From what i have seen of the crossfire, i personally think ATI might lose the
SLI wars because of the fact you are going to using an external dongle that
controls the SLI instead of an internal bridge
amd 64 3000
2 GB PC 3200 ram
msi K8N NEO 4 sli
(2) MSI NX 6600 GT 128 MB Video Cards(Geforce 6600)
250 GB Maxtor Hard Drive
Quote by ryan27406From what i have seen
of the crossfire, i personally think ATI might lose the SLI wars because of the
fact you are going to using an external dongle that controls the SLI instead of
an internal bridge
amd 64 30002 GB PC 3200 rammsi K8N NEO 4 sli
(2) MSI NX 6600 GT 128 MB Video Cards(Geforce 6600)250 GB Maxtor Hard
Drive
The upside to Ati Cross-Fire is you can combine any ATi card that supports
Cross-Fire.
Not like Nvidia's SLI, if you get a GeForce 6800gt and you want to make SLI you
will
still have to buy another 6800gt.
It's nice to see ATi trying to get back into the game. Cost for a crossfire
system really doesn't seem much more than an nVidia system. After all, you still
need two compatible video cards and motherboard that supports the technology.
For ATi, you need two ATi cards and an ATi motherboard that supports CrossFire.
For nVidia, you need... well, two nVidia cards and an nForce motherboard that
supports SLI.
Maybe at some point the external dongle will dissapear and be ingegrated
internally. It reminds me of the old Vodoo2 SLI in that sense... nVidia used to
have an internal bridge to connect two cards, but that has since been replaced
by an on-board connector. In time, ATi might move to this as well.
Well, to be honest I think it'll depend on the quality of ATI's next processor.
On the plus side, it has universal compatibility, but it's also external, which
seems a bit messy to me. I hope it gets replaced with something internal.
ATi's answer to nVidia's SLI: http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Previews/aticrossfiretech/
I'll let the review explain the details
.
That was interesting.
And expensive.
Wonder how nVidia would react.
Yeah, that's really expensive for better graphics . But it does looks promising, though I don't have the money to spent it on it.
The down side is you must a have a ATI chipset mobo in order
to use ATI's cross-fire technology.
it is well but very expensive
iit looks pretty good, but since it is really expensive...u may not want to buy it unles u really care about graphics on the computer...
whoa very interresting && expeensive!
Unless you're earning cash from such powerful hardware, or just a filthy rich, gaming freak, this one isn't that much of an importance.
From what i have seen of the crossfire, i personally think ATI might lose the SLI wars because of the fact you are going to using an external dongle that controls the SLI instead of an internal bridge
amd 64 3000
2 GB PC 3200 ram
msi K8N NEO 4 sli
(2) MSI NX 6600 GT 128 MB Video Cards(Geforce 6600)
250 GB Maxtor Hard Drive
Read the details and it was expensive! Man, can't afford that...
Owning the top end nVidia cards is hardly cheap. 6800 Ultra cards hit about £375 each
.
Uh... is it the same as the price on the site you gave or not?
The upside to Ati Cross-Fire is you can combine any ATi card that supports Cross-Fire.
Not like Nvidia's SLI, if you get a GeForce 6800gt and you want to make SLI you will
still have to buy another 6800gt.
It's nice to see ATi trying to get back into the game. Cost for a crossfire system really doesn't seem much more than an nVidia system. After all, you still need two compatible video cards and motherboard that supports the technology. For ATi, you need two ATi cards and an ATi motherboard that supports CrossFire. For nVidia, you need... well, two nVidia cards and an nForce motherboard that supports SLI.
Maybe at some point the external dongle will dissapear and be ingegrated internally. It reminds me of the old Vodoo2 SLI in that sense... nVidia used to have an internal bridge to connect two cards, but that has since been replaced by an on-board connector. In time, ATi might move to this as well.
Well, to be honest I think it'll depend on the quality of ATI's next processor. On the plus side, it has universal compatibility, but it's also external, which seems a bit messy to me. I hope it gets replaced with something internal.