Crossfire Graphics

[Steve2000]

Just a quick question. Is it worth it me getting two ATI 3870XT's and running them in Crossfire as opposed to running one 8800GTX?

It would appear that the price of two 3870's is the same as one 8800, so I want to know which would be the better option to go for.

Any help on this would be greatly appreicated.

 

[schumi84]

As a bit of an ATi fan, i would go for 2x3870s, which is what i am planning to do over the christmas period, mainly because they seem to scale quite well in xfire mode (software dependant of course).
The last nVidia card i had was a 5800 vanilla and then went to 9800pro very swiftly and never looked back.

\Edit TBH, if u were to go the way of nvidia, then u would want to be looking towards the GT instead as it is almost GTX performance for a lot less. Also the new revision GTS is out soon too, so another to look for.

 

[Lightnix]

You could get one 8800 GT for cheaper and have very-almost GTX performance as is.

And yeah, the FX5 series sucked.

 

[Durzel]

There seems to be so many problems lately with the latest games and Crossfire - either it not running slower, ignoring the second card, or in some cases not even working at all. Bioshock, Crysis, Test Drive Unlimited to name but three.

The big selling point about Crossfire for me originally was the fact that unlike SLI you didn't need game profiles for it to work (don't know if this is still the case?) but lately it seems you have to apply massive hotfixes - essentially whole driver packages - to fix specific games, which seems wrong somehow.