The Official 3870X2 Reviews Thread

No, it does not. It's two discrete GPUs, each with it's discrete memory bank and discrete 256-bit bus. If Tom said it's 512-bit it's just another sillyness in a long stream of silly things coming from that site.

 

It was exactly 829$

 

"ati_r680_the_rage_fury_maxx_2"

 

I thought that... I just assumed they were reputable!

 

Here's TweakTown's review of the MSI 3870x2 OC.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1279/1/page_1_introduction/index.html

I don't know what these reviewers are smoking though. . . they benchmarked every game they could think of except for the two that matter most (of course I mean Unreal Tournament 3 and Crysis).

 

Reviews slowly are useless, not this is the first time every review show totally different performances.

Sience when Crysis matter as benchmark? there is no card in the world (at least not released yet) what can run that game playable frames at maximum quality, 12,8 fps vs 14,9 fps say one thing only: unplayable.

 

It seems the "true" review date has been moved to NEXT monday..that is why Tom's pulled theirs (I got a look at it first though) and Anand and H dont even have one.

 

A lot of us (myself included) are interested in how high we can push the settings on Crysis and still get a reasonable framerate. 3870x2 might hopefully be one of the few cards that can run Crysis on high settings at 1680x1050 and get playable framerates. I know that no card can max Crysis out on very high, but many (most?) people shopping for a high-end graphics card want to know just how well Crysis will run.

On the other hand, does anybody care how well 3870x2 can handle Half-Life 2? Practically any high-end card from the last 2 years can run Half-Life 2 maxed out at faster framerates than a monitor can display.

 

And whats this results tell you?
Every programers able to write a code what bring a card to it's knees (as you write) but they won't sell it as a game its called as techdemo.

You exactly know what i mean, DX10 at maximum settings.

Where?

 

I'm not suite sure what your getting at but I also wanted to point out that Crysis is one of, if not THE most important benchmark out today.

Afterall, its pretty much the only game in existance that still requires more GPU power to be playable at reasonable settings.

And yes, any developer can code a game thats unplayable on current hardware but only Crytek has. That makes Crysis unique and thus an important benchmark.

Additionally, its the best looking game available on High settings and its high settings which are borderline playable at the moment on high end hardware making benchmarking it on even faster hardware all the more relevant.

 

Rendition, and excellent points.

 

Your comment miles away from the original theme, i not talk about anything like Crysis the first and only game what not runs at highest setting in any HW available at launch, i talking about its not important benchmark because its can't show the future and what show now its one thing only at DX10 highest setting unplayable.

Whats the point playing with a dx10 card in dx9? Crysis it was hyped mostly because its a super DX10 game, maybe you see my point now, but i think you won't and well i not care

Because Crysis not the best ever happend for me than i vitriol the game? thats funny

 

For better dx9 performance? Some of us don't see the benefits of moving to dx10 yet, and Vista just plain don't like some of us.

 

What really has me interested in this product is that fact ATi indeed has made the onboard Crossfire transparent to the drivers and the OS...! The card is seen as a single card--a la' the V5. I mentioned that I hoped this would be the case in an earlier thread...and it is...

Right now I'm puttering along with a BFG 8800GT that I was going to return except for the unfortunate fact that when I put my HD 3870 back in it had died on me for some reason that I cannot fathom. So far, though, I actually like the 8800GT pretty well--except for the drivers. I really miss the CCP--nVidia's CP program doesn't hold a candle to it, imo.