[Witchdoctor]

I would think both .single CF and Tri fire

Nice ...... I have one hoping for some CF action in the future

That would be 4 in total? didn't review one in the hole ???

[Chicken Patty]

Should be nice to see how they scale single, C/F, and Trifire

does your board have 4 PCI-E slots?

[lakeside2189]

Originally Posted by DrNip

Boy you don't discriminate. Every card is of a different manufacturer!!! HAHA.

Well, I purchased the HIS..The rest were sent...Kind of a take this and try it thing....

I am so busy at work that I haven't taken the 5870 out yet...Got some time off this weekend.....maybe???

[Splave]

awesome! enjoy them, once you hit 1000/1300 it takes quite some cpu horsepower
I have 2x VaporX sapphires and have 2 more 5870s comming monday on the 4way board

[karmakazi]

messed around a little today... this is a weak fan on my TRUE. Maybe later tonight I hook up my dryer tube to the outside air w/ a 220CFM delta (its about -5°C here right now).

[Neuromancer]

Cold air REALLY Helps.. get them VDDC temps down and crank those volts up

Ugh looks like 0 scaling in AM3 :(


Interesting to see very little CPU bottlenecking to with tri fire. 2% gain with a ~8% CPU increase? Sweet

I was posting over at OCF about people incorrectly using hte teerm CPU bottleneck. glad to see I was right

(looking at 295 reviews, I am starting to think that like Intel IGPs nVidia SLI is very CPU limited, more so than the performance would suggest)

[karmakazi]

Yeah the cold air is for the processor though. I need to run the full gamut of benches. prolly do that tomorrow. Im happy with the 950 so far. its clocking decent on the 24x multi which is surprising...

aquamark3 has never scaled with multiple cards (usually just a VERY small gain over single card).

also vantage is almost never cpu bottlenecked, it has nothing to do with 1 2 or 4 cards really. cpu plays a small part in that bench

[lakeside2189]

Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

you going to run them in tri fire, or seperately? I'm hoping you are running them in tri fire

You can only run 2 of the 5970's which would be quadfire since there is 2 GPU's per card....I saw somewhere a guy was saying he was running 3 5970's but i don't believe that is possible...They don't have the bridge hook up's for that....I could be wrong????

[Chicken Patty]

Originally Posted by lakeside2189

You can only run 2 of the 5970's which would be quadfire since there is 2 GPU's per card....I saw somewhere a guy was saying he was running 3 5970's but i don't believe that is possible...They don't have the bridge hook up's for that....I could be wrong????

Didn't you get 5870's though?

[lakeside2189]

No, I had the 5870's but just got the 5970's.....I can see how this would be confusing...sorry...I added my package that i received today with K's....my fault...