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I've been dying to get a new video card and on multiple occasions put the HD 4870 in my shopping cart, but never pulled the trigger. The 4870X2 should be out in September sometime, so I just need to stay patient. $275 for the 4870 and the 4870X2's should start at $399. Interesting to see how well the X2 multiboxes with 2GB total GDDR5.
Im also waiting on this card :< Im gonna go for the 2gig version as long as its within my price range (~$500).
I don't think I understand how people pay $400 for just one video card when you can get another computer for $500 and it should make things go way faster (by putting an alt on it instead of on the main computer). Why not farm out an alt instead of trying to make one computer go so much faster?
I dont want the extra heat, or the extra space used up - Id also rather put all my eggs in one basket so i can play future games better. Besides, the video card is the only bad thing in my computer and then im totally 100% happy :P
I have one 4870 and I love it. It's more then enough for my computer. There was an update a couple of days ago which made the card run cooler and it no longers freaks out in shatt.
Buying another computer is wasteful to some.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'ElectronDF',index.php?page=Thread&postID=95475#po st95475
a 400.00 dollar video card is much better then a 500.00 as that computer comes with a crappy video card, crappy memory, slow cpu and slow motherboard, not to mention upgrading is probably out of the question.
My one computer is smoking hot. I just upgraded everything and I am set for years. Can't do that with a 500.00 computer that you will throw out by the end of the year.
just came back from the store with all my new upgrade items.
Askt if it's interesting to wait for the new 4870x2, as I bought the normal edition now.
He said it wouldent make much of a difference, perhaps he mend for playing wow.
But with my new setup now, it would be a piece of cake multiboxing 5 toons on one pc.
I thought I read something about it being released in mid-early August. Like the 11th or something. I'm holding out for one as well.
I also play other graphically intensive games, so that's the reason for wanting a new video card as opposed to another computer. Besides, wife won't let me build anymore computers as the electric bill is skyrocketing...
Do you guys expect to see any performance increase running WoW on a 4870 vs 4870x2 with CrossFire? As I understand it, WoW does not take advantage of multiple GPU systems and actually tends to run slower with anything but a single card. Is that your experience as well?
I just bought a GTX 280 and was a bit disappointed in the lack of marked increase. I can run at 1920x1200, 16xQ AA, 16x AF, and SS Transparency AA at 60FPS indoors, but anywhere there are a lot of trees, the SSAA and high AA really kill the framerate. I am also in the WotLK Beta and the framerates in the Expansion run remarkably lower than in BC. I'm hoping they're going to tune it, but as it stands now, I can't play WoW in WotLK with SSAA enabled no matter how much I reduce the drawing level in areas like forests. I was really hoping performance was high enough on such an old engine that it could run a single instance of WoW at maximum settings. I'm thinking about buying a 4870 and trying it out as well to see what kind of frame rate I get with it at max settings. I haven't played WoW with an ATI card before and none of the recent benchmarks on any of the new cards include WoW. Have any of you tested WoW with a GTX 280 vs 4870 at high resolution and maxed out settings?
My reason for wanting a 4870x2 has more to do with a 30" monitor and other games than my 5-boxing.