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Shame that it's 2 3870 X2's (4 GPU's total) supported and not 4. haha 8 GPU's would be sweet to have even if the PSU requirement would be absurd.
Unfortunately I am guessing it will have the same price tag as the 8 series as well
The 3850 comes in around $170 and the 3870 comes in around $219 MSRP for both cards. On top of that the X2 has been talked about to carry a suggested $350 pricetag with it.
As such you're getting a lot of bang out of the card without breaking the bank. At the moment I'd say that we're a bit off from seeing a non-RV chipset at the helm for the 3xxx series. The only bright side to this so far is that instead of making the same mistakes with the HD2400 and 2600 is that this round the value chips are based on the high end part in a die shrunk form. (HD3850 and 3870 are based on the 2900XT minus 512bit ring bus)
The smart PC gamer will patiently await Nvidia's quarter 1, 2008 release of a new GPU architecture to replace the 8800 series architecture.
It is rumored to have over 1 teraflop computing power in a single GPU card. Forget ATI's RV680, and look forward to Nvidia's new graphics cards.
As far as waiting, thats generally a given although many probably recall that it's been some time since the two have released around the same span.
Once it actually hits we'll see how it all stacks up, hopefully we're not all subjected to driver excuses though. =/ from either camp it's generally annoying since it's not like they didn't know they were coming out with a new platform.
I think I'm a pretty smart PC gamer :]
Duffbeer Hey dude. While it looks like NVIDIA will be releasing a 9800 GX2 (a double-card card) and a 9800 GTX, from what I've read, the 9800 GTX is not a new architecture, it's just a update of sorts. So I'm guessing that ATI will release something that'll be able to compete.
The 9800 GTX looks like it'll be out in late Feb or early March.