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expected to much (5870cf) ?

One of the problems with most of the above articles is that they're testing slightly older games and/or using less powerful cards than we have right now. If anyone has any more recent tests I'd love to see them.
 
Well honest to be when i did the oc i put my pc near the open window so temp were low for that voltage 1.188v for 1010 mhz. Noise ... full blast on fan.
For daily use gtx 580 is beautiful.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
lol that comparison is with Phenom II X4 955 with 4890 Crossfire vs i7 920 with 4870 Crossfire WTF?
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Good point. What on earth were they doing? :confused:

edit: Obviously though, the point I was trying to make is that the cpu doesn't seem to lag behind that much, rather than anything about the pII being better for games.
 
The 5870 is a good card, but the 5xxx series just don't scale very well. Nvidia and the 6xxx series scale much better. Consequently the value in a 5870 is as a single card, so I think you'd be better selling them to replace with cards that scale better (either brand, depending on budget).
 
hi
if it helps ive just clocked my i7 to 3.6 and ran vantage and i got 16000 cpu marks . but like someone said you dont play benchmarks and prolly would'nt notice much difference in games . 50 odd fps with x8 in crysis is very playable to sat the least . i havnt read all the thread but have you overclocked those gpu's
cheers
edit : the x8 slots may hamper you a bit but others with more experience might tell you different .
 
I have a 5970 and 5870 trifire and both the x16 are very close on my board and the cards run very hot so i moved the 5870 into a x8 and the difference in performance is zero.
 
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