Do people really pay more than $450 for a CrossFire edition X1800 series card?

[Fraggable]

I was looking into getting a second X1800 to run in CF with my current one, and found that they're $460 minimum for the special CF edition card.

Am I missing someting or is that really what they've always cost? That seems really high to me. My X1800XT 256MB only cost $300 a few weeks ago.

 

[nitromullet]

This is one of the major drawbacks to CrossFire. The way I see it, if you want to use CrossFire as an upgrade path, you need to buy the CF card first and pick up the normal card when they drop in price because the CF cards don't drop as much over time.

 

[rbV5]

Keep checking FS/T, I paid $325 recently for mine from a member here.

 

[Fraggable]

I guess I need a processor upgrade first anyway, a 3000+ Venice @ stock won't do a CF setup justice at all. I think it's bottlenecking just one X1800XT.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: rbV5
Keep checking FS/T, I paid $325 recently for mine from a member here.

That's a good deal, that's what my regular X1800XT 512 went for on Ebay...

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: rbV5
Keep checking FS/T, I paid $325 recently for mine from a member here.

That's a good deal, that's what my regular X1800XT 512 went for on Ebay...

It was a great deal for sure, I figured if nothing else I can use it single card in another system.

Unfortunately it appears my ASUS A8R-MVP has an issue with display interference using an analog display that I can't resolve. Its been confirmed to me to be an issue from a source I trust, and has experience with several highend Crossfire setups. Apparently the ASUS A8R32-MVP exhibits the same issue, however DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR does not.

Unfortunately, I've not much feedback from other users due to the lack of Crossfire setups, so I don't know for certain that it is a defacto issue.

I'm awaiting word on some Xpess3200 solutions as I'm not interested in another Xpress200 board now, but at this point I'm wanting to keep Crossfire rather than splitting them up, and I won't consider giving up a CRT for the display.