CrossFire Slipping?

[Geo]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24794

If they are two weeks from selling boards, you'd think they'd have plenty for reviewers, so it would appear that mobo's are not the hold-up. . .

 

[Karma Police]

Well, ATi could be stockpiling them and releasing them a-la 7800GTX style.

 

[trinibwoy]

Well, ATi could be stockpiling them and releasing them a-la 7800GTX style.

That would make sense if they hadn't already paper launched the damn thing with previews all over the web. Let's see some official numbers already!!

 

[nagus]

Anandtech reviews an early Gigabyte S939 CrossFire Motherboard + X850 XT Master Card

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2477

looks very promising!

 

[neliz]

Anandtech reviews an early Gigabyte S939 CrossFire Motherboard + X850 XT Master Card

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2477

looks very promising!

Great figures from a respectable site..

 

[trinibwoy]

Yeah those are some nice numbers. SLI seems to catch up more in those situations where the PE is destroying the Ultra - HL2 16x12 4xAA. The SLI results for SCIII and the Crossfire results for UT2004 seem strange though.

 

[Jawed]

Too many bugs - pointless article as anything other than a "it works, sorta" statement.

Jawed

 

[Geo]

The answer to "where is CrossFire?" seems clear now --"stuck in the driver department!".

 

[bigz]

The answer to "where is CrossFire?" seems clear now --"stuck in the driver department!".

don't tickle me...

I think that was one of the reasons for the time gap between NVIDIA's SLI announcement and the release of hardware - I think it was something like 3 months, maybe more.

 

[Geo]

I do very much like the fact that the CrossFire mobo they use supports SLI --that should crank up the competitive pressure a bit on NV to allow compatibility on their mobos, or face a marketing disadvantage.

At least until whatever "SLI2" is shows up.

 

[Dave Baumann]

According to Digitimes 955X is already supported for Dual ATI graphics - if that works I don't see why ATI won't code for nForce4.

 

[bigz]

yes, that's pretty interesting... Even more interesting is the fact that the board could support 2 3D1's... in multi-multi GPU mode?

 

[neliz]

According to Digitimes 955X is already supported for Dual ATI graphics - if that works I don't see why ATI won't code for nForce4.

I thought the problem with nforce was the 16/4 pcie operation mode?
I've studied the 955 chipset last may and intel offers 8/8 and 16/16(?) on 955.
xfire is currently 8/8 and would be, incompatible with nv's offering..

 

[Dave Baumann]

nForce4 SLI is 8/8

 

[trinibwoy]

Too many bugs - pointless article as anything other than a "it works, sorta" statement.

Jawed

Guess I should've actually read it instead of just looking at the graphs. But there's only so much I can do on the way out of the house

 

[ChrisRay]

According to Digitimes 955X is already supported for Dual ATI graphics - if that works I don't see why ATI won't code for nForce4.

I thought the problem with nforce was the 16/4 pcie operation mode?
I've studied the 955 chipset last may and intel offers 8/8 and 16/16(?) on 955.
xfire is currently 8/8 and would be, incompatible with nv's offering..

Where on earth did you get that idea?(Or hear it?) The only time I have ever heard of an uneven number of lanes with an SLI setup is those early hacked Nforce chipsets which would enable SLI on Non SLI motherboards.

 

[neliz]

'scuse me..

the intel board is the one that does 16/4..

One PCI Express x16 bus add-in card connector
One Secondary PCI Express x16/x4 bus add-in card connector

http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bk/index.htm

 

[ChrisRay]

That is strange. And it was a honest mistake, Oh and an honest question. I was curious.

 

[neliz]

That is strange. And it was a honest mistake, Oh and an honest question. I was curious.

Too much on my mind

Anyway.. these are the specs that are out since may.
I originally thought that these intel boards would demonstrate xfire as well at the computex since it's basically incompatible with the "old" sli (not talking about series 80.)

There was also a french site which release benchmarks soon after intel sent out it's beta 955 boards

 

[CJ]

I just wish people would stop calling CrossFire "Xfire". :?

Xfire is the instant messenger for gamers that I use daily and come to love ever since they released it. http://www.xfire.com