http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/ Engadget Comments for Legion Hardware offers advice for building the best Crossfire rig http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/
Most likely I'd assume the heat in the middle two would slow them down just a bit, but what do I know about SLI/Crossfire]]>Jul 16th 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/the P45 only supports one 16x or two 8x where as the X48 supports two 16x lanes.
The performance gain is less because PCIE 2.0 is double the bandwidth of the old PCIE]]>Jul 16th 2008 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/3->4 cards the performance gain decreases. And the performance gain from going from 4 4850s to 4 4870s would be about 5%.

Also, Crossfire scales better than SLI]]>Jul 16th 2008 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/b) the 5% gain is for differences amongst motherboard chipsets; it is separate from the gain from the sli itself.

try reading the article before you comment on whatever picture engadget opts to put to an article.]]>Jul 16th 2008 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/cheapest 4850 in the market cost $160 after rebate
$640 (4 * 160) + MB cost > $550.......]]>Jul 16th 2008 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/
How about P/S, Ram and CPU?

Can i recommend a Pentium Dual-Core processor? 1gig of ram? 350w p/s? =P]]>Jul 16th 2008 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/
Yes. When I see an elderly "couple" walking down the street, I often wonder how good their threesomes must be.]]>Jul 16th 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/A few is more than two.
Several is a few couples.]]>Jul 16th 2008 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/
The only people who build this kind of rig are gamers, and it seems to me that we in a console cycle at this time.

Perhaps when the consoles start looking dated in a few years, sure...but now just doesn't seem the time to build. Just my opinion....

(hiding under desk)]]>Jul 16th 2008 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/
Compare any cross platform game between a console and a gaming PC, and the console version automatically looks lackluster and dated by comparison.]]>Jul 16th 2008 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/
Far Cry on PC running a geforce 6200

versus Far Cry on xbox1 running a geforce 3.5

the xbox1 version looked better.


this generation: PCs are able to have higher resolution textures and can fetch data faster, but optimization is still the key.]]>Jul 17th 2008 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 17th 2008 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/
As for the article, I am in the process of building an amazing budget crossfire rig. Rightnow I have a q6600, and two 4850s, I just need a good mobo, and decent ram :D. ]]>Jul 16th 2008 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/
As for the article, I am in the process of building an amazing budget crossfire rig. Rightnow I have a q6600, and two 4850s, I just need a good mobo, and decent ram :D. ]]>Jul 16th 2008 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/
AMD+ATI=FTW IMO.

[intel fanboys: feel free to low rank]]]>Jul 16th 2008 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/may/31/guardianweeklytechnologysection.it]]>Jul 16th 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/

get a PC w/ 4gb of ram w/ 64bit OS. case solved.

why not recommend that instead of spreading FUD? To someone w/o tech experience they might get the wrong idea and simply stop at 3gb and not know about 64bit options.]]>Jul 16th 2008 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 17th 2008 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/legion-hardware-offers-advice-for-building-the-best-crossfire-ri/Jul 16th 2008 5:10PM