Re: AMD Launches ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

THEODOROS321 — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:39:07 GMT

Hi there,

I have a 17 inch LCD monitor 1280*1024 32bit, Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 @ 3.262GHz 466FSB ORTHOS,PRIME,OCCT,SANDRA,AND OTHER FULLY STABLE (1.86GHz Default) with Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 Motherboard (Rev. X.X WITH F7 BIOS) with 2GB Kingston Hyper-X 800MHz Memory modules in Dual Channel Mode (128bit - 64bit*2).I'm using ATI GFX-Cards FOREVER and the reason is because i don't know what the Bench sites are saying or doing but every time that i was trust any of the benchmarks i was pissed off because is like they are saying lies to me at least.Finally i want to make something about the ATI HD3870 clear and not for the ATI HD3870 X2 is that in any game i'm playing the frames are about 60F.P.S.(Frames Per Second) and up, not at least in any time of the game drops below of that at ALL FULL GRAPHICS and all Details Cranked Up - AA16X,HDR and so on...... and something else those 55nm babes and not 65nm are so easy overclockable ~1000MHz+++ core (stock cooling- within VGA BIOS modifications).

Re: OK.....I have my first SLI setup....and probably my last!!!!

Marco C — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:33:33 GMT

I'm surprised by this post. The X1800 XT is still a decent card, but in comparison to 8800 GTS SLI, it's not even in the same league. It sounds like it's not necessarily average framerates that have you disappointed, but image quality and potentially minium framerates (based on your 'smoother' comment).

The only time an SLI rig may have lower framerates than a single X1800 XT is in 100% compeltely CPU-bound circumstances, because there is some CPU overhead associated with SLI. In games like this, I doubt you could consider any video card truly "smoother" than another, however.

With the kind of horsepower you've got now, have you tried increasing the image quality and making your comparisons again. If your single X1800 XT was getting 60fps in your favorite game and the SLI setup is now getting 120fps, and they're both configured for 4xAA and 8x aniso, try raising the settings on the SLI rig to improve image quality - maybe you can now run 8xs AA and 16x high quality aniso at a higher resolution and still get 60+fps. You should also turn on the high-quality filtering mode in NVIDIA's drivers for the best image quality on the SLI rig. And also make sure V-Sync in enabled when playing your games to prevent shearing or other artifacts in situations where the SLI rig it putting out a higher framerate than your monitor's refresh rate.

Lastly, if you don't like SLI, you're not going to like CrossFire.

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