Firing Squad - ATI's Radeon X1950 XTX CrossFire: Quad SLI killer?

[schneiderguy]

Originally posted by: Ackmed

Originally posted by: nitromullet

I'm not quite sure I see the pwnage here...

I mean, it's not as if anyone would pick anything other than the lowest benchmarks to make their point in this situation. Plus, it also goes along with Ackmed's desire to see benches run at high quality settings/opts off etc to see how the cards hold up when really pushed... Taking Oblivion specifically, I adjust the settings so the most challenging parts (foliage) are smooth, not the dungeons. That not only gives me smooth overall play outdoors, but it also helps eliminate dips indoors during battle. Finally, he didn't actually pick the lowest graph. There is still the one for 1920x1200 (which I think Ackmed plays at) and the 2048x1536 graph as well.

That being said, I do agree with Ackmed that Oblivion is playable with HDR+AA with even a single XTX (at least at 1680x1050). However, I usually play with HDR+ 4xAA/8xAF without AAA. With a Crossfire rig, 24FPS in Oblivion is certainly playable - it isn't exactly a twitch game.

Well, the fact that I had X1900's in CF, when crusader accused me of lying, and that I wasnt getting playable frames is one reason schneiderguy was wrong. Secondly, as mentioned before, AAA is a rather large performance hit on games with Foliage. And I never said I used it. Lowest for 1600x1200, he doesnt know what res I used. He tried, no denying that.

i wasnt aware you had two x1900's, i thought you had one