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For those of you who been living under a rock, AMD released the Radeon HD 4870 a few weeks ago which for ~$300 had as good performance as a $649 GTX 280. Today they released the X2 version of that card which we those of us without CF boards can buy (and its cheaper too).

Those of us with CF boards can buy two of these for quad crossfire (a few reviews did this and the performance gain wasn't very good.. but it might be different for 3x1680x1050).

(Some reviews)
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/HD_4870_X2/1.html
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/9225-palit-radeon-hd-4870-x2-2gb-video-card-review.html
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1541/sapphire_radeon_hd_4870_x2_in_crossfirex/index.html
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=605&type=expert
http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=607

I am buying one of these asap (can't find any stores that are selling it yet). As you can see my current specs are 2x8800GTS 640MB, and from my research this X2 should be about 50-100% better than my current two cards (I have a Th2Go so I game at 3840x1024).

Anyone who has bought GTX 280 SLI recently, you guys should really bust out the RMAs and return them :).

Whoever buys the first 4870 X2 CrossfireX (quad cf), please post some benchmarks are 3x1680x1050.

Hi... here in Holland these cards (280 and 4870x2) are at the same price. And after reading some reviews i dont get really exited :S the performance of 4870x2 is the best (yet). Its because i has crossfire build in, not every game will support that.

I think for now (until the better drivers) it is wise to go for 2x 4870 for the same price as a 4870x2.

Just my 0.02$

not really. They aren't the same price here...it would be an extra $100 to get CF of 4870's.

Oh ok... thats to bad.

Here in the Netherlands the 4870x2 cost about 420/430 euro. And the 4870 cost about 195 euro.

I am wandering about 4850x2... the say it is conna be $100 cheaper then the 4870x2. Chips are the same but the memory is gonna be GDDR3 instead of GDDR5.

Yea it seems like overseas price ratios always change, so one persons best deal is different in another country. If it is in board crossfire, you are probably better off buying it if you dont have crossfire mobo as that is an additional charge.

Looking at some of the performance results, some of those are probably caused by new technology and drivers which havent perfected support as of yet.

Hi... here in Holland these cards (280 and 4870x2) are at the same price. And after reading some reviews i dont get really exited :S the performance of 4870x2 is the best (yet). Its because i has crossfire build in, not every game will support that.

I think for now (until the better drivers) it is wise to go for 2x 4870 for the same price as a 4870x2.

Just my 0.02$

Hmm, really? In US the 280 costs much cheaper than the 4870 X2. So it sounds like you would have a good deal by buying the 4870 X2, though looking at your specs you would only really need one 4870.

I allready bought an HD4870... just today...

to replace a 2900... Hmm...

Should be a good bump.

By the way, newegg has been restocking the Sapphire HD 4870 X2 a few times today, so if you checked it earlier and it was out-of-stock, chances are it may not be.

I got my copy myself from mwave.com since it was the only place that had it in stock in the early morning (and I'm surprised newegg restocked within the day? maybe they're just preordering at this point).

Wait, I thought ATI cards couldn't go past 3x1440x900?

Am I wrong? It would be nice if am, since this card looks pretty sweet.

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