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

Gerard · 21 Jan 2008 at 22:03

jrodga2k5 said:
Fan just done nothing when idle really just kinda spins a tad! However it becomes hd2900xt-a-like if you pump it up yourself. They just managed to tone it down for the 3870's due to the manufacturing process keeping the smaller chips cooler at stock

And a different fan for the standard 3870's. The 2900 fan was pretty noticable even at slow speeds.

LoadsaMoney · 21 Jan 2008 at 22:19

VortexA1 said:
So from that site ...basically it's saying it's not worth going to a 3870x2 on a pci-e 1.1 board.

:/

Yeah, looks like its taking one hell of a hit :eek:

, can't see that being the case surely.

gadgets · 21 Jan 2008 at 22:51

jrodga2k5 said:
Lol load of crap to be perfectly honest ATi would not be stupid enough to alienate the majority of the market!

but then if they made stuff to fit the now, there would be no future and we would still be using voodoo 2's!!!

ShinOBIWAN · 24 Jan 2008 at 15:47

ROFL!

Said I'd be back to rub your faces in it and now the benches are out I just have to say I owned you guys who though this was going to be anything other than crossfire on a single card.

This ones mainly for Willhub

Gerard · 24 Jan 2008 at 15:48

ShinOBIWAN said:
ROFL!

Said I'd be back to rub your faces in it and now the benches are out I just have to say I owned you guys who though this was going to be anything other than crossfire on a single card.

Oh wow epeen plus one to you good sir. :rolleyes:

Clearly the OWNAGE (welcome to 1999) is prevelant.

willhub · 24 Jan 2008 at 15:48

Nah you never owned anyone, you just had no hope for the product I did but now I've lost all hope.

stevenazari1 · 24 Jan 2008 at 16:16

ShinOBIWAN said:
ROFL!

Said I'd be back to rub your faces in it and now the benches are out I just have to say I owned you guys who though this was going to be anything other than crossfire on a single card.

This ones mainly for Willhub

your an idiot

erm your using a review that has put a pci-e 2.0 card in a pci-e 1 slot your basis to say the x2 is carp? wow so when pci-e 1 came out and everyone had agp cards the world was entering armaggedon? both nvidia and ati were down the pan because you didnt have pci-e??

gg sir...... gg.

Gerard · 24 Jan 2008 at 16:19

stevenazari1 said:
your an idiot

erm your using a review that has put a pci-e 2.0 card in a pci-e 1 slot your basis to say the x2 is carp? wow so when pci-e 1 came out and everyone had agp cards the world was entering armaggedon? both nvidia and ati were down the pan because you didnt have pci-e??

gg sir...... gg.

Think you quoted the wrong post

LoadsaMoney · 24 Jan 2008 at 16:20

ShinOBIWAN said:
ROFL!

Said I'd be back to rub your faces in it and now the benches are out I just have to say I owned you guys who though this was going to be anything other than crossfire on a single card.

This ones mainly for Willhub

No benchies are out though.

stevenazari1 · 24 Jan 2008 at 16:21

Gerard said:
Think you quoted the wrong post

lol wouldnt be the first time - I will change now lol

done appologies. you can be the chipmunk this time

ShinOBIWAN · 24 Jan 2008 at 18:42

stevenazari1 said:
your an idiot

Thanks for that. See you when you get back.

BTW I never said this card was useless, rubbish or anything else to that effect. I just said earlier in the thread how this card was the functional equivalent of two 3870 but on one card. Others jumped to conclusions about circumventing crossfire and I tried to correct that but got jumped on. I thought a bit of light hearted "told you so" was in order.

The atmosphere is a little too heavy around here. Some of you guys need to relax a little.

muppet · 24 Jan 2008 at 20:36

http://www.fpslabs.com/reviews/video/amd-radeon-hd-3870-x2-review

dont know if this has been seen before

alexthecheese · 24 Jan 2008 at 22:05

Is this 3870 x2 going to support HDMI/HDCP? When can we expect it to be out in the UK?

Sorry if it's already been asked but this thread is crazy long...

psychas · 25 Jan 2008 at 00:35

would it made any difference if it was ddr4 ?

queamin · 25 Jan 2008 at 00:50

It is out on the 28th

Margaret · 25 Jan 2008 at 01:29

Weird TF2 results but explained here;

Before everyone starts yelling about these scores, let us just say that we probably ran each test for this card about 20 times to make sure we weren’t doing something totally stupid. The fact that we got higher scores at 1920x1200 resolution than we did at 1280x1024 really only points to one thing: at the settings with which we test the game, the Radeon HD 3870 X2 turns Team Fortress 2 into a CPU limited application. Regardless, no other card we have tested manages to cause this kind of behavior from TF2, which can only mean the HD 3870 X2 takes the top spot in this game as well. Perhaps all that canoodling on Alcatraz back in 2004 is finally paying dividends for AMD/ATI.

Looks like another flop from AMD/ATi.

VortexA1 · 25 Jan 2008 at 02:27

Oblivion - it's cpu limited - hardly no difference there.
Team Fortress 2 it's beating all cards at 1900s.
And crapsis...

From those benchmarks I wouldn't say the card's a flop.

steve258 · 25 Jan 2008 at 02:29

Am I seeing it right 2900XT pretty much on par with 8800GT!? :eek:

bidermaier · 25 Jan 2008 at 03:19

Jihad said:
Looks like another flop from AMD/ATi.

It is known that the 3870x2 (and very likely the 9800 GX2 too) uses the PCIe bus very intensively. The PCIe 1.1 seems to bottleneck the card
What motherboard are using to test this high end card?
An X48? No
x38? No wayyyy
P35? eeerrr... no
No, they are using a freaking nvidia mobo with PCIe 1.1

Margaret · 25 Jan 2008 at 04:04

VortexA1 said:
Oblivion - it's cpu limited - hardly no difference there.
Team Fortress 2 it's beating all cards at 1900s.
And crapsis...

From those benchmarks I wouldn't say the card's a flop.

It is a flop if you ask me, it's 2 GPU's and still barely betters the 8800 singles.