ATi Noob Crossfire Review - X38 vs P35 / Vista vs XP

Interesting!!!

This is no longer James, he sold the business 2 weeks ago to me - Robbie, his #1 customer - And yes, the figures show it. I didnt even know i was when i brought the business!

What sort of FPS you getting? Benchmark, K, GO GO GO!

My Dell 24" (Native 1920*1200) is arrving on Wednesday and i cant wait to crank the res but i dont think i can have any AA / AF on with these cards, i think it choaks... but the high res should make up for it.

I don't mind if it is better for NVidia cards, well i DO but it ain't your fault. I was a NVidia fan boy but for the price, these 4870's are pretty good. I am keen to build up a NVidia moster soon!

 

Im so tempted to get a single 280 , except I can buy two 4870's and have change with the same money .

TWIMTBP



Sorry Robbie , hows things dude ? Im envious and good on you for making the move .

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Things are great thanks Aussie. I have done in 6 days of trade what i predicted i would do in the 1st month and just now are sorting out 3 more orders... and i am still waiting for my 1st new stock delivery!

Free Postage on all orders that are Pre Paid for items that are on "Pre Order Only" or "Pre Order Now, Arriving Soon" status - and i am not even advertising that... except for just then

Still getting my stuff organised for the OCAU sponsorship to kick in but i am looking after OCAU members already anyway ofcourse!

 

Someone find me a benchmarking tool that works on crysis! haha

I'll take some ingame shots with fraps going in background thats about all i can do

But I have done the built in benchmark, but it comes up with error after it's done 4 loops, saying " cant find specific file " and it wont post my results.

 

Mmm, sounds like you might need to reinstall the game if it's having errors on the built in benchmark. Once you reinstall it (if you do) fire up the game before you do any benching as there are some config files that are created the first time you run the game

 

interesting, oh well i'll go the reinstall then

 

Borrowed an X38-DQ6 today from Aussie (champion )

Plans...
* Will be re-running all previous tests on XP 32-bit.
* Comparing PCI-E 1.1 to PCI-E 2.0 for a single card.
* Running all tests again on the 16x/16x bandwidth board.

Anyone got any specific tests they'd like to see run?

 

Hurry up .

 

yup
those crysis ones i ran (although i only have the demo)

ut3 benches

3dtoss 06 i guess.

whatever games or benches you can throw at it i guess

 

Crysis - 1680x1050 - Very high - No AA

Far cry 2 same settings

 

Does UT3 have a built in benchmark tool, or is it done through timedemos?

Farcry 2 will have to wait a few months

Anything else? ^_^

 

http://www.hocbench.com/ut3.php

use that for consistancy
ir just record a demo and use
demoplay demoname.demo?timedemo

that will fast run the demo and at the end bring down the console for a score

using my visous 30 goglike bot demo on containment and 4x aa everything maxed at 1680 1050 i got 49 fps

also source based games
lost coast 1680 1050 everything in game maxed 6x aa etc
129 fps
tf2 in game just running around but 8 x aa i get 245 fps indoors and 150fps outdoors

 

Pretty good FPS for TF2 . Why only 6x AA on lost coast though? What type od AA were you running (6xCSAA, 6x Normal AA, MSAA or Super sampling AA via means of control panel).

 

Nice review, thanks for taking the time to share

May I ask how much you paid for your cards?

 

sorry 6x msaa via lost cost and 4x4 box via control panel same for tf2.

i will try and see what differences there are if any throwing edge etc(but i doibt there will be noticable iq change)
aaptie msampling set to sharp as well.

 

Cheers for that Tarot. Do you know whether it works with the beta/demo or you need the full version?

I have lost coast so i can give that a kick in the guts.

Quagnol, i paid $330ea from ITestate

 

Hey, I'm interested in some Crysis runs at 1024x768, if you can fit them in.

 

http://www.olrac.org/ut3bench`
another one to use(not sure if it works on the demo though)

as for that hoc bench no i think you need the retail.
but if you have the demo only just run through shangri la with piles of bots and stat fps and just a general idea will do.

i,ll run a crysis bench with the demo for my setup if you like

here you go
catalyst settings are all mxed except AA which is application and adaptive AA was off
670/1050 crossfire
Q6600 @ 3.3 gig
4 gig of ram xp pro sp3 dirty install with other things open loke outlook

 

dumping these here coz i cbf typing it up tonight! But some numbers for now...

PCI-E 1.1 does NOT bottleneck a HD4870 GDDR5 GPU

3Dmark for now... games coming...

Definitely no bottleneck on PCI-E 1.1

Pretty poor results at the moment going from 1 card to 2 cards, even on the X38 chipset. Less than 5fps gained at High with no AA. The CF setup comes into it's own when 8xAA is introduced saving an extra 8fps.

Will be doing some Very High runs tomorrow...

For now... sleeeeeeeeeep

 

Interesting results there .