3870 Crossfire or X2?

[meridimus]

Hey guys,

I recently bought the 3870 from overclockers, just wondering. Is it worth me getting another 3870 for crossfire or waiting until the rumoured 2xGPU cards come out early next year and try with two of those?

I have an ASUS P5KC mobo, read it was good in Custom PC as well as 4GB of Ballistix. Looking for a further increase in Crysis performance.

Let me know your thoughts

 

[ledbythereaper]

Aren't the 2x cards 2600s?

 

[paradigm]

I don't get great Crysis performance with two in crossfire, its not bad, but it wasn't what I expected. I'll definately try the x2's when they hit.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

You may as well just get another 3870, then you will have the GX2 card, just your 3870's will not be on the same PCB.

 

[meridimus]

I don't get great Crysis performance with two in crossfire, its not bad, but it wasn't what I expected. I'll definately try the x2's when they hit.

What performance do you get? You seem to have a similar setup to me.

 

[meridimus]

My specs are now my signature

 

[paradigm]

1680x1050 res:

Medium Settings: 45FPS Average (62 max, 33 min)
High Settings: 33FPS Average (56 max, 17 min)
V. High Settings: 22FPS Average (30 max, 8 min)

 

[meridimus]

1680x1050 res:

Medium Settings: 45FPS Average (62 max, 33 min)
High Settings: 33FPS Average (56 max, 17 min)
V. High Settings: 22FPS Average (30 max, 8 min)

I don't even know what frames I'm getting, but I'm having to run it at 1360 x 768 windowed to have everything on maximum VERY HIGH and still be playable. That's without any AA.

Maybe with a pair of 3870x2? 4x the horse power hopefully, although it doesn't work like that does it?

 

[paradigm]

No, crysis at present doesn't use crossfire properly at all. I'm hoping either driver or game updates will resolve this (along with crysis being utterly crud at using multi-core CPU's)

 

[marscay]

it will, patience

 

[meridimus]

I thought it was driver updates that were lacking on the graphics front rather than support from Crytek. I haven't tried the 7.11 drivers yet... Any expected release from Crytek for Crysis yet? A patch is in the works if I remember correctly.