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Four Radeon HD 5870, Three GeForce GTX 480 and Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 Super-Mainboard

"Four Radeon HD 5870, Three GeForce GTX 480 and Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 Super-Mainboard"


And it STILL can't run Crysis on full settings at 30FPS!
 
Well I will say that it does confirm my feelings in getting two 5870s instead of one 5970...and with the prices of the 5870s starting to drop a little bit, I could be getting them sooner than I hoped :)
 
I guess it shows that even though the 4xradeons are technically faster, The memory (1gb vs 1.5gb) makes the 480gtxs win at the highest resolutions.

Also Multi Gpu scaling is rubbish! (unless theres some other bottle neck)
 
3 way and above scaling has always sucked. But even 2 way used to, and now it's approcaching 100% so hopefully it won't be too long before vast improvements are made.
 
lol scratch getting two 5870s. the 5970s are dropping further in price and will be way cheaper than 2 5870s lol.
 
R088ieS86 said:
don't suppose anyone knows the PCI lanes speeds that the board runs at in 4x mode?
16/8/8/4?
Also does the 480 not support 4way?
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from the specifications,

4 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x16 (PCIEX16_1/PCIEX16_2/PCIEX16_3/PCIEX16_4) (Note 2)
3 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x8 (PCIEX8_1/PCIEX8_2/PCIEX8_3) (Note 3) (All PCI Express slots conform to the PCI Express 2.0)

so thats four slots at full 16X speed.

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3434#sp
 
Would have been interesting to see if the 2gb 5870 would have helped at max res. Thought 3-way was always the sweet spot anyway?
 
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