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haha yeah, but I have to say I never had any issues w/ my 280, it was a beast of a card and ate everything I threw @ it....I just wanted to lengthen my personal e-p33n, by going quad fire in a SFF
So w/ power play, do you have 1 gpu clocked @ 750 and the other @ 500? I can't figure out why 2 of more cores are @ stock clocks and 2 are @ 5xx?
Well if you have $549 to blow on a video card...I would think you could blow 1399 on a dell monitor. I find a 24' to be quite nice. If I want to play on a bigger monitor I'll just hook this thing up to the Plasma.
24" monitor will stress a 4870x2...all a 24" monitor means is that you will have more head room to turn up the eye candy....and for when newer games come out. Honestly I don't think a 30" monitor is that beneficial when you could get a similar 50" samsung 1080p plasma monitor..which would be a better investment...for $2200-$3000.
A Dell 3007 costs $1199 at the Dell website as of NOW, and you can search ebay for a discount coupon. coupons+sales offers usually put the price at $1099. On ebay they are south of $900 used and never reach north of $1100 brand new.
So they are a LOT cheaper than 1080p plasmas, certainly cheaper than Kuro models for sure. The experience of desktop work and games on 2560x1600 resolution on a S-IPS panel is MILES ahead of anything 24" monitors or 1080p plasmas can offer.
A Dell 3007 costs $1199 at the Dell website as of NOW, and you can search ebay for a discount coupon. coupons+sales offers usually put the price at $1099. On ebay they are south of $900 used and never reach north of $1100 brand new.
So they are a LOT cheaper than 1080p plasmas, certainly cheaper than Kuro models for sure. The experience of desktop work and games on 2560x1600 resolution on a S-IPS panel is MILES ahead of anything 24" monitors or 1080p plasmas can offer.
Well if I update my Mods Rigs on EVGA, then I won't qualify for the $1000 drawing
I was happy w/ my 280, but I wanted to try a multi gpu solution in a SFF...also I'm still feeling the burns of being @ss raped by nvidia for being an early adopter
Having said that, all GFX solutions have thier setbacks. Nothing is perfect in this world unfortunately
Anyone tried it (4870 X2) with FSX?
Neither review included FSX as a benchmark...
Hey guys, just a quick question and I apologize if it's been answered elsewhere already. I believe I read that the 8.54 beta drivers that everyone seems to love are just for Vista correct? I'd like to buy a X2, (just installed a PSU more than capable of powering it) but I'm still using XP. I'm under the impression that most of the other drivers are buggy at best? Any news when the next driver release will be that includes XP? Thanks.
That driver doesn't work for Windows XP as far as I know. However I have had no problems with the 8.8 Release Drivers for Windows XP and I think others have generally reported success with them.
Thanks for the info Dan. Another quick question. What was the final verdict as far as all that previous debate with using an X2 with a 32bit OS? I'm using 32bit XP with 4 gigs of RAM. (only 3.25 shows however). I respect your opinion so in the end, what was the general consensus? Is it stupid to buy an X2 with only a 32-bit OS because of RAM limitations. Should I finally just buy Vista 64? Thanks again.
You happen to be in luck today. I've got a 4870 X2 and Windows XP 32bit installed on my other box. I'll fire it up and tell you what it says.
I've got 4GB of RAM in that box and Windows is showing 2.99GB of RAM installed.
Very cool of you to do that. So I'm looking at losing about 1/4 gig of addressable ram by upgrading to the X2. I can probably live with that. I know some people were saying that the X2 would eat up 2 gigs of Ram space on a 32-bit system but it appears that's not the case.
Anyway, it's not a money issue at all, but I still haven't found a compelling reason to upgrade to Vista. Still waiting (and hoping really) for that killer app to make me say, "Hot damn, I need Dx10 right now!" Unfortunately that hasn't happened yet.
Either way, thanks for the info Dan. You rule.
we already know that kyle is pro nvidia... obviously its a bad site for this kinda review.
we already know that kyle is pro nvidia... obviously its a bad site for this kinda review.
we already know that kyle is pro nvidia... obviously its a bad site for this kinda review.
He's a double agent, that's his cover!Yeah that's why Kyle replaced his NVIDIA Geforce 8800GTX in his personal machine with an ATI Radeon 4870 X2 last night.
Thanks for the info Dan. Another quick question. What was the final verdict as far as all that previous debate with using an X2 with a 32bit OS? I'm using 32bit XP with 4 gigs of RAM. (only 3.25 shows however). I respect your opinion so in the end, what was the general consensus? Is it stupid to buy an X2 with only a 32-bit OS because of RAM limitations. Should I finally just buy Vista 64? Thanks again.