who here is running 4850 or 4870 X2?

[Toadster]

I'm just dying to setup my X48 board, and want to know if its "really" worth it!?!?!?!

right now I have a 680i board with 8800GTX's in SLI

 

[Sentry2]

Hmmm....the main benefit I see is getting away from that 680i chipset. If you're not having any problems with it right now though I would say no it's not worth it. So far I've been having just as good(or better) of an experience running Crossfire as I did when I ran SLI. As for buying a pair of 4800 series cards for CF...it's up to you but the 4870X2 should be one interesting card. Intel's Matrix Raid has been so much better to me than nvidia's crap.

It's up to you man. If you need the horsepower now(and you'll be running that X48 now) I don't think you would regret buying a pair of 4850's or 4870's...that is until the X2 comes out.

RIP 8800GTX's :brokenheart:

 

[FalseChristian]

Man, thost 2 8800GTXs you got are plenty powerful for yesterday, today and tomorrow. You don't need to upgrade right now.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I'd imagine he's going to sell them off on ebay or somewhere after he picks up two 4870's

 

[Tempered81]

two 4850's on an x48 seriously smashes sli 8800gtx's

you should be able to get a pretty penny for the gtx's and the 680i makes a decent stress-reliever:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU528rSCDJY

Originally posted by: Sentry2
Hmmm....the main benefit I see is getting away from that 680i chipset.

 

[Golgatha]

I'm running 4850s in Crossfire. They are sweet little cards. The power bill savings over 8800GTXs in SLI would be nice too. As far as "is it worth it?" goes. Read the benchmarks and come to your own conclusions. Personally, dual 4850s are more than enough horsepower and the 4870s just aren't worth the extra coin and power requirements.

 

[imported_TimBob]

I just swapped out my 8800gtx SLI cards for a single 4870 on my 680i. Next couple months I'll be switching to an x48 and probably another 4870 or 4870x2 (I can do that right?).

My system is an e8400 @ 4.05ghz, 8 GB mem, 750 PC Power and cooling PSU on a 1920x1200 LCD.

The only games I've tried are Age of Conan and Mass Effect.

Mass Effect performance seemed about the same. Just installed so that's just running around the ship. Not sure if there is a way to display the FPS in game.

The majority of the time in AOC, the performance is better than my SLI setup by about 30% except when I go into heavily populated areas where i'm probably a few FPS lower. But, I don't seem to get the huge dips in FPS like I did with my GTX SLI setup so it feels smoother. Also, I had a crashing/freezing problem in that game which I haven't been able to solve (could be the game). So far no crashes in about 5 hours after installing while I did crash twice in like 2 hours right before installing the 4870.

Anyways, the 4870 is impressive.

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: Sentry2
Hmmm....the main benefit I see is getting away from that 680i chipset.

There's always this issue too. In my experience, Intel CPU + Intel chipset = rock solid stable for years. I'm holding off on upgrading my 975x board until Intel changes sockets.

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: TimBob
I just swapped out my 8800gtx SLI cards for a single 4870 on my 680i. Next couple months I'll be switching to an x48 and probably another 4870 or 4870x2 (I can do that right?).

My system is an e8400 @ 4.05ghz, 8 GB mem, 750 PC Power and cooling PSU on a 1920x1200 LCD.

The only games I've tried are Age of Conan and Mass Effect.

Mass Effect performance seemed about the same. Just installed so that's just running around the ship. Not sure if there is a way to display the FPS in game.

The majority of the time in AOC, the performance is better than my SLI setup by about 30% except when I go into heavily populated areas where i'm probably a few FPS lower. But, I don't seem to get the huge dips in FPS like I did with my GTX SLI setup so it feels smoother. Also, I had a crashing/freezing problem in that game which I haven't been able to solve (could be the game). So far no crashes in about 5 hours after installing while I did crash twice in like 2 hours right before installing the 4870.

Anyways, the 4870 is impressive.

Use FRAPS to get your FPS in Mass Effect. It's fun watching my heavily tweaked Oblivion install (high res textures, mods, etc.) running at 8x Adaptive AA, 16x AF, and HDR enabled. My counter will dip below 60FPS occasionally with complex environments, lots of spells being cast, and swords a-swingin' at those settings.

 

[lopri]

Originally posted by: jaredpace

you should be able to get a pretty penny for the gtx's and the 680i makes a decent stress-reliever:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU528rSCDJY

LMAO That was histerical. Great video. The first couple 680i boards were so bad and had it not been for EVGA's wonderful customer service I would have done something similar to them. (or worse)

 

[imported_TimBob]

Yes, fortunately EVGA is great. I have 2 680is and currently have 2 RMA boards.

 

[lopri]

BTW, to OP.

I do understand your geek-iness to try out multi-GPU (been there done that), but I sincerely suggest you to try out one 4870 first, then add another if not satisfied. I am getting through-the-roof FPS in Assassin's Creed. (2560x1600, DX10/4AA)

433 FPS

426 FPS

:laugh:

Obvious something's wrong with Fraps, but the game is silky smooth nonetheless.