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AMD Cuts Price of 4870x2

pastymuncher said:
It will still be restricted. A pair of X2's really need a X38/48 board to run unrestricted. It's about the only card combination that a P45 board strangles.
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Although i don't own another X2, i have run 2 X2's in CF on my P45. There was a substantial performance increase across the board. In benchies and in real world gaming. So i don't know where the idea that 2 8x lanes strangle the 4870x2 comes from, but it was'nt bourne out by my testing.
 
kitfit1 said:
So i don't know where the idea that 2 8x lanes strangle the 4870x2 comes from, but it wasn't bourne out by my testing.
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So have you compared your P45 to an X48? I think the point isn't that you don't get decent performance from a P45, you just get even more from an X38 or X48 board.
 
WJA96 said:
So have you compared your P45 to an X48? I think the point isn't that you don't get decent performance from a P45, you just get even more from an X38 or X48 board.
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Yes i have. But an X38/X48 dos'nt do the sort of FSB i get with the P45, that in conjunction to the clock i run means that a better benching and gaming outcome (for me), comes from the P45. I fully understand what you are getting at, but in my situation the P45 beats the X38/X48. As already mentioned, the only reason to go CF would be to game on my 50" Plazma (which i can do now anyway)with a bit more zip and even more eye candy.
 
kitfit1 said:
Yes i have. But an X38/X48 dos'nt do the sort of FSB i get with the P45, that in conjunction to the clock i run means that a better benching and gaming outcome (for me), comes from the P45. I fully understand what you are getting at, but in my situation the P45 beats the X38/X48. As already mentioned, the only reason to go CF would be to game on my 50" Plazma (which i can do now anyway)with a bit more zip and even more eye candy.
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Did you try it with the X48 running the PCIe bus at 115MHz? ;)
 
WJA96 said:
Did you try it with the X48 running the PCIe bus at 115MHz? ;)
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:confused:This is really a non argument WJA96. The X48 i had, like most of them, was a crap clocker. It was incapable of running at even the same speed as my P35, let alone my P45. It would'nt matter if it had two 32x lanes, the clock on it was rubbish. My clocking with 4870x2 has the optimal PCIe Bus speed at 110. Any higher and in fact 3d mark scores start to go down, not up.
 
There was also a pricing error a while ago, managed to get one for less than £300, and actually on launch a store I know in London was selling them for £270, but put them way up next day :(
 
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