GTX 280, down but not out...

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This may very well be a memory issue or a driver issue on the part of the 4870 in CrossFire but look in looking at some of the reviews 4870 CF isn't all that impressive in some newer games at higher settings:

http://firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_radeon_4850_4870_performance/page11.asp
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/734/1/

Trying to make some sense of it all, the LegitReviews review my have had some old 4800 drivers or some other issue.

As I said, it may be a memory issue or driver issue, but even though 4870 CF is still a little cheaper than a GTX 280 I do wonder if the GTX 280 is going to have more legs in newer games.

I think this round may be just begining. That GTX 280 buyers remorse thread might quickly be a "anybody who bought a newly released card in June 2008 remorse" thread.
 
One of the reasons we did not cover CF with the 4800 is due to the drivers simply being too immature at the current time to get a good feel for performance. It is my opinion that we will see CF perf greatly improve over the next couple months. The 4800 also has some totally new interconnect technology that will likely greatly enhance how R700 CF works. So....hang on.
 
At the risk of sounding immature, people have been saying that Crossfire drivers have been "immature" for the last three years. It's the same excuse all the time. (That excuse, and the "Crysis is poorly coded" excuse are battling for one and two) I haven't tried Crossfire in two years... I thought I might give it another go with these new ATi cards..but...


It's ironic, since AMD have gone out of it's way to develop the Spider platform and hybrid Crossfire, owing the future of graphics to multi-gpu solutions.
 
Ogilvy said:
At the risk of sounding immature, people have been saying that Crossfire drivers have been "immature" for the last three years. It's the same excuse all the time. (That excuse, and the "Crysis is poorly coded" excuse are battling for one and two) I haven't tried Crossfire in two years... I thought I might give it another go with these new ATi cards..but...


It's ironic, since AMD have gone out of it's way to develop the Spider platform and hybrid Crossfire, owing the future of graphics to multi-gpu solutions.
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Go for it. Grab a couple 4850's and load up the "immature" drivers and play some "poorly coded" Crysis with 'em:D
 
DerComissar said:
Go for it. Grab a couple 4850's and load up the "immature" drivers and play some "poorly coded" Crysis with 'em:D
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If I could get an X48 board for cheap..I just might. I've read that the chipset really makes a difference with Crossfire scaling. I'm not sure I'd want to go with a P45 or X38. Those 4850s are pretty tempting, though.
 
Ogilvy said:
If I could get an X48 board for cheap..I just might. I've read that the chipset really makes a difference with Crossfire scaling. I'm not sure I'd want to go with a P45 or X38. Those 4850s are pretty tempting, though.
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why not a x38? still uses pci-e 2.0 at 16/16. the only meaningful difference is the x48's official support for 1600fsb.
 
rennyf77 said:
why not a x38? still uses pci-e 2.0 at 16/16. the only meaningful difference is the x48's official support for 1600fsb.
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I guess it's just the P45 I meant... I haven't used an Intel chipset in about forever so..let's put it this way...my last Intel chipset was a P35 and my last Crossfire board was an Xpress 3200.


It was a real treat, btw., going from 118 fps Source stress test to 114 fps from single to Crossfired X1900 XTs on that Xpress 3200. I remember doing research on various forums afterwords. Everyone kept saying "the drivers aren't mature yet." "The chipsets will get better eventually." Thank god for NewEgg.

I've not kept up much with any Intel / ATi chipset info. in a while... I've been running NV chipsets and GPUs for over a year. :)
 
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