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yes it will, 4850 CF whoops the little arses of both 280 and 260 in all games, in some cases, the moronic "200 SLI":
http://techreport.com/articles.x/15293/5
Back when Crossfire was first conceived, you had to have the "Crossfire Edition" of a given card with that stupid dongle on the back, but they did away with that pretty quickly. The 2900 series cards and up have only needed the SLI-like bridge between the cards.
yes it will, 4850 CF whoops the little arses of both 280 and 260 in all games, in some cases, the moronic "200 SLI":
http://techreport.com/articles.x/15293/5
I call bullshit on that chart.
The true shining star that we have identified is the Radeon HD 4850 CrossFire! (Interestingly enough Kyle had picked out 4850 CrossFire back in July as possibly the best value for his own rig.) We have found that it offers performance rivaling GTX 260 SLI and GTX 280, for a much less expensive price. If you are building a new Intel platform, and we know a lot of you are these days, a 4850 CrossFire configuration might make a lot of sense as an economical but powerful gaming system right now.
How about this chart here:
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTU1OCwxNSwsaGVudGh1c2lhc3Q=
i like a gtx 260 better. i had 4850 cf setup, and it does worse on min. fps. You only see the average or max fps on those benchmarks. When those 4850s dip down on cod4 with the smoke etc, you will see a gtx 260 does better. I have a $200 plus cf mobo, and sold off my ati cards, and went back to a bigger nvidia single card. I would rather have a 4870 than 4850 cf.
I have a crossfire mobo, would 2 4850's outclass a GTX 260? Also, I know the older cards you had to get a specific crossfire card for your secondary, is that still the case or is it two of the same?
Oh it's you again, Mr.Expert. You always post in every thread that mentions ATI cards to warn people about the horrific driver but when you were asked about your problems, you didn't answer it. I would suggest people to search for Astrodave's posts first before believing what he said.
I have a crossfire mobo, would 2 4850's outclass a GTX 260? Also, I know the older cards you had to get a specific crossfire card for your secondary, is that still the case or is it two of the same?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/27/nvidia-drivers-responsible-for-nearly-30-of-vista-crashes-in-20/NVIDIA drivers responsible for nearly 30% of Vista crashes in 2007
Hey reject, what about the disclaimer DIDN'T you understand? If they read my posts, apparently unlike you, they would realize that my performance is excellent now with 8.10 and that my issues are solely with updating drivers and with warhead. Now beat it trollboy.
I haven't come across a game yet that I can't run at 1920x1200 on high settings, except for GTA IV but that's a freak of nature due to the many many many issues it has.
No, thats because your two HD4850 cards effectively only have 512mb. , high textures needs at least 768mb, more depending on the resolution.
You may be right about high textures needing 768mb (and by the way, Crossfire = 1gb with my setup) but you're wrong. GTA IV is a poor port.
Read up on it.
Regarding 4850 temps, I usually stay at 60 degrees under load. But I have a lot more cooling than most people, including a desktop fan blowing into the side of my rig.
2 4850's would be fastest (by far in many games) when there are crossfire profiles for the games. Until one's made (or they at least give an option to make our own profiles like Nvidia), you are reduced to single card performance. There are a lot of crossfire profiles for different games, so you'll more likely to get better performance in general. Except for selected few, it seems newer games scale in crossfire as well.
Don't let the "ATI drivers are worse then Nvidia or visa versa" infantiles get to you. I've had less issues with ATI then Nvidia, but I expect having some issues nevertheless. People are loud if they've had problems. Thats how it is.
For those claiming superiority of Nvidia drivers and that everything is plug and play, check this out:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/27/nvidia-drivers-responsible-for-nearly-30-of-vista-crashes-in-20/
Is everything peachy without problems with Nvidia?:
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showforum=25
ATI ain't better:
http://forums.amd.com/game/categories.cfm?catid=260
Thats to be quite expected, however. Everyone knows that nvidia had crap Vista support when Vista first came out. Nvidia's drivers are, to quote Borat, 'Very Nice' in Vista at this point
This is not true, now is it? Check out a quick search of the newest WHQL drivers:
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=180.48+crash&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
or do you compare to 2007 and Nvidia Vista drivers?
In any case I think you missed my point. It was not about how good or bad Nvidia drivers was, but that there is no proof that Nvidia drivers are more stable then ATI drivers. Its really a bad argument, especially since I can "prove" what caused most Vista crashes in 2007 and it wasn't ATI drivers...
Using such argument is FUD.
This is not true, now is it? Check out a quick search of the newest WHQL drivers:
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=180.48+crash&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
or do you compare to 2007 and Nvidia Vista drivers?
In any case I think you missed my point. It was not about how good or bad Nvidia drivers was, but that there is no proof that Nvidia drivers are more stable then ATI drivers. Its really a bad argument, especially since I can "prove" what caused most Vista crashes in 2007 and it wasn't ATI drivers...
Using such argument is FUD.
Oh it's you again, Mr.Expert. You always post in every thread that mentions ATI cards to warn people about the horrific driver but when you were asked about your problems, you didn't answer it. I would suggest people to search for Astrodave's posts first before believing what he said.
I also can't update or install my ATI drivers. The ONLY ones that work are the ones windows update installs.
I also can't update or install my ATI drivers. The ONLY ones that work are the ones windows update installs.
If you need help to get your system working, you could start a new thread. People here are more than willing to help you out with the problem. That would be much better than just bitching about "ATi driver sucks" in every thread that mentions an ATI card.
I'm not saying that you have this attitude but if you search for "someone's" posts, you will only find that kind of attitude from him.
Generally with video card drivers, you should always do a complete uninstall before installing to avoid issues. However, as stated, you should probably start a new thread with your issues there.
You may be right about high textures needing 768mb (and by the way, Crossfire = 1gb with my setup) but you're wrong. GTA IV is a poor port.
Read up on it.
You may be right about high textures needing 768mb (and by the way, Crossfire = 1gb with my setup) but you're wrong. GTA IV is a poor port.
Crossfire = 1GB only if both cards used are 1GB models, if both cards have 512mb then it's still effectively limited to 512mb, It doesnt double up.