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NVIDIA Quad-SLI vs. ATI Crossfire

 
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PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:12 am    Post subject: NVIDIA Quad-SLI vs. ATI Crossfire Reply with quote

> techPowerUp! has posted a comparison between NVIDIA Quad-SLI vs. ATI Crossfire. Here's an
excerpt: When I first heard about the opportunity to play with QuadSLI vs. Crossfire I expected
QuadSLI to have a significant advantage over Crossfire but at an equally significant price
difference. Now I am very disappointed. The...read more
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PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 7:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Isn't the CPU being bottlenecked to the extreme here? I'd like to see someone run one of those Liquid nitrogen tests on a Quad SLI system and jack the fx-60 up to over 3.5 Ghz or whatever and see what happens. I think the scores would skyrocket. And BTW, developers better be making the next-gen games fully multiprocessor capable, otherwise this CPU bottleneck issue is going to end up hurting the industry.

I dream of having dual socket, dual core Opty's running on 8GB of ram and QSLI. Ofcoarse such a rig today wouldn't be any faster because the software isn't smart enough to take advantage. Us users need to get the message across: "We want SMP support and we want 64 Bit, and we want them yesterday!"

PS. What ever happened to the phase change cooling systems we were promised for $200 at CES? I bet with a setup like that you could atleast get the fx-60 upto 3Ghz or so stable. That might be enough of a boost to feed the monster that is QSLI.
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PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 8:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's right, the CPU. So bottom line is that these cards have allmost no use still, but cost as much as a brand new kidney... Confused
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