Give me the several hundred pounds to get a GTX then. I've had a X1900XT for a while so adding the second isn't too expensive, and the dual card beats 8800GTS.
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Is it worth going crossfire?
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Give me the several hundred pounds to get a GTX then. I've had a X1900XT for a while so adding the second isn't too expensive, and the dual card beats 8800GTS.
lmao
What's with the 3 Gb memory btw? Couldn;t you afford a fourth one?
Vista doesn't use the 4th correctly unless you go 64bit. 3GB is plently for what I need
Adding a second isn't expensive so long as you have a master crossfire x1900xt in the first place. If not, to get crossfire to work you will be shelling out £200 on a master crossfire x1900xt. In that case, sell your x1900xt for £70 and look at what you can buy for £270.
If you have the master card then yes, another x1900xt for £70 will give you the best bang for bucks by a mile.
im not bitter about my score, in 1 test it beat yoursYour just bitter about your 3dmark06 score Gareth
...anyway tbh 2 high end cards in crossfire or sli would last the person much longer than just having 1..theres no such thing as being over the top... it'll just give extra performance when needed...
Ha ha, excellent post!
Please let us know how the second card works. Or doesn't for that matter.
Ha ha, excellent post!
Please let us know how the second card works. Or doesn't for that matter.
Will do. Hopefully City Link will deliver before 6pm this time (sore subject).
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Well he bought a hd2900pro 1gb and wants more performance and thats what hes gonna get with another 2900 but not just more performance he will have more performance than a gtx or an ultra and without the hastle of trying to sell his 2900 on. Also he has the 1gb pro so memory won't be an issue for a long time to come also not a bad upgrade if you ask me.
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Its a Pro, but with the 1GB mem, means I can overclock more.
End of the day if there was one right way of doing it, we'd be boring. However I do value everyone's feedback greatly and its really made an interesting thread!
You could never say any thread on here was dull.....it may start out dull but never stays that way
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He said he wants it to last 2 years or more so it will eventually have better performance at that level i would imagine
Good point and they may will have fixed the COH problem.
On the other hand they could just mean a 80% improvement on the 0.8 fps increase over the single 2900xt which would give you a total increase over the single card of 1.44 fps
LOL that is just cruel
Anyway http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/diamond-viper-hd2900xt-1024mb.html
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LOL that is just cruel
Anyway http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/diamond-viper-hd2900xt-1024mb.html
yea looked at that url earlier this afternoon. Was done before Catalyst 7.10 was release though, so the crossfire benchmarks are probably way out now.
second card came and it turns out that my brand new Asus M2R32-MVP has a dead "2nd PCI-e" slot as the card won't power up.
Swapped cards around to confirm they're ok.
Board is being RMA'd (thx OC) and I'm gonna replace it with an MSI K9A Platinum, which will hopefully arrive tomorrow!
Swapped cards around to confirm they're ok.
Board is being RMA'd (thx OC) and I'm gonna replace it with an MSI K9A Platinum, which will hopefully arrive tomorrow!