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4870 X2 reviewed
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You're contradicting yourself. How can it be "very CPU limited" yet "come into it's[sic] own" at higher resolutions?
Does anyone want a 10% discount on one...... (i have a welcome back email voucher...)
I mean i respect that £380 reflects that they have them now and today! but iv got that feeling this isnt really worth it for quite a while... (at least to get some games to really max it out)
Still feel good for getting a 4870 over the weekend (hopefully wont fade in the next few days)
I mean i respect that £380 reflects that they have them now and today! but iv got that feeling this isnt really worth it for quite a while... (at least to get some games to really max it out)
Still feel good for getting a 4870 over the weekend (hopefully wont fade in the next few days)
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Not really. I mean it can only show it's potential at 2560 because below 2560 it's bottlenecked by the CPU, most likely due to the crossfire overhead. Hence, "it's comes into it's own at 2560"...i.e. it starts to show it's real colours.
Having a higher clocked CPU (and retest all cards) will help clear this up and hopefully show what it is really capable of.
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Ahhh in the hardware canucks review it's good to see that the backplate part of the stock cooler can be separated from the rest so you can use it to cool the plx chip and the ram chips on the front if you use GPU only water cooling 
Had a look at about 10 reviews now and am swaying towards GTX280, based on cheapest cards with minimum 2yrs warranty then it's a tossup between 4870 £193, GTX280 £264 and 4870X2 £381
Can't see X2 being less than £330 even in a months time and think GTX280 is the sweetspot, more reviews I see the more I think it's the sweetspot when you factor in load power, temps and noise as well as the performance
Think X2 temps are high with a stock cooler and fan control that both seem poor, and the extra 100W+ over the other cards is a bit much, doesn't seem to have any overclocking headroom either
Performance over the GTX at 19x12 just isn't consistent enough in terms of % gains and too reliant on drivers for specific titles whereas GTX just does what it does all the time
If X2 was £300 and it had better cooling and much less power under load and drivers were more mature I'd prob would have added to basket but cant help being a bit underwhelmed by it as it stands today, what with the 4870's having gone up over a tenner then £264 for a GTX is looking ok, and even the reference cards overclock to same specs that the BFG OC models have, then theres PhysX for UT3 to muck about with, loads of forums too with 4870 owners with slowdowns, high temps and problematic driver installs too and fan control issues
Dunno what to do
Can't see X2 being less than £330 even in a months time and think GTX280 is the sweetspot, more reviews I see the more I think it's the sweetspot when you factor in load power, temps and noise as well as the performance
Think X2 temps are high with a stock cooler and fan control that both seem poor, and the extra 100W+ over the other cards is a bit much, doesn't seem to have any overclocking headroom either
Performance over the GTX at 19x12 just isn't consistent enough in terms of % gains and too reliant on drivers for specific titles whereas GTX just does what it does all the time
If X2 was £300 and it had better cooling and much less power under load and drivers were more mature I'd prob would have added to basket but cant help being a bit underwhelmed by it as it stands today, what with the 4870's having gone up over a tenner then £264 for a GTX is looking ok, and even the reference cards overclock to same specs that the BFG OC models have, then theres PhysX for UT3 to muck about with, loads of forums too with 4870 owners with slowdowns, high temps and problematic driver installs too and fan control issues
Dunno what to do
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Soldato
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Would not touch the current gtx280s as the gtx280+ is on its way sometime soon.
True but it'll prob only have slightly higher clocks and require less power, don't think it will be significantly faster but it'll prob be min £330 at launch and any existing stock of older GTX cards will prob stay same price