Do the crossfired cards have to be exactly the same or just similar to work?
Do the crossfired cards have to be exactly the same or just similar to work?
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/charts.html
4000 series should crossfire with 3000 series too, but aren't listed yet on that chart.
Any cable to connect them with one screeni have a motherboard that supports CrossfireX
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You connect the monitor cable to one of the cards just like how you'd do it normally.
Pros: fast accesstime, fast reading, silent, and cold.Originally Posted by Animeniax
Cons: Slow writing.
It isn't really worth it. I find it a bit expensive. Wait a year and you can buy one cheap
So perfect for OS boot (minimal writes), but don't use it for file storage or paging file. For the price it doesn't seem worth it right now. If they can drastically improve write times and get the price per GB down, it would be gold.Pros: fast accesstime, fast reading, silent, and cold.
Cons: Slow writing.
It isn't really worth it. I find it a bit expensive. Wait a year and you can buy one cheap
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
It'll be a long time before SSDs match the $/GB of magnetic hard drives.
The old fashioned hard drive is still constantly improving, with platter densities increasing every year. This of course has a huge influence on their performance as well, which can be seen in the new generation of 320GB platter drives. Products like the WD6400AAKS already have faster read/write speeds than the Raptor 150 despite being only a 7200RPM drive.
Yeah, but so is SSD also. 128GB is out now. SSD will be the new hdd for OS. I've never cared about the raptor disk. For 60$ I get like 5% more performance, and lose 550GB.
Animeniax: Yeah, very good for OS. In a year you can probably get 64GB for 200$.
It doesn't matter what you think about Raptor drives. I merely used them as an example to illustrate the development of hard drives in recent years, and price has nothing to do with that. The new 640GB (320GB platter) drives are able to achieve read/write speeds of over 90 MB/s and cost under $80.
For SSD, the problem was never about size. Size is easy to overcome since the drives are just arrays of NAND chips and to get bigger sizes, they just add in more chips.
The problem is price. All of the top performing SSDs are outrageously expensive. The $200 64GB SSD that you "might" be able to get next year will most likely not be a top performer. It will take years before SSDs become mainstream.
Last edited by Board of Command; Sat, 08-09-2008 at 08:15 PM.
so, my new system has been locking up periodically and last night finally got an idea why...
gpu temps were in the mid 90's... I had no idea WoW was that demanding
It's not. 3870 gets really hot because the heatsink sucks and the fan spins really slow.
Does that result in a hot and quiet card?
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Yeah it's definitely quiet.
i tried using ati tool to change the fan speed but it doesn't work w\ xp-64 and ati control center doesn't seem to have any sort of fan control options. i pulled one of the cards out night before last and it didn't restart once then or yesterday.
I haven't had a chance to look for a waterblock for the card but i think i might just leave my system w\ the single 3870.
Also : has everybody seen the new intel price drops and new processors?
It's the silent killer.
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
Silent - yes
Killer - not quite
As in the heat doesn't really kill the card, or the card isn't a "killer"?
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
I'd say it's both.
Here are some new benchmark results for my 4850's new overclock of 750/1100. It's pretty close to a real 4870. The GPU score in Vantage is only 2% lower than the real thing.
http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon...eview--asus/11
Last edited by Board of Command; Wed, 08-13-2008 at 11:29 PM.
rivatuner looks to be a solution to my 3870's heat problem... or rather its stupid fan problem.
the fan is a part of the heatsink to work... to draw off the heat. Rivatuner showed fans @ 25% when its 85, temps now at 45c w\ 59% load.
My shipment of parts came in today, which includes an Ultra-120 Extreme. I'm going to (hopefully) have fun overclocking an X6800 this weekend. 3.7 GHz without crazy voltage is the goal.
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