3870 owners unite!

[AllFoamNoBeer]

Oh.. lame.

[Hellsent 2.0]

Scinto we need your comment...he has 2 3870's.

[Verzili]

personally i think the 8800gt is going to be a lost cause now the new gts is out and is of course faster,perhaps we will have the limited time like with the 2900pro.

most ppl would get the new gts is only a bit more expensive.

so i predict the 8800gt will be harder to get hold of down the road.

where as the 3870xt is cheap,and should last longer on the market.

comparing the price ive seen 3870xt on ebay for 114 uk(new) i could buy 2 of these close to the price of a good 8800gt(overclokers.co.uk retails about 200 for the oc version)

as for psu a good 550watt should be ok the 3870 draws about 150w

so 2 cards should not be a problem,also ati have made it possible in the latest drivers to overclock both cards.

and when upgrade time come around you can still use you're old card as a physics chip,

"more than meets the eye with ATI" (i could trade mark that quote perhaps:))

Scinto we need your comment...he has 2 3870's.

would be interesting..come on Scinto spill the beans

[jubb jubb]

ive got a 512mb 3850 and ive been able to max out bf2 & coh:of with 2xaa with no lag. i'll post pics hopefully tomorrow. cbf now

[=98=]

....you should be able to max out BF2, its over 2 years old now... :|:

[Scinto]

would be interesting..come on Scinto spill the beans

/waits for new PSU to be delivered,

I had it all running for 2 weeks on beta drivers and then my TT 700w crapped out so waiting for a new one to arrive, its a pain in the *** ive got my X38 Maximus Formula in aswell and cant use it :cry:

[Verzili]

/waits for new PSU to be delivered,

I had it all running for 2 weeks on beta drivers and then my TT 700w crapped out so waiting for a new one to arrive, its a pain in the *** ive got my X38 Maximus Formula in aswell and cant use it :cry:

putting one of those x38 for a m8 today shame he only got one 3870xt

hope you get youre psu sorted soon that's got to suck.

when you do get it up and running plz do share the info and benchmarks with us nod:

[AllFoamNoBeer]

I thought they come in HD? When did they release XT?

[=98=]

Hd3870xt?

[Scinto]

putting one of those x38 for a m8 today shame he only got one 3870xt

hope you get youre psu sorted soon that's got to suck.

when you do get it up and running plz do share the info and benchmarks with us nod:

i just hope it gets delivered, citylink are having to use a different company to deliver a few things as there is a backlog from the snow last week.

[Verzili]

they are HD and have the xt tag

so its a hd3870xt by name :)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...=56&subcat=416

i just hope it gets delivered, citylink are having to use a different company to deliver a few things as there is a backlog from the snow last week.

hoping you get you order soon,i just hate waiting.

when you do,any chance of some game shots with 24x AA :)

we ati users dig the image quality :)


also it appears the new vista sp1 now supports dx10.1 seems promising :)

[AllFoamNoBeer]

True, always knew ATi graphics looks nicer (ie. colour etc.)

[Verzili]

True, always knew ATi graphics looks nicer (ie. colour etc.)

i agree with that m8,

also i hear nvidia mess with there image quality through there drivers to increase there fps.

shakes head :laugh:

[=98=]

i agree with that m8,

also i hear nvidia mess with there image quality through there drivers to increase there fps.

shakes head :laugh:

They did it for Crysis so that the FPS would be higher. Not a bad idea if you ask me...

[Verzili]

They did it for Crysis so that the FPS would be higher. Not a bad idea if you ask me...

true but we both know nvidia did it to make there cards look better on paper.

but ati did not,so the image quality shows and the info about nvidia gets out in the end.

personally crysis is for really nice visuals so why dumb them down,the user should have to lower there settings if they don't like the performance.

still it was a clever thing to do by nvidia,the average person would not know they did that.