It aint lol, have you looked at the benchmarks? Seems like a noisy card too with that fan, oh dear.
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It aint lol, have you looked at the benchmarks? Seems like a noisy card too with that fan, oh dear.
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Think its safe to say the nfs tanking is most likely driver related.
Performance difference in terms of HD 3870 X2 to 8800Ultra
Bioshock 1280x1024 = 4% Slower
Bioshock 1920x1200 = 24% Faster
Bioshock 2560x1600 = 39% Faster
COJ 1280x1024 = 11% Faster
COJ 1920x1200 = 24% Faster
COJ 2560x1600 = 10% Faster
COJ 1280x1024 4AA 16AF = 13% Faster
COJ 1920x1200 4AA 16AF = 23% Faster
Lost Planet 1280x1024 = 27% Slower
Lost Planet 1920x1200 = 30% Slower
Lost Planet 2560x1600 = 37% Faster
Lost Planet 1280x1024 4AA 16AF = 18% Slower
Lost Planet 1920x1200 4AA 16AF = 18% Slower
Lost Planet 2560x1600 4AA 16AF = 10% Faster
Crysis 1280x1024 = 13% Slower
Crysis 1920x1200 = 2% Slower
Crysis 2560x1600 = 12% Slower
COD4 1280x1024 = 42% Faster
COD4 1920x1200 = 32% Faster
COD4 2560x1600 = 26% Faster
COD4 1280x1024 4AA 16AF = 27% Faster
COD4 1920x1200 4AA 16AF = 20% Faster
COD4 2560x1600 4AA 16AF = 16% Faster
NFSro 1280x1024 = 32% Faster
NFS
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Serious Sam 2 1280x1024 HAA 16AF = 30% Faster
Serious Sam 2 1920x1200 HAA 16AF = 45% Faster
Serious Sam 2 2560x1600 HAA 16AF = 78% Faster
UT3 1280x1024 = 7% Faster
UT3 1920x1200 = 24% Faster
UT3 2560x1600 = 37% Faster
F.E.A.R. 1600x1200 = 20% Faster
F.E.A.R. 2048x1536 = 20% Faster
Think its safe to say the nfs tanking is most likely driver related.
Only about 7 was it a decent amount faster there tbh and the fact its loud too really puts me off, I'd rather have 2x 3870XT in crossfire unless this is about £230. I might of got one around 230 or below after checking results but its loud aswell thats put me off, I was going crazy with the 2900's fan and by the sounds of it this is something else 
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Doesn't really count as it's such a poorly coded game, but I guess i'll give you that.
Well it's CPU limited at 1280x1024, and gives the Ultra a right pasting at the higher resolutions. It certainly doesn't look slower to me, or are you just looking at the one benchmark at one resolution?
12% increase at 1280x1024. 19% increase at 1920x1200.
I've never read such crap in my life.
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Doesn't really count as it's such a poorly coded game, but I guess i'll give you that.
Well it's CPU limited at 1280x1024, and gives the Ultra a right pasting at the higher resolutions. It certainly doesn't look slower to me, or are you just looking at the one benchmark at one resolution?
12% increase at 1280x1024. 19% increase at 1920x1200.
I've never read such crap in my life.
Nope i was trying to edit to my post to say it was only 1280x1024, but my internet was playing up, and how is that crap, its bloody true, how is it not, 2x AMD GPU's barely beating a single Nvidia GPU that is over 1 year old does not show that they can't compete with them, and Nvidia is not on another level, course it does.
I can't believe its louder than a passing train, jesus!!!
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It seems like we will never be happy whatever the results are 
We are spoiled. Everything is a process. I see Crossfire is the way to go since the sooner technologies like SLI and Crossfire are in the mainstream that will shift developers in creating their games so that they will take advantage of the technology.
We never seen people complaining cause their quad core CPU can't be fully utilized in the majority of games or applications. It was their choice to purchase it so it's our choice to purchase this card.
We are spoiled. Everything is a process. I see Crossfire is the way to go since the sooner technologies like SLI and Crossfire are in the mainstream that will shift developers in creating their games so that they will take advantage of the technology.
We never seen people complaining cause their quad core CPU can't be fully utilized in the majority of games or applications. It was their choice to purchase it so it's our choice to purchase this card.
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Well if the GX2 don't beat the 3870 X2 by a good margain, then they are gona be laughable.
It seems like we will never be happy whatever the results are
We are spoiled. Everything is a process. I see Crossfire is the way to go since the sooner technologies like SLI and Crossfire are in the mainstream that will shift developers in creating their games so that they will take advantage of the technology.
We never seen people complaining cause their quad core CPU can't be fully utilized in the majority of games or applications. It was their choice to purchase it so it's our choice to purchase this card.
If you added another 20% to the 3870X2's results then a lot more people would be happy.
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Nope i was trying to edit to my post to say it was only 1280x1024, but my internet was playing up, and how is that crap, its bloody true, how is it not, 2x AMD GPU's barely beating a single Nvidia GPU that is over 1 year old does not show that they can't compete with them, and Nvidia is not on another level, course it does.
I can't believe its louder than a passing train, jesus!!!
Ok just in today, why does it beat a Ultra but that review in main page here shows the 8800GT/GTS/GTX equal/beating it in some tests ?. and what about AA ?.
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Eaxctly, how can that not show that Nvidia can't be touched, when their cards are over 1 year old, and are only single GPU's, when these are 2x GPU's.
People keep harping on about "old tech" and "multi-gpu" but like I said before, what relevance does that have?
We compare performance and price, if card a) performs the best but costs the most we expect that to be the case but if card b) comes along 25% cheaper yet 10-20% faster how can you argue against it?
It's like saying you shouldn't but Intel quad core processors because they use four cores over the AMDs two and in fact when you compare AMD dual versus Intel Quad AMD is actually only x amount slower on year old tech with 'just' two cores. Who cares, Intel are the faster cpu at the moment regardless of makeup!
Stop moving the goal posts and compare price versus performance as you always do. If it outperforms the competition running 50 cores on 5 year old tech yet costs LESS, who cares??? Naturally, the power (W) constraints need to be within reach of each other before any pedants jump in.
We compare performance and price, if card a) performs the best but costs the most we expect that to be the case but if card b) comes along 25% cheaper yet 10-20% faster how can you argue against it?
It's like saying you shouldn't but Intel quad core processors because they use four cores over the AMDs two and in fact when you compare AMD dual versus Intel Quad AMD is actually only x amount slower on year old tech with 'just' two cores. Who cares, Intel are the faster cpu at the moment regardless of makeup!
Stop moving the goal posts and compare price versus performance as you always do. If it outperforms the competition running 50 cores on 5 year old tech yet costs LESS, who cares??? Naturally, the power (W) constraints need to be within reach of each other before any pedants jump in.
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Crosses fingers and prays!I've just thought, due to recession may everything drop in price so they could be like 100 quid???
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Just had a thought, Nvidia would have delayed thier new drivers now then, as they always lob a set out when AMD release a card, i bet its those 171's as well.