Originally posted by: Sylvanas
Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: Sylvanas
I don't understand this reasoning, it appears some people just close their ears when it comes to Crossfire/SLI....I have a range of games that WORK and play great on my Crossfire setup (I'm sure apoppin will agree with his experience). I think this harps back to the Vista syndrome in when something works you don't get a flood of people onto forums saying 'everything is fine' as thats expected.....so you end up with a bunch of posts "x doesnt work....i think its SLI/Crossfire" when in most cases the problem can be correctly solved with accurate troubleshooting. Sure you could say 'well you're just saying if its good for you its good for everyone' I understand that, but I have helped build about 3 multi-GPU machines and all have worked fine so
absolutely
and QUIT bringing Crysis up as an example .. it is NOT optimized {PERIOD}
Do not expect Crysis to be a reliable benchmark for another year - at least with Vista and multi-GPU rigs ... look how BS FarCry was for its first year
- it is a buggy game ... or try to play the last chapter again and immagine it runs as well as the first half.
Until the CryTek devs *fix* it and optimize it, nvidia and AMD will be accused of 'cheating' as they do random hotfixes and patches as reported and as necessary.
There are plenty of examples of upcoming games which are DX10 and should bring any rig to its knees- which is what these 'next gen' cards will be judged upon. I was merely highlighting one thats out NOW, as I said earlier Fallout 3- then we have 08 games like Clear sky, Age of Conan, Alan Wake, Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 etc.
I think that AMD's problem was that they first had K9 project (Would have been named K10 anyway for obvious reasons) going on for some time, but nothing came from that and project were ended. Then they couldn't make K10 work. Intel actually warned AMD (of course in some interview) that it's very hard to develope new CPU architecture with smaller process and Intel was right.Originally posted by: error8
Nvidia is doing exactly like AMD did with their X2's. The Athlon cpu's were great, but AMD didn't spent any cent in developing another cpu. When they did woke up, it was to late, Intel pretty much had the entire market with their core 2 duo. I see the same thing with Nvidia. They had so much success with the 8800 series that they now just sit down and smoke cigars and release only slight variations of the G92 gpu. But I believe that ATI doesn't smoke anymore, and something is cooking in the Canadian factories. Maybe, for the first time in years, Nvidia will have problems with ATI, and that should be such a good thing for us, the consumers.
Originally posted by: nitromullet
LOL, that cracked me up.
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