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ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 Launch On January 23rd, Costs US$449
According to TG Daily, AMD will be releasing its dual-processor R680 graphics card one week early. The NDA on all the technical specs was due to lift on January 28th, but apparantly ATI/AMD have decided to step on the pedal and deliver the card on January 23rd. The upcoming R680 contains two graphics processors on a single board and will eventually allow four processor CrossFire mode on select motherboards. Pictures of the card as well as some early benchmarks can be found on our front page. Also note that the story is yet to be confirmed from anyone at AMD/ATI.
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"US $449"...sweet. Costs less than two HD3870 units....all I wanted to know.
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I wonder what the UK price will be?!
Currently a single 3870 ranges from £130 - £170 depending where you get it from / what model.
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Awesome, I cant wait till the egg has them on stock
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soo far soo good... but what game engine will use that?
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I will wait til price drops some,need to trade up on my 8800 gts/320 m.b.after the rest of new system is built.
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^Any game. The PLX lane-arbiter creates hardware abstraction. The OS sees the two-GPU card as one single card.
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It'll be well over £200 in (rip off) britain.
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Britain needs some serious trade-reforms and fast.
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We get taxed on everything,We have to pay £130 a year for a tv license.With our currency price so high you'd think things would be cheaper here,but with the high taxes on everything,we lose the benefit of the high currency price.
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We are currently 1.95x ish to the dollar and 1.32x ish to the Euro. These are much lower than the 2.10+ to $ and 1.45+ to € we have seen previously. So even the currency exchange is against us!
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![]() I hope,its not too expensive tho' I think it would be a worthy buy.
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Even if it was slightly more expensive than say 2 HD3870 I would say its possibly worth it (as long as the performance matches its price) as you don't need a CF motherboard to use it.
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How much longer until review sites get benchmarks up? I've already canceled my previous order since I had to change parts, I wouldn't want to wait again. Then when I buy that card and realize the card is not all that great.
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According to the op post the NDA is lifted on the 23rd so I assume the 23/24 is when we weill start to see benchmarks.
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Low cost quad-fire setup anyone?
and if the comp see's them as one card for 2 cores then probably the current crossfire drivers should be enough to make 'em work in crossfire.
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^That is IF they support the card in the first place.
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Heck it will be way too overpriced when it comes here something like 25-30 thousand Rs.
and I thought there was a crossfire connector?
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![]() But, anyway, the HD 3870 X2 sounds like it's going to kick ass. I thought ATI was going to get rid of suffixes for their card names though -- why isn't this just called the "HD 3880" or something?
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No, we don't get "free" healthcare. We pay income tax AND something called National Insurance, which goes to the NHS and our benefit (welfare) systems.
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Like I said... "I would gladly pay your tax rates if it meant I didn't have to be scared all the time of having to go to an emergency room..."
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The name should have been the 3872... or something like that.
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Seriously -- I was really digging the numbers-only thing. Higher number = faster card. I like that.
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