4870 X2 CrossX vs 280 GTX tri-sli

http://www.driverheaven.net/review [...] 9&pageid=6

The 280 GTX seems to being shining it's crown

1200$(Nvidia) vs 1000$-1200$ (ATI)

at least 2x 4870X2 doesn't eat as much power, or take as many slots on your mobo. But if your looking for the best of the best, that shouldn't matter.

why dont you sell your current 4870X2 and 2x 9800GX2 and along with the mobo and get the 790i ultra with 3 GTX280?

its funny you looking at this when you just bought 2 new cards!!!=.="

lol yeah I'm never satisfied ...lol I chose a really good hobby to be ontop of...something that never ends, and costs alot!

naw I'm not ready for DDR3....if I'm going to go to DDR3, it will be when I build from the ground up.

I did it since SD ram.

If I wanted to switch to DDr, then I made a new system from the ground up, then DDR2 lol.

DDR3 I'm going to wait maybe till next summer...prices should be low by then

but its cheaper to run 790i compare to skulltrail.the motherboard is "cheap" enough let alone the extra Extreme CPU.

or you can sit back and enjoy your Quadi!

yeah thats all I need the idea of a third GX2, and a new power supply LMAO!

when I see 100% scaling in Video cards, thats when i'll be satisfied So for witht he GX2 Quad I'm geting anywhere from 10% (UT3, which is funny cuz its an Nvidia game) to 80% COD4, which loves Sli. Seriously my frames doubled!

i wonder when we have a monitor that display higher resolution then human eyes which i think it is 324megapixel. i wonder then how much processing power a graphics card have to display fluid framerate!

GTX990+GX2 SLI VS HD9990X2 CFX????LOL

lol I guess You didn't see my 280 GTS post LMAO

so it clearly shows that the 4870X2 CF limit have reached?and GTX280 Tri SLI still got more to give?no?

yeah but i guess those setup include the 4870X2+X48 is for rich rich people no?

yeah ultra performance is not everyone can afford.

this just means ATI and nVidia need to drop their prices even more! lol

The x2 will drop in price, the drivers were beta and whod do this?

I'm not entirely surprised by these results. I'd point out that there are hardly stock GTX 280s that are being used; they're not only XFX XXX cards, they appear to be core clocked 15 MHz above the actual XXX cards, 685 MHz to 670 MHz. (link, the card model's not available on NewEgg) At least nVidia could do something right, getting $1,410US worth of video cards, overclocked, to beat $1,100US worth of cards.

However, I'm curious, when I read, "I still feel the Skulltrail board has some minor issues with the ATI cards, something we noticed at launch with the last Radeon series," that if perhaps the benchmark results might be different had this been on a single-CPU board rather than on a Skulltrail. Perhaps some enterprising reviewers might fill us in on that area... I'm a tad disappointed that it appears that none have thus far.

With the extra 300$, you could buy a G260 and give that to the wife heheh