we?
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Written by Nebojsa Todorovic

A rhetorical question that should so not be there. :D

Can anyone say "where's my English editor, I need him to proof read my work especially when it's of such high importance as this"? rofl
 
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