!!!IN STOCK ATI 4870!!!

[HEADRAT]

Same as you Iceshock, should be a nice step up from my ageing 8800GTX

 

[psychas]

i had a not full gpu cooler and the ram sinks gave me a head in they would stick right hopefully when 4870x2 will come out as with stock cooler it should be hot hopefully someone will make some full cover nice gpu blocks

 

[gareth170]

1 reason why i would prefer 2 cards is because i could buy 1 now then buy another later which the 2nd card would be cheaper..

 

[Greebo]

1 reason why i would prefer 2 cards is because i could buy 1 now then buy another later which the 2nd card would be cheaper..

That's fine if you have a x38/48 board otherwise

 

[gareth170]

That's fine if you have a x38/48 board otherwise

your forgetting amd boards

 

[Tute]

K9A2 Platinum can do 4 PCIe x16 cards can't it?

Two Crossfire kits for you?

 

[Greebo]

your forgetting amd boards

doh

 

[Greebo]

K9A2 Platinum can do 4 PCIe x16 cards can't it?

Two Crossfire kits for you?

four 4870x2's perhaps?

 

[Yewen]

i haven't got a problem with it tbh. i just want a reason from the mod..

Its best to take it off the boards.

It was just a case of the thread not having constant monitoring, there have been several other suspensions of 24-72 hours just issued from this thread.

If you have a problem with the decissions take it to email / msn (if you wish to discuss it with myself).

 

[gareth170]

K9A2 Platinum can do 4 PCIe x16 cards can't it?

Two Crossfire kits for you?

yes

4 PCIe x16 cards running @ x8,x8,x8,x8

i will buy a 4870 maybe next week then buy another in a month or 2..

 

[gareth170]

four 4870x2's perhaps?

lol.. it will cost to much

@Yewen, thank u for replying...

 

[gurusan]

I think they'd be bottlenecked in 8x8x8x8x mode and also Quad CF has not really proven itself to scale that well yet...

 

[Greebo]

yes

4 PCIe x16 cards running @ x8,x8,x8,x8

i will buy a 4870 maybe next week then buy another in a month or 2..

Is that pci-e 2 or 1 though?

And have you seen the reviews with two 4850's at 8x in xfire? That was on a p45 board and I suspect it may be a bios or deisgn issue with the board rather than bandwidth but worth consiering before going xfire.

 

[kylew]

four 4870x2's perhaps?

Vista apparently can't do more than 4 GPUs/4 AFR devices, and windows XP can't do more than 2.

So 8 GPUs working together isn't gonna be for a long while yet I think.

 

[gareth170]

Is that pci-e 2 or 1 though?

And have you seen the reviews with two 4850's at 8x in xfire? That was on a p45 board and I suspect it may be a bios or deisgn issue with the board rather than bandwidth but worth consiering before going xfire.

all 4 pci-e x16 slots are 2.0.. running 2 cards will be at x16.

no i haven't the reviews.

 

[FrankJH]

ddr5

And as stated. list price of 4870 is $299. List price of 4870x2 is $499

Therefore one 4870x2 will be £60 cheaper than two 4870's

arent the X2's going to be 1GB models?

Surely better currently to get two 4870 (512mb) either way

 

[psychas]

u cant crossfire four 4870x2 as it would be octo crossfire not quad which is not supported and probably never will because you would need 1500 w psu

 

[gareth170]

arent the X2's going to be 1GB models?

4870x2 as 512mb x2 = 1gb. but tbh i don't see why they call it 1gb because crossfire doesn't add the memory together.

 

[ZardoZ]

are you getting any msi cards in ocuk?

 

[Mr Paul]

4870x2 as 512mb x2 = 1gb. but tbh i don't see why they call it 1gb because crossfire doesn't add the memory together.

Well maybe not. One of the improvements alleged is the shared frame buffer, so a 1Gb card means 2 GPU's have access to the same memory pool of 1Gb