Originally posted by: n7
Originally posted by: TankGuys
We were supposed to be getting a shipment of the DFI crossfire boards the first week or so of October; however, we cancelled the order due to the very negative reviews and opinions people seem to have for them.

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Negative?
There's been some concern about pricing, but from what i've seen, there haven't been many negatives yet...
I've been seeing a lot of bad opinions from people...
1.) Apparently, there is a possibility of resolution problems, and not being able to run crossfire on a wide screen panel at more than 1600 PX (or something like that... I've been too busy to really read more into it)
2.) The performance of the crossfire solution, in current incarnations, seems to barely outpace the high end 7800's... so people just aren't willing to shell out $200 for a new mobo, $300+ for a crossfire vid card when it comes out, *AND* keep thier $250+ crossfire ready X8xx series card.
3.) Since it is new, people are very hesitant to try it... they are worried about bugs and such. So again, at $200, people just don't want to risk it.
Personally, I think crossfire will be a cool solution; assuming it runs well. But... nobody seems to bite yet.
We've had it listed on our site as a pre-order, for $199.99, (which is probobly the best price anyone is going to find) but haven't had a single order yet. Not one. This is especially telling since we are the only (last time I checked) vendor with it listed in froogle, and we are the only ones with ads on google with the board. Consider that when we did the pre-orders on the 4400's, we were getting 50+ inquiries a day for them... with the crossfires, we've seen 0 in a week and a half.
Funny thing, Kensai just PMed me about it, and I'll tell you guys the same thing: with our pricing, we would have only made $1, so I wasn't willing to trade the hopes of a dollar profit for the chances of losing a ton of money when we had to slash prices on boards that weren't selling
