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Jun 6, 2006, 05:16 AM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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Crossfire X3/Physics?
I almost started crying when I heard this, I am not sure if I am happy or scared...
It would be amazing if they let older R5XXX chipsets work as the physics board... man... that would be sweet... ya... *drool* ya... Question is, 3 PCI X16 slots!?!?! WAAA!!!! P.S. Ageia how does this feel! HU! Aww yaa your tears and Bankruptcy statments taste like sweet nector!!! Last edited by MiDri; Jun 6, 2006 at 05:23 AM. |
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Jun 6, 2006, 05:48 AM
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actually u don't need crossfire to let one card compute physics.
In a hypothetical situation(an imaginary situation) where i happen to have an intel conroe extreme edition clocked at 3.2ghz,an intel 965p mobo and one ati r6xx(x2xxx)graphics card. I could run everything together happily and have an old x1900xt/x1600xt(mostly the latter cause it's cheaper)to compute physics without doing crossfire. The r6xx will do the graphics and the x1900 xt/x1600 xt will do the physics. And voila reduced cpu limitation and beter games. Overall performance will increase if crossfire is used,obviously. So ati's solution is really aimed at high-end enthusiasts with a big wallet who don't watch tv on their computer.Cause if u do,then u won't have a pci slot for the creative fatal1ty sound card. |
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Jun 6, 2006, 05:58 AM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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This is great for making older graphics cards have uses, no longer do we ditch our old when upgrading we drop it down to the Physics processor then when we upgrade again odds are the physics board will be worth considerbly less. More bang for your buck!
Also related documentation I found whilst looking up what ATI has said about their boards and physics in the past can be found here. Aperntly ATI is/has released an API that lets developers access the R5XXX and R6XXX cards with out having to go through OpenGL or DirectX, this is a great step forward in allowing people to use their video card for MUCH MUCH more then just displaying graphics. Imagen folding on your Video card when you are not running in 3d mode! I think this is a large step for ATI in making their cards more "upgrade" proof then nVidia, and personaly that is worth more then 10-15 more fps. |
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Jun 6, 2006, 08:38 AM
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and there are only 2 x's after the 5 and the 6.it's r5xx and r6xx.
And only r5xx and r6xx cards can be used to compute physics.None of the older gpus. So there goes my x700 pro...dang. |
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Jun 6, 2006, 09:21 AM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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I like the exxtra x, it makes it look more sexxy and exxtreme!
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Jun 6, 2006, 11:20 AM
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maybe so,but u can't change the chip's code name.
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Jun 6, 2006, 11:29 AM
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Jun 6, 2006, 03:38 PM
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DH's Dormant Dragon
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Erm... tv + Creative Fata1ity? how bout minus that POS creative card and live a little longer....
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Jun 7, 2006, 05:59 AM
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