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ATI 3870 X2

Anyone else notice how stretched and distorted that 'sticker' looks on the cooler?

Imagine 4 of these in Crossfire X, though.
 
loadsamoney, rumour is the nvidia will be 2 pcbs slapped together like the 7950X2, The 3870x2 is 2 chips on 1 PCB
 
Its just a test i think before they start moving over to multi cored gpus. Where the cores are on one die. Maybe be the last time we see big single core gpus. :(
 
Doubtful, GPUs are split up into many sections anyway, it's just the graphics card's manufacturer's way of getting a quick performance bonus without having to produce an entirely new GPU.
 
Tute said:
Lessons?
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I agree. GX2 was nothing short of impressive. Compact, relatively economical in terms of power consumption and a true top performer. Only quad SLi let it down! :(

Mine cost £100 less than two 7900gtx's and gave pretty much identical performance. Plus i didn't need an expensive SLi motherboard and had space for PCI cards as well. ;)

Compared to my present systems crossfired 2900's at present it was a truly elegent and effective solution. :)

I'd happily get an 8800 GX2 equivelent.

gt
 
Doubtful, GPUs are split up into many sections anyway, it's just the graphics card's manufacturer's way of getting a quick performance bonus without having to produce an entirely new GPU.


Unforunatly scaling is the way of the whole pc market, multi core cpu,dual channle memory, raid hard disk arrays it been going this way for years but we keep buying and upgrading faster than ever so no one will put in the hard work when we are happy to buy two of everthing.
 
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gt_junkie said:
I agree. GX2 was nothing short of impressive. Compact, relatively economical in terms of power consumption and a true top performer. Only quad SLi let it down! :(

Mine cost £100 less than two 7900gtx's and gave pretty much identical performance. Plus i didn't need an expensive SLi motherboard and had space for PCI cards as well. ;)

Compared to my present systems crossfired 2900's at present it was a truly elegent and effective solution. :)

I'd happily get an 8800 GX2 equivelent.

gt
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Well the only problem I could see with the GX2 is that it relied on SLi profiles - however that's not really a problem with the card as much, more the optimisations for SLi.
 
The way I see it right now is that NVidias may go with the same design as the initial GX2 and it looked pretty ugly....BUT....at least it wasnt way too long for many cases! ATi have a problem where if they make it the way they made the x1950pro DUAL then it is gonna be Massively long and this was the same case with the DUAL hd2600XT's!

My bro is still running his GX2 just now and its a great card IMO!
 
jrodga2k5 said:
I dont think so man but then again does the HD2600XT DUAL? or the x1950Pro DUAL?
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They do, but Crossfire doesn't need profiles so the cores are set to something like AFR permanently. This means there is always a performance increase, but it varies from game to game.

Overall, IIRC, the X1950 Pro dual gave around 2900XT speeds in the majority of games.

[Edit] Seems I was wrong about this, so i'll shut up now. :o
 
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