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We suspect you wouldn't want to go any lower than 450 watts or so for a single 3870 X2, especially if you paired it with a quad-core CPU. AMD makes no official power supply recommendation for a single 3870 X2, although its Web site does suggest at least a 550-watt power supply for two standalone Radeon HD 3870 cards. The card also has a separate eight-pin connector, which you'll need to use if you intend to overclock it. You'll need a typical six-pin power connection to your PC's power supply. Installing the Radeon HD 3870 X2 doesn't require anything beyond a power connection, a PCI Express graphics slot, and room for a double-wide 3D card. You can also use the Radeon HD 3870 X2 to power two displays, including two 30-inch LCDs, each at 2,560x1,600.
#AMD RADEON HD 3870 X2 DRIVER FULL#
It has full HDCP-compatibility, so you can use it in systems that have a protected Blu-ray or HD DVD optical drive. Otherwise, the Radeon HD 3870 X2 comes with most of the common features we expect from 3D cards these days. Adding DirectX 10.1 support is harmless, and we always welcome future-proofing, but it won't show its value until likely 2009. But by that time both ATI and Nvidia will likely have released newer cards in this price range. Having that capability now only ensures that some day when DirectX 10.1 games arrive, this card will technically support those features. DirectX 10.1 (which adds only a few graphical tweaks beyond vanilla DX10) is even farther away. No games use DirectX 10 yet to full effect. Do not buy this card for that reason alone. Like its other 3000-series 3D cards, AMD also touts the 3870 X2's DirectX 10.1 support.
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Like DirectX 10, PCI E 2.0 is a forward-looking feature, but especially if you pair up two X2 cards in a CrossfireX configuration (ATI's 3 three and four-3D chip technology, available as soon as driver and motherboard support allows), all that 3D processing capability may very well need a fatter data pipe to feed it enough information. You can still use the Radeon HD 3870 X2 in current generation PCI Express 1.0 slots, but with added PCI E 2.0 capability, this will open the card up for forthcoming motherboards with these next-gen slots and their wider data bandwidth.
Probably the most important is its PCI Express 2.0 support. On top of performance, the Radeon HD 3870 X2 brings with it a few advanced features, some that matter, some that don't. The solution for now is to dial down the image quality and the resolution, at which point you should be able to achieve a more playable frame rate.
We suspect game developers will continue to add DirectX 10 features to their games slowly, so while the DirectX 10 performance outlook games remains elusive, as Crysis shows, DirectX 9 can still challenge even brand new 3D hardware. What's interesting is that even though Crysis is often held up as the poster child for DirectX 10 gaming, DirectX 10 itself does not appear to be the chief factor in why this game is so challenging for current hardware.
#AMD RADEON HD 3870 X2 DRIVER WINDOWS#
Unfortunately, that's not enough to push it into the promised land of 60 frames per second in either DirectX 9 and Windows XP or in Windows Vista and Direct X 10 with an updated driver. It's faster than the GeForce 8800 GTX and a single Radeon HD 3870, so the 3870 X2 does in fact benefit from its two chips in Crysis. As the scores for the Radeon HD 3870 X2 show, it appears that even two chips can't get the job done. It has DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 modes, and no single graphics card has been able to deliver acceptable frame rates in it at high settings.
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Crysis, of course, is the big daddy of current PC games.
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