hd4800's AND AA??!!

[hooflung]

My Opinion is that an Opteron 180 at stock speeds is incapable of playing Age of Conan at widescreen resolutions comfortably even with a relatively nice SLI setup. Period. However, at 4:3 it is a far better experience than a Core 2 Duo at 16:10 with a faster single GPU with more bandwidth available ( 192 vs 256 ). The SLI even out performs the C2D/3850 at 4:3 for what its worth. However, the C2D/HD3850 still can provide very nice performance at 16:10 even though you have to turn down some sliders and pretty much any AA. Well, you can do 2xAA perfectly fine for outside of cities but in cities its a pain.

I'd say that is a pretty good anecdotal experience to look at. It shows me that if someone is hell bent on keeping their old 939 chip they could still game at 4:3 at 12x10 and still reap the rewards of modern gpu's to compensate for their platform's short comings. However, if they have a greedy eye on a 22" + they need to realize that some games are going to perform poorly.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: chizow
At 3GHz there is almost no difference between the 4850CF and 4870CF solution. At 4GHz the difference is obvious. Even more telling is the fact that a single 4870 at 4GHz is FASTER than 4870CF at 3GHz. By lessening the bottleneck you again see performance gain where there was none before.

That's the key reason why I posted the thread about whether or not 4850 CF would be overkill for 1680x1050 resolution. With a Q6600 at 3.6Ghz, would I be bottlenecked?