Return two 4850's for a 4870?

I got two 4850's from FXVideocards, their return policy is unknown to me. Before I call them today I want to get some opinions from fellow gamers. I currently play AoC and thats it, crossfire and sli are "currently" not working/supported. I can run the game really well with a single 4850 but thats not the point, I bought 2 of them for a reason you know?

So should I wether the storm and wait for it, keeping hope, or just return them for a 4870 and have a single card sollution with better performance than the single 4850, and not have to worry about **** xfire comaptibilty issues.

I know the 4850 in crossfire performs better, but thats doing nothing for me right now like I said. Im playing age of conan atm and crossfire/sli arent working.

Yea, the $100 back is definetly a plus as well.

Yea im trying to make AoC my home for MMO's, which is why im upset over the crossfire issue.

You could say I jumped the gun on the cards, and its my own fault for not doing the proper research and seeing that xfire/sli are not working in the game right now.

3ball has the best answer, period.

You return both 4850's for a 4870 as long as you can get the full $100 difference and don't get jacked with like $40 or $50 in restocking fees. You take the one 4870 until you find a game that doesn't play as good as you'd like or are willing, then you get you another 4870. You xfire those b!tches and reclaim your throne as the Supreme Commander of Video Games, muahahahaha... Really, I'm serious...

You'll also have some shipping costs, I bet

Spathotan,maybe this will help you. I play LOTRO,which does not support Crossfire or SLI .You see the thing is,Crossfire does not function in a windowed mode.Lotro online has an option to play in full screen mode but in reality,the full screen is simulated and will not engage the second card.But there is a way around this. in the user.ini file there is a line that says Allowfakefullscreen=True. If you change this setting to Allowfakefullscreen=False and play the game you hear that wonderful sound of the second cards fan going and notice your FPS going from around 40fps avg. to around 80fps avg with in many instances going up to 180 fps.this all on ultra high settings at 1920x1200 res. bump the res down a notch or two and i've hit well over 300 fps. lol. It sounds as if the situation is the same in AoC. try and see if such a setting exists in the user.ini , and if it does you might consider giving this option a whirl. You would think that such an east fix would be supported by the games that we play ,but who knows the mind of a developer. If this type of fix will work for AoC then your 4850's will be overkill in the game. Your FPS will be awesome. Anywhoo, hope this helps and good luck to you.

are u actually having trouble playing AoC with ur 4850???? cuz if your not...then i dont see any point of returning em...

I hear mixed things about AoC sli/crossfire.Some say it works others say it doesn't,i'll be trying out crossfire for myself in Conan today.

Let me know your results here if you dont mind.

Good Luck with the xfire in AOC! Christopherr, Tell John I said "Sup?" haha

Damn, was hoping they be up in just 1.5 inches, that would have been awesome.

lol oh ok, gotcha

Think a 610 watt PCP&C Silencer would be adequate for xfire 4870s then?

Thanks for the feedback Ogdin. Well today I sold the 4850's, and snagged a VisionTek 4870 from FXVideoCards real quick like Their customer support is A+++

I sold the 4850's to a friend of mine for only $20 less than what I paid for them, so I made out with the 4870 and $40 in cash. I just got overly frustrated with the issues, I was getting no performance boost with AoC like you were Ogdin, and I had that annoying inventory bug while crossfire was enabled. Not to mention im on a P45 which runs at 8x/8x in Crossfire, your board runs at full 16x, so the 8/8 might be contributing to some crossfire issues.