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Some questions about 3870's in crossfire

tomanders91

tomanders91

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Well just looking at these, i can get 2 and only a little bit more expensive than the cheapest GTX, but i have some questions:

(PS: Im on considering this, i probably wont since i game at low res but im just curious)

1: 520w corsair, any chance of powering them:p?

2: Because im on a p35 board, one would run at x4, would that be a waste?

3: Gaming at low res like 12x10/14x9 etc, would that be a waste? But on the crysis dx9 benchmark list thing, thats at 12x10 and 2 3870's are still better than a single ultra at 12x10.

4: Worth it or not?
 
I have 2x3870 on a Asus P5K Premium P35 Board .

!. Your PSU will be fine .

2. It may make differnce in benchching , i only get 13,025 on a E6600 @356 x9 =3.2Ghz I have not becnhed Crysis but I only play 2 games at the moment . BF2 runs at a constant 100FPS + with evrything maxed out . I also play Stalker and everything maxed to the hilt with no slowdown at all .

4. In answer to this i play at 1900x1200 res on my Dell 24Inch with the above games so yes it could be a little over kill .That benchmark is just a standard for everyone to use .

5.Worth it , bet your life it is , they run cooler and with less noise than a Ultra/GTX and having had a GTX I would never go back .



Yes not a grat score but for £280 for 2 cards absulotley stonking value
 
thanks for the reply :)

At least its something to consider, maybe it would only be worth buying them if i was on a bigger monitor, as i expect my i would get bad bottlenecking with my e6400 only at 3ghz
 
tomanders91 said:
Well just looking at these, i can get 2 and only a little bit more expensive than the cheapest GTX, but i have some questions:

(PS: Im on considering this, i probably wont since i game at low res but im just curious)

1: 520w corsair, any chance of powering them:p?
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yeah, comfortably I'd say.
 
I used a 500w PSU in my XP-M days. I would hate to use such a PSU with todays hardware. If you think you are going to push your hardware then get at least a 700w PSU.
 
the 520w corsairs are extremely stable psu's though? I know they could handle a single ultra, and arnt 3870's ment to use hardly any power compared to 8800's?
 
You are talking to Mr I caused a brown out in my street boy. :o

But seriously, get more PSU than you need. Better to have a cool running PSU than a PSU that runs hot and loud and wont last as long.
 
Well 9800's could be faster than 2x of em (just have to wait and see), and will work in every game unlike SLi/Crossfire, single card is best imo.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Well 9800's could be faster than 2x of em (just have to wait and see), and will work in every game unlike SLi/Crossfire, single card is best imo.
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Cant agree more , just i had the opportunity to sell my 8800GTX and retain some value by buying 2x 3870.

8800GTX sold for £280 , just before the new 8800GTS came out and bought 2x3870 for £270 .

It should reatin more money for when the 9800 GTX arrives which I invisage will be around the £499 price to start with .
 
exactly what i did m8 and very glad i did.

performance over the GTX is amazing, i can now play everything @ 1920x1200 with insane mimimum fps.

the new 9800 should be faster than these 2 3870's but it sure won't cost £280 either :)
 
so basicly for me, 1, my power supply is probably too low, and 2, its complete overkill for my res?

May aswell just go for a single 8800GTS 512 or something.
 
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