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Ultra or 3870x2

Bald-Eagle22

Bald-Eagle22

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I am just about to put my water rigg together but before i do is it work flogging my Ultra and slapping in a 3870GX2 . I did have 2 x 3870 in cross fire but found when i wound up the AA on BF2 it just stuttered along .

Is this card that much better than an Ultra at 1900x1200 res on my dell 24incher?
 
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To be honest I don't think it would be worth the hassle, the X2 is slightly ahead of the Ultra but I wouldn't sell an Ultra just to get one.
 
if you have the ultra you have two options. Sell it for a GOOD price and buy an X2 or keep it.

Personally i would keep it, its an amazing GPU by any standard and the performance doesnt depend on Crossfire
 
LOAM said:
nothing, he already has one doesn't he, he wants to know if its worth selling the ultra and getting an X2
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Oh, silly me did not read correctly, well it depends how much he can get for the Ultra, if he cant get much then I'd say dont bother tbh.
 
As you can get an X2 for £235, unless you can get circa £275 for the Ultra personally I wouldn't bother, depending on what reviews you read and in what games it's not clear imho which is faster anyway, not worth the hastle
 
mike gunnz said:
I had an x2. Its not a worthwhile upgrade from a GTX let alone an Ultra.
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You should have kept it for a backup card :p. When you tried it did it work with both GPU's or was it not working in crossfire as I've seen some benchys were its quite ahead of the Ultra.
 
willhub said:
You should have kept it for a backup card :p. When you tried it did it work with both GPU's or was it not working in crossfire as I've seen some benchys were its quite ahead of the Ultra.
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Backup card. I dont think so. And the answer is yes to your other questions.

I dont play benchmarks I play games.

The OPs question was is it a worthwhile upgrade from an Ultra. Having owned the cards in question (albeit a GTX clocked to Ultra speeds) my answer is an empahatic no.

My answer is based solely on my subjective experience, not that of others, or a graph for that matter.
 
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mike gunnz said:
Why not elaborate and perhaps even contribute instead of hiding behind lazy acronyms.
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If I remember correctly your X2 didn't work properly at all so I wouldn't be recommending other people what to do when you have not had experience with a working X2. The X2 is definitely worth the step up from a GTX, I maybe would even swap an ultra for one if I could get the right price for the Ultra.
 
perox said:
If I remember correctly your X2 didn't work properly at all so I wouldn't be recommending other people what to do when you have not had experience with a working X2. The X2 is definitely worth the step up from a GTX, I maybe would even swap an ultra for one if I could get the right price for the Ultra.
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Then you remember incorrectly.

I said in a previous post that i had problems getting my dual monitor set up working with the x2 and also that initially 3d06 wouldnt run. Once 3d06 was working it scored something like 18-19000+, so the card was working at its optimum wouldnt you agree?

In COD4 with full AA it offered no appreciable gains over my GTX, none that I could notice without the benefit of fraps anyway. I game on a 24" Dell just like the OP.

I also played WIC, Bioshock, Crysis, GTR2 which are a few of my current faves and I have to say that its not much better than my overclocked GTX and by extension an Ultra.

Im in as good a position as anyone else to state an opinion and make a recommendation.

Im not saying that the x2 is a bad card, its excellent in fact, but as a worthwhile upgrade from an Ultra? No way Jose.
 
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