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    4870X2 for gaming is useless

    Hi all,

    Been with my 4870 X2 (this isnt a hardwar thread)

    fior a while now and it keeps micro stuttering..

    This is on WOW / Lotr online / mirrors edge / crysis runs absolutely poorly..

    Is it the games that are crap or is it the 4870 X2 coz it is appauling to think the GTX 260 is pwning my card.. :S

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    Re: 4870X2 for gaming is useless

    you got the latest drivers for the 4870x2?

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    Re: 4870X2 for gaming is useless

    check you have the most up-to-date chipset drivers.
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    Re: 4870X2 for gaming is useless

    Thats odd mine is fine.

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    Re: 4870X2 for gaming is useless

    rest of the system?

    can a mod move this to hardware plzzz

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    Re: 4870X2 for gaming is useless

    Graphic Settings? Don't expect miracles from anything

    And also knowing the rest of your system would help. Trying to play Crysis with 1GB memory would be suicidal.. for instance.
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    Re: 4870X2 for gaming is useless

    While I'm a bit of an NVidia fanboy, I know the 4870x2 is a brilliant piece of kit. I would think its a different part of your system that isnt up to the job.

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    Re: 4870X2 for gaming is useless

    I have 8.12...

    Its the same old same old..

    Actually, i just bought the samsung spinpoint F1 to see if it was the hardrive lagging it but no.. its the 4870.

    I think im just gnna go ahead and forget about ATI from now.. All i need to do is sell the X2..

    Its so typical.

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    Re: 4870X2 for gaming is useless

    If you are running 32bit Vista then you will only have 2Gb of your 4Gb memory available for a start (as your 2Gb 4870X2 is grabbing the other 2Gb of addressable memory.
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    Re: 4870X2 for gaming is useless

    And a slooooow cpu speed as well, 4GHz and more makes it fly.

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    Re: 4870X2 for gaming is useless

    i think the driver version is old too. Dont just sell it because its not working right away thats silly! Deffo get the 64bit step up for a start!

    What power supply do you have?

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    Re: 4870X2 for gaming is useless

    The driver version is 8.12.. which ish the newest driver.

    My computer is clocked at 3.8ghz on my Q6600 (after i tried 3.2), its a crap card.

    I put it in my friends I7 core computer.. He was getting through the roof benchmarks but the stuttering was appauling.. thus proving this card has some mega issues..

    Either the latest ati drivers are absiolute bull crack or im missing something obvioua here..

    I went ahead and bought the GTX295.. it comes tomorrow..

    Keeping in mind the absolute massive difference betweeen my fps on mirrors edge with ati HD 4870 x2 and the GTX260... id say im going to be much happier.
    Last edited by jimmyt1988; 27-01-2009 at 02:48 PM. Reason: correcting somethign i said

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    Re: 4870X2 for gaming is useless

    Might be that the card is faultly, but I think its more likely that you usage of a 32 bit OS is hampering the true ability of the card.

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    Re: 4870X2 for gaming is useless

    yep, you may encounter similar problems with the Nvidia as that will eat up 1.8GB of your system ram also.

    You say your CPU is clocked at 3.8, thats pretty high for a Q6600 are you entirely sure its stable? Did you try running it on stock?

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    Re: 4870X2 for gaming is useless

    No micro-stuttering here and the 4870x2 was the first card that all the dual-GPU people stated was free of micro-stuttering.

    Some people also mistake micro-stuttering for having the settings too high for their system......I've seen a number of threads about micro-stuttering with a GTX260 or GTX280

    WoW also has a "15 second" stutter bug that you can read about here
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    Re: 4870X2 for gaming is useless

    Quote Originally Posted by jimmyt1988 View Post
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    That'll be the problem...

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