Greetings! Looking at purchasing all the goodies for a new build within the next couple days. Would Love to get the 4870x2, but not thinking i want to shell out THAT much ... After scouring the forums, several of the resident experts are recommending the 9800gx2 ... but some of the same experts have issued warnings of lack of driver support for x2 models ... so, being partial to single card solutions anyway, i'm kinda not liking that option.
Which leads me to my main question, since i seem to keep coming back to the 4870; of all the flavors, several have slight core clock OC's (780 - 800 vrs 750 stock) is that slight of an OC going to make a difference, and if i don't want to purchase a special separate gpu cooler setup, would i be able to achieve similar results just oc'ing it to that myself? (i know that will be influenced by my case and general cooling and other component selection, but in general...)
And secondly, i have not noticed any mention of Memory clocks. There are a HUGE variety of variations on this within the many 4870's out there; 900 mhz seems to be stock and it goes up from there to 1800 mhz, 3600 mhz, even 4000 mhz, ... and one listed @ 1100 mhz x2 ??? How big of a difference is this setting going to make? That seems like a LARGE gap in specs?
I got these from checking New Egg ... and i read several replies to a post about the 1 Gig versions of the 4870 ... which were anything but favorable it seemed ... but i must fall into the crowd of gullible people that will fall for that marketing ploy . i plan to game at a minimum of 1920 x 1200 and want eye candy MAXED, and memory seems like a huge factor in that (though, i recognize what one of you posted about being choked by the 256 bit, but i'm hoping the DDR5 will help with that).
Thanks in advance for your combined knowledge and input!
Which leads me to my main question, since i seem to keep coming back to the 4870; of all the flavors, several have slight core clock OC's (780 - 800 vrs 750 stock) is that slight of an OC going to make a difference, and if i don't want to purchase a special separate gpu cooler setup, would i be able to achieve similar results just oc'ing it to that myself? (i know that will be influenced by my case and general cooling and other component selection, but in general...)
And secondly, i have not noticed any mention of Memory clocks. There are a HUGE variety of variations on this within the many 4870's out there; 900 mhz seems to be stock and it goes up from there to 1800 mhz, 3600 mhz, even 4000 mhz, ... and one listed @ 1100 mhz x2 ??? How big of a difference is this setting going to make? That seems like a LARGE gap in specs?
I got these from checking New Egg ... and i read several replies to a post about the 1 Gig versions of the 4870 ... which were anything but favorable it seemed ... but i must fall into the crowd of gullible people that will fall for that marketing ploy . i plan to game at a minimum of 1920 x 1200 and want eye candy MAXED, and memory seems like a huge factor in that (though, i recognize what one of you posted about being choked by the 256 bit, but i'm hoping the DDR5 will help with that).
Thanks in advance for your combined knowledge and input!