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   #22. Posted at 06:42 PM on Jun 1st 2005, Edited at 09:37 PM on Jun 2nd 2005 Edit   Reply
albundy
man, 4 slots? is ati freakin crazy? What about my scsi card? HDTV tuner card? high end sound card?

I have slightly turned my head to the gigabyte GV-3D1-68GT dual GF 6800 ultra 512mb dual 256bit card. Unfortunately it probably costs more that my whole system. Head turning towards a wildcat...
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   #21. Posted at 05:27 PM on Jun 1st 2005 Edit   Reply
d0g_p00p
meh... where the hell is that damn Saphire board at. My dual cascade system is almost a go. must have mobo now.
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   #4. Posted at 07:15 PM on May 31st 2005 Edit   Reply
FireGryphon
I'm liking the direction in which all this ALI/CrossFire technology is moving. Keep up the hot reporting.
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#4, hell yeah! ati is doing this right! none of that "you have t...  :  thanatos355  (#5)  «
#4, I think it's ATI  :  Ricardo Dawkins  (#6)  «
#6, Since you're nitpicking, it's ATi Capital A; Capital T; lo...  :  SonicSilicon  (#16)  «
#16, What are you smoking? Their logo may have a lower case...  :  indeego  (#20)  «

   #19. Posted at 01:36 PM on Jun 1st 2005 Edit   Reply
sigher
This is silly, just slam a few gpu's on one card, or make a dualcore gpu already.
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   #14. Posted at 03:27 AM on Jun 1st 2005 Edit   Reply
ieya
Kyle doesn't seem to think the dual-slave setup is a goer:
Don't be confused into thinking that ATI's "CrossFire" dual video card configuration can be achieved with two "slave" cards as some might have you think.

News Image News Image

DFI has been showing two slave cards running in a dual configuration at Computex as seen above, and they have in fact been showing 3DMark 2005 scores that increase by nearly 80% when they turn on "CrossFire" in the driver. Well to make a long story short, the two slave cards are sharing the workload and nearly doubling the 3D Mark2005 score, but you are only seeing every other frame supplied by one of the cards. So keep in mind that rendering double the frames is pretty "easy," but putting them back together again is not just going to happen by accident.

Anyway, chalk the confusion up to pre-release hardware and drivers. Kudos to DFI for finding something cool to share, but don't ever think you are going to reap the rewards of CrossFire rendering without a CrossFire hardware compositing engine to put all the frame or tiles back together again.

And just for the record, DOOM 3 showed absolutely no benefit from the configuration as you might guess.
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#14, Duh, that's pretty darn obvious considering that D3 has a 60...  :  Krogoth  (#18)  «

   #11. Posted at 11:01 PM on May 31st 2005 Edit   Reply
Zenith
Hahahh, that DFI board has no room for either PCIe 1x or regular PCI cards. Good going SLI/Crossfire.
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#11, You can use one of the PCI slots, they have a diagnostic car...  :  Corrado  (#17)  «

   #8. Posted at 09:35 PM on May 31st 2005, Edited at 09:37 PM on May 31st 2005 Edit   Reply
rgreen83
Why the heck wouldnt ATI be screaming this from the rooftops if it were generally doable? It sure would be nice to have the option of either two cards, no bridge; or one card and another different card later with a dongle, if you cant find the same card as the first anymore.

hehe, that word dongle just makes me giggle! :)
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#8, Yawn.....and what will you do with all of that power...........  :  lindy01  (#9)  «
#9, to compensate for the lack of size in certain body parts....  :  Krogoth  (#10)  «
#10, I just typed this leaning back with my hands behind my...  :  samadhi  (#15)  «

   #13. Posted at 11:41 PM on May 31st 2005 Edit   Reply
DukenukemX
Nvidia's SLI only works with supported games. Is this the same with ATI's version?
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   #12. Posted at 11:40 PM on May 31st 2005 Edit   Reply
rei
did you see any fully-featured mATX boards? :D
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   #7. Posted at 08:31 PM on May 31st 2005 Edit   Reply
PRIME1
Did you guys get any pictures of the dual gpu cards.....I know they are not from ATI but you could still post em.
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   #3. Posted at 07:07 PM on May 31st 2005 Edit   Reply
Usacomp2k3
nifty...DFI must like you guys ;-)
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   #2. Posted at 07:04 PM on May 31st 2005, Edited at 07:08 PM on May 31st 2005 Edit   Reply
Skyline57GTR
Whoa....it would smoke those 6800 SLI. :D

EDIT: I found Doom 3 benchmark also
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2432 it was running on
double X850XT PE
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   #1. Posted at 06:55 PM on May 31st 2005, Edited at 06:59 PM on May 31st 2005 Edit   Reply
BooTs
I'm a little too tired to figure this out for sure, but does this mean I can buy a new xfire mobo, and then make my X800 XL, and X700 Pro play nice?

Edit: First! woot. P.S. I love it when you say dude.

Re-Edit: Oh, guess I'd need another X800 XL. Hmm.
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