ATI and X58

[mikecoscia]

I'll be jumping on the i7 train within the next two weeks and I haven't built a PC in 4 years, my last video card was the X800 XT. Who generally has better scaling and drivers. ATI or Nvidia? I can't decide if I want to go 4870x2 or GTX280 (maybe SLI). Suggestions would be great .

 

[snowysnowcones]

They both have generally the same scalability. Some games will favor ATI, some will favor Nvidia.

 

[vanilla_guerilla]

go with the best single card you can get, probably a 4850 x2 or a 4870 x2, mayba a gtx280 (depending on what you play) because there are problems with both multi card setups on the x58 right now. no doubt it will be fixed, but you know how these things go. x58 may be "fixed" with x68.

 

[E.R]

go with the best single card you can get, probably a 4850 x2 or a 4870 x2, mayba a gtx280 (depending on what you play) because there are problems with both multi card setups on the x58 right now. no doubt it will be fixed, but you know how these things go. x58 may be "fixed" with x68.

To me the 4850X2 is just a stupid choise. Only 20€ up to 4870X2 and 2x4850 way more cheap for the same performance.
And if you pay these kind of cash for X58/i7 920-965/4850X2 then 20€ is no problem to put in for that 4870X2 or you take 2x4850 that are chaper but the same performace.

 

[vanilla_guerilla]

wrong, wrong, wrong. the 4850x2 actually beats the 4870x2 in several games/benchmarks. it is also way better than 2x 4850, because it has 2x 1gb memory opposed to 2x 512gb memory. also 2 card solutions are having problems on the x58 so 2x 4850 should not be considered anyway.

 

[E.R]

wrong, wrong, wrong. the 4850x2 actually beats the 4870x2 in several games/benchmarks. it is also way better than 2x 4850, because it has 2x 1gb memory opposed to 2x 512gb memory. also 2 card solutions are having problems on the x58 so 2x 4850 should not be considered anyway.

Not from what i have seen when even a 9800GTX+ can beat a 4850X2 at high rez sometimes and 4850 is avalible as 1GB to just like 4850X2 comes in both 1GB and 2GB flavor and that ATI has major problems with multigpu is not a suprice at all anymore aposed to nvidia that doing just good on the multiGPU arena despite the fact of only 16/8/8 PCIe lanes for 3 cards with the only exeption of the freeaky 9800Gx2 that never was anything to care about anyway.

Any linky to what the issue is with (ATI?) multiGPU and X58? Or is just fud from those who can´t aford X58 and i7-CPU:s.

 

[mikecoscia]

go with the best single card you can get, probably a 4850 x2 or a 4870 x2, mayba a gtx280 (depending on what you play) because there are problems with both multi card setups on the x58 right now. no doubt it will be fixed, but you know how these things go. x58 may be "fixed" with x68.

Well cost doesn't matter. I just want the thing to work and work well. I see alot of i7 buyers are going with a 280 or 280 SLI, which is why i started a thread.

 

[vanilla_guerilla]

Any linky to what the issue is with (ATI?) multiGPU and X58? Or is just fud from those who can´t aford X58 and i7-CPU:s.

i7/x58/triple channel ram can be had for less than $800. this is the same as it cost to go from x2 amd/ddr to c2d/ddr2 a couple years ago. i think there are very few guys here who cant afford that. i just think that people are refusing to pay to be beta testers for large corporations. i dont see the rush to adopt this like there has been the last few architecture changes. its kind of so what. i'm not in any hurry to upgrade, and i spend about $800 per month in hardware. i've peobably sold that in my used cpu's in the last couple weeks.

 

[Astrodave]

agreed. i have a nice running e8400@3.6ghz and 4850CF system with 4gb of ram @1066 and frankly i dont see that spending that kind of money on an i7 system will give me much more than maybe 10% performance increase at best. I probably wont upgrade until next summer or fall except for a video card when the next gen stuff hits.