Working AMD Phenom/RD790 System with Quad Crossfire Radeon HD 3850 Pictured

[trt740]

One word: Sick!

And I was foolish enough to think that SLI/Crossfire was the peak of idiocrazy in 3D card world, but now this!

one word stupid thats flat out dumb. thats like driving a jumbo jet to work

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I agree,dumb.Why would anybody need 4 cards? Its for rich gits with nowt better to do than brag how much their machines cost.

 

[DaMulta]

I want to play with 4 cards

It's not like they are tying up 4 800 dollar cards(All tho that would be cool), It will cost as much as a grand to do it, but the performance and IQ could be very big in a setup like this.

I want to try it out.


Would you all be bitching if after they do these quad cf/tri Sli is the frame rate in games like Cryis become fantastic when running very high settings?

You pay to play in the PC market and everyone knows it.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Yes,you pay to play in the pc market,again and again etc etc.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

one word stupid thats flat out dumb. thats like driving a jumbo jet to work

now that would be dumb, but Ive worked in the city where a guy use to fly a Microlite to & from work. (I worked in a bank with all the traders & other snotty c*nts) he was lucky the side road where he would take off & land from as well as wheeling the damn thing into the carpark & getting it on the lift (yeah we had a cool elevator built espcially for cars!!!) Ive never seen anything like it in my life but hey, them traders have to find something to do with their multimillion cash deals they make.

most people took the train & commuted to work - this guy flew a microlite

 

[L|NK|N]

Hmm, that setup would keep my house nice and warm in the winter.

 

[ktr]

Its like the dell renegade for the masses!

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Hmm, that setup would keep my house nice and warm in the winter.

you know I was just looking at the coolers in the pic & thought the same thing the DHES cooling system lol like they say in mother russia the camels ride you but here in the UK bannana trees grow in the winter

 

[mysticjon]

thats brutal!! damn...hope they can reveal more details, but a picture can have thousands or words or w/e that saying is

 

[a111087]

The heatsink on the CPU looks interesting...

nothing interesting, same came with high end X2's and it cools very well
I think you could buy it on eBay even right now for ~$20

 

[WarEagleAU]

Jason wants this setup ::drool:: I mean, how could you not love this?

 

[xmountainxlionx]

what kind of motherboard can you get with 4x PCIe?

 

[Risuun]

I agree,dumb.Why would anybody need 4 cards? Its for rich gits with nowt better to do than brag how much their machines cost.

Now, I remember reading the explaination for why anyone would want that many cards in their system. It's a pretty simple explaination and it all has to do with LCD monitors and their native resolution. I you have an LCD and you put it to any other resolution than the native one, it looks like absolute crap! If you have a nice 24"+ LCD with a resolution like 2560x1600 then you don't have the luxury of cranking down the resolution to run games. Not only does the lower resolution make the game less detailed, the LCD's up-conversion back to native resolution makes it unbearable. This wasn't a problem in the past since CRT's were the only option (I still haven't switched over to LCD yet) and they scale between resolutions very well!

 

[jasonrsolanes]

OKAY, I just found this forum, and sorry if this has been answered already, but where did you get the third connector for the graphics cards? I know that the MSI board only comes with 2

I ask because I'm going to be getting the same board, with a phenom processor, 4 gigs ram, 4 3870 Sapphire graphics cards and everything... but my big concern is where'd the third connector come from?

 

[Lazzer408]

I agree,dumb.Why would anybody need 4 cards? Its for rich gits with nowt better to do than brag how much their machines cost.

You figured it out too? I don't want 500fps in Crysis. I wan't 60+fps that doesn't cost my first born and left nut.

 

[jasonrsolanes]

You figured it out too? I don't want 500fps in Crysis. I wan't 60+fps that doesn't cost my first born and left nut.

Well, I don't know anybody else's motives, but for me it's futureproofing... if I do this, I know I'm not going to have to upgrade for a long while

hell I survived up until just a few weeks ago with a 2800+ and an X800AIW XT from 2005


if I buy this, I'm hoping for it to last a while and keep up for a while

 

[Lazzer408]

I'm sure "they" have it all figured out as to how long a products "lifespan" is and whether you buy 3 computers over the next 3 years or 1 computer to last 3 years it's the same cost to you.

 

[jasonrsolanes]

I'm sure "they" have it all figured out as to how long a products "lifespan" is and whether you buy 3 computers over the next 3 years or 1 computer to last 3 years it's the same cost to you.

Point taken, I understand what you mean. However, there's just something so tantalizing about 4 graphics cards and being able to play games extremely smoothly, no lag.

Anyways, this may sound like a newbie question, but how would a quad crossfire even plug into one monitor? I know that a dual crossfire has the thing that plugs into both graphics cards, and connects it to one monitor, but I haven't seen anything for the quad yet. Or do they all send the signal to one of the cards to be sent to the monitor?

 

[Lazzer408]

Anyways, this may sound like a newbie question, but how would a quad crossfire even plug into one monitor? I know that a dual crossfire has the thing that plugs into both graphics cards, and connects it to one monitor

Only on the older ones. The newer ones do it thru the internal bridge that connects at the top of the card. You can see it in the pictures.

 

[erocker]

I don't think this is the worst idea. It would be nicer though, if when you add a card you also add it's memory with it. If I already own a crossfire board with 4 pci-e x8 or x16 or whatever, this is a great way to upgrade in the graphics department. You can find 3850's for $150 bucks if not cheaper, that is an inexpensive upgrade. Anyone with the right system and a job delivering pizzas or washing dishes can afford quad-crossfire. Just not all in one bunch. And all without having to use a credit card to have to make payments on.

 

[das müffin mann]

dude i think i just had an orgasm, that is wicked

 

[Lazzer408]

To promote crossfire ATI should offer a 50% discount on the second card.