X1900XT crossfire?

[AmongTheChosenX]

idk if I'm going crazy or something, but i was just wondering.

I bought this X1900 crossfire edition card temporarily while my 3870 got lost thanks to visiontek.

now when my 3870 gets back i'm going to sell it, because the X1900XT runs fine enough for me, and I am in desperate need of the money, and i figure that the 4870, if its fast, will be nmy next purchase of a graphics card.

now my question is, if I'm able to snag an X1900XT or XTX for like $50 or $60, would the crossfire be a good performer in games likes world in conflict and crysis, or should I just run with the crosfire card by itself and then sell that when them 4870's come out?
or should i just not buy a 4870?


basically i wanna know how good the X1900XT crossfire setup performs in todays current games, especially world in conflict, cause i love playing that. for anothyer $50, i would jump on crossfire in a flash.

 

[heatlesssun]

Even CrossFire X1900XT is going to be a big step back from the 3870, but hey, times are tough and cash is cash. If the X1900 is working for you skip X1900 CrossFire and save the money for a next gen card.

 

[rennyf77]

the best i could do in crysis(xp) with x1900xt cf was 1280x800 with shaders on high and everything else on medium. this was in my amd test rig powered by a 2.9ghz x2. there is a problem with dongled cf. with 8.3 drivers the display never seemed to stabilize. it kept blinking in and out and twitching like it was trying to refresh. i doubt anything was fixed with the 8.4 drivers.

 

[AmongTheChosenX]

Even CrossFire X1900XT is going to be a big step back from the 3870, but hey, times are tough and cash is cash. If the X1900 is working for you skip X1900 CrossFire and save the money for a next gen card.

yeah i'm thinking about that...

like, if theres a decent performance increase by adding the second card i'll jsut go for that, but I'm not spending more than $50 something on teh card cause otherwise it'll be $75 for the crossfire card i bought plus like say $75 for the other X1900XT, we're lookinga t $150. i could be getting a Geforce 9600GT at that price point, it'll prolly run faster.

the only thing that gets me is that if you look on toms charts, the X190)XT is usually as good as or ebtter than the 3870 and 2900XT...
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...,1559,1557,1564,1618,1606,1584,1605,1617,1563

its mad strange.

 

[AmongTheChosenX]

the best i could do in crysis(xp) with x1900xt cf was 1280x800 with shaders on high and everything else on medium. this was in my amd test rig powered by a 2.9ghz x2. there is a problem with dongled cf. with 8.3 drivers the display never seemed to stabilize. it kept blinking in and out and twitching like it was trying to refresh. i doubt anything was fixed with the 8.4 drivers.

well i play crysis on mostly high settings except for i think water and shaders on medium @ 1280 x 1024 and it runs fine to me, about 25FPS. not bad for a last gen card.

 

[rennyf77]

well i play crysis on mostly high settings except for i think water and shaders on medium @ 1280 x 1024 and it runs fine to me, about 25FPS. not bad for a last gen card.

with shaders on medium it ends up looking like farcy without the hdr. with both cards and shaders on high the game spends most of its time above 30 frames. still doesn't fix the blinking issue. i wasn't the only forum poster who had this problem. x1950 pro cf was reported to work fine but i think there are still problems with cf configurations that require the dongle.

 

[AmongTheChosenX]

with shaders on medium it ends up looking like farcy without the hdr. with both cards and shaders on high the game spends most of its time above 30 frames. still doesn't fix the blinking issue. i wasn't the only forum poster who had this problem. x1950 pro cf was reported to work fine but i think there are still problems with cf configurations that require the dongle.

my 2900XT's had the blink problem...

they might ahve fixed it in 8.4.