MSI Goes All Out with HD 4870 Quad CrossFire System

Dyre Straits · August 23rd, 2008, 09:32 PM

"When it comes to graphics cards, the biggest buzz in today's market has to be around AMD's high-end HD 4870 Radeon card, which was unveiled quite some time ago. Not that it performs better than NVIDIA's GTX 280 (a job that was left for the recently released HD 4870 X2), but rather because of its significantly lower price tag, when compared with NVIDIA's 65nm flagship card. Furthermore, the card is all the more impressive when it comes to multi-GPU desktop systems, with two or three of these cards connected in a CrossFire setup."

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Zamoldac · August 23rd, 2008, 09:53 PM

That's sick! ( in a good kinda way

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Unixlord · August 23rd, 2008, 10:23 PM

Apart from the revoltec cpu HSF and the memory cooler which looks to be corsair I can't identify the rest of the specs. The motherboard ought to be X48.

Edit: OK the memory cooler is definitely Corsair Dominator module. Confirmed

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Dyre Straits · August 24th, 2008, 09:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unixlord

Apart from the revoltec cpu HSF and the memory cooler which looks to be corsair I can't identify the rest of the specs. The motherboard ought to be X48.

Edit: OK the memory cooler is definitely Corsair Dominator module. Confirmed

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Yes, definitely correct. I have one.

DOOMJESUS · August 25th, 2008, 03:08 AM

heh, looks fairly intimidating.

bet it can heat up a bedroom or small office nicely...

IModAmd · August 25th, 2008, 06:39 AM

Ya 4 cards for the performance of 2 .That's totaly an waste of cash rofl