Thanks everyone; you've all been a great help. Karasill, I must say that your PC looks impressive, judging from those screenshots - I only looked at a few because I don't want to spoil the game :P I REALLY would go with 3870s in Crossfire (much cheaper + CF is stronger than SLI), but my mobo is SLI-based. So this brings me to another question... is 8800GTS 512 SLI more powerful than 3870 CF?
Listen lads, I'm going out for a bit and aint gonna be back until late, so if someone could provide some GPU benchmarks/videos of the snow/core levels, I'd be VERY grateful!!! I'm really getting desperate now; I want to know if I should get the 3870 or 8800 GTS 512!
The Ice levels for me ran great, The ice levels are more stressfull on a cpu than the gpu for some odd reason. Any of the 8800GT/GTS's run Crysis great depending on CPU.04dcarraher
What CPU do you have? I'm using an X2 4600 @ 2.8Ghz.
Those two levels were the best performing levels on my HD3870 Crossfire setup. I got anywhere between 40-60 fps at Very High settings in those levels. I keep hearing those levels were the worst performing levels, but I think in the case of ATI cards they actually do better then Nvidia cards (in just those two levels). I could be wrong though, but from my own experience my setup eats those levels for lunch.karasill
See, I think I heard something like this from you, or it may have been someone else. This is what's bugging me. To be honest, it might actually be better to have higher fps in the snow/core levels.. but I'm not entirely sure. Man. Decisions decisions. Get the 3870... or the 8800GTS 512...
I'm literally just about to order my 8800GTS 512, Corsair 520HX, Logitech X-210 speakers and RX1000 mouse. But then something hit me. I'm wondering which card holds out the best during the Icy/Core levels of Crysis. These levels are known to really put every system under strain, and I really want to know what GPU can withstand these levels best. Is it the 8800Ultra? Or do these levels actually take advantage of ATI's GPU architecture instead? So does the 3870 actually peform better? Remember, these are just my thoughts, and I'd really like to know which GPU takes the crown here. If somebody could actually prove PROOF I'd be very grateful. Cheers.
AMD said themselves during CES that the HD3870 X2 will be priced at $400-500.
Things in Europe or Australia are way overpriced. We got an 8800 GTX for $900-1000 (AUS), which would make it around $800 USD.
Wesker776
Oh god does that mean in the UK it's going to be OVER £300? But when you think about it, that would be ridiculous, because a single 3870 on ebuyer.com is £150, so if they make the 3870X2 over £300, then you had might aswell get two 3870s in Crossfire.
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