Hope nobody has beaten me to the punch.
 
http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/0 [...] ry_maxx_2/
 
Looks pretty solid so far, and could get better with official drivers. Not trying to sound like a Fan Boy, but not entirely convinced that this is going to win me over to ATI. Now I wonder what Nvidia will bring to the table.
 
What are your thoughts?

I am dieing to see what this will do x2 or 4 ? can you put 4 of these on the 4x crossfire boards?.. or will it be limited to just two ? at any rate, I want to see test results of at least two of these X2s in action. Several hundred dollars less, than two ultras) when doing multi cards for better performance sound pretty good to me. And its DX10.1

Nicely done! Have to appreciate the post date January 23 00:01  

The one thing I noticed was missing was the comparison between two 3870's in Crossfire and the 3870x2. It would definitely be worth adding in my opinion.

Only thing left to do is find some of these babies for sale somewhere, today  

Well... Unless I'm mistaken, I don't believe you can do a 4 way crossfire with the 3870x2. But seeing that 2 GPUs can barely take down a single 8800Ultra, I don't know if I can call that impressive considering the Ultra has been out for 8months now. Also as we saw some games do not take advantage of crossfire. For this reason I'm also a bit worried about the GX2 for this same reason.  
 
But it is pretty exciting to see some new cards.

I'd like to see two 3870X2's in Crossfire as well.
 
And I wonder if you could do 4 way, since the cards appear as one card?  8GPU's?  Creezy man.

The review has gone, did toms break NDA? Tisk tisk

Barely takes down the 8800 ultra (the ultra actually wins in some tests)... which is barely above 8800gts 512. Its power consumption rivals the 2900xt.
 
I think i will pass.

Damn it all! I really wanted to read the review. For those who did, what was it's performance in games that didn't take advantage of CF? Did it perform like a 3870 would, or did it actually still beat the Ultra.  
 
For the poster that was saying that it isn't that impressive since the Ultra is one card; the Ultra wasn't that impressive to begin with, since all they did was take a GTX and overclock it and raise it's price $200 dollars more.

thats gay i only got to page 5 =(
 
Edit... http://www.fpslabs.com/reviews/vid [...] -x2-review
 
Atleast its something for now..

Ultra wins because the drivers are more suited for some games. The 3870X2 is being pushed back a week to tweak the drivers . Also no you can't run these 4 of these at once they don't have enough crossfire connectors.

 
 
Well... I'm not saying that I was impressed with the ULTRA but we're still talking about two cards (GTX + ULTRA) that were uncontested for for over a year. And now 2008, lets be real, ATI has just caught up. And it took them two GPUs in Crossfire vs one GPU that has been out for over a year. Again not trying to sound like a nvidia fan boy, I've owned ATI cards in the past, but I don't think this is enough for me to want to go back to ATI.
 
But I'm still willing to give this card a chance, maybe with new drivers this card could be a real killer but ATI havent shown us much in the last year so its hard to stay hopeful.

Agree! was not very impressive to me. Cmon, 2 gpus vs 1 gpu. Ati can barely knock out an Ultra, bit it needs two card to achieve this. How about ati 3870 x2 vs Ultra SLI, now things will overturn. Now, lets wait for 9800x2 on mid February. Im sure 9800x2 will outperform ati x2.

Funny you mention that, because the cost of 2 ultras would buy you 4 3870s

 Are we actually expecting some real performance here or is this just another flash in the pan ATI have gone this route before they di dit with a 1900 series card and a 2600 maybe some more as well but its only the Nvidia based x2 card that you ever hear anything about.
Have they worked out how to make it work properly now or some thing ? looking in to my crystal ball all i see happening is ATI releasing the card (which they alresdy tried to rush in to circulation by the look of things) and getting some performance at the top level (at last) only for Nvidia to release their version which will most likley hammer the ATI card, it will be like no this is how you do it.
Im really looking for some competition from ATI as it makes life better for everyone but if the reviews were right and its not that impressive then Nvidia can release there next card when ready.
Is it just possable that some bod conected with ATI saw the reviews and said hang on thats not right and realised there was some thing wrong like "whoa we showed in tests that we had 25-30% over an Ultra better phone work andsee whats gone wrong" ?
 Yea i know i wish  
     Mactronix

I'm happy I read the whole thing before it was taken down.  The whole "Fastest Yet!" is hardly cut-and-dry, with crossfire/driver/game support issues, and the fact the G92 X2 should quickly reclaim the lead, albeit with similar issues.

Who took screenshots?

 Never mind screen shots anybody take a hard copy  

 
yeah but the ultras power consumption was similar to the 2900xt's, probably more.  I think the excitement is about ultra performance for a GOOD price.

Surely regardless of how long it has taken to be released or for ATI to be competative is irrelavant.  
 
Are you people listening to yourselves "barely takes down an 8800 ultra". In the 8 hours sleep I just had a lot must have changed becuase the Ultra was still king of hill before I went to bed