Thinking of buying a Crossfire motherboard? Please read this article first ....

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http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODg4

John Lewis
- Technology early-birds are flying guinea-pigs.
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hmm useless. Who will get a integrated video card it the bottom line
of shitty card so. that board could fit some need like open email or
playing pac man. Remember that these king of board come in some pc
bundle at future shop like 700$ can for a 3000 amd 64bit or a 3200 amd
64bit socket 939. So the person that buy this will have to get a
descent video card like x800 at 300$ can so now we are at 1000 for a
pc combo that has a video integred and useless. The only thing that
would benefit the buyers would be to set the board to work in some sli
mode to take the benefit of the chipset and it's piss poor
performance. But in or world you wont see that because it would create
like a second life for all of those people that have a small video
card, like x300 or x200 (pci-e) if there are any...
 
DDC said:
hmm useless. Who will get a integrated video card it the bottom line
of shitty card so. that board could fit some need like open email or
playing pac man. Remember that these king of board come in some pc
bundle at future shop like 700$ can for a 3000 amd 64bit or a 3200 amd
64bit socket 939. So the person that buy this will have to get a
descent video card like x800 at 300$ can so now we are at 1000 for a
pc combo that has a video integred and useless. The only thing that
would benefit the buyers would be to set the board to work in some sli
mode to take the benefit of the chipset and it's piss poor
performance. But in or world you wont see that because it would create
like a second life for all of those people that have a small video
card, like x300 or x200 (pci-e) if there are any...
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What?
 
I just bought a DFI crossfire mb and haven't had any of the issues
that Hardocp had with their DFI board. The only issue I had with
the board was getting rid of a yellow flag in device manager
concerning the raid controller but I forced it to accept the driver from
the floppy and all is well.

My only compaint now is availability of the X1800XT and it's crossfire
brother.
 
DDC said:
hmm useless. Who will get a integrated video card it the bottom line
of shitty card so. that board could fit some need like open email or
playing pac man. Remember that these king of board come in some pc
bundle at future shop like 700$ can for a 3000 amd 64bit or a 3200 amd
64bit socket 939. So the person that buy this will have to get a
descent video card like x800 at 300$ can so now we are at 1000 for a
pc combo that has a video integred and useless. The only thing that
would benefit the buyers would be to set the board to work in some sli
mode to take the benefit of the chipset and it's piss poor
performance. But in or world you wont see that because it would create
like a second life for all of those people that have a small video
card, like x300 or x200 (pci-e) if there are any...
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When you sober up would you be kind enough to explain what you were on
about?
 
I just bought a DFI crossfire mb and haven't had any of the issues
that Hardocp had with their DFI board. The only issue I had with
the board was getting rid of a yellow flag in device manager
concerning the raid controller but I forced it to accept the driver from
the floppy and all is well.
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Maybe DFI had a batch-quality problem with their Newegg allottment ??
And Hardocp got unlucky ? You may want to e-mail the article writer
giving all details of your DFI Crossfire board purchase.
My only compaint now is availability of the X1800XT and it's crossfire
brother.
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I suspect that you may be waiting for the X1800XT Crossfire master
card until January/February if you want to get one at a reasonable
price. Newegg has only been receiving erratic batches of X1800XT
plain-vanilla (512Meg @ $599 ) . Next shipment 11/15 ( maybe ).

ZipZoomFly has the X1800XT/512 in stock right now at $699...... !!!
Wanna buy one at that price?

Seems as if ATi's policy of paper-releases followed by
trickle-supplies really allows suppliers (and Ebay) to take
'early-adopter' customers for a ride.

John Lewis
- Technology early-birds are flying guinea-pigs.
 
Weeeee'eeee

I am wondering about the driver issues does this board support Windows
64? What about other hardware drivers, to me this is a little to early.
Even the other ATI chipsets are too unstable, I keep hearing odd
stories about odd hardware not working on those.

I also wonder what ram has been tested with this setup, will it run
generic ram, or value line's of ram, just way to many variable's.

Good luck though,

Gnu_Raiz
 
Well cross fire stand for motherboard that are build whit a video card
in. Also i say can and that stand for the currency of the price shown
here.

Also i'm just having on opinion on the fact that people are get an
atlhon 64 bit 3200 and more to open there e-mail. vs my old rig xp2600
witch i would love to sell for a few 100$ dollar CAN--> Canadian
money.

this is true i'm selling it at 900$ because it as a good videocard in
it also because an xp 2600@ 1.9gig run mostly as fast as a amd 64bit
3000, because we are still in a 32bit environment. Haven't you notice
that atlhon xp are no more for sell. i can't even buy an amd 3200
socket a. this is funny because there still some duron 1800 sold on
the market. i'm wondering why...
 
Well John....I sometimes disagreed with some of your posts
bashing ATI and their cards and release dates . But now I am
going to take my DFI crossfire mb back and get an Nforce
SLI board and buy a GTX7800 512. After seeing the benchmarks
I am jumping ship .
 
Well John....I sometimes disagreed with some of your posts
bashing ATI and their cards and release dates . But now I am
going to take my DFI crossfire mb back and get an Nforce
SLI board and buy a GTX7800 512. After seeing the benchmarks
I am jumping ship .
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Make sure that you get a beefy ATX V2.xx power-supply, such as the
Enermax 701 600watt or better. I would suggest getting a nForce4
motherboard but not SLI... get one with a decent selection of open
PCI/PCIe X4 slots. If you ever intend to run dual SLI of this monster,
on a standard ATX-size SLI motherboard you will only have 1 PCI slot
free for a peripheral card and MAYBE another PCIe x4 if you are lucky.
Plus you will need additional local cooling of the second video
card -- the cooling path in a typical tower case normally leaves a
dead-air area near the bottom.

Consider getting SLI with a second one of these monsters when you
have a CPU that can really feed them... wait for the M2 motherboards
and AMDs next generation before moving to SLI.

Of course I am assuming that you wil be using the machine primarily
for extreme gaming and not 4-head Pro-video. For the latter, GTX cards
are way overkill.

John Lewis
- Technology early-birds are flying guinea-pigs.
 
I repeat - What?
DDC said:
Well cross fire stand for motherboard that are build whit a video card
in. Also i say can and that stand for the currency of the price shown
here.

Also i'm just having on opinion on the fact that people are get an
atlhon 64 bit 3200 and more to open there e-mail. vs my old rig xp2600
witch i would love to sell for a few 100$ dollar CAN--> Canadian
money.

this is true i'm selling it at 900$ because it as a good videocard in
it also because an xp 2600@ 1.9gig run mostly as fast as a amd 64bit
3000, because we are still in a 32bit environment. Haven't you notice
that atlhon xp are no more for sell. i can't even buy an amd 3200
socket a. this is funny because there still some duron 1800 sold on
the market. i'm wondering why...
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Whatever he's smoking, I _don't_ want any.
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Ho so you telling me that i do smoke and the stuff that i smoke is not
the kind of grass that you would put in your cigarette... So by this
you smoke maybe a more agressive drug... pff kid They are so noob.
 
DDC said:
Ho so you telling me that i do smoke and the stuff that i smoke is not
the kind of grass that you would put in your cigarette... So by this
you smoke maybe a more agressive drug... pff kid They are so noob.
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No, I'm telling you that it is intuitively obvious to the most casual
observer that you are on a bad trip and are showing no signs of coming
down.

 
No, I'm telling you that it is intuitively obvious to the most casual
observer that you are on a bad trip and are showing no signs of coming
down.
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Well, I only said which was my opinion on the fact that the mother
board cross-fire are made with the video integrated. These mother
board are thus very little performer on the 3D plays. You
understands? no bad trip here. every one has the write to get my
opinion and it's up to you to understand the meaning and it's
particularity like if the user net his using a second language or not
or if he understand the subject has i think i do in my previous
comment. So please keep it down or explain your self with a little
respect.
 
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