I own two systems and my older system's x1950xtx was showing it's age and I use my 4870X2 system for playing top games only like Crysis and GTA4 so that it doesn't become clogged up with registry and that. I then use my older system for playing all the odd games like The Witcher or COD WaW, generally games that I'll play for 5 mins and throw away. I decided to upgrade it to a mid ranged and I've stuck with ATI since the 9800pro and never had a single problem with them.. apart from when I died in Counter Strike once and threw my monitor at my old PC and it broke my x800 back in the day lol.
Anyways I've just come to post on how great the card is for a midranged budget card. I tested it with two games that I have installed already on this machine... Left 4 Dead and Unreal tournament 3 and a single £70 card ran them like a dream. Each card has 1GB of memory making for a total of 2GB when Crossfired up which is even enough to max out GTA4, in theory but I havn't tried it.
With a Single card with Left 4 Dead maxed out running in 1440 x 900 I was getting 85-90FPS and with two of them which only cost me £140 I was getting over 150FPS.
With a single card in Unreal tournament 3 on 1440 x 900 maxed out I was getting 76FPS and with two 95FPS and both of them were steady always over 60FPS.
Great cards if you only have £70 to spare and I was getting more performance outta a single card than I thought I would, that I'm going to take my second one out and give it to my friend.
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