Having been already impressed by the HD 4870, it was time to head down to IBuyPower Australia to strap not one, not two but three of these bad boys into the ASUS P5E64 WS Evolution. Moving from two cards upwards on the HD 4850 caused some problems, but we’re hoping that the HD 4870 doesn’t have the same issues.
The P5E64 WS Evolution isn’t the most ideal board due to the fact that the third slot only runs at x4; in a perfect world we would have all three cards running at x16. However, there isn’t a board out there that lets us do this. Hopefully this is something that is addressed in upcoming chipsets since NVIDIA has three x16 slots on its 780i and 790i chipsets.
Since we’ve already looked at the Sapphire HD 4870 in a fair bit of detail, we’re just going to have a look at some pictures of the test system before we get stuck into the results. So, with everything said and done, let’s get stuck into it and see what happens when we put three of these cards together.
