Chierin
02-15-2008, 11:33 AM
ATI is back in the game with their high end 3870X2 being the top performing video card on the market today. DirectX 10.1 offers new features that haven't made the jump to the NVIDIA side of things. The decreased power draw of the 3870x2 card meant that putting two chips on one board allowed the same power to be used versus the old generation 2900XT and was a major negative of ATI's last generation high-end. Today that has changed with the 3xxx series all on the 55 nanometer die process and power consumption levels back to normal. The advent of the HD3870X2 makes quad Crossfire a possibility with only two video cards.
Read Article Here (http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/hardware/1749_1.html)
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Read Article Here (http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/hardware/1749_1.html)
ATI (http://www.amd.com/us-en/)