I definetely think it is damage control I reckon the X2 has them sweating 
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[Comedy]NVIDIA's HD3870 X2 Launch Analysis[/Comedy]
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nah, its prob the temp from all those 9800GX2s they are having to test that will be making them sweat...... talk about smoking hot!
Soldato
A Brief Look at CrossFireX Scaling
Crossfired 3870x2 benchmarks
http://www.fpslabs.com/reviews/video/a-brief-look-at-crossfirex-scaling
Crossfired 3870x2 benchmarks
http://www.fpslabs.com/reviews/video/a-brief-look-at-crossfirex-scaling
I know he's joking but it wouldnt surprise me if he wasn't. He was the biggest turncoat on the forum
LMAO but so true
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Soldato
X2 solutions are a lot of old bo!!o2ks single card solutions are a far better item and all the x2 are there to do is tide you over, by the time the ?800GTX true next gen card hits the shelf these will be yestyerdays news and a joke in the past. You will all be fighting for the fastest single card solution (wich will beat this dual card hands down) and SLI'ing it to superseed this card. there a waist and nothing but a fancy crossfire/sli solution for people who dont want to upgrade there mobo to have the option. Sorry if its out of turn but its just the way i see it!
YAAAAAwwwn sorry you say something?
Then you need to take the blindfold off. Don't you know these are ripping up GTX's and Ultra's too?.
What a waste of your time posting when the performance of this card is quite darn good.
Hahaha brilliant
.Damien back to hell for you as it's past your bedtime.
Do you think he owns a GT,GTS or GTX. £50 to the winner
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Yeah, but, it's big and hot.
Oh, and it pushes more pixels than nVidia's solution. Hahah.
/me checks current graphics card.
Oh right...
Oh, and it pushes more pixels than nVidia's solution. Hahah.
/me checks current graphics card.
Oh right...
Yup, which by all accounts could make for a better trend, less powerful less complex chips would probably mean less can go wrong with them and something they can get out on time more often, rather than having to create an insanely complex "god" chip.
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Well that is all pretty obvious... People will still buy them if they are the best cards out at that time.
Sooner or later single solution gpu's will hit a limit with size heat price sooner or later.
It cheaper R&D to make a cheap smaller gpu and have 2 or more then trying to push the limit on a larger sized gpu, but driver count more in multi gpu solutions i guess.
It cheaper R&D to make a cheap smaller gpu and have 2 or more then trying to push the limit on a larger sized gpu, but driver count more in multi gpu solutions i guess.
Yup, same thing with cpu's. Far as i remember the only reason dual core appeared when it did was it was geting harder and harder to increase performance with a single core chip without having insane temperatures.
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if they can sort out crossfire scaling, then all a multi-core gpu is is an on-die crossfire solution, rather than on-board (like the 3870X2) or multi-board.
Thus the sense in ATI ironing out the CrossfireX stuff now..... that way 2/3-core gpus will be instantly deployable without the fuss surrounding quad vs dual vs single core CPUs
it remains to be seen where the diminishing returns point lies with modern GPUs, as that will define (for the moment) how many cores/dies/boards it is worth plugging together.
Thus the sense in ATI ironing out the CrossfireX stuff now..... that way 2/3-core gpus will be instantly deployable without the fuss surrounding quad vs dual vs single core CPUs
it remains to be seen where the diminishing returns point lies with modern GPUs, as that will define (for the moment) how many cores/dies/boards it is worth plugging together.
I definetely think it is damage control I reckon the X2 has them sweating
I think it's damage control until next-gen.
Who in their right mind would buy a GX2 over this? (That is unless nVidia pull off some miracle in terms of pricing)
you can say the same for nvidia and not just single out ati