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Yes PCIe 2.0 is also able to provide much more power. HOWEVER, all this does is remove the need for a second PCIe power connector on future cards (until they start taking even more power), additionally, most motherboards now have a separate molex power connector on the board that supplies additional power to the PCIe bus.

I would be very surprised if power was the issue because the cards get all the power they need from the pcie power cable(s).

Blue_Fire

Also die shrinks reduce power by crazy amounts. And yet again, they also unhosed the AA bug with the 3870's. We had 2 2900xt's in the shop this last weekend and we could not run crysis with AA almost at all.

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bassgoonist

I would just like to state for the record that my 8800gts 640mb got awful framerates in tf2. I tried everything, and I running vista x64. I got a 3870 and my frame rates TRIPLED (from 30 to 90) so I dunno what exactly the issue was...but my 8800 was ticking me off...
Anyone had good success with the bios update on their 3870?

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bad_haze

I did. the bios update was officially released because the first batch of 38x0 cards had a bug in the bios. It's all good now.

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bassgoonist

First batch...like one I bought on 11/30? Or before that...

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