Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/ 2008-11-22T16:47:14-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2005-07-04T18:36:33-05:00 phil http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/#295759 ouch sander, ease up on the bias<br /> <br /> personally i don't mind a dongle, and the advantages of the master/slave system are worth it.<br /> from early discriptions i can't wait to try both super aa and the &quot;every-other rendering&quot; mode , to see how fast, and how good i can make games look and play<br /> <br /> i love ATI, but i gave SLI a chance. .<br /> <br /> either way, it doesn't matter .. 2 cards is just novel in the end.. just use one big one! it's easier and costs less <img src="http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/smilies/smile1.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":)" title=":)"><br /> <br /> <br /> BTW: it's beautiful outside.. what am idoing inside on this damn box anyways.. ??? everybody go OUTSIDE an live a little <img src="http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/smilies/smile1.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":)" title=":)"> <img src="http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/smilies/smile1.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":)" title=":)"> <img src="http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/smilies/smile1.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":)" title=":)"> text/html 2005-06-04T03:03:06-05:00 Karl Carroll http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/#283350 Sander I know, from the last year of reading this forum, that you are a fan of NVidia products but you know as well as I do that you can't put too much creedence in pre-release info on video card products. What ATI may or may not have said about Crossfire before the technology was released is not concrete fact even if it comes from ATI or NVidia directly. ATI and NVidia are both guilty of hyping new product features and specs that ended up changing once the product went gold. Products under go change through the development cycle.<br /> <br /> As for which system is better I don't think we will know that until someone has a CrossFire system to test and compare with an SLI NVidia system. As a consumer I don't think I can even buy product yet. <br /> <br /> Any way, life is good Sander and you really shouldn't stress over what ATI does with Crossfire. ;-)<br /> <br /> EB <br /> <br /> <br /> text/html 2005-06-03T20:01:33-05:00 Evan B http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/#283223 HAHAH OMG OCGW!<br /> <br /> I think when my computer parts get old I'll just start chucking them out my window at people until I have no more old hardware. text/html 2005-06-03T13:33:28-05:00 PCGEEK http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/#283114 dont plan to replace my GPU any time soon. Plays everything i want with may eye candy just fine. text/html 2005-06-03T12:15:20-05:00 Thermalfreak http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/#283101 yay now i just have to stop all my GAMING freinds from buying dual core! (mostly bussinessmen and lawyers, go figure :p) ! text/html 2005-06-03T10:18:32-05:00 Plug &amp; Play http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/#283086 <br /> I too am gonna slave that 9800xt until I smell silicon burn!!!!! text/html 2005-06-03T10:13:26-05:00 OCGW http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/#283084 Amen bro<br /> <br /> I am going to ride my $400 gfx card until it dies, then I am going to eat it<br /> <br /> OCGW<br /> <br /> PEACE text/html 2005-06-03T10:05:58-05:00 Thermalfreak http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/#283082 Man how bout we stick with one gfx card? anyone? someone? one card? anyone? text/html 2005-06-03T09:03:57-05:00 Shadow_Ops_Airman1 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/#283075 remember the architecture is still in the infant stage, when its fully released will be a Moment of Truth, but for me im waiting for A Chipset from Via/ALi/ULi that will Integrate both SLI and Crossfire Arch into One simple system (Still have 2 slots but no Daughterboard) text/html 2005-06-03T08:47:06-05:00 Thermalfreak http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/#283069 Thats weird cuz anotrher guy asked ati directly and ati said that both cards had to be from the the same manufacturer and when nvidia was asked something similar they said that the cards do not need to be from the same manufacturer just the same model with similar bios' (e.g. both reference unmodified)<br /> <br /> careful though toms hardwares has been biased in the past... those advntages look kinda weird like the &quot;more dual modes than sli&quot;....errr you mean one more...the improved picture quality means you use the two cards to get a maximum of 14x (16x?) super antialiasing by getting the two cards to sample for each other.... text/html 2005-06-03T05:06:55-05:00 Evan B http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/#283040 SLI does need you to use the exact same manufacturer (same company.. .BFG etc.) <br /> <br /> <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050602/index.html" target="_blank">http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050602/index.html</a> (bottom of page)<br /> <br /> The article does seem biased and too harsh on Crossfire. Kudos to ATi for coming to the market with a product that they JUST CREATED and have running just fine from the sounds of it. Reviewers who have used it confirm this. They may have some experience with this stuff (Rage MAXX) but nVidia has the 3DFXers...<br /> <br /> <br /> The war has begun.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> text/html 2005-05-31T21:59:44-05:00 Lawrence Heffernan http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/#282122 why not create one super chip, that has dual-core: Athlon 64 processors, audio processors, gpu, physics processors, whack on a large shared cache, stick the chip on a rambus XDR memory bus and you've got something that's damn fast... and expensive.<br /> <br /> But I beleive that the crossfire article was a little unfair, and biased, a little visit to <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.theinquirer.org/" target="_blank">http://www.theinquirer.org/</a> may reveal information about ATI's crossfire, which has advantages. For example it will work with all games (or atleast they claim it will), nvidia's SLI will not text/html 2005-05-30T23:12:02-05:00 A_Pickle http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/#281844 &quot;...next Open Source type product that will obviously dominate in this market eventually....&quot;<br /> <br /> Pray tell... how do you have Open Source hardware?<br /> <br /> Whatever. I think ATI and Nvidia are doing ... okay... but... personally, I believe that a second PCIe slot should be reserved for a PPU connected to a GPU, rather than two GPU's which we have... truly... no need for. That's just dumb. And it isolates notebook gaming. text/html 2005-05-30T12:43:04-05:00 Thermalfreak http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/#281586 Agreed<br /> <br /> edit: theres been too many asus sli c**k ups in the world text/html 2005-05-30T11:56:20-05:00 j l http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/44286/#281580 Agreed- I dont much like either SLI or Crossfire. But If I had to pick a platform, I'd take Crossfire.