Sapphire HD 3870 X2 Review

age 3 - Test configuration

The test configuration was provided by our partners from Solytrade , with the idea that it will be serving for our soon to come NVIDIA 3-WAY SLI review.

Hardware:

• XFX 780i 3-way SLI Motherboard
• Intel QuadCore Q6600 @ 3GHz 9x333
• A-DATA DDR800 2x2GB @ 1066MHz 12-5-5-5
• 36GB Western Digital Raptor 10 000 RPM
• Corsair TX750W PSU

Software:

• Windows Vista Ultimate x86
• NVIDIA 169.25 x64 WHQL Drivers
• AMD Catalyst 8.2 WHQL Drivers

Videocards we tested:

Sapphire HD 3870 X2 1GB
825MHz/1800MHz - default

Sapphire HD 3870 512MB
Default Clock

XFX 8800Ultra 768MB
Default Clock

Albatron 8800GT 512MB
Default Clock

List of tests:

• Crysis DirectX 10 SP Demo
• World in Conflict DirectX 10 Demo
• Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
• Lost Planet – Extreme Condition DX10 Demo
• Unreal Tournament 3
• Call of Juarez DirectX 10 Benchmark
• 3DMark06

Let the testing begin now...