I'm wondering whether or not I should get a single 4870 or two of them in Crossfire? I'd be willing to take two but I'm worried I'm still going to experience the non-scaling and micro-stuttering issues, why don't they go about fixing that already?
Is it even worth it to use Crossfire, does it scale better than SLI?

The rest of the system is gonna be:

MBO GIGABYTE GA-X48-DQ6, iX48 + ICH9R, DDR2, snd., S-ATA, PCI-E, Cross, G-Lan, s. 775
Intel® Core(TM) 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 1066MHz, 8MB LGA775 (QUAD CORE), BOX
RAM PC-8500, 4 GB, CORSAIR DOMINATOR XMS2, DDR2 1066 MHz, KIT 2x2 GB
HDD 1000.0 GB SAMSUNG SpinPoint F1, SATA, 32MB cache, 7200 okr./min, desktop
Super Tower, THERMALTAKE Armor LCS, VE2000BWS, ATX 2, black, no PS

I would say get one, cuz if you get two one of those could have been mine Then I'd have to get a 4850

Amount shipped over here's gonna be the same regardless how many I buy and unless you're buying in HGspot in Croatia, some other guy here is just gonna be lucky to grab the last one )

One is pleanty of power. Get the second one when prices drop a little.

Kinda hard to know when they haven't been released yet. Ask on the 22nd or 23rd..

750W gonna be enough to power the two ?

Well crossfire scales pretty well in most of the popular games...


They aren't released yet but from things ive seen... im pretty confident that they are guaranteed to beat out the GTX280. Should be by a lot if they scale well!


750watt should be fine, they wont run very hot or use much power


On the other hand of coarse a single one of these should beat even a 9800GTX so.. you may only need one unless you are playing at a higher resolution.

Im looking for one of these babies myself, or maybe i should wait for the X2...hmmm.....but only for 12x10

Get one, and if you feel like you need the second you can get it later.

There are good indications that this card is going to be a great card for price/performance. The 4850 looks like a great card in it's own right:
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/72 [...] -4850.html

I have a Gigabyte DS3L, with only one PCI-E x16 slot, I'm going to probably get a 4850 and later if its still going strong get a new board and another card, if that makes sense...maybe. What I really want is a 4850 x2, but I'm not sure if that'll happen. If so, do you think the card would be limited by the PCI-E 1.0? Is P45 PCI-E 2.0?

1680x1050 is mine so I guess that's kinda mid-res...