AngelicPenguin
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Just picked up a sapphire off new egg. Anyone know if there is much penalty when using PCI-e x8? I'm using an overclocked C2D on a P35 mobo.
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Just picked up a sapphire off new egg. Anyone know if there is much penalty when using PCI-e x8? I'm using an overclocked C2D on a P35 mobo.
Just picked up a sapphire off new egg. Anyone know if there is much penalty when using PCI-e x8? I'm using an overclocked C2D on a P35 mobo.
Bought my gtx for Crysis for $600. right when they came out... Im glad these are all out of stock otherwise I would be doing that allll over again lol.
While it might be "overkill," we use the Core i7-920 processor at 3.6GHz in an attempt to keep prevent our evaluation from being CPU limited.
Ah...for a while I thought for sure AMD/ATI understood what was going on. For a while I was starting to believe they were forcing NVIDIA to be competitive, that they were collectively pushing the PC gaming world down the right path. That's what I get for having hope.
It would not surprise me in the least if like the previous card, you find very limited quantities of this video card. In our lovely world of today perception is reality so of ATI only builds 10,000 of these cards and sells them all, they can go to the stockholders and say "See!! See!! We can't build them fast enough...they are flying off the shelves!!.' Shareholders get their greedy rocks off, and the company prospers.
If ATI saturates the market with a $600 card everyone wants but virtually no one can afford, then they lose. It is the same thinking that got car companies, finance companies, and a lot of other industries in trouble in the last couple of years; gambling that your 1% die-hard faithful will save you.
I still consider myself a PC gamer, but I'm slowly losing interest because of continued lack of these companies to consider what is slowly choking this part of gaming to death...you can swear against the consoles as long as you live, but we all need to realize, like it or not...they are simply stomping PC's into the ground. PC gaming must become more economical. This money one will pay for this behemoth will land you not one but both the 360 and PS3 now...and because more and more games are becoming multi-platform...someone explain to me how companies like ATI and NVIDIA can justify I spend this ridiculous amount of money on something that will be outdated before I can get done with this post?
If you're an avid PC gamer, chances are during the single lifespan of a console (5 years, give or take), you'll probably build/re-build/upgrade your gaming PC at least twice, and probably for no less than $1000, especially when you're dropping $600 for a freakin' video card. There is absolutely no way this business model can continue. It's becoming a larger and larger waste of money, and for people like me, I will only bend over for so long. There simply isn't enough lube to make it feel right.
Most of the time I doubt you'll feel it and it likely won't matter. The card won't be running to its full potential in all situations though.
Arma II is known not to scale well with multi-GPU configurations
See TweakTown did some in depth 5970 CFX testing - http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/3017/ati_radeon_hd_5970_2gb_in_crossfirex/index.html
You can get a 5750 for ~$140 which will play any game perfectly fine in today's common PC resolutions. That $140 video card will absolutely destroy the performance and the visuals of any of the current gen consoles and by destroy I mean you can't even compare the two in performance and resolution.Ah...for a while I thought for sure AMD/ATI understood what was going on. For a while I was starting to believe they were forcing NVIDIA to be competitive, that they were collectively pushing the PC gaming world down the right path. That's what I get for having hope.
It would not surprise me in the least if like the previous card, you find very limited quantities of this video card. In our lovely world of today perception is reality so of ATI only builds 10,000 of these cards and sells them all, they can go to the stockholders and say "See!! See!! We can't build them fast enough...they are flying off the shelves!!.' Shareholders get their greedy rocks off, and the company prospers.
If ATI saturates the market with a $600 card everyone wants but virtually no one can afford, then they lose. It is the same thinking that got car companies, finance companies, and a lot of other industries in trouble in the last couple of years; gambling that your 1% die-hard faithful will save you.
I still consider myself a PC gamer, but I'm slowly losing interest because of continued lack of these companies to consider what is slowly choking this part of gaming to death...you can swear against the consoles as long as you live, but we all need to realize, like it or not...they are simply stomping PC's into the ground. PC gaming must become more economical. This money one will pay for this behemoth will land you not one but both the 360 and PS3 now...and because more and more games are becoming multi-platform...someone explain to me how companies like ATI and NVIDIA can justify I spend this ridiculous amount of money on something that will be outdated before I can get done with this post?
If you're an avid PC gamer, chances are during the single lifespan of a console (5 years, give or take), you'll probably build/re-build/upgrade your gaming PC at least twice, and probably for no less than $1000, especially when you're dropping $600 for a freakin' video card. There is absolutely no way this business model can continue. It's becoming a larger and larger waste of money, and for people like me, I will only bend over for so long. There simply isn't enough lube to make it feel right.
Fun review. As expected some games didn't take advantage of CrossfireX, and some benefited about 50% or more. 5970x2 is just sick.
Any link to that video? Love to find out what driver they using as newer obiously are better. Nomatter how i think about it or bend it when i am going 30" soon 2x5970 4GB is more and more tempting when they show up, or 4x5870 2GB as money is not a thing that matter to me as mutch as delays of things.I haven't seen reviews of 5970CF that show minimum fps however. 200 fps is nice if it doesn't dip below 40 fps...a la Crysis. I'm sure we will eventually see some you tube videos of 5970CF playing crysis warhead. The minimum fps @ enthusiast settings running 4xaa / 16xaf is going to tell us if a $1200 5970 CF is indeed worth it. If the minimum fps is anything below 60, I'd be personally disappointed. There is a 5870 Quad set up floating around on youtube where the fps would still dip in the 30s regularly.
Any link to that video? Love to find out what driver they using as newer obiously are better. Nomatter how i think about it or bend it when i am going 30" soon 2x5970 4GB is more and more tempting when they show up, or 4x5870 2GB as money is not a thing that matter to me as mutch as delays of things.
Thanks, not bad but did i read right Cat 8.66? Or what it said then i guess it can be inproved a bit.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI-f9P8nKKs
I think this might be the video he was referring to. Its a Quad CrossfireX setup being used and it benchmarks Crysis warhead and Heaven Benchmark at 2560x1600. I didn't check the AA settings but I think it was 4xaa or 8xaa so it might be a reasonable approximately to say 1440x900x3 monitors since its almost the same number of pixels as 2560x1600. I think the minimum frame rates were 24 fps? but max as 70 and average was around 56ish fps. So I guess not that bad?
But if you want to game in Eyefinity, I think the 5970 is clearly the best/fastest choice. Speaking of which, when are you going to do Eyefinity review of 5970?
Im in the market for a 5970 but i can not find anyone that has one in stock.. i have a new computer built with no video card in it Anyone know where i can find a 5970??
You are asking in the wrong thread, buddy And no, I don't think 5870 is faster than 4870 in crossfire, if it's slower than 4870x2Say, is a single 5870 faster than two 4870s in crossfire?
You are asking in the wrong thread, buddy And no, I don't think 5870 is faster than 4870 in crossfire, if it's slower than 4870x2
Say, is a single 5870 faster than two 4870s in crossfire?