ATI's Crossfire - are you impressed?

Zardon

Please vote !

Vikingod

Im impressed, but i would like to see how it works with the r5xx series befor I would even concider buying it.

daedal

Not impressed. Not with the kind of claims ATI has been making vs. real world values. Waiting to see what will happen with R5s however.

dsdsdk

anyone seen the xbitlabs review...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...crossfire.html

not impressed either.. but if the dh.net review was my only source i'd say it's pretty good..

Lowfat

Not impressed...yet. If they raise the 60Hz @ 1600X1200 limitations and with the X1800's im sure it will rock.

Sandok

Think it's not as well implemented as NV. But maybe R520 Crossfire will rock?

swimtech

Nice review - liked that you tried with lots of different games...

The underlying technology is obviously working well, and ATI has a solid platform (mainboard chipset) to use the cards, but I wasn't astounded because of the present price/performance against their competition (equal, no better...) and I really had expected them to be able to implement the technology. ATI hopefully will take the price/performance lead with their next revision of GPU, which, with Avivo technology and Crossfire tech across different cards available, should be much more impressive and flexible.

CDsDontBurn

i didn't even know crossfire was even available. Where i work, we hardly carry any ATI cards, and when we do, most of them are low to mid range cards. I haven't seen any other retailer or online store carry the crossfire cards.

and the review posted by dsdsdk, at first i was unimpressed with the comparing results between the x850xt crossfire and the 7800gtx in SLI, because the GTXs were performing better than the x850. Then i remembered that it wasn't the r520 . So now i'm a little more hopeful .

Pluvious

Not impressed. Will be waiting for the "next" gen. Hopefully it is single slot, and works with my current mobo. AGP is all I need.

CDsDontBurn

AGP is dead dude. both nVidia and ATI have said that they will not make their G70 (nVidia) and their R520 (ATI) cores in an AGP format.

Sandok

Yup and AGP = no sli or crossfire so forget it... It's tough but you and I, we are extinct.

Raptor

Not impressed. Nvidia must be breaking open the champaigne bottles right about now as it's obvious they have the 2005 product cycle all to themselves. Hard bein a ATI fanboi these days

Sandok

True

swimtech

Eh, yeah, well, I'm still one too - unless Nvidia just blows 'em away (highly doubtful) - ATI will get it going here in the next month or two...

Raptor

Doubtfull the X1800 series will be less than stellar performers. I guess ATI had to start somewhere with Crossfire. keeping finger crossed

BWX

Impressed, but not that much.. The IQ is awesome, amazing even, but the 60hz limit is like shooting themselves in the foot. If I had the cash, I would not be buying yet. I think in 6 months people will be singing a different tune.

temeteus82

I voted: "Not impressed im waiting"
Current CF cards can't beat nVidia's cards. Waiting for the next generation of cards....

SFOSOK

Agreed, I just ordered my parts for my computer today from Newegg so it will probably get here early weekend. Too bad ATI waited so long. What they have better be nothing short of amazing or they are screwed. I hope for their sakes it is.

BWX

I thought it would have been cool if they tried to beat the best SLI systems with single card solutions.. (dual core maybe?) I don't think it is impossible, and they could charge a premium. Too bad they didn't go with their first instincts.

CDsDontBurn

that would have been a better solution. who would want to pay $1,200~$1,300 in video cards for a max of 30% increase in performance regardless of it being ATI or nVidia?

evrt63

in the games i play i notice a difference between 60 and 85 fps and untill they can up the fps i'm waiting

BWX

yeah imagine this.. ATI focusing their efforts to put out a single card solution that even approaches the GTX SLI's performance. Even if they had to put "Crossfire on one card" or something like that, it would be cool as hell, and even if it didn't beat the SLI, all it would have to do it come close and cost less than 2 GTX's..

Plus without focusing on all the dual card stuff, (mobo technology, etc) maybe it could have been done? Who knows? Just a thought, it would have been really cool, and just like ATI to do something like that.

Son_of_Thunder

I don't know, I said impressed, but I'm not buying it yet.

In the DH tests it beat a 6800Ultra SLI setup, and to me that's what it's supposed to do. It should beat a single of the next generation above it (7800GT/X) and match/beat a dual card solution of it's rival (6800Ultra)

Think about it, the x850xt was never supposed to be better than the 7800 series, so why would two of them beat two 7800's?

One thing I didn't like about the DH benchy was that the systems weren't identical, so that throws some things off.

BWX

How could they be identical though?

Son_of_Thunder

I'm looking mainly at the 3800+ vs the FX-55

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