I think it's more dependent on what the chipmakers want to do. We're at their mercy

But I'm mostly just looking at the progress made compared to the last-gen midrange. Same process, big progress.

huh nice review from hexus
4670CF can pwn 4850 with a cheaper price + lower power + some noise
juz CF mobo the matter

I don't know this question looks silly or not, but I'm curious.
3850 256mb and 4670...which is better?

But I think is 4670. Just wanna ask.

Pretty sure the 4670 would win. The 4670 beats the 3850 512MB, so 256 would most likely get slaughtered.

Cause got a seller offer 3850 256mb with Rm200 only. So tempting. But I think I'll stick to 4670 since only Rm100 difference.

but u have to consider that certain games such as crysis and oblivion sucks at CF scaling, which means that in certain level of the the performance of CF is a lower than single card.
so the conclusion is single 4850 is better than 4670 CF coz it'll give u consistent performance in all games

Yep yep. Dual GPU solutions are not the greatest yet. All too often it depends on the driver rather than the actual power of the cards.

at least they still do scale. some games little to no boost in framerates with CF.

yup but sometimes the performance of CF is lower than single card, i experienced it when i played crysis and oblivion, where when i checked the gpu usage and it showed 30% for each cards

depend on pricing
its good for ppl that wan a 4670 upgrade
i think its still "worth" to CF 4670

This post has been edited by Irishcoffee: Sep 13 2008, 01:16 AM

when i play Crysis with 3870x2, it was fast. a lot faster than 9800GTX, so I'm assuming it does CF well enough.

unlike some games, the 3870x2 felt like the 9600GT, such as Frontlines : FOW.

Couldnt agree anymore, That 4670 chip with a better memory speed do have a lot of potential. I am not surprise someone out there later on will put a better memory speed to get extra punch out of it.

AMD still manage to run this almost 80-90% of 3870 even with 128bit memory. That is something very good.

now we can see 3870 sell below rm300 in garage sale..

this card beat 8800GTS G80 320MB?

let's not forget this would be like a 2600XT crossfire - no need power cable! but got power performance.

I'm using cm 430w extreme and w/o pci-e power connector! so this little baby will be my aim wonder my p/s can run this little baby or not

wow..what a great value card...

what a waste me buying 96GSO

every card buyer will face depreciation with the cards they bought.

talk about depreciation.............

last time i bought my 3870 DDR4 @ RM 900.
8 months later, recently just sold for RM 350.

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Added on September 13, 2008, 1:26 pm2600XT crossfire scale terribly.

This post has been edited by tech3910: Sep 13 2008, 01:26 PM

wel not with 4670, this seems to be a good pair of card for the DFI Lanparty Micro CF p45....