Crysis and HD 3850s in Crossfire

[PlayerZen14]

I'm going to build a new system for my friend, and apparently, 3850s in Crossfire is absolute overkill. It kills the 8800GT in SLI, in terms of 3dmark06, but i heard that there's a problem with running Crysis, and that a single 3850 is better than 2! Is this true? Will Crysis still play well?
I heard it's a driver issue, so i wonder if ATI is going to release a driver update to fix this problem. Hopefully.

[zer0]

3dmark2k6 is not a game.

[PlayerZen14]

i know...but is there gonna be problems with crysis? cause crysis is more or less the only reason my friend wants the upgrade from his crappy pentium 4 system.

[Feyy]

why not HD 3870?

[Dazz]

It should be fine although ATi have not brought out any drivers for Crysis optimisation yet while nVidia has. From what is going about on the fourms they are hard at work and so is nVidia and the Cyrtek team for improving performance on current rigs.

[mythy]

8800GT in sli trashes AMD's offerings including the 70's only in 3dmark does that change and that is meaningless! :p


and no they wont run crysis well at all

[Blacklash]

Crossfire in "Crysis" with HD 3850s and HD 3870s-

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/605/8/

[XMAN52373]

Crossfire in "Crysis" with HD 3850s and HD 3870s-

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/605/8/

Shame they dont include any SLI numbers for a cgood comparison.

[mythy]

no whats a shame is the ****ty ress they ran it and and sub standard graphics settings :(

[Sobbsy]

It should be fine although ATi have not brought out any drivers for Crysis optimisation yet while nVidia has. From what is going about on the fourms they are hard at work and so is nVidia and the Cyrtek team for improving performance on current rigs.

What about the Crysis hotfix drivers that add support for Crossfire and numerous other Crysis-related fixes?

[PlayerZen14]

3850s in crossfire seem pretty appealing to me already from what ive seen from that 'legitreviews.com'. I could go 8800gt in sli, or 3870 in crossfire, but my friend wants other nice hardware too, considering his budget is about $1500.

I wouldnt consider the 3870s in crossfire because you pay so much more, but the performance boost isnt that significant. I'm considering 8800gt in sli but crossfire scaling is better than sli scaling, and the 8800gt's are a bit on the expensive side...:(

Anyway, i'm gonna go with the 3850s. if you think im making a big mistake, tell me now!

[Labyrinth]

You are making a big mistake!

Consider yourself told!

[zer0]

You are making a big mistake!

Consider yourself told!

+1

@PlayerZen14

after 2-3 months you'll feel sorry for yourself.

[mythy]

I been telling you its a mistake

[Blacklash]

If you decide to do HD 3850s there's the low end in price, 169usd, comes @ 690 on the core-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127313

and there's 512MB versions-

199usd-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102715

209usd with 2 slot cooler and comes @ 700MHz-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814241068

The bad thing about the 512MB 3850s is, like the 256MBs, they may only make HD 3870 stock speeds overclocking. The 3870s are picked for speed and will likely do 850 or more. The 3850s probably 735-770.

The regular 3850 seems to do well in "Oblivion" even @ 1920x with 0-4x AA-

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/693-9/dossier-amd-radeon-hd-3800.html

[bacon12]

You are making a big mistake!

Consider yourself told!


+2

[hell_of_doom227]

Even with Quad 8800 Ultra, Crysis would still suck because it doesn't take advantage of the available hardware or better say looks nice but crappy coded.

Even the next generation of video cards wont run this game at full speed...and eventually over the years the raw power of hardware will ovecome a bad coded game....it's natural

[grimreefer]

3850 crossfire is slow lol. they barely are faster than current gen cards.
get a single 512mb 3850, its slow, but its the best deal u can find now, which is important considering next gen is gonna come and bitch slap everything out now

[PlayerZen14]

okay, well, i suppose all of you recommend the 8800gt? I could go 8800gt sli but it'd be a tad expensive.

[mythy]

wtf is with you and needing 2 cards? :(

[zer0]

wtf is with you and needing 2 cards? :(

yeah!

:headexplode:

[PlayerZen14]

lol, cause the performance in better :D
i seriously dont know what to do now. my friend wants to play crysis at high possibly at dx10 (prolly at dx9) at over 40fps.
dont know why, but im sure i can achieve that with $1500. Of course, if i was just buying a single card, id go with the 8800gt, but some people say crossfire scaling is better, some people say sli scaling is better.:(

[zer0]

possible BIG MISTAKE (bigman proportions)

2 weak cards > 1 powerful card = not gonna happen

[PlayerZen14]

Dude! I havent made a mistake, im havent gotten it yet! I just want to know whether crossfire scales better or whether sli scales better!

[mythy]

SLI scales better but its ****ing useless right now and a stupid buy with new high end cards coming