muzux2
November 17, 2008, 2:00pm
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Oftentimes we’ve lambasted multi-GPU graphics-card setups as a general waste of money,pointing our readers in the direction of the fastest single-GPU card that their budget allows them to buy.However, of late, both ATI and NVIDIA have cleaned up their multi-GPU acts,and scaling in popular games is such that adding a second GPU - be it on the PCB itself or via another card - makes implicit sense if the value propositionproviding reasonable high-end gaming performance on its own but practically doubling average framerate when another is added .Despite initial misgivings, we’re impressed with how well Sapphire’s non-referencebut the win here is with a substantially lower street price - £200 vs. £330 - and multi-monitor outputs.
Yes, you need to have a CrossFire-supporting motherboard and some games may not show the kind of scaling we’ve seen in our testing, but a combined £200 buys you smooth performance at 2,560x1,600 HQ settings.
We'll be taking a look at a couple of GeForce 9800 GTs and seeing how the price/performance proposition plays out in comparison, but, perhaps, multi-GPU setups finally make good sense when the underlying technology is priced so aggressively.
HEXUS.net - Review :: Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512MB - CrossFire making sense? : Page - 1/10
4m_7
November 18, 2008, 6:37am
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:O…sound’s horrible for nvidia
taher
November 20, 2008, 6:50pm
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even with the extra cash spend on crossfire ready mobo a good psu it still works out to be cheaper than a gtx 280 setup
X-Rebel
November 21, 2008, 7:06am
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Thats interesting, coz it will cost just 240$ to get 2 HD4830s, and the addon cost of a CrossFire board.
core 216 costs same now , it is better buy coz single card will always perform 100% and CF scaling not always good .
In your face nvidia. ATI has got some wonderful scaling with 2 card too
this was going to happen…
YES , single card is always an good option…BUT CF is scaling good on most of the games …so i think someone colud not go wrong with it .
they should have tested more games, still cant reach conclusion. 4870 1GB & 260GTX C216 r better options.
beating in 2 games which scale well with CF doesnt mean it " wipes out " gtx 280 , those games scale well with CF are tested .
^ Maybe it doesn’t “wipe out”… but to put in nVidia’s own language, at that pricepoint it definitely “WHOOPS ASS” on GTX280!
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@ muzux , how many ati and nvidia cards u tested that u became ati fanboy ?
defenitely not a good year for nvidia
definitely not a good year for nvidia
Hmm… this question goes around you know? simple replace ATi with nVidia there…
if u are talking about me , then i have tried many ati cards , i was about to get 4850 , but cooling performance was crap , now when i got this CF board i decided to get 4850 CF or 4850x2 , but then nvidia dropped 260 and core 216’s price , and at 12k its much better buy than 4850
Shade
November 22, 2008, 4:59pm
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RoBoGhOsT:
if u are talking about me , then i have tried many ati cards , i was about to get 4850 , but cooling performance was crap , now when i got this CF board i decided to get 4850 CF or 4850x2 , but then nvidia dropped 260 and core 216’s price , and at 12k its much better buy than 4850
A sensible post after all the mindless DAAMIT deification that’s been happening at TE
RoBoGhOsT:
if u are talking about me , then i have tried many ati cards , i was about to get 4850 , but cooling performance was crap , now when i got this CF board i decided to get 4850 CF or 4850x2 , but then nvidia dropped 260 and core 216’s price , and at 12k its much better buy than 4850
Most of the non-reference 4850 cards from Palit, Sapphire and others have very good cooling systems. In fact, IMO, a Palit 4850 Sonic edition for ~11.4k would be much more VFM than the GTX260. It beats out the GTX260 in most benchmarks except in some nVidia-optimized games like Crysis.
I was also an nVidia fan for quite some time even after the 4xxx series released. But then ATi won me over with the sheer performance. At one point, I was even considering getting a 4870 while its prices were near 15k-16k. So I am in the red team camp for now and I am getting myself a Palit 4850 Sonic soon.
EDIT: Yay its my 150th post! And still my rep is only “Notable”
junkiedogg:
Most of the non-reference 4850 cards from Palit, Sapphire and others have very good cooling systems. In fact, IMO, a Palit 4850 Sonic edition for ~11.4k would be much more VFM than the GTX260. It beats out the GTX260 in most benchmarks except in some nVidia-optimized games like Crysis.
I was also an nVidia fan for quite some time even after the 4xxx series released. But then ATi won me over with the sheer performance. At one point, I was even considering getting a 4870 while its prices were near 15k-16k. So I am in the red team camp for now and I am getting myself a Palit 4850 Sonic soon.
EDIT: Yay its my 150th post! And still my rep is only “Notable”
please post a review where it beats a stock gtx260.
, now getting core 216 probably