CROSSFIRE vs SLI

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dguy6789

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Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: dguy6789
Originally posted by: biostud
Originally posted by: Rollo
Can I nominate ATI for "Master of the Paper Release" award?

shouldn't you be playing a game or something ;)

He never plays any video games, you should know that. He just goes around telling people that he COULD run the games faster than they can.

I played two levels of Serious Sam yesterday, and 45 minutes of UT2004. How about you?


I played some Unreal Tournament today. This PC I am on won't work with HL2 for some reason though :( (it is a dell)(not mine)
 

nRollo

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Originally posted by: Ramsez
I assume you dont just play SS and UT2004 then, if so, well im missing something.

Nope, I dabble in lots of games, finish few. I'll have FEAR, Quake4, Prey, and Enemy Territory the day they come out though.
 

nRollo

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Originally posted by: dguy6789
Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: dguy6789
Originally posted by: biostud
Originally posted by: Rollo
Can I nominate ATI for "Master of the Paper Release" award?

shouldn't you be playing a game or something ;)

He never plays any video games, you should know that. He just goes around telling people that he COULD run the games faster than they can.

I played two levels of Serious Sam yesterday, and 45 minutes of UT2004. How about you?


I played some Unreal Tournament today. This PC I am on won't work with HL2 for some reason though :( (it is a dell)(not mine)

I'm sorry to hear that, although I personally think HL2 is way overrated.

 

fierydemise

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Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: dguy6789
Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: dguy6789
Originally posted by: biostud
Originally posted by: Rollo
Can I nominate ATI for "Master of the Paper Release" award?

shouldn't you be playing a game or something ;)

He never plays any video games, you should know that. He just goes around telling people that he COULD run the games faster than they can.

I played two levels of Serious Sam yesterday, and 45 minutes of UT2004. How about you?


I played some Unreal Tournament today. This PC I am on won't work with HL2 for some reason though :( (it is a dell)(not mine)

I'm sorry to hear that, although I personally think HL2 is way overrated.

I personally think Doom 3 is overrated (a game you mentioned you liked on a previous thread), but to each his own
 
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Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: Ramsez
I assume you dont just play SS and UT2004 then, if so, well im missing something.

Nope, I dabble in lots of games, finish few. I'll have FEAR, Quake4, Prey, and Enemy Territory the day they come out though.

man, the FEAR Demo looked so crappy...
 

VIAN

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(BTW- the reason I'm laughing, if you didn't guess, is what if the "60% faster at NFSU" is at 20X15 4X8X and Crossfire is running at 16fps and SLI at 10?
60% is 60%. That's why is a percentage and not regular numbers.
 

nRollo

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Originally posted by: zendari
Crossfire is useless crap.

What the? I don't think we'll know that till it's released. My point was just that the review gives us nothing relevant.
 

nRollo

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Originally posted by: shady06
Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: Ramsez
I assume you dont just play SS and UT2004 then, if so, well im missing something.

Nope, I dabble in lots of games, finish few. I'll have FEAR, Quake4, Prey, and Enemy Territory the day they come out though.

man, the FEAR Demo looked so crappy...

It's the kind of game I like to play though, so I will buy it.
 

zendari

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Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: zendari
Crossfire is useless crap.

What the? I don't think we'll know that till it's released. My point was just that the review gives us nothing relevant.

Same deal with SLI: no need to buy 2 cards when you can buy a faster/cheaper/cooler single card.
 

apoppin

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Originally posted by: zendari
Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: zendari
Crossfire is useless crap.

What the? I don't think we'll know that till it's released. My point was just that the review gives us nothing relevant.

Same deal with SLI: no need to buy 2 cards when you can buy a faster/cheaper/cooler single card.

mull this over . . . take a little time before replying. .

what IF your SINGLE card [i.e. 7800gtx] STILL isn't fast enough for your wants?

;)

:Q
 

zendari

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Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: zendari
Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: zendari
Crossfire is useless crap.

What the? I don't think we'll know that till it's released. My point was just that the review gives us nothing relevant.

Same deal with SLI: no need to buy 2 cards when you can buy a faster/cheaper/cooler single card.

mull this over . . . take a little time before replying. .

what IF your SINGLE card [i.e. 7800gtx] STILL isn't fast enough for your wants?

;)

:Q

*shrug*

I'm not the kind of person who needs that much from a video card(s).
 

apoppin

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Originally posted by: zendari
Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: zendari
Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: zendari
Crossfire is useless crap.

What the? I don't think we'll know that till it's released. My point was just that the review gives us nothing relevant.

Same deal with SLI: no need to buy 2 cards when you can buy a faster/cheaper/cooler single card.

mull this over . . . take a little time before replying. .

what IF your SINGLE card [i.e. 7800gtx] STILL isn't fast enough for your wants?

;)

:Q

*shrug*

I'm not the kind of person who needs that much from a video card(s).

but can you accept that there ARE those who do?

[i can give you many examples from this forum]
 

ryanv12

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I'm kinda wishing I had a 7800GTX. I'd love to be able to play BF2 at 1680x1050 all maxed with 4x/8x :D

Alas, I was about to get one, but I put it off because I need a laptop. I only spend about half of my computer time actually at my computer.
 

302efi

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Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: zendari
Crossfire is useless crap.

What the? I don't think we'll know that till it's released. My point was just that the review gives us nothing relevant.

Huh ??!!...Rollo, s that really you ?!?!
 

ddogg

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Originally posted by: zendari
Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: zendari
Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: zendari
Crossfire is useless crap.

What the? I don't think we'll know that till it's released. My point was just that the review gives us nothing relevant.

Same deal with SLI: no need to buy 2 cards when you can buy a faster/cheaper/cooler single card.

mull this over . . . take a little time before replying. .

what IF your SINGLE card [i.e. 7800gtx] STILL isn't fast enough for your wants?

;)

:Q

*shrug*

I'm not the kind of person who needs that much from a video card(s).

well just because you dont need that much doesnt mean other dont.
 

biostud

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Originally posted by: Rollo
Can I nominate ATI for "Master of the Paper Release" award?

As someone has pointed out ATi hasn't launched/released any of it upcomming products. And you can't blame people for beeing curious about their new technology, therefor snapping up tidbits of informations and starting speculations and rumors.

You can never please the crowd. :)
 

nRollo

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Originally posted by: biostud
Originally posted by: Rollo
Can I nominate ATI for "Master of the Paper Release" award?

As someone has pointed out ATi hasn't launched/released any of it upcomming products. And you can't blame people for beeing curious about their new technology, therefor snapping up tidbits of informations and starting speculations and rumors.

You can never please the crowd. :)

Where do you think the website in the link got the pictures, PR info, and "performance" charts about Crossfire?

IMO whether they had an "official launch" or not, encouraging websites to post this sort of thing about their products to hopefully prevent people from buying products that are acrtually available constitutes a "paper launch".

 

Eric220

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Well in my eyes, the Crossfire owns the hell out of SLI. Every benchmark site i see, I only see a red bar > a green bar. :p

FYI: According to hardware review sites and "Insider" sites, the only reason nvidia made the SLI is because they couldn't make a single GPU that was faster than the X850 XT PE. So instead of trying, they made 2 video cards in 1 computer. Then Crossfire came and slapped nvidia back in the face. :p
 

BenSkywalker

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FYI: According to hardware review sites and "Insider" sites, the only reason nvidia made the SLI is because they couldn't make a single GPU that was faster than the X850 XT PE.

This is the most inane nV fanboy drivel I've seen in a long time. You are implying that nVidia's engineers are so talented that they managed to design and bring to market an entirely new chipset and platform(nForce4 SLI) along with having all of the supporting hardware from the OEMs in response to ATi's X850XT one week before the X850XT launched?

No matter how insanely good you think nV is- they are not building time machines.
 

nRollo

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Originally posted by: Eric220
Well in my eyes, the Crossfire owns the hell out of SLI. Every benchmark site i see, I only see a red bar > a green bar. :p

FYI: According to hardware review sites and "Insider" sites, the only reason nvidia made the SLI is because they couldn't make a single GPU that was faster than the X850 XT PE. So instead of trying, they made 2 video cards in 1 computer. Then Crossfire came and slapped nvidia back in the face. :p

It's interesting you don't post any links to your imaginary reviews and benchamrks Eric, is that because they're in the land of make-believe?
:)

 

Gamingphreek

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Originally posted by: Eric220
Well in my eyes, the Crossfire owns the hell out of SLI. Every benchmark site i see, I only see a red bar > a green bar. :p

FYI: According to hardware review sites and "Insider" sites, the only reason nvidia made the SLI is because they couldn't make a single GPU that was faster than the X850 XT PE. So instead of trying, they made 2 video cards in 1 computer. Then Crossfire came and slapped nvidia back in the face. :p

You know 0. How about some proof. So far you claim all this crap, yet you cannot back it up.

Then Crossfire came
It did :confused:

Ben, how is that an Nvidia fanboy post. Are you feeling OK?
 

nRollo

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Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
FYI: According to hardware review sites and "Insider" sites, the only reason nvidia made the SLI is because they couldn't make a single GPU that was faster than the X850 XT PE.

This is the most inane nV fanboy drivel I've seen in a long time. You are implying that nVidia's engineers are so talented that they managed to design and bring to market an entirely new chipset and platform(nForce4 SLI) along with having all of the supporting hardware from the OEMs in response to ATi's X850XT one week before the X850XT launched?

No matter how insanely good you think nV is- they are not building time machines.

I think you mean "ATI fanboy drivel"?
 

imported_humey

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I POSTED THIS, as i though although its not got much proof to back it up that its interesting.

I DIDNT POST THIS, for peeps to slag Rollo and ask WTF games he has or has'nt played today, get a F00king life and grow up, making the thread 3 pages long with b0ll0cks instead of feed back to topic aint what needed.

THANK YOU.