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first 3870x2 review!!

Crysis results seem a little odd but im near sure crossfire and sli are still not working or not working properly in that thing.
 
Pity this couldn't have been what the r600 turned out to be, could you imagine this launching mid last year?
 
Should be interesting to see if quad crossfire is included with any of the reviews, thats assuming fud wasn't correct and the driver for its due sometimes in the coming month or so.
 
Thanks for the link. The card is looking good - if they can quickly iron out those anomalies and get it to the market for a reasonable price it should be a winner.
 
looks good!

When these are overclocked they should perform significantly better too because you are overclocking 640 stream processors, so the net effect should be significant.
 
What I didn't realise is that the card is GDDR3 and not 4. Should make some situations with bandwidth interesting, and whilst it keeps the costs down for ati using cheaper memory, the power consumption of the card will be higher (and hotter).

The Crysis result seems odd though, and I know it's prob the drivers, but weren't regular crossfire setups beating the ultra in Crysis?

If this turns out to be (after the crazy introduction price has passed) about £270 it will be a good card for the money IMHO. Above that, I reckon the hassle of making it work will really detract from the price paid, and you'd be better off with a GTX/Ultra.

Matthew
 
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Disappointed tbh. 6 months after the ultra, 18 months after the GTX, 2 GPUs and it's still having trouble with Crysis.

The Call of Duty performance looks good though.
 
When it works it seems to be rather good.

But why they havn't got Crysis up and running with crossfire propperly yet is beyond me, surely ATi know that is the game everyone and anyone will be looking at when this card comes out...

You'd have thought they would have done everything in their power to get Crysis flying on this card...
 
I really dont think we're gonna see crysis start to improve performance wise till a new generation of cards hits (r700/g100). Or this mythical patch appears that improves performance and lets crossfire and sli work properly. If this card runs the games well i want itt to run well then ill be coughing up for one, crysis while looking good (with an assload of config file edits) really didn't hold my interest for long.
 
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I don't think its the cards its crysis,

Its badly done, no proper dual/quad threading.... What is that all about?

So your automatically knocking back massive proformance and prob bottlenecking your pc.
 
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I don't think its the cards its crysis,

Its badly done, no proper dual/quad threading.... What is that all about?

So your automatically knocking back massive proformance and prob bottlenecking your pc.
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Well we have anandtech throwing three ultras at it and the preformance bump from 2 to 3 was 7%. Clearly somethings not right, if this was an ea game from the ground up people would be screaming from the rooftops that its a poorly coded pos, since its crytek everyone eseems to be giving them the benefit of the doubt..even though it does appear to have all the hall marks of being a pos.

I dont hold it against the x2 at all, NOTHING runs that bloody game well and thats all there is to it.
 
Anyway, it'll be good for the industry for ATi to have the fastest card in 90% of games. Possibly cause NVidia to get busy releasing the next top end card, when they're not selling as many GTX/Ultras as they used to.
 
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