nVIDIA SLi Vs ATi CrossFire:Whats the best?

HookeyStreet · Jun 4, 2005, 10:06 PM

I want to build a new system, what way should I go for the graphics? nVIDIA SLi or ATi CrossFire????

grisnak · Jun 4, 2005, 10:09 PM

You should wait a couple of months to get some good feedback from testing first. I mean, the crossfire system is still rather young so it should take a while to get some versus test facts.

wazzledoozle · Jun 4, 2005, 10:27 PM

Extremely early benchmarks have shown crossfire to be more powerful. But that is on alpha hardware and extremely aplha drivers. Just wait.

HookeyStreet · Jun 4, 2005, 10:42 PM

Thanks guys, I knew you would have the answers

ndgoh · Jun 6, 2005, 02:30 PM

Hmmm...... nVidia coming out with new VGA = G70....

So, the price of heavy weight VGA will be dropping when the new beast are launch ler......

Hellraiser1981 · Jun 6, 2005, 06:14 PM

When the G70 comes out, only the 7800GTX will support SLi, meaning over $1000 for two vid cards.
(Nvidia - The way they're meant to get paid)

//mAr · Jun 6, 2005, 08:57 PM

i think 6800 ultra sli < x850 xt pe crossfire < 7800gtx sli (maybe < r520 crossfire ?)

we'll know it soon enough

Agility · Jun 13, 2005, 06:28 PM

yeah and ATI is gonna do the same as NVIDIA does. Selling two graphics card in a box which means X800 w/ X800 Crossfire ONLY and X850 w/ X850 Crossfire only. So probably X9** w/ X9** Crossfire? While nvidia gets The way they are paid, then ati does get people the ultimate exprience of putting a bomb in people's pocket.

AMDCam · Jun 18, 2005, 08:23 AM

When is the new generation of cards gonna be released? This sucks, I mean I was about to get an X850XT PE but now that's it's gonna be out-of-date....sooner than I expected, then I might just wait.

Agility, isn't the 3200+ stock at 2.0ghz? Or is it 1.8? Just wondering

Jun 4, 2005, 10:06 PM	#1
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HookeyStreet Eat, sleep, game! Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Great Yarmouth, England Posts: 5,321 (1.67/day) Thanks: 614 Thanked 530 Times in 430 Posts	Thanks guys, I knew you would have the answers __________________

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grisnak Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 58 (0.02/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	You should wait a couple of months to get some good feedback from testing first. I mean, the crossfire system is still rather young so it should take a while to get some versus test facts.

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ndgoh Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: A Gaul Village Posts: 11 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Hmmm...... nVidia coming out with new VGA = G70.... So, the price of heavy weight VGA will be dropping when the new beast are launch ler...... __________________ I like Obelix...... tee hee hee hee.....

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Hellraiser1981 Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Green Bay, WI Posts: 298 (0.10/day) Thanks: 6 Thanked 24 Times in 19 Posts	When the G70 comes out, only the 7800GTX will support SLi, meaning over $1000 for two vid cards. (Nvidia - The way they're meant to get paid)

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