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« on: January 06, 2009, 10:51:46 AM » |
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...is slow as hell.
I have 2 radeon 4850s to crossfire that have been "Out for delivery" since yesterday.
WHERE'S MY CARDS AT UPS? HUH?
I'm going to lose it soon.
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« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2009, 03:12:55 PM » |
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I know this feeling. The mail that comes to my university is delivered to a central mail center, somewhere on the second campus. It tends to cause packages to be anywhere from on-time to sometime-next-week.  |
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« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2009, 04:41:00 PM » |
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I too know the woes of late parcel delivery. I ordered a Razer Diamondback 3g mouse the other day, paid a bit extra for quicker delivery and it still hasn't arrived  |
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« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2009, 11:32:36 PM » |
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I've been having trouble with my mail since December! AUGH. I don't know why, it's not like im getting a bunch of weird packages. My insurance bill went MIA, i had to pay over the phone today, and my Blizzard Authenticators which i got for myself and my bf for xmas went MIA. had to call Blizzard a few times and finally got them the other day. -.-;;; And now im worried about the stuff i ordered online recently, i hope they arrive!!
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« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2009, 04:22:08 AM » |
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Got my 4850s last night around 6pm. Installed the Zalman coolers and running them now  |
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« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2009, 08:08:40 AM » |
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Nice  . I should look into doing crossfire with my 4850. Would be pretty sick  |
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« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2009, 10:33:34 AM » |
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4850 crossfire setups work so freaking well its rediculous, they work better then 4870 crossfire setups in some situations.
I remeber reading an article about it on anandtech or tomshardware. Ill see if i cant dig it up again
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« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2009, 09:55:27 AM » |
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Thought I read somewhere of issues with anyone running a crossfire setup (or even the newer ATI's in general) in WoW. How are yours running? I just finished a small upgrade of my PC (old motherboard was not very stable), but kept the same GeForce 8800GT since it was running good. 4850's are cheap these days!
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« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2009, 10:15:37 AM » |
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Crossfire and SLi don't help in wow really. Video card performance in general dosent mean much in wow as it's a very cpu/ram bound game.
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« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2009, 11:42:43 AM » |
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Oh trust me I know, I just remember reports of people running 4870x2's in their system and getting 20-40fps with all details maxed while their old cards (usually Nvidia 8 or 9 series) would pull down 100fps consistently. I'd like to get at least one 4850 since they are so cheap these days.
Going from a AMD X2 6000+ to an Intel Core2Duo was a huge upgrade in game for me, even not overclocked.
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« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2009, 01:27:51 PM » |
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Crossfire and SLi don't help in wow really. Video card performance in general dosent mean much in wow as it's a very cpu/ram bound game.
That's being said, did you get a FPS increase (for WoW) with your new cards? |
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« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2009, 02:45:14 PM » |
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Crossfire and SLi don't help in wow really. Video card performance in general dosent mean much in wow as it's a very cpu/ram bound game.
That's being said, did you get a FPS increase (for WoW) with your new cards? Yes, but only the fps increase going from a 3870 to a single 4850 would provide. The difference between the single 4850 and dual 4850 in wow is non-existant because iirc, it dosen't even support it, and if you force it then you lose fps. But performance in say, FarCry 2 is amazing. |
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« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2009, 09:23:26 AM » |
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Crossfire and SLi don't help in wow really. Video card performance in general dosent mean much in wow as it's a very cpu/ram bound game.
That's being said, did you get a FPS increase (for WoW) with your new cards? Yes, but only the fps increase going from a 3870 to a single 4850 would provide. The difference between the single 4850 and dual 4850 in wow is non-existant because iirc, it dosen't even support it, and if you force it then you lose fps. But performance in say, FarCry 2 is amazing. Good to hear, makes me feel better about going down this route. I'm especially looking forward to Diablo 3, tho that is quite a ways out still at this point. |
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« Reply #13 on: January 10, 2009, 06:13:18 PM » |
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Nev its seems like a few people here know about hardware, think we can start a sub section forum for it?
Personally I will be buying a new gaming rig in March and having a hardware forum of MMO players would be great.
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