ooops....sorry forgot to add that the psu and mobo....Originally Posted by 'XtremeDream',index.php?page=Thread&postID=161990# post161990
PSU is 1200 watt multigpu supported and Intel® X-58 Motherboard- Socket 1366 Core i7 Ready, Dual Triple Channel DDR3 Memory
actions ive done so far....called amd ( there customer phone support seems non existent)
I emailed blizzard tech support.... I emailed about 10 other people, including multiple people from youtube who have these cards....... and visited other forums...and looked on google probably over 10 times
I would get a 10k drive for your OS and other software. The SSD is best used as read-only type device. This is just bang for the buck advice - not saying you can't, just that you'd be better served that way.
In that setup you have there i don't see there being much of a difference between the 4870x2 and the 280 (especially in xfire/sli) The only thing I can add I just did.
Thank you for your reply, and i "RESPECT" your opinion but I really don't need advice on what to spend my money on, and getting the bang out of my buck..No offense intended, I personally just want to mess around with these Solid state drives because of their speeds...and their write times or not too bad...thanks though..... Can you tell me however why do you think these card will be no different from sli? speculation? or hard facts? thanks
A 4870x2 is (more or less) just a pair of 4870s on the same card using Crossfire. Therefore the difference between it and a pair of 4870s in Crossfire is VERY minimal.
Thank you for the reply, I "RESPECT" you information, but I must ask.....How does this answer my question?
I am also aware that these cards are basically 2 4870s in one...... one card is 2 gb of gddr5...i am aware of this...but two of them is 4gb of Vmem............anyway.....thanks for the reply, but i am afraid it doesnt help....once again if i have offended you or anyone, it is NOT "intentional" - just saying it in advanced just incase someone gets emotional
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at this time there is no performance gain from 2 video cards in sli/xfire and 3 video cards in sli/xfire. so you will not see any performance increase in running 2x 4870x2 in xfire. unless you rendering a movie frames on your computer or working designing some extremely complex 3d cad models, I don't see any benefit from owning two of these outragous video cards. the programs that we use today are not optimized to use the set up you are talking about.
another problem you will have is sli/xfire only work for one 3d program at a time. so you will need to use 2heads2go to run both monitors in 3800x1200 mod to display all 5 instances.
It directly answers this question. Provided you know that Crossfire and SLI are trademarks referring to more or less the same technique.
Your posts are becoming a little confusing. I find that plain English tends to be the most effective. The caps and quotes and such might give people the wrong idea about your attitude towards them, making them less inclined to be helpful.
Tsu...I'm not sure that the Matrox adapter will accomplish that? You would still be running several clients at once, making it so you can't use multi-GPU mode (xfire/SLI). At least that's the way I understand it. It would however help if you wanted a single 3d app to span two monitors (or three using the triplehead adapter).
at this time when you run your video cards in sli or xfire mode only one output is used. e.g. your two video cards may have 4 dvi outputs but only one of them will work. this was a big limitation for people wishing to use multiply monitors, but is a sacrifice you make when linking the two cards. Now nvidea and ati have come out with a patch that allows you to use a second output to run 2d progams. so you can have a 3d game on one monitor and surf the internet on the other. But you cannot output two 3d programs to 2 different monitors. If you want to do that, that don't run the video cards in sli/xfire.
since sli/xfire only allows you to use 1 dvi port, what you do is add all your monitors resolutions together and have that as your screen resolution. e.g. 2x 24" monitors @ 1900x1200= 3800x1200 resolution coming from that one dvi port. than the 2heads2go splits that signal up to the two monitors.
But for the OP, i really don't see any performance benefit you will get between running 2x 4870's or 1x 4870x2, or 2x 4870x2's. there are no programs on your computer that need or will benefit from that much video card horsepower, there is nothing on your computer that is optimized to run with 4 gpu's. If you did have that kind of computing need you would not be posting here, you would already know the answer. My brother owns a digital studio and a has a render farm, he bought one computer setup from toyota america that they used to design their cars.(over 100k new) and has 2 computers with the equivalant of 8 quadcore's rendering one frame of film, takes several hours to process that one frame and it takes 24 frames for 1 second of film. takes a month to render a 30 second commercial. he multiboxes on a single computer with two 260's and 3 monitors. so if there was any performance to be gained from another video setup i'm sure he would use it.
So I can tell you without a doubt that if your intentions are to multibox with the system you described, with only 2 monitors, you will not need 2 4870x2. One is more than enough. Now if you want to use 3 monitors than you will need 2 video cards not in sli or xfire. wow is not a complex program, it is designed to run on a dial up connection, so the video is kept as simple as possible.
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