CrossFire compatible boards

darkside1016 · Aug 31, 2005

I need opinions on a CrossFire system, I currently allready have a BBA ATI Radeon X800Pro 256MB, and I would like to boost my video performance, where can I buy a Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition card and what is the list of CrossFire ready motherboards?

Cobalt · Aug 31, 2005

The only crossfire mobos that I know of are from saphire but others are comming. At the moment you can't buy crossfire cards anywhere although I know a UK site where you can pre-order the gecube x800xl and x850xt master cards.

darkside1016 · Aug 31, 2005

14x Anti-Aliasing

It's no wonder no one posting...as far as I know...and fact has proved, ATI > nVidia for the last 2 years, and I'm betting that CrossFire is better than SLI, it seems like it is too. I mean comon...14x Anti-Aliasing? Thats enough to take out the blockyness in Doom 1. :drool:

ghost_recon88 · Aug 31, 2005

Oh yeah, and if you plan on using your current rig with your new mobo, you may need to upgrade your CPU. I don't think they plan on making a socket 754 CrossFire chipset.

cooper15 · Aug 31, 2005

"ATI > nVidia for the last 2 years, "

correct me if im wrong but doesnt that say that nvidia has been better then ati for the last 2 years

chr0nicles · Aug 31, 2005

cooper15 said:
"ATI > nVidia for the last 2 years, "

correct me if im wrong but doesnt that say that nvidia has been better then ati for the last 2 years

u lost me there lol

Yuriman · Aug 31, 2005

Ati > nVidia....

Bigger side > smaller side.

And.. what exactly do you mean by that anyway? nVidia has a very strong offering in most price ranges.

icedragn · Aug 31, 2005

cooper15 said:
"ATI > nVidia for the last 2 years, "

correct me if im wrong but doesnt that say that nvidia has been better then ati for the last 2 years

then let me correct you

"ATi > nVidia" = ATi is greater than nVidia

cooper15 · Sep 1, 2005

alright thanks i was mixed up :eh?:

IWasHungry · Sep 2, 2005

ANYWAYS...
Crossfire still has a while to go, I would suggest waiting a little longer.

hoho220 · Sep 2, 2005

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produ...ductCode=246445 ...First one I have seen for sale

Violator · Sep 2, 2005

darkside1016 said:
It's no wonder no one posting...as far as I know...and fact has proved, ATI > nVidia for the last 2 years, and I'm betting that CrossFire is better than SLI, it seems like it is too. I mean comon...14x Anti-Aliasing? Thats enough to take out the blockyness in Doom 1.

You're 'betting' it's better? Why?. And nVidia can do 16xAA btw

invisible hand · Sep 2, 2005

Here's a little more info and some pics of the boards:

http://www.ati.com/buy/promotions/crossfireready/motherboards.html

The boards (AMD and intel)

Asus P5RD2-MVP Deluxe

DFI LP UT RD480-DR

Gigabyte K8AMVP PRO

Gigabyte 8AMVP PRO

ECS PA1 VA

ECS KA1 VA

Sapphire PI-I7RD400

Sapphire PI-A9RD480

PCPartner RD400AS7-A73D

PCPartner RD480AK9-A72D

MSI MS 7194

TUL RD480 Ultra

Yuriman · Sep 2, 2005

Violator said:
You're 'betting' it's better? Why?. And nVidia can do 16xAA btw

Yes, but NV's 16x is much slower (I believe). I am fairly sure that one card renders the scene alone at that setting with 8x AA, and the other card just applies another layer of Anti-Alaising.

TRF-Inferno · Sep 2, 2005

Yuriman said:
Yes, but NV's 16x is much slower (I believe).

Correct. Most benchmarks I've seen does support the fact that ATI cards do not lose FPS as much as Nvidia cards at higher resolution or with AA.

JU571N · Sep 2, 2005

What is the difference between ATI’s CrossFire platform and the competitor’s solution?

A. The principal differences between the competitor’s multi-GPU solutions and ATI’s CrossFire are:

CrossFire can enable multi-GPU rendering on all applications.

CrossFire supports more rendering modes. Supertiling evenly distributes the workload between the two GPUs to improve performance. CrossFire can use multiple GPUs to improve image quality rather than performance with Super antialiasing (AA) modes. Supertiling and SuperAA modes are only supported on the CrossFire platform.

CrossFire is an open platform that supports multiple components and graphics cards that can be mixed and matched in a single system. Competitive multi-GPU solutions are constrained to supporting identical graphics cards.

HousERaT · Sep 2, 2005

unless the price comes down, crossfire will only be available to folks with a lot of money. If the ZZF price for a mb is an indicator, this will not be used by the masses.

darkside1016 · Sep 6, 2005

I'm going with the LANParty UT RD480, when it's released, I'll grab a R580 with it and wait a little before getting the CrossFire card as to save money, If it IS not going to be used by the masses, that means I will be of the select few to have one. Which makes me unique. Yessss.

RangerXLT8 · Sep 8, 2005

Here it is gentleman if you have not already read it in the other threads, Ati updated their FAQ, and yes CrossFire will work on i955 chipsets with dual PCI-E graphics slots. Boooooooyahhhhh!

darkside1016 · Sep 8, 2005

I still don't see any "purchaseable" links for dual pci-e on a radeon chipset...but I've seen a few mobos that are coming out...just none to buy yet.

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