to crossfire or not ?

[chaotic_uk]

with my 3870 being only 4 months old should i crossfire it or not ? , i do not want to spend on a 4870 if i would loose a lot on selling my 3870 . which would be the better option for me as i game at 1680x1050 on a athlon 6000 on a 22" monitor

 

[Dsteviedee]

What motherboard do you have? It may be worth crossfiring your 3870 with a 4870 or a 4850.

 

[chaotic_uk]

this one , it does not support crossfire of the 48xx (well not on the recomended list for this mobo) . but i also have this mobo , would i be better getting a better cpu/mobo or upgrade the gfx ? . the graphic card i have atm is the gecube hd3870xt gddr3 overclocked version shown in the url below =

http://www.gecube.com/products-detail.php?prod_cat_pid=213&prod_cat_id=214&prod_id=381527

 

[kylew]

You can't crossfire 4XXX with 3XXX, atleast not yet anyway. Crossfire will offer some nice gains in games that excell with a crossfire set up.

Considering how cheap the 3870s are though, you'd get 4850 performance from 3870 crossfire in games where crossfire works (most games really except a few *cough*crymark*cough*).

 

[chaotic_uk]

You can't crossfire 4XXX with 3XXX, atleast not yet anyway.

not what i ment , the highest recommended crossfire for the asrock chipset (amd 480x) is the 3870 . but it does support 3870x2 + 3870 , odd lol

 

[kylew]

not what i ment , the highest recommended crossfire for the asrock chipset (amd 480x) is the 3870 . but it does support 3870x2 + 3870 , odd lol

It was more of a response to Dsteviedee .

I think it's because ideally the 4850s/70s want a PCI-E 2.0 socket to run in crossfire mode. I'm guessing your motherboard is just PCI-E 1.1?

The 3800s didn't suffer so much from slower PCI-E bus speeds, but the new 4800s seem to really like the bandwith of a 16X PCI-E 2.0 port.

 

[chaotic_uk]

oh ok