Triple Crossfire 4890

[computernewbie]

any benchmarks? been looking all over google and couldent find any

 

[computernewbie]

bump

 

[nateshuntsvegas]

I am curious myself I have dual 4890's on

dfi m2rsh
4gb reaper @1066
amd 940 @3.6

And I am only seeing low 18's on 3dmark06
nate

 

[hundredislandsboy]

Have you tried Google?

 

[cjl]

I am curious myself I have dual 4890's on

dfi m2rsh
4gb reaper @1066
amd 940 @3.6

And I am only seeing low 18's on 3dmark06
nate

You're CPU limited. My 4870x2 quadfire setup only scores 17k with a stock clocked i7 965. At 4.2GHz, I get 27k without touching the graphics cards.

 

[The_Blood_Raven]

You're CPU limited. My 4870x2 quadfire setup only scores 17k with a stock clocked i7 965. At 4.2GHz, I get 27k without touching the graphics cards.

No offense but that is not true, neither of you should worry about synthetic, only actual performance. A Phenom II 940 @ 3.6 Ghz will do just fine.

As for 3 4890s, they are quite good. I have 2 Sapphire Toxic editions running right now at 1095 Mhz core / 1124 Mhz memory and I'm still trying for higher. Should you get a third? F&%k no! 2 4890s will do quite fine and the third is just for bragging rights. I bought them for the sole purpose of seeing how 3 maxed 4890s compare to 3 maxed GTX 285s, 2 of them max Crysis without any help from the third.

 

[cjl]

I didn't mean he was CPU limited in games, just in 3dmark06. Many games will happily soak up the extra graphics power with the CPU exactly where it is (3.6GHz).

 

[The_Blood_Raven]

I know cjl, just elaborating so he doesn't get confused.

Edit: have you ever overclocked those 4870 X2s? Overclocking got me about 28k with a similar system (i7 920 @ 4.2) and about 27k without. I always thought overclocking should yield more.