newtekie1
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Software | Windows 10 Pro x64 |
I'm not so sure on the thought that the 3870x2 will have one GPU running hotter than the other - based on the fact that one GPU has an aluminum based cooler, whereas the second uses copper - both should theorhetically stay very close to the same temp.
We'll have to defi see, though, as I don't think I've read that being touched upon in any reviews, yet.
Read the review on the 3870X2 here at TPU. One of the cores ran at 65°C under load, and the other ran at 80°C.
And wasn't it Alienware that first went with a dual card solution using nVidia GPUs(talking modern GPUs here). That is the first I ever remember hearing about multiple GPU setups, and nVidia soon released their SLI. I don't even remember crossfire being mentioned until after SLI was already on the market. In fact SLI was on the market in June of 2004 with the release of the and Crossfire wasn't on the market until September of 2005, more than a year later.
I think you have your time lines and who created what to compete with who confused. Crossfire was developed to compete with nVidia's SLI. And it only recently reached the level of performance improvement that SLI gives. ATI just finally got Crossfire working as solidly as SLI.
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