http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/ Engadget Comments for ATI's CrossFireX now offered on Alienware Area-51 gaming PC http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/]]>Apr 28th 2008 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/Apr 28th 2008 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/Apr 28th 2008 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/Apr 28th 2008 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/Apr 28th 2008 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/Apr 28th 2008 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/Apr 28th 2008 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/
Gonna be a bitch of a load on the Air-Con in the summer though!]]>Apr 28th 2008 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/2 x 2 = 4 (where dual =2, which it did where I went to school!)]]>Apr 28th 2008 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/Apr 28th 2008 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/
Of course depending on your motherboard design you might be blocking an extra one or two slots with those beasts :)]]>Apr 28th 2008 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/
I mean, they might as well NOT place those extra PCI/PCIe 1x slots on there...

The least they can do if they unable to control the heat emittance is produce fanless single slot versions so people can water cool the cards...]]>Apr 28th 2008 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/Apr 28th 2008 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/Apr 28th 2008 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/
I still think multi-gpu is crap, since most of the performance benefit is reliant on software to get it to work.]]>Apr 28th 2008 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/
I have SLI and let me tell you, it's not crap--unless you think a 50-80 performance boost is crap. For SLI, Quad, or Crossfire to work properly, you have to pair it with a top-end CPU, otherwise you will bottleneck yourself.

And by the way, performance of ANY application is going to be reliant on software. Usually the drivers play the biggest role.]]>Apr 28th 2008 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/
Oh no, I'm not saying that it doesn't work--if I set my 7950GX2 to single-card mode, I can definitely feel FPS drop--but IF you stack up cards in a tri- or quad-card setup, you certainly don't see a framerate increase that would make it worth the cost.

But the fact that it IS so software-bound is what makes me reluctant to invest in a true dual-card setup (I, along with many credible review houses such as tom's hardware, consider the GX2 to be a single-card solution that just happens to be two cards sandwiched together.) The problem, as you mentioned, is drivers, and it seems that nvidia has been genuinely sucking at them lately given their Vista crash results.]]>Apr 28th 2008 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/Apr 28th 2008 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/
...So we couldn't do this before?]]>Apr 28th 2008 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/Apr 28th 2008 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/
anyone for 2 x geforce 9800 gx2?

Yes please. Geforce are still leading Radeon.]]>Apr 28th 2008 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/
Well that depends (like anything else) on whay you are doing..

If you are into 3D-models etc ATI rules supreme, while most antialised games run better on Nvidia..

Still, I like ATI for their driver handling]]>Apr 28th 2008 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/
Luke: Well, more wealth than you can imagine!
Han Solo: I don't know, I can imagine quite a bit. ]]>Apr 28th 2008 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/







BECAUSE THE ENHANCEMENT IS SO SMALL YOU CAN'T IMAGINE IT!!]]>Apr 28th 2008 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/Apr 28th 2008 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/atis-crossfirex-now-offered-on-alienware-area-51-gaming-pc/

oh wait, cuz people care more about games being fun then by how good they look.


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