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Ok so when I built my system about 18 months ago, I shelled out the extra cash to get the MSI K9A2 Platinum.
I chose it because at the time, the 790FX-GD70 hadn't yet been released and it was slated to cost $100CAD more. Also, at the time, DDR2 RAM was only about $10CAD per GB, DDR3 was triple that price and the AM3 CPUs that were first released didn't even come close to matching the performance of the Phenom II X4 940. The K9A2 Platinum is a 790FX motherboard with 4 full-size PCI-Express slots, two of which are x16 and two of which are x8. For all of that time, I was in university and had no job so I was "stuck" (for lack of a better word) with a single XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB (reference design).
Now that newegg.ca is selling them for $133CAD minus a $30USD mail-in rebate, that puts them at around $105CAD each so I bit the bullet and bought three of them to fill all the slots in my rig. They have the newer non-reference design (which isn't as good as the reference design I think).
I'll trade one with my uncle whose rig I built with another reference 4870. He doesn't game like I do and I'm sure that the idea of a brand-new 4870 will appeal to him so I'll have 2 cards that spew hot air clear out of the case and two that don't. I saw that with DX9 and DX10 games, the Radeon HD 4870x2 is still a major powerhouse but I cannot find any reviews where the HD 4870 was reviewed in Quad-CrossfireX mode. I have no intention of overclocking these, after all, there are 4 of them and as good as my PSU is, I don't want to push it TOO hard.
If anyone out there has this setup or something similar on another 790FX motherboard, I'd love to hear what I'm in for.
If anyone's interested in getting one (or 2, or 3, or 4) of these at this spectacular price, just check newegg. As far as I'm concerned, a Radeon HD 4870 for $100 is by far the best price/performance vicard deal on the planet. Keep in mind that the HD 4870 still beats the HD 5770 in raw performance. The 5770 has DX11 (who cares, it's not powerful enough to handle DX11 tessellation) and EyeFinity (again, who cares?) but is a slightly slower card than ATi's famous market-changing card.
I chose it because at the time, the 790FX-GD70 hadn't yet been released and it was slated to cost $100CAD more. Also, at the time, DDR2 RAM was only about $10CAD per GB, DDR3 was triple that price and the AM3 CPUs that were first released didn't even come close to matching the performance of the Phenom II X4 940. The K9A2 Platinum is a 790FX motherboard with 4 full-size PCI-Express slots, two of which are x16 and two of which are x8. For all of that time, I was in university and had no job so I was "stuck" (for lack of a better word) with a single XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB (reference design).
Now that newegg.ca is selling them for $133CAD minus a $30USD mail-in rebate, that puts them at around $105CAD each so I bit the bullet and bought three of them to fill all the slots in my rig. They have the newer non-reference design (which isn't as good as the reference design I think).
I'll trade one with my uncle whose rig I built with another reference 4870. He doesn't game like I do and I'm sure that the idea of a brand-new 4870 will appeal to him so I'll have 2 cards that spew hot air clear out of the case and two that don't. I saw that with DX9 and DX10 games, the Radeon HD 4870x2 is still a major powerhouse but I cannot find any reviews where the HD 4870 was reviewed in Quad-CrossfireX mode. I have no intention of overclocking these, after all, there are 4 of them and as good as my PSU is, I don't want to push it TOO hard.
If anyone out there has this setup or something similar on another 790FX motherboard, I'd love to hear what I'm in for.
If anyone's interested in getting one (or 2, or 3, or 4) of these at this spectacular price, just check newegg. As far as I'm concerned, a Radeon HD 4870 for $100 is by far the best price/performance vicard deal on the planet. Keep in mind that the HD 4870 still beats the HD 5770 in raw performance. The 5770 has DX11 (who cares, it's not powerful enough to handle DX11 tessellation) and EyeFinity (again, who cares?) but is a slightly slower card than ATi's famous market-changing card.
esp on the GD70..... it'll kill nearly everything in it's path..... so you should really be looking at awesome gaming power and power consumption......
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