Radeon HD 4870 X2: Four Cards Compared

[silicondoc]

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" I stopped using ATI because of their terrible drivers a long time ago. Was considering trying again due to price vs. performance, but after seeing that Catalyst is STILL a mess, I'm glad I stuck with Nvidia."
That was smart posting that as anonymous. Your life might otherwise be in danger.

 

[silicondoc]

[citation][nom]mapesdhs[/nom]Why no 8800GT/SLI? It's an older card, but still very popular.And yes, the results do look rather wierd in some cases. Why doesCrysis show GTX260 SLI being faster than GTX280 SLI, but bothslower than a single GTX280? Looks like the drivers in some casesare way off for SLI/CF setups.Ian.[/citation]
It's called red fanboy syndrome - can cause all sorts of things like that. Reminds me of the reds in our government - up is down, stealing is giving, etc.

 

[enforcer22]

[citation][nom]silicondoc[/nom]Thank you Pie-Chen - when there were just single cards being reviewed, and the 4870 came in just 1-3 watts less in full 3d than the GTX260, the red started screaming efficiency and blabbering about electric bills. They tried to make certain noone noticed the GTX260 was 30 watts LESS than the 4870 in idle or 2d mode...Now the tables are turned completely, and of course - well I LAUGHED when I saw you got 20 MINUSES for your post where you merely pointed out the fat power hogging suction of the 4870x2 because "strangely" the power chart was the first thing NOT SORTED FOR WINNERS/LOSERS - so that fat power hungry piglet ati electric earth destroyers PROBLEM could be hidden on down the line...LOLVery observant, it's just the ati reds are now professional liars, so expect blood everywhere - oh boy wait till the 295 actually gets used...lol... oh it's going to be more bloviating.( It's too bad ati can't even to this day match the dominance of the NVIDIA ! GTX280 - ati panicked, and had to combine 2 cards, or use CF, or both - why can't ATI make a single GPU card as good as the GTX280 is ? Because they suck, and need so much help from lying fans who get mad when the truth is pointed out ? That's it it sure seems. )[/citation]

or i could care less about it at all. I dont care how much power my video card is using when i play games as long as they look good. and his $100 a year thing might be true there but if i use his math its more like $20 to $30 a year here. I care about power use as much as i care about loud fans which i have 17 in my computer. I also didnt care about nvidias power use then and i dont care now

Im sure he got 20 minuses for his inability to think there was a world out side of his house where not everyone paid a rediculas ammount for thier electric while at the same time trying to say someone else might be the dumb one. im pretty sure thats it.

 

[Saars]

OMFG.... you suck TOMS HARDWARE..... way to test nvidia graphics cards on an intel NVidia board (which is what they prefer) and ATI cars on the same.. and you wonder why you get issues... try testing it on an AMD board and take advantage of all the features.....
besides this is a comparison on how different 4870's compare... why did you feel the need to pt in a rigged test anyway???? how much is intel and NVidia paying you to push out a terd and put it on your webpage.. this is crap and anyone who goes off and buys something because of anything they have seen on this site should have a nice bath with their favorite toaster

 

[sciferthe2nd]

dont do it, i have a 980x extreme water cooled on an asus rog rampage 3 extreme board with a 1500w toughtpower psu and 24 gig ram and i have crosfired 2 4870x2s in an asus p6t deluxe and burnt out a pcie slot and now im getting a red light on the card on a rampage 3 extreme board they worked fine for a while in quadfire but these are nothing but trouble ib crossfire, I have taken 1 out and I dont think i will ever quadfire again....., buy a single card with pcie3 and as much v ram as you can afford........